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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Great thread.
I lived in Beddington - so a lot of our adventures were up on Nose Hill. When I first moved into the area Beddington was the end of the city. A farm was literally 2 blocks away. They built in Sandstone and Macewan Glen soon after but Nose Hill remained quite the wild frontier. There are still some animals up there now - but back then you would see a ton of deer, coyotes and porcupines.
We would head up there to tromp around the woods, rip down the bike paths or just hang out the entire day. In later years in also became the place where you could partake in a little under-age drinking.
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As we have discussed before, we went to Beddington Heights together, though I think you are a year or two older than me. I lived on Berwick Dr at the corner of Berwick Rd. and the end of that street was Berkshire Rd and then farm when I moved there.
I remember Sandstone and McEwan being built, I remember going to Nose Hill all the time.
I remember when Sandstone was being built we'd go and take scrap lumber to make skateboard ramps etc. We'd make up games where we'd play massive games of group hide and seek in the partially built houses. There were drywall blades everywhere, we collected them for some reason. (Man, I am in insurance now, and the liability that these builders would be at risk for now is amazing).
Same as many have said above, I remember weekends and in the summer, you would eat breakfast and be gone all day, checking in for lunch and dinner, staying out until you heard your parents yell or whistle into the night. Somehow you always knew whose parent it was, even from blocks away.
I remember in the winter we would bumper ride on the icy roads. We were
smart enough to not do this on main streets, just side streets and if frozen enough, back alleys.
I remember some of the better skateboarders riding their boards holding onto the back of school busses.
Fights were just part of recess or lunch.
You could buy smokes "for your parents", then they "cracked down" and you had to have a note, LOL.