A familiar if not popular downtown landmark disappeared this weekend as the Young Professionals of Nanaimo and an army of volunteers descended on the garish purple edifice that has graced the corner of Commercial St. and Terminal Ave. for as long as I can remember.
I can't honestly say how long the building has sported the color made famous by a television dinosaur but I can't say I remember any other color either. When I first moved hear in 1970 this corner was home to a young up and coming businessman known as Willing Wayne the Discounter and from this location, Wayne supplied furnishings and such for many a Nanaimo household.
In more recent times the site had been occupied by A&B Sound who not unlike Barney seemed to loose favour with the changing times.
The building has sat vacant for quite sometime in spite of the fact it seems to occupy some pretty prime Nanaimo real estate, sandwiched between the $75 million convention centre and the $12 million city hall annex. It could be the real value of this location, is not the building but rather the dirt upon which it sits.
In any case you can no longer give directions to strangers by telling them to go to the 'Barney Building' and hang a left, or right, depending on where you are sending them.
(Maybe some enterprising artists will now grace this building with a first class mural for the time being)
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