Fond Calgary memories for the youngins'!

[looooob]

Originally posted by JiriHrdina+Aug 18 2005, 10:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JiriHrdina @ Aug 18 2005, 10:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Best thing about Fuddruckers...writing your name down and waiting.....

"IP Freely, your burger is ready". Ensuing cackles from high school students as they went to retrieve their food.

One other burger place I do remember was Bob's burgers. And working in Chi Chi's kitchen for a couple of months. I was fired because I failed to show up for a shift cos' there was this party I really wanted to go to....

My god, whatever happened to that spirit?

Believe it or not there is still a Bob's in Calgary. It is out on the far end of Glenmore Trail - in the mini-mall next to The Glenmore Inn. So if you have a hankering for a Bob's Burger there ya go! [/b][/quote]
I had no idea. wow. we used to get food from the one on 37st street all the time

[Cheese]

hmmmm...some of those arent going back that far.
I remember when the hotels like the Highlander, Airliner, etc etc were huge bars that fit well over 2-300 people. They would have live bands coming in to play every night, something that is missing from todays entertainment bill. Lots of Canadian bands like Chilliwack, Streetheart, etc were some of the young bands just starting out who played these venues.
Then disco came in and they chopped the bars into halves or quarters and made smaller dance halls with canned music.

I also remember a small club on 4th street NW called the Hoppin Grape that had some great bands as well....and when it was popular....streakers!
Those were the days!

Not going to go back to the sock hops though....too far for some of you young'uns!

Also...as per Cow's message...I used to hunt gophers where the Deerfoot now runs...nothin but fields in those days.

[Hakan]

I haven't read the whole thread but the one Calgary memory that I miss probably more than anything else is The Republik. I saw so many amazing bands there for cheap, it was a sad day when that venue closed.

[Tron_fdc]

Originally posted by Hakan@Aug 18 2005, 10:52 AM
I haven't read the whole thread but the one Calgary memory that I miss probably more than anything else is The Republik. I saw so many amazing bands there for cheap, it was a sad day when that venue closed.

That, my friend is one of the greatest travesties of the Calgary club scene. 25 cent hiballs fed my craving on many a Thursday, and there was nothing like getting up on stage grooving to a little NIN.

One of my fondest memories: I saw my first girl/girl makeout there, and took one of 'em home (she was Swedish, let me tell ya holy moly).

The last night it was open was pretty funny, all the old school punk rockers that used to go there in the late 80/s early nineties crawled out of the woodwork, put on their Dead Kennedies t-shirts and combat boots, and tore the place apart. It was kinda funny watching the expressions on all these young kids that had no idea what the place was all about and the clientel it had when it first got going.

[Bobblehead]

My memories go the other way. I grew up in London and moved to Calgary 7 years ago. I actually just got back from a business trip to London. Growing up I heard a lot about Calgary, our neighbour was a relocated Calgarian with lots of stories.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by Bobblehead@Aug 18 2005, 12:04 PM
My memories go the other way. I grew up in London and moved to Calgary 7 years ago. I actually just got back from a business trip to London. Growing up I heard a lot about Calgary, our neighbour was a relocated Calgarian with lots of stories.

Haha! We are exact opposites! I'm Bizarro Bobblehead!

Anyhow, nice to see this thread ressurected. How many people my age still refer to C.O.P. as Paskapoo? It will always be Paskapoo to me.

[looooob]

Originally posted by Tron_fdc+Aug 18 2005, 11:04 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tron_fdc @ Aug 18 2005, 11:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Hakan@Aug 18 2005, 10:52 AM
I haven't read the whole thread but the one Calgary memory that I miss probably more than anything else is The Republik. I saw so many amazing bands there for cheap, it was a sad day when that venue closed.

That, my friend is one of the greatest travesties of the Calgary club scene. 25 cent hiballs fed my craving on many a Thursday, and there was nothing like getting up on stage grooving to a little NIN.

One of my fondest memories: I saw my first girl/girl makeout there, and took one of 'em home (she was Swedish, let me tell ya holy moly).

The last night it was open was pretty funny, all the old school punk rockers that used to go there in the late 80/s early nineties crawled out of the woodwork, put on their Dead Kennedies t-shirts and combat boots, and tore the place apart. It was kinda funny watching the expressions on all these young kids that had no idea what the place was all about and the clientel it had when it first got going. [/b][/quote]
I hope I'm not the only semi-old (not cheese/cow old) timer who doesn't remember spending many a night at the Old Republik on 9th ave...and that frickin' cold roof top patio

remember the new one opening...and closing

and lots of memories (and a few blackouts sadly) in between

[Bobblehead]

Perhaps this is the best thread to ask this question...

When I'm driving in to work, I see something that looks like a drive-in screen. It would be in the NE, between Barlow and 36th, just south of 16th. I see it when I have come off 16th(westbound) and waiting for the light to turn so I can go south on 36th.

