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Old 07-28-2016, 02:04 PM   #101
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A couple of my friends and I once went to Creekside Pub on Elbow Dr/Canyon Meadows intersection.

It was weird. Not a place for younger people haha
Haha yeah Creekside Pub is a bit of a trip. It kinda feels like the type of place you'd find in a motel bar along the trans Canada highway in BF Saskatchewan or Alberta.

The current owner is a really nice guy, and he's managed to get a ton more traffic in there then the previous owners ever had. But he's made some weird decisions, like getting rid of Big Rock beer, and devoting 1/4 of his floor space to awkward karaoke or 3 foot Jenga. At one point he had a gasoline powered blender with motorcycle handle bars on the patio.

"Eclectic" is the best description I can make for that place, each time you go it's got some new odd ball feature, it almost seems like it belongs on a sitcom and the gag is a new promotion/bar game each week.
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:34 PM   #102
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The bad thing is someone moving to Calgary might actually look at this avenue list to figure out where they should live.
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:41 PM   #103
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Hmm, I'm moving from 104th to 147th.

maybe I should call my realtor and tell him the deals are off!
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Old 07-28-2016, 02:47 PM   #104
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The bad thing is someone moving to Calgary might actually look at this avenue list to figure out where they should live.
So true. Can you imagine moving into your Brentwood home, thought to be your dream based solely on your magazine perusing, only to find millions of dangling loose wires schrun every which way.
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Old 07-28-2016, 06:10 PM   #105
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My community is 162nd!!!! Yay Sandstone! I love it here... yet somehow Huntington Hills (which is where I grew up) gets 12th?? Beddington with #87

This thing is weird
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Old 07-28-2016, 06:42 PM   #106
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Have we had the dumb lake argument yet?
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Old 07-28-2016, 07:37 PM   #107
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Have we had the dumb lake argument yet?
That argument was won in previous years and laid to rest.
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Looks like they just threw all the communities into a random generator and went with the results.
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Old 07-28-2016, 08:32 PM   #109
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Looks like they just threw all the communities into a random generator and went with the results.
Ya, it's called statistical analysis!
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Old 07-28-2016, 09:54 PM   #110
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Haha yeah Creekside Pub is a bit of a trip. It kinda feels like the type of place you'd find in a motel bar along the trans Canada highway in BF Saskatchewan or Alberta.

The current owner is a really nice guy, and he's managed to get a ton more traffic in there then the previous owners ever had. But he's made some weird decisions, like getting rid of Big Rock beer, and devoting 1/4 of his floor space to awkward karaoke or 3 foot Jenga. At one point he had a gasoline powered blender with motorcycle handle bars on the patio.

"Eclectic" is the best description I can make for that place, each time you go it's got some new odd ball feature, it almost seems like it belongs on a sitcom and the gag is a new promotion/bar game each week.
I was there in May for a friend's birthday. The owner was walking around greeting every table. Weird guy. He showed me a nude GILF pic he had on his phone. Supposedly he is a high school teacher, but I'm skeptical he has a college degree.
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Old 07-28-2016, 10:10 PM   #111
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Nice! Up to 11!
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Old 07-28-2016, 10:49 PM   #112
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There is a neighbourhood called Red Carpet?!?!
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This is honestly the worst list you could possibly come up with. Just awful. Anyone who was responsible for letting this get to print is an idiot.
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Old 07-28-2016, 11:55 PM   #114
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lots of vested emotions in something so arbitrary and irrelevant.
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lots of vested emotions in something so arbitrary and irrelevant.
True, but it's such a silly list. The community of Mahogany isn't even on the list.

And it won Canada's community of the year LOL
http://calgaryherald.com/life/homes/..._lsa=02e8-e5a3
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True, but it's such a silly list. The community of Mahogany isn't even on the list.

And it won Canada's community of the year LOL
http://calgaryherald.com/life/homes/..._lsa=02e8-e5a3
That award should probably be viewed with even more scepticism and disdain than Avenue's random list.
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That award should probably be viewed with even more scepticism and disdain than Avenue's random list.
Well the community exists.

Avenue thinks it doesn't.
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Old 07-29-2016, 10:12 AM   #118
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There's two or three strip mall type places with subway/vietnamese/bakery/dentist businesses and a grand total of two bars/pubs between Macleod trail & 14th street. You're basically forced to drive for any real food or groceries. I'd be nice to have a local place for coffee or breakfast without hopping in the car.
Isn't this pretty much every suburban community in Calgary?
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Old 07-29-2016, 10:13 AM   #119
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Isn't this pretty much every suburban community in Calgary?
No. That's what inner city people just want to believe....
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Old 07-29-2016, 10:17 AM   #120
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People just get upset that their community didn't make the top 10 so they bash everything! I would feel the same if I was not in the top 10
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