Zanzibar Tavern

It is one of Toronto's oldest nightclubs, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020. Cooper was born to Jewish parents Harry and Bessie, who ran a business in Kensington Market.

[3] In 1967, local newspapers christened the Yonge Street strip "Psychedelic Avenue" as Zanzibar competed with other bars in a "war of the watts".

Upon recalling the time, Cooper said he was creating a "Twenty-first Century total environment with "stroboscopic" lights, mannequins and closed-circuit cameras that would take photos of the dance floor and project them on the wall.

[2] The establishment suffered serious damage to its facade in June 2010, when Black Bloc anarchists vandalized Yonge Street during the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests.

[7] In the same year, the club garnered attention again when a librarian from nearby Ryerson University took clandestine photographs of dancers and wait staff on breaks on the bar's rooftop which were then published on Torontoist, a local news blog.