28 Jul Coming down

What did the Book Room, The Coast, The NDP, the Toronto Star, and the law firm McInnes Cooper have in common with tattoo parlours and travel agencies? At one time or another, they all occupied offices in the Roy Building, a storied Halifax edifice that’s meeting the wrecking high hoe this week.

Each office had “its own frosted glass and oak door, like in an old Bogart movie,” wrote the Globe and Mail’s Jane Taber, whose eulogy quoted documentary filmmaker Geoff D’Eon:

Everybody felt like a private dick…. It was a character building full of characters. Each floor had a slightly different vibe.

D’Eon and Valerie Mansour also did a nice interview on Global.