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Originally Posted by HHW
- South Centre mall when it was still all dingy, with the orange floor tiles and zero natural light.. There was a hobby shop right by the entrance, which had piles of plastic models - "Little Generals", I believe.
- McLeod mall, which was eternally dingy. They used to have hamster races (in those plastic bubbles), back when Hammy Hamster was a phenomena.
-The information channel - #4, IIRC. Looked like someone's C64 hooked up to the TV. There were the three bands - green, red, blue, for headlines, news, and weather information. The news text would appear at about 2 characters per second. When I was too young to stay up, and when the Herald still came in the afternoon, I used to check that channel in the morning for the hockey scores.
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I wouldn't say I miss any of those things, but I definitely remember all three.
The original Southcentre Food Court was the darkest and dreariest place you've ever seen. You'd go get your food while someone went and grabbed a seat, and they'd have to yell out at you to get your attention because you couldn't see them in the darkness.
The walk between the Woolco and the Safeway in the Macleod Mall was also depressing. I can't imagine any business actually being successful in there.
Good old channel 4. Because that was the channel CFCN's over the air broadcasts were on, they had to put garbage on the channel because of the interference (the same reason channel 9 never had any decent content and channel 2 was given to PBS). There were many days where if a game wasn't televised, and you didn't want to go turn on the radio, you'd have to sit and wait for the hockey scores to cycle by to find out the score.