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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
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.
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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.