How sad that many people here don't know where electric avenue was.
How sad that the city had to go all nazi and shut it down. You'd think they could have found a way to make it work. Staggered closing times or no closing times would have gone a long way, I'd think.
That strip was pretty legendary through most of Canada for a while. You visited Calgary as a twenty-something year old, there was no question as where to go.
fox and firkin, king's horse, coconot joes, 3 cheers, Yankee doodle, the upstairs part of yankee doodle where you got to sit in lazy boys to watch the games, while being served by waitresses in lingerie... ah good times.
I don't think I ever made it to the bar called electric ave though.
There was a lot of nostalgia there for me. Oh well, I guess I went and got too old to make any use of it these days anyway.
|