Haha, glad to hear I'm not the only one who played Ball Hockey in Zellers before it was torn down. I remember that parking lot being an absolute wasteland every day walking back from school the final 3 years of it's life. Straight out of a Zombie flick
I'm pretty young, so there's not much I miss about "Old Calgary", but the Farmer's Market at Currie barracks is definitely one of them. The guy who sold Elk jerky there probably retired off my hockey team.
I grew up on Hunterburn Hill, directly adjacent to Nose Hill park, so I also remember when I was young how much Wildlife would come down all the time, my mother basically gave up on growing any flowers until I got older and helped take care of the garden. You'd hear the fawns at 3am picking at the Dahlia's every summer, my Cat use to chase them off quite frequently
, they generally just got a scare, any daring rabbits would be found strewn about the lawn. Nose Hill feels a lot less wild these days :/