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Originally Posted by pylon
I was 13 during the games. It was the most important Calgary has felt to me ever then or ever. It was so neat having the eyes of the world on our then, quaint little city of 600,000 people. The pride the city had was unreal. We decorated out Jr. High wall to wall with student made Olympic art. The buzz was just incredible. It was truly a proud and important moment to be a Calgarian, and it was cool to see it through the eyes of a still Naive stupid kid. EVERYTHING seemed cool.
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I was also 13 kid in Jr. High, we went all out as well.
My Dad was a volunteer (technical side) and had a tonne of Olympic memorabilia, some of which is still kicking around somewhere.