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In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
Before the hipsters invaded and pumped the former Newport Restaurant full of champagne and fancy fish tacos, it was the home of the saucy Elvis Sighting Society, a pleasantry invented by former Citizen and Sun columnist Earl McRae, restaurant owner Moe Atallah and pool-playing bon vivant Ervin (“Budgie”) Budge.
The society — whose central tenet was that The King was alive and well — had a revolving membership, and a very haphazard meeting schedule, mostly concerned withfundraising activities for community causes. But perhaps its most famous achievement was getting the laneway behind the restaurant renamed Elvis Lives Lane by city council in 1991. Atallah handed over the restaurant to the Empire Grill group in 2012, and moved to Churchill Avenue and Scott Street.
— Norm Provencher
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Before the hipsters invaded and pumped the former Newport Restaurant full of champagne and fancy fish tacos, it was the home of the saucy Elvis Sighting Society, a pleasantry invented by former Citizen and Sun columnist Earl McRae, restaurant owner Moe Atallah and pool-playing bon vivant Ervin (“Budgie”) Budge.
The society — whose central tenet was that The King was alive and well — had a revolving membership, and a very haphazard meeting schedule, mostly concerned withfundraising activities for community causes. But perhaps its most famous achievement was getting the laneway behind the restaurant renamed Elvis Lives Lane by city council in 1991. Atallah handed over the restaurant to the Empire Grill group in 2012, and moved to Churchill Avenue and Scott Street.
— Norm Provencher
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