Fond Calgary memories for the youngins'!

[North East Goon]

Sweet Thread, I grew up in Pineridge. My memories are similiar to some in here. Two that really brought me back was Bob's Hamburgers my memory is a little shady of these werent they similiar to Peters Drive Inn Burgers? Funky Punkers that was something I totally forgot about, it was fun cruising this store and the head shops with your friends and no parents around. The best thing about Food City was you could go in there and drink a crap load of pop because they had little taster cups for all their special pops. Anyone remember Freewheelin and the goalie shop across from the Saddledome? Bought my M.Alba Santa Cruz there and thought I was the coolest guy alive. What about Hannigan's Hamburgers in the mall that is now called Pacific Place on 36th Ave. What was the name of that Mall, they had a starboard jeans in it where everyone got their camoflauge pants? It was a real crap hole but not as bad as the Trans Canada Mall anchored by K-Mart and Super Value Foods. And cannot forget Fuddruckers where you could make the sloppiest burgers around. That was on Macleaod and Heritage - I think? I guess I should read all the posts before I start asking questions that were talked about earlier on. Remember the slurpees at the Red Rooster would sort of foam up in the cup? The Blue one was pretty good. If you dont remember what I am talking about they used to serve these same slurpees at the Twin Arena's in the southeast home of those goon 7 - Clubs teams!

[Bertuzzied]

Originally posted by peter12+Aug 19 2005, 03:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peter12 @ Aug 19 2005, 03:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Frank the Tank@Aug 19 2005, 07:33 AM
Who remembers the capture of notorious serial killer Charles Ng just outside the Bay downtown? Huge news when they realized who they had caught. And, he was living in Fish Creek Park, near the edge that runs along Parkland.

And a long shot here. Anyone remember a store called Caprice Distributors? I can't remember the name of the street it was on. If your parents were bargain hunters, they may have been there. My dad used to own it. Its gone now, but it was around for the better part of a decade.

My friend and I unknowingly built our fort about 100 feet away from where he was hiding. [/b][/quote]
My art teacher Mr. Doyle was the guy who caught him. I guess teachers don't make a good enough living so he was working at the Bay as a security guard! hahaha
He showed us his scar from where he got shot. STill kinda strange a serial killer was caught while shoplifting.

[icarus]

Originally posted by Bertuzzied@Aug 19 2005, 06:24 PM
My art teacher Mr. Doyle was the guy who caught him. I guess teachers don't make a good enough living so he was working at the Bay as a security guard! hahaha
He showed us his scar from where he got shot. STill kinda strange a serial killer was caught while shoplifting.

Yeah I remember that well.

It was strange discussing Ng in class in England this year with the Canadian Dept. of Justice chief extradition expert; seems like such a local incident from my youth, but it is now one of the leading Canada/US extradition cases. He was extradited to California to face the death penalty, in case no one recalls.

[Flashpoint]

Originally posted by Hack&Lube@Aug 19 2005, 06:40 AM
All these memories and no pictures?

Somebody's got to have some.

Great photo! Thanks for posting it. Damn, does Calgary look small!

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Regulator75@Aug 19 2005, 07:25 AM


Ahhh the good old days, if I remember correctly didn't Market Mall have a massive fountain/sitting area that you could sit on and eat your lunch or whatever, it was a pretty long fountain.

well I know chinook centre used to have a huge long fountain all the way down one hall, by where the safeway was.... man chinook used to suck shinguard...

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Flame On@Jan 13 2005, 08:24 PM

Or the cool arcades at malls, Sunridge in particular.

Wizards castle in sunridge mall....

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally posted by Neeper@Jan 14 2005, 11:47 AM

The first bar ever I got into underage was Club Splash.

first underage bar i went to was spagucci's, later it was northern lights (across from the fox north)... that bar was notorious for letting in minors. wasnt that long ago mind you, 1991...

[icarus]

I remember when I was about 13 I went to three bars in one day in Banff (without parental escort no less).

[Looger]

Originally posted by Deelow@Jan 13 2005, 01:32 AM
The Attic.
I can't count the $$$ I spent at that place. I used to buy Nirvana bootlegs there for $50 a pop. ah, the days before CD Burners and P2P sharing.

i remember that place!

i used to buy all kinds of junk there, the only thing i didn't pick up was something i should have, a cardboard cutout of bobba fett for $35.

gold!

[Looger]

Originally posted by Bertuzzied@Jan 14 2005, 07:13 PM
OH!!! who can forget Esso plaza and their $2movies and 15 theatres. Course thinking back, my big screen tv is bigger than those screens they had back then.

i saw a jackie chan movie there, a late showing, starting at 10:30 - the next day the paper had an ad saying that esso was closed, and thanked calgary.

i was at the last show at esso plaza, and didn't even know it.

i found the smallness of some of those screens quite intimate, people were friendlier to each other and funny stuff became funnier. miss it greatly.

[Shazam]

Ron Barge (Buckshot) is happily and deservedly retired last time I read about him. He's in his 70's now I think.

My sister made it on the show. We still have the original video tape.

He used to play Danger Mouse on the show.

[Shazam]

Originally posted by Looger@Aug 21 2005, 10:09 PM
OH!!! who can forget Esso plaza and their $2movies and 15 theatres. Course thinking back, my big screen tv is bigger than those screens they had back then.

I remember when Esso Plaza was a full priced theatre! I went there a couple of times with friends and we'd be the only people in the whole theatre! Then they became a $1 theatre and then it became really popular. There used to be an arcade there as well that I'd frequent.

[Radically Red]

Originally posted by Shazam@Aug 22 2005, 06:10 PM
Ron Barge (Buckshot) is happily and deservedly retired last time I read about him. He's in his 70's now I think.

