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Originally Posted by fotze
Someone posted and article a while back about Calgary's history and apparently cowboy stuff isn't even really our 'heritage', it was largely created by Weadick to sell tickets to his stampede. Calgary was always an uppity, less blue collar town, meaning the cowboy thing always has been fake. So the cowboy architecture (that the saddledome isn't really) is a faux homage to a faux heritage.
The monarchy/victorian period existed in London, Calgary cowboy times did not. Why not an homage to our Game of Thrones past, that also did not exist?
Maybe I am misremembering the article.
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Or you could look at the fact that Calgary is in Southern Alberta which is an extremely large farming/ranching community, and has been for years.
The heritage is there.....but its not as big as people think it is.
At the end of the day, I think the Flames could come up with a lot cooler design.