That Place is Still Open?

[sixpacked]

Originally Posted by saskflames96

No its not.. Bonanza is an awful place to be at.

Yeah I live there too, and I haven't eaten there in 25 years.

[sixpacked]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Is that weird/awesome Egyptian type store still open in Eau Claire? I always wanted to go drop like 10k in there on a life size King Tut statue and obelisks and other crazy ####.

It was still there last summer, I couldn't get my wife and daughters out of there. I just told them to meet me on the deck at Joey's, great decision.

[Table 5]

I was in Maine recently and saw a fairly sizable store dedicated to only selling Christmas ornaments. How that store can survive with such a specific, time-sensitive concept, I'll never know. Maybe they were like HR Block and made all their money in 2 months and just cruised the rest of the year...

[saskflames69]

I know this is about Calgary but to my fellow saskatoonians how is Confederation Mall still open? I mean even when Walmart was open that place was a ghost town. Canadian tire is inaccessible from the mall so really the only anchors they have are sport mart and petland.

[Derek Sutton]

And that Calender kiosk we all see in every mall every year at Christmas time. Does anyone buy a Calender knowing come Jan 15 they are all going to be marked down to 1/2 price? While I'm on the topice theres also the Hickory Farms kiosk, don't we all love unrefridgerated meat and cracker dips?

Flightcentre in all malls.

[Machiavelli]

Originally Posted by saskflames96

I know this is about Calgary but to my fellow saskatoonians how is Confederation Mall still open? I mean even when Walmart was open that place was a ghost town. Canadian tire is inaccessible from the mall so really the only anchors they have are sport mart and petland.

In the same vein to my fellow Winnipegers, that mall in Fort Garry with the Safeway and Zellers. I went to high school around there, and we would all go at lunch to buy pizza buns from the Safeway. I think we were half of the business.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

Flightcentre in all malls.

On this note, I can't believe people use travel agents at all anymore.

[The Familia]

How do any of those mall kiosks selling random cell phone covers, belt buckles, cheap jewellery, or crappy t-shirts stay alive?

[saskflames69]

Originally Posted by The Familia

How do any of those mall kiosks selling random cell phone covers, belt buckles, cheap jewellery, or crappy t-shirts stay alive?

I know, it's so easy to get a free new case for your phone.

[drhu22]

Quote: Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Some of these little town places have the best darn food. If you are ever going through Stavely, they have the freshest, tastiest Chinese food at the Stavely Hotel. Use to be able to say the sme about the Warner Hotel on the way to Coutts border crossing but that place is NOT still open, well it is but the good Chinese food people have moved on.

There was (is?) a service station at int of hwy 895 & 41 just north of Oyen that had one of thee best pizzas i've ever had. Wonder if its still there...

Back on topic...any time i've walked into a used book store its deserted...i don't know how many of them stay afloat.

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja

Boston Pizza... or at least SO MANY Boston Pizzas

I don't really get it either...I worked there, so I know there's nothing special going on.
My sisters live in Texas, and every time they come home, the first stop is BP's.
Makes me scratch my head.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

I don't really get it either...I worked there, so I know there's nothing special going on.
My sisters live in Texas, and every time they come home, the first stop is BP's.
Makes me scratch my head.

Cactus Cut Potatoes, with that dipping sauce, but that is all.

[CaramonLS]

I echo whoever said Sears.

I was in the one in Deerfoot Mall a couple months back - what a depressing store. I went to their 'electronics' section, looking for a DVD, yeah, they don't sell too many of those. Safeway has a better selection of DVDs.

It's like stepping out of a time machine in communist Russia.

Surprised the employees haven't slit their wrists.

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by Muta

There's some stores in Eau Claire that I wonder how the hell they haven't rolled over and died yet.

Hell, that market should have been dead long ago, but it's the food court that's keeping it semi-alive.

The pearl market place. WTF
Never seen a single person shopping there.
Island foods too...those damn offices upstairs are keeping island foods afloat.

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

The Old Spaghetti Factory, along with the nearby French Maid/Viper Room and Don Quijote restaurant will be vacated and torn down in the coming months to make way for the City Centre development:

Thought the whole development was put on the shelf long term...

[frinkprof]

^It was, but it is now back on.

[vanisleflamesfan]

I guess I am a few pages too late for the shoe repair discussion but I am surprised a bit. Wasn't there a thread a while back where a bunch of you were bragging about how expensive your shoes are? Don't you high-rollers have those things repaired when the heels or the soles wear out? In my way of thinking, if I spend many hundreds of dollars on a pair of shoes I want them for a while and paying to have them re-soled is cheaper than buying a new pair.

Haven't any of you ever gone to a shoe repair to have your hockey gloves re-palmed, or have a leather bag, briefcase repaired? Strange.

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

^It was, but it is now back on.

Wow, things have changed since I left Calgary at the end of July apparently.
I hadn't heard any mention of it in close to two years.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

The Brick. How is that scam of a place still open? I don't know of a single person who has had a good experience there.