It looks like an old screen that is still sitting there. I never remember to actually drive by and take a look, I only ever seem to think of it when I am looking at it (besides now). Is it an old screen, or just something that looks like one?

[JiriHrdina]

Originally posted by Bobblehead@Aug 18 2005, 11:45 AM
Perhaps this is the best thread to ask this question...

When I'm driving in to work, I see something that looks like a drive-in screen. It would be in the NE, between Barlow and 36th, just south of 16th. I see it when I have come off 16th(westbound) and waiting for the light to turn so I can go south on 36th.

It looks like an old screen that is still sitting there. I never remember to actually drive by and take a look, I only ever seem to think of it when I am looking at it (besides now). Is it an old screen, or just something that looks like one?

I thin you're probably seeing the site of the old Sundance Drive In. One of two old drive-ins Calgary had. The other being the Coral 4 out east on 17th Ave (which also still has two screens up).

Ahhh. How I miss them both. Saw a double feature there of Silverado and Runaway (with Tom Sellek). That was the first of many good memories at the drive in.

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Deelow@Jan 12 2005, 04:51 PM
My Pogo Ball being stolen from the back yard was the last straw.

pogoball, i remember that shinguardty toy. lol

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Mango@Jan 12 2005, 06:29 PM
Did anyone live by a Red Rooster?

yup, used to always walk up to red rooster for candy and shinguard. the one up by huntington hills/beddington.

[peter12]

Originally posted by Flames_Gimp+Aug 18 2005, 01:18 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Flames_Gimp @ Aug 18 2005, 01:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mango@Jan 12 2005, 06:29 PM
Did anyone live by a Red Rooster?

yup, used to always walk up to red rooster for candy and shinguard. the one up by huntington hills/beddington. [/b][/quote]
I lived by the Red Rooster in Deer Run. Great days in old school Deer Run.

[Flames_Gimp]

omg, just realized how old this thread is!!! i've got a lot of reading to do!! lol

[HelloHockeyFans]

"AM 106 TOP TEN AT TEN! NUMBER ONE!!!"

Ah, I remember getting woken up bright and early on Saturday mornings by my father, dragging me out to my swimming lessons at the "Leisure Centre" in the northeast right behind the CO-OP and now right beside Lester B. Pearson High School. My parents would shop for groceries during my lesson and afterwards, we'd go down to chinatown for dimsum.

Lots of good memories in fact, of the Leisure Centre. I learned how to skate in their ice rink. I remember my dad used to take me every Sunday night.

Whitehorn represent! Lived in Whitehorn all my life! Good ol' Whitman Place.

The Food For Less some of you are talking about was about a 5 minute walk from my old house in Calgary.

I still remember when Deerfoot Mall was one of the crappiest malls around (not sure if it still is?). Nothing around in that area except for that one mall.

Or the old airport (I think?) in the northeast? I think it was called FIELD or something? Some company? My mother used to work there.

I miss Calgary.

[icarus]

Oh yeah? Well I lived by the Red Rooster in Deer Run and I LIVE by where the Bonavista 7-11-cum-medical clinic is! In fact, I walk by it every morning on my way to work in Avenida.

[pope04]

Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Aug 18 2005, 05:08 PM
How many people my age still refer to C.O.P. as Paskapoo? It will always be Paskapoo to me.

First time on the slopes was at Paskapoo in grade seven. That'd be, ohhh, 1978 or so.

[icarus]

Originally posted by pope04@Aug 18 2005, 08:07 PM
First time on the slopes was at Paskapoo in grade seven. That'd be, ohhh, 1978 or so.

I remember taking my first skiing lessons there when I was about five or six. I think it was already COP at that point. It would have been around 1985-86. My parents still call it Paskapoo sometimes though.

[Tron_fdc]

pffft Paskapoo

I hit Lion Mountain in my '88 olympics jacket because their pipe was SICK in those days.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Pffft... how uncool were you. You needed a shirt with one of these logos if you were really cool.




Oh, and a Swatch. Had to have the Swatch.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by fotze@Aug 18 2005, 02:15 PM
I remember being too shy in grade 2 when skiing at paskapoo with school and passing my pants cause I needed an adult to undue all my equiment. Man that sucked.

Harsh.

I took lessons there in Grade 5 and for some reason I was quite scared of getting off the chairlift. I was convinced that baby was gonna hit me in the back of the head. So anyway I really wimped out one time and ended up going right around the loop at the top, which, apparently, is not a very good thing to do. As soon as I went around the corner my skis hit this big bar and the whole lift shut down. Oddly enough, I wasn't scared of the 15 foot drop that I had to pull off, landing sideways on a sheer cliff (as I remember it) and skiing away in a hurried fashion.

Nobody knew what the hell happened and I wasn't going to tell anyone. Took them quite a while to get the lift running and make sure I wasn't dead up there but I was long gone.