Band Leader: Leisure Lodge and Cambridge Nightclub

band leader: Leisure Lodge was a popular Cambridge nightclub that ran from 1948 until the place suspiciously burned to the ground in 1980, according to Hamilton Spectator. People came from far and wide to dance the night away to the swinging sounds of the Johnny Kostigian Orchestra. A lot of people didn't know he had a business, that he was just a band leader, said his son Jason Kostigian, who has operated Galt Display Rack since his dad retired a decade ago. At its peak, the 13-piece band would play Friday and Saturday nights to an audience of 1,100 patrons, many who had travelled from across the province to this hot spot. Leisure Lodge put Preston on the map. There was nothing like it around, it had class, Johnny once told The Record. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.