Mint Records History: It’s PIMMA with 2 M’s!
July 18th, 2011 by Randy 0
Mint Records’ first “office” was in the closet that was in the bedroom of the house that Bill and his girlfriend at the time, Lisa (soon to be of cub), rented. They were the upstairs tenants, while below were Scott, who worked on Discorder with Bill (and me), and his girlfriend, Jennifer, and then later on, Lisa’s sister, Julie. Their house — which still sits on East 19th Avenue, although it has since been refurbished to become a high-end duplex — had an interesting…
Mint Records has been in the Hastings and Cambie neighbourhood for years and years, well, since 1993, if not earlier. And we’ve borne witness to the restaurant space in the basement of the Dominion Building seemingly continuously rotate with tenants, from Jackson’s Beef House to Route 66 to The Victory to The Mouse & Bean to its newest incarnation, Nuba.
