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Old 02-22-2020, 09:32 AM   #1816
timun
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang View Post
I would love to be able to visit pre-boom and pre-me Calgary in the 1970s. While I genuinely love Calgary in the present day, Calgary of the early to mid-seventies would have been a fascinating place in hindsight. Dusty old frontier town with a lot of its old buildings intact, right on the cusp of the first oil boom.
Lol, "first oil boom". The first boom was in the 1910s, after oil was found in Turner Valley! And the '70s were the boom times, not the '80s; everybody was going bust in the '80s.
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