My sister made it on the show. We still have the original video tape.

He used to play Danger Mouse on the show.

I remember being on the Buck shot show as well. good old school field trip.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally posted by Radically Red+Aug 22 2005, 01:10 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Radically Red @ Aug 22 2005, 01:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Shazam@Aug 22 2005, 06:10 PM
Ron Barge (Buckshot) is happily and deservedly retired last time I read about him. He's in his 70's now I think.

My sister made it on the show. We still have the original video tape.

He used to play Danger Mouse on the show.

I remember being on the Buck shot show as well. good old school field trip. [/b][/quote]
I played my accordion on the Buck Shot Show.

Chicks dig accordions. :geek:

[icarus]

I was also on the Buck Shot Show. I'm trying to remember the theme song but I keep getting the Bubble Bobble music stuck in my head. I remember my friend couldn't pronounce his surname when Buck Shot asked him and lashed out, knocking the microphone out of the stunned man's hand.

This summer I discovered a friend of mine from Cranbrook also appeared on the show when apparently they mustered up the funds to take it on the road.

[Azim]

Ahhh what a great thread, especially for a transplanted Calgarian (been in Southern Ontario for 11 years now)!

Growing up in the NW in Ranchlands we were definitely near the edge of the city but developments in Arbour Lake and Crowfoot were springing up by the time we left in 1994 when I was just 11 but when I came back this February it was just amazing how much change has occurred particularly in that part of the city.

Some of the things that I miss most about Calgary from memories of growing up there in the late 80s and early 90s:

- being able to see the mountains in the horizon from my bedroom window
- 7-11s and slurpees .. Sev's are a rarity here and we have to settle with Macs'
- Esso Plaza and their cheap movies .. so many memories!
- Biking with friends near Edgemont and NoseHill Park
- Cochrane Ice Cream!
- Downtown shopping malls .. ie. Eaton Centre, the Bay, Devonian Gardens ..
- Going to get my haircut with my dad at this Barber somewhere in Charleswood (near Brisbois?) then getting a slurpee from the 7-11 across the street
- Ed Whalen on 2-7 and his "Heeeeeeeeellooooo hockey fans!"
- Sports at 11
- the fress mountain air ... not the chemicalized stuff we inhale here!

... theres lots more that have either already been said or are at the back of my mind. Just out of curiosity to some of the old-timers .. what year did they start building the Deerfoot? Before Deerfoot did Highway 2 to Edmonton just end at the north end of the city? Was there even a highway 2?

Man do I miss Calgary .

Azim

[Cheese]

Originally posted by Azim@Aug 29 2005, 10:43 AM
Ahhh what a great thread, especially for a transplanted Calgarian (been in Southern Ontario for 11 years now)!

Growing up in the NW in Ranchlands we were definitely near the edge of the city but developments in Arbour Lake and Crowfoot were springing up by the time we left in 1994 when I was just 11 but when I came back this February it was just amazing how much change has occurred particularly in that part of the city.

Some of the things that I miss most about Calgary from memories of growing up there in the late 80s and early 90s:

- being able to see the mountains in the horizon from my bedroom window
- 7-11s and slurpees .. Sev's are a rarity here and we have to settle with Macs'
- Esso Plaza and their cheap movies .. so many memories!
- Biking with friends near Edgemont and NoseHill Park
- Cochrane Ice Cream!
- Downtown shopping malls .. ie. Eaton Centre, the Bay, Devonian Gardens ..
- Going to get my haircut with my dad at this Barber somewhere in Charleswood (near Brisbois?) then getting a slurpee from the 7-11 across the street
- Ed Whalen on 2-7 and his "Heeeeeeeeellooooo hockey fans!"
- Sports at 11
- the fress mountain air ... not the chemicalized stuff we inhale here!

... theres lots more that have either already been said or are at the back of my mind. Just out of curiosity to some of the old-timers .. what year did they start building the Deerfoot? Before Deerfoot did Highway 2 to Edmonton just end at the north end of the city? Was there even a highway 2?

Man do I miss Calgary .

Azim

hmmmm...Im not 100% sure on the year it started...mustve been between 1968 and 1970ish.

Before the Deerfoot you went straight out "Edmonton Trail".
I am also a Suth'n Ontarionite...and would never go back...although I LOVE the mountains I hate the western weather....gimmee the heat anyday!

[Jake]

Originally posted by Agamemnon@Jan 12 2005, 01:57 PM
Not that long ago, but I recall the horse/field that was on the West side of 14th Street around Heritage Drive. Never could figure out what the deal was w/ the land and horse, but my Mom said the horse had been there for a loooong time. Pretty sure its gone now.

I live near there and yes the horse is gone. He had it coming, you could clearly see his ribs. I heard a rumor that the reason they had the horse was for tax reasons. Apparently they could keep a farm status with a certain number of animals.

Unfortunatly the Jewish center is expanding into that area now.

[the crispy badger]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

nobody here grew up in huntingtin hills?

Time to revive this thread once again..I went to Catherine Nichols Gunn in the early 80s(80-84)..and lived directly across from the school..those were pretty carefree times..all we wanted out of life was to be Luke Skywalker(at least me anyways)..go to Chucky Cheese and on the weekends head on our bmxs to Babahan Pool..Rollerland or Marlborough Mall..good times

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by the crispy badger

Time to revive this thread once again..I went to Catherine Nichols Gunn in the early 80s(80-84)..and lived directly across from the school..those were pretty carefree times..all we wanted out of life was to be Luke Skywalker(at least me anyways)..go to Chucky Cheese and on the weekends head on our bmxs to Babahan Pool..Rollerland or Marlborough Mall..good times

I went to Alex Munro in the 80's...