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Cracking pairing Paul
I hope SJ had a very Happy Birthday, that looks like a feast!
I have a near identical slip (and pen) in my pocket! 
Stan didn't like long-pulls, mainly because he put his nail-nicks in with the strike of a hammer I suspect!
I think a long-pull can look OK on a Lambsfoot, but I prefer a nick I think. I like the long, deep ones, like on the knife below Stan's fancy one, which is one of the Guardians 2018 SFO 
Definitely my friend
Sorry Barrett, my memory has failed me. I stand corrected! The Cossack was only ever that single story building, though it was well-known, as you will have discovered. I remember it stood empty for a few years, and I remember reading an article about a campaign to save it. I'd forgotten about Kayes, which I never went in. I forget what the other shop was, a jewellers possibly. The Howard is an awful pub, usually full of football hooligans drinking bottled lagerYou’re the expert, of course, but when you follow Google street view around to the front of that building, it says “The Howard.”
I looked up The Cossack to see what I could find. Some colorful history there. More recently, what I found was that it was shut down in 2003 and demolished in 2008 (those dates certainly aren’t from an academic source, so don’t quote me on their accuracy).
Based on this old photo, though, I think it’s safe to say that The Cossack and the building next to it (Kaye’s, in this photo at least) were indeed demolished at some point prior to the painting of that mural, and that the space they used to occupy is now the green space in your photo there, and that the mural was painted on the larger wall seen here beyond those two buildings.
When I was young, Howard Street was quite an important thoroughfare, as it lead to the train station, and there were some interesting shops, including The Olde Wee Cutlery Shoppe, and Bennett's fishing tackle shop (I used to tie trout flies for them). Most of the buildings, at the top of the street, on the opposite side of the road, are still there, but they are mainly just sandwich shops and cafes now, and even 'The Globe' pub, the only good one on the street, has changed a lot. Thanks for the memories my friend 
I need to stop lollygagging, and get on with some work!
301 "stockman", and either a CPM154 or S-30V 110.
At Menards?
