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the ESTABLISHMENT By TERRY RYAN No, no, don’t worry – Bounder isn’t going The Prescott 1934


into politics or profiling elite power groups or anything like that. We want to remember some of your favourite drinking establishments. You know, the places where you could go and run into men (and women, too) from all walks of life, good conversation, the odd brawl, reliable eats and of course, cheap beer. Bounder wants to remind you that some of them are still around, perhaps changed, but they are still here! In this, and future issues of Bounder, we are going to revisit some of the region’s most loved watering holes and see what is new, different, and hopefully somewhat the same. It seems only fitting that our first feature would be one of the longest-established places in Ottawa – the Prescott Hotel on Preston Street, Ottawa. The Prescott originally started out as the


Preston Hotel in 1934, founded by Antonio Disipio as a corner store that sold sausages and meats prepared by Antonio. Customers could relax at one of the six tables and enjoy three 12-ounce glasses of beer for a quarter. Expansion and renaming followed and it became the Prescott Hotel in 1941. Antonio chose the name because it was the first hotel on your way into Ottawa from the Prescott Highway and the last one on the way out. It is one of the two first licensed establishments in Ottawa, the other being the Lafayette House on the Byward Market. I remember my first visit way back in the 80s,


probably around the time Tony Disipio took over the reins from father Dominic. Tony is the third generation to run the business and it is still a family- owned-and-operated business to this day. I had


Left to Right: Domenic Disipio (Tony’s Father) TV Star Johnny Puleo and Tony’s Grandfather, Antonio Disipio


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