Old Calgary stuff you miss...(The Nostalgia thread)

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by BurningYears

speaking of old ice cream shops, has anyone been to my favorite ice cream shop in altadore? I know it was still there a couple of years ago forsure. still awesome ice cream?

Yes still there, I drive by it every day on my way home from work.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by browna

Provincial Liquor stores...closed early Saturday (Mall hours) and Sunday meant had to properly plan for weekend binges. One was in Southcentre where Chili's is.

I remember it, but I sure don't miss it.

Getting gouged on "off sales" on Sundays was no good. You could even buy draft beer (probably at Peepers North) in big 4 litre milk jugs. Now that's low-rent drinkin'!

Originally Posted by browna

When channels that you didn't pay for on your converter box were in weird scrambled format...TSN, Superchannel.

Scrambled porn was the first porn for many of us I'm sure. Sometimes Superchannel would run programming from the Playboy Channel late at night. The younger generation of today just don't know the joys of seeing two wildly obscured green and purple women have fake sex.

[Buzzard]

Chestermere Lake when it was just two sleepy rows of summer cabins on either side of the lake. I caught my first fish there under the bridge, a slimy old jack of course.

Circle 8 speedway...I don't even remember where it was exactly, somewhere in the NW, about where Beddington is now?

[gordo67]

Just finished a pepperoni, bacon and mushroom Panzerotti from Mothers and it was the way it use to be 20 years ago.

[McG]

i remember 1140 ckxl when it was a top 40s station...

also remember with the superchannel and 2 other pay channels...

and when the only things on cfcn hill were an amazing view and cfcn.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by McG

i remember 1140 ckxl when it was a top 40s station...

.

Drive Decent.

[McG]

Originally Posted by keratosis

Drive Decent.

hehheh and wow! great memories. and billy powers doing sports.

i also remember when kik 107 did the huge countdown to its launch.

and stop lights on crowchild in the nw at every single intersection.

calgary was so small back then!

[Mango]

Just thought of something else...when SuperStore first came to Calgary, I remember almost all of the cashiers and people on the floor were wearing rollerskates/rollerblades. I'm sure some safety regulations were being broken with that.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by keratosis

Drive Decent.

Back in the day, Norm Edwards was the best morning man in Calgary radio...Listened to him on XL, QR, and CJAY over the years. He died too early.

Forbes has nothing on Good Norming.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by getbak

Back in the day, Norm Edwards was the best morning man in Calgary radio...Listened to him on XL, QR, and CJAY over the years. He died too early.

Forbes has nothing on Good Norming.

Norm Edwards thank you! A friend and me were trying to remember his name a few days back and it's been bugging me every since.

[Vox]

Originally Posted by Pinner

Darrel Janz and Barb Higgins were anchors 30 yr's ago, seriously.

I recall Darrel Janz hosting a high school student version of "Reach for the Top" called "Genies en herbe" in 1984, and it seemed strange to see him do it because even at the time he had been a news anchor for as long as I could remember.

[mrdeeds]

Originally Posted by mr.jim.lahey

Misty's, the Spotlight Club and the Body Shoppe. $1 bottles of beer at Three Cheers wednesday nights.

Ahhh.... a buck a bottle/high balls. I also remember pitcher party Thursdays...

[Vox]

Originally Posted by troutman

Henry Wisewood Grad, 1984

Churchill. But I went to U of A with some of your High School crowd.

The most shocking (depressing?) discovery as I waded through this thread for the last hour is how many of the things posters are nostalgic for actually REPLACED the things that I find nostalgic!!

And to answer a poster 15 pages ago, Safeway at Market Mall used to be the "Woodwards Food Floor".

[BOSSY]

Originally Posted by kipperfan

Nope, though I remember that one as well. The one in the NW was really small and had a farmhouse and people living there tending to the land. The area I am thinking of was just a giant square (maybe 10-20 city blocks?) wheat field in the middle of the industrial area's in the NE. That land was farmed for years and years...I would love to know what sits on that land now?

The one in the NW with the farmhouse was beside that church that is beside St. Francis ... My buddy used to live right beside it and we'd wack golf balls trying to hit the house then hop on our Kuwahara's and drop a couple quarters at the arcade at the corner of Northmount and 14th saving just enough to buy a family box of fries from CB Burgers... Good times! Only thing left is CB's

[BOSSY]

You could get a 4L "Milk Jug" of draft from the Highlander for $10... Man it was gross but a good score for a couple 16 year olds!

[macker]

Originally Posted by Vox

I recall Darrel Janz hosting a high school student version of "Reach for the Top" called "Genies en herbe" in 1984, and it seemed strange to see him do it because even at the time he had been a news anchor for as long as I could remember.

I remember seeing his brother Paul Janz open up for Cutting Crew at the Jack Singer. Anyone else miss how the girls (including my sister) used to be able to jump on the stage and grab the singers before the bouncers would gently escort them back to the main seating area. BTW : Died in your arms = best grade 7 slow dance song ever

[getbak]

Originally Posted by macker

I remember seeing his brother Paul Janz open up for Cutting Crew at the Jack Singer.

I think they're cousins, not brothers.

[Jbo]

Everything has been mentioned...but as a lifer from the NW:

-wizards castle in market mall...add in when they had theaters that were awesome as well (mall was half the size and twice as great)
-when varsity actually had a field with horses rather then lifeless small houses
-when I could walk to Northland at a normal 4 way. This was when Brentwood was the end of the line. I hate all the flyovers now between Brentwood and rocky

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by troutman

I miss the ball that Harold Reynolds threw to me at the end of the inning, but Aeneas pushed me down and intercepted it.

You just can't let that #### go can you?

Harold Reynolds: Hey Aeneas! Here's a ball for you.

Aeneas: (catching the ball signed, "To my pal Aeneas, HR") Thanks Harold, sorry about my friend. trout seriously, let go of his leg.

[Vox]

Originally Posted by getbak

I think they're cousins, not brothers.

Pretty sure Paul is Darrel's nephew, actually. Was going to comment about that in my earlier post, but figured no one else here would know what I was talking about! Guess I was wrong.