Ron Ross remembers Whistler when he could take his pet chicken into a bar on double-rum night and watch the strippers.

Times have changed since the days when The Boot pub was the talk of the town among the 4,000 or so construction workers who flocked to the area annually as builders struggled to keep up with the resort’s rapid growth.

“Whistler is not a lot of fun anymore,” Ross lamented this week, after hearing exotic dancing has been officially banned by the town’s council, just before the Olympic Games come to town next month.

Whistler council voted unanimously last week to adopt a 10-year-old proposed bylaw that forbids exotic dancing anywhere inside the municipality’s boundaries.

Ross said Harriet, his rum-sipping chicken, enjoyed the show every Thursday until her run-in with a coyote.

Source: SCN Jan. 28, 2010