Fond Calgary memories for the youngins'!

[the crispy badger]

Wow...just a few blocks from CNG..I may of met you in my travels somewhere along the way..one never knows

[The Familia]

Anyone remember the store called Consumers where you ordered **** through a catalogue, and then picked it up? There was one in Franklin mall...

I fondly remember growing up in WHITEHORN, attending St.Wilfred school and going to red rooster and little ceasars across the street. St. Wilfred had the greatest wooden park ever! many a splinters...

[Mango]

Originally Posted by The Familia

Anyone remember the store called Consumers where you ordered **** through a catalogue, and then picked it up? There was one in Franklin mall...

I fondly remember growing up in WHITEHORN, attending St.Wilfred school and going to red rooster and little ceasars across the street. St. Wilfred had the greatest wooden park ever! many a splinters...

hehe! I went to St. Wilfred for a few years too before moving in Signal Hill. I remember all that you mentioned. I even remember when Red Rooster had movie rentals (Beta too!).

[Tikk]

I remember going to Rollerland and they often played "Do the hokey pokey" and I kept falling when I put my left leg out because I sucked at rollerblades...I remember going to Rundle Elementary and I had my first girlfriend, an exceptionally pretty girl named Janis. She had the most striking blue eyes I can remember. I remember a classmate of mine getting run over by the c-train by Sunridge Mall in grade 4, in '91-92.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by The Familia

Anyone remember the store called Consumers where you ordered **** through a catalogue, and then picked it up? There was one in Franklin mall...

Yeah Consumer Distributed was the full name. They also had a store up on centre street right near an oldstyle A&W where you could order through the speakers and eat in your car. My family went there every Friday night for years until it burned down in a fire.

[Tikk]

^I remember that store. Did they have an outlet by Franklin Mall? I think I begged my mom to buy me Mega Man 4 there.

edit: duh...The Familia just said there was one in Franklin Mall...

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Actually, it was Consumers Distributing. Really a precursor to the Big Box stores now, lots of product, limited staff. I wonder why that business model failed, too much inventory? Lack of size?

The happiest day as a kid was when the new catalog showed up. That thing was read to no end by us planning for Xmas.

[the crispy badger]

Whitehorn...I remember Toys R US going up and Food for Less..the first Grocery store I remember with a Video Store in it

[the crispy badger]

Originally Posted by Tikk

I remember going to Rollerland and they often played "Do the hokey pokey" and I kept falling when I put my left leg out because I sucked at rollerblades...I remember going to Rundle Elementary and I had my first girlfriend, an exceptionally pretty girl named Janis. She had the most striking blue eyes I can remember. I remember a classmate of mine getting run over by the c-train by Sunridge Mall in grade 4, in '91-92.

I pretty much spent every 2nd night there..all those slow dances at the end and all I ever got were fat chicks

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by Mango

hehe! I went to St. Wilfred for a few years too before moving in Signal Hill. I remember all that you mentioned. I even remember when Red Rooster had movie rentals (Beta too!).

Also a Wilfred/Whitehorn kid!

Man this thread got pulled out of the books, I must have missed the last few posts, replied ealier in the thread.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

nobody here grew up in huntingtin hills?

sure, brother, i did! and thorncliffe too...

still there... guess its true, you dont stray too far!

anyone remember the crappy mall up on 64th ave and hunterview drive? there was a bowling alley there, and an allwest supermarket, and a macs? AND NOTHING ELSE!

i too remember much of what has been already said...

the flames on 2&7, in association with molstar communications!
it figues with charlene prickett, and hercules to get me going in the morning!

super socco? available at my local macs store, where in the mid to late 80s they had froster paraphanalia? i had a rugby shirt!

funky punkers, the attic and the republic - good times for sure...

lloyds is still there

OMG, mothers pizza, where there any others at all?!

making out on signal hill long before there was any houses and stuff there - just the (i think) university / olympic coed dorm things.







rico

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Actually, it was Consumers Distributing. Really a precursor to the Big Box stores now, lots of product, limited staff. I wonder why that business model failed, too much inventory? Lack of size?

