It gets pretty dark in The Diamond (6 Powell St. in Gastown) and there’s often drinking involved, so don’t blame yourself for missing these brass elephant youths wrapping their trunks around the bar’s foot rail. I’d never seen them until very recently. Owners Mark Brand and Josh Pape found the set of proboscideans at a liquidation auction held in memory of a defunct Port Moddy pub. You’d think the set would be a one of a kind in Vancouver, and for a while they thought it to be. Lo, the exact same one holds the toes of tourist tipplers at the Old Spaghetti Factory just a few doors west on Water Street. Are there others?
Bonus: this is now your default alibi for staring at bar floors.
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