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Originally Posted by Shazam
My friends and I would take the bus and LRT downtown on Saturdays. Have a meal at McD's/Subway/Dairy Queen/The Bay basement (and, IIRC, the cafeteria on one of the higher floors). Go to the sketchy arcades, visit the pawn shops, used bookstores, magazine stores (I'd pickup European Commodore 64 magazines from Billy's News). Eau Claire had a dump next to the smoke stack. Prince's Island Park was dead all the time, even on the nicest summer days. Only chicks sunbathing. Not even the bums went there, which I always found odd.
CSB: There used to be a sub shop near the arcade on 7th Ave. Just getting there was an experience. People would whisper "hash" to you as you walked by. So one day we were having lunch at the sub shop and the cops arrested some people in the upstairs area of the restaurant. We were eating at the counter by the window when a cop slammed some guy's face into the glass right in front of us.
Good times.
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Typically Saturday with my buddies circa 1984-86:
C-Train downtown. Head to to Three Ring Circus or Illusions on Stephen Ave Mall and play a couple arcade games. Stop into Catch the Winds to buy the latest D&D module. Go the Lancaster Building and grab pizza at DJs and take it up into Devonian Gardens to eat. Browse records and CDs at Sam the Record Man. Cruise around the plus-15s checking out the punk chicks. Make our way to Esso Plaza for more arcade games. Back to Stephen Ave to check out shirts, pins, posters, etc, at Boodlum or Charisma. Go to the comic store at the end of mall and pick up a couple issues of the latest Daredevil or X-Men. Back on the train and home for dinner. Out of pocket maybe $15.
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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
The first time I was in a strip club, I was underaged. I was with two buddies who were older than 18 so they did not end up carding me. I'm trying to remember the name of the club. I believe it was in the basement of the York Hotel. I think it was called the Spotlight Club? Can't find any evidence on the internet such a club by that name ever existed in the basement of the York Hotel but I remember they advertised in the Calgary Sun at the time. That's something else that seems to have disappeared -- advertisements for gentlemen's clubs in the mainstream media.
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The Spotlight was nasty.