The happiest day as a kid was when the new catalog showed up. That thing was read to no end by us planning for Xmas.

Because it was utterly inefficient. It was akin to people lining up in queues for goods like in communist Russia. People like to browse, hold their goods in their hand and look at it.

Going into a storefront, and then going to a catalogue desk with everybody else, flipping through and copying numbers, then lining up with everybody else in a slow line past a generic window where somebody would slowly get your items from the back just didn't work I suppose. It was like going to a bank except instead of filling out deposit/withdrawl slips, you were doing it for a microwave or lawn furniture set or toys or something.

That said, damn, I love those catalogues. I wish I had kept all of them. Especially from the 80s.

[Calgary Flames]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Because it was utterly inefficient. It was akin to people lining up in queues for goods like in communist Russia. People like to browse, hold their goods in their hand and look at it.

Going into a storefront, and then going to a catalogue desk with everybody else, flipping through and copying numbers, then lining up with everybody else in a slow line past a generic window where somebody would slowly get your items from the back just didn't work I suppose. It was like going to a bank except instead of filling out deposit/withdrawl slips, you were doing it for a microwave or lawn furniture set or toys or something.

That said, damn, I love those catalogues. I wish I had kept all of them. Especially from the 80s.

As a kid, browsing for new Transformers was the greatest joy!

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Because it was utterly inefficient. It was akin to people lining up in queues for goods like in communist Russia. People like to browse, hold their goods in their hand and look at it.

Yeah, but ultimately, price is king. If Consumers were able to keep their prices down, I don't think people would mind the sterility of it all. You pretty much knew what you wanted when you got there thanks to the catalog. Go in, fill out the form, get Karate Champ for the NES....

It's just as well, I doubt they could have survived the invasion of the American Big box stores. They would have lost on pricing alone.

[Sparks]

I ordered Double Dragon at Consumers Distributing, and they didn't have it in stock. Still waiting for my order to come in

OMG, mothers pizza, where there any others at all?!

Wasn't there one on MacLeod Trail near where Superstore is now? Man was that pizza ever good. The owners of the place lived across the street from me growing up, and they also owned (own?) the back alley iirc.

[Frank the Tank]

There was a Mothers across from Southcentre that we used to go to all the time. One of the last things we did before we moved...that and a Flames game....

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Yeah Consumer Distributed was the full name. They also had a store up on centre street right near an oldstyle A&W where you could order through the speakers and eat in your car. My family went there every Friday night for years until it burned down in a fire.

I used to go to the same location, and also that A&W on centre street..

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

sure, brother, i did! and thorncliffe too...

still there... guess its true, you dont stray too far!

anyone remember the crappy mall up on 64th ave and hunterview drive? there was a bowling alley there, and an allwest supermarket, and a macs? AND NOTHING ELSE!

rico

I used to go to the red rooster over on i think beddington, remember renting nintendo games there! going to that arcade in beddington square mall. The crappy carnival setup at that mall by mcdonalds and diefinbaker(sp?) high..

[North East Goon]

Anyone remember Trans Canada Mall in Marlborough Park. It was the darkest dingyest mall in the city. It was anchored by K-Mart also an oldie but goodie. I can remember eating jell-o there in their cafeteria! Or what about government run liquor stores, they were a biotch to score liquor in underage! Kids dont know how good they got it now!

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

Anyone remember Trans Canada Mall in Marlborough Park. It was the darkest dingyest mall in the city. It was anchored by K-Mart also an oldie but goodie. I can remember eating jell-o there in their cafeteria! Or what about government run liquor stores, they were a biotch to score liquor in underage! Kids dont know how good they got it now!

Alberta Liquor Board stores were stupid.... ****ty hours too lol