Just found this, was kind of neat to see how many places I could identify despite having never lived during the time that footage was shot and not having lived in Calgary until 2006.
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Interesting footage. A somewhat painful look at what once was but shall never be again. A chill came over me when I realized that every person in the clip is now gone. Dead and gone. Forgotten. Bones bleached, ashes scattered, memories and dreams forever lost.
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Interesting footage. A somewhat painful look at what once was but shall never be again. A chill came over me when I realized that every person in the clip is now gone. Dead and gone. Forgotten. Bones bleached, ashes scattered, memories and dreams forever lost.
Umm what? 1976 was only 38 years ago... Some one who was 30 in that clip would be 68 today... hardly dead.
I moved to Calgary in 76. Been in all those bars at one time, thanks for the memories. Calgary tore down a lot of character, making the downtown kind of barren.
Just found this, was kind of neat to see how many places I could identify despite having never lived during the time that footage was shot and not having lived in Calgary until 2006.
That SAAN department store down the street from the Regis Hotel looked quite nice. It's now an empty lot on 7th Ave. I wonder why that was torn down?
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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That SAAN department store down the street from the Regis Hotel looked quite nice. It's now an empty lot on 7th Ave. I wonder why that was torn down?
Funny, I thought the SAAN store shot was here: Link (Obviously I was wrong.)
Have a look at dowtown Winnipeg. So many old buildings that are condemned; but designated "historical" so they can't be torn down. I really think that is a big part of how Winnipeg's growth stagnated a lot in the 60's-80's.
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Remember some sort of Alberta beer strike in the late 70's early 80's.
Yeah, there was a beer strike about 1980. I was lucky though working in Red Deer, with Uncle Ben's brewery across the street from my construction work site of ?Bower Mall.
Calgary, 1976 - 1981
across the street from my construction work site of ?Bower Mall.
