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Originally Posted by Slava
The Big 4 is such a bizarre building. Its useful I guess, but its also the most useless compared to the other buildings on the grounds because a lot of its uses are better in the round-up center anyway. I don't know if the Big 4 itself has a refigeration unit or if they brought one in, but I know that at one point in the 80's they held a curling event there. I was too young to realise what event or things like that, but I do remember seeing the sheets for whatever it was. Just so strange.
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Slava, the Big Four was built as a curling rink, and indeed was in Guinness as the largest in the world. Having it as display space for Stampede was an important but secondary use. The imprints for the hacks can still be seen in the floors.
I think in a perfect world the Big Four would have been condemned after the flood, and Stampede could have taken the insurance money to add another hall onto BMO Centre...but the damage wasn't that bad I guess. I do know that because of what it's original purpose was the building is it's very well built, and very durable, if not completely aesthetically pleasing.
