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Red John · 04-20-2012, 12:52 PM

Good memories:

-Market mall had a movie theatre
-Debaji's at Northland mall
-Woolco
-Grant Pollock, Ed Whalen and Nirmala Naidoo-Hill from 2&7
-Bullwinkles where the Shanks is now on macleod
-old Chinook mall - had a Flames store, a really cool fountain and Easy street as well as a cool parkade
-Stephen Avenue Soup Co. in the old food court upstairs in chinook
-when old Market mall had Woodwards where zellers is now, and A&W was on that end of the mall
-the playground at the old Devonian gardens downtown
-elevators going up to the Devonian gardens were ultra slow, these two guys had a fight in it once
-how the old Bay parkade was so much scarier than the Eatons centre parkade
-breakfast at Earls at TD square, still had the parrots
-place at Scotia centre called "Baguette", had good cream cheese danishes there
-old Penny lane mall accessible from Eaton centre, had this meaningless escalator down which led to nothing but a fountain
-going to Nose Hill libary just to get on the Internet...good old Netscape Communicator
-gas was around 54 cents a litre
-how you could actally win a tiger in your tank from Esso
-Canadian Airlines saddledome and the 1995 renovations
-when Nose Hill drive was just a field where wild horses grazed
-Sun Ice jackets
-Rustic Sourdough Bakery, free cookies for kids
-Calgary Tower was tallest building in Calgary and 12th tallest in North america
-you had to take the elevator to the observation deck at the Tower and then walk down a flight of stairs to get to the restaurant
-Brentwood mall had a Kmart which had this huge wishing well outside of it to drop pennies into
-feeding the fish at Devonian gardens, cost 25c
-Mmmmmarvelous Mmmmmmmuffins downtown
-Imax theatre at eau claire market
-Hub oil fire
-painting a brick at Hawkwood elementary, and being there the first year it opened
-United Furniture Warehouse song
-when the corn fritters were good at chicken on the way
-picnicking at Riley Park - wading pool
-blue yellow and red stools at the food court at Southcentre
-whos who in the zoo at YYC
-someone winning the van in roll up the rim to win at YYC
-most of the good radio stations being on AM except kick107
-watermelon flavoured Jones soda
-eating at Oscars in the ne
-Udderly Art contest

04-20-2012, 12:52 PM	#596
Red John First Line Centre Join Date: Oct 2011 Exp:	Good memories: -Market mall had a movie theatre -Debaji's at Northland mall -Woolco -Grant Pollock, Ed Whalen and Nirmala Naidoo-Hill from 2&7 -Bullwinkles where the Shanks is now on macleod -old Chinook mall - had a Flames store, a really cool fountain and Easy street as well as a cool parkade -Stephen Avenue Soup Co. in the old food court upstairs in chinook -when old Market mall had Woodwards where zellers is now, and A&W was on that end of the mall -the playground at the old Devonian gardens downtown -elevators going up to the Devonian gardens were ultra slow, these two guys had a fight in it once -how the old Bay parkade was so much scarier than the Eatons centre parkade -breakfast at Earls at TD square, still had the parrots -place at Scotia centre called "Baguette", had good cream cheese danishes there -old Penny lane mall accessible from Eaton centre, had this meaningless escalator down which led to nothing but a fountain -going to Nose Hill libary just to get on the Internet...good old Netscape Communicator -gas was around 54 cents a litre -how you could actally win a tiger in your tank from Esso -Canadian Airlines saddledome and the 1995 renovations -when Nose Hill drive was just a field where wild horses grazed -Sun Ice jackets -Rustic Sourdough Bakery, free cookies for kids -Calgary Tower was tallest building in Calgary and 12th tallest in North america -you had to take the elevator to the observation deck at the Tower and then walk down a flight of stairs to get to the restaurant -Brentwood mall had a Kmart which had this huge wishing well outside of it to drop pennies into -feeding the fish at Devonian gardens, cost 25c -Mmmmmarvelous Mmmmmmmuffins downtown -Imax theatre at eau claire market -Hub oil fire -painting a brick at Hawkwood elementary, and being there the first year it opened -United Furniture Warehouse song -when the corn fritters were good at chicken on the way -picnicking at Riley Park - wading pool -blue yellow and red stools at the food court at Southcentre -whos who in the zoo at YYC -someone winning the van in roll up the rim to win at YYC -most of the good radio stations being on AM except kick107 -watermelon flavoured Jones soda -eating at Oscars in the ne -Udderly Art contest __________________ Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?