Rick,

Believe it or not, The Broom & Stone is still there and I had the misfortune of being there over the Christmas break. The curling rink is long gone, replaced by a high rise office building, but on the main floor is a much smaller Broom & Stone.

I ended up there with a guy and a woman that I work with. The bikers are still there, only they're gray haired and old now. We were there about three minutes before we were first accused of being cops. Now I've been accused of this before, but before long the three of us were being accused of it by everyone in the bar. I just wanted to get out of there, (I don't tolerate goofs well) but the woman was there to meet a male friend of hers whose dart team was playing there, she didn't want to leave. But the Broom is still at the corner of Midland and Lawrence. Perhaps you should see if you can get a gig there for old times sake. It's still a hole, only on a smaller scale.

The best part of the evening for me was when we were leaving. We walked out to find about eight of our accusers blowing a joint. Even though we had spent the night denying we were cops things went awfully silent as I looked directly over at them and bid them a good night.