123 10th Ave SW, or better known as Bromley Square

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

However on a more positive note the Peanut Butter idea is beyond hilarious

My personal favourite joke to play in a high rise is as follows:

What you do is buy yourself some "Super Balls" from the dollar store. Go up to your balcony, lean as far forward as you can safely, and throw the ball down and towards the building.

With a little bit of aim, and some luck, eventually you will hit a balcony below you. And if the balcony has a solid railing, the ball will bounce back and forth between the balcony and the door. To the person inside their apartment; it will sound like somebody is knocking on their balcony door; even though they are on the 20th floor.

And if that doesn't work, throw eggs at you friends as they go to leave your place early from poker night; and they have made the mistake of parking below your balcony.

[Bill Bumface]

Another useless piece of Bromley Trivia. It was designed to look like a Ghetto Blaster. I can't remember the PC names for those anymore... but there is the handle on the top, the buttons off to the side of the roof and a knob on the side.

[Circa89]

I'm sorry I never had the opportunity to live there, sounds like a blast (ghetto Blast!)
I did live in the west end equivalent. Calgary Place apartments (place Concord) at the time. Sounds like an exact twin.
- the seedy liquor store ours was visited by the russian mafia.
- the generic pizza joint.
- the drug dealers at the Mac's
- I even had the unfortunate experience of literally watching a guy fall off my balcony as he was attempting to scale the building while high.
I talked to him, asked him to get off my balcony and 2 seconds later he was dead.

Good times.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

-unfortunate experience of watching some dude from 2901 leap to his death last summer. A massive black cloud and raging hailstorm enveloped the downtown core soon after. It was very eerie and left me pretty shaken for awhile. I had to under the instruction from the authorities go down to explain what I saw to the investigator. When I got down there, there was no ambulance, police or anything yet. I saw a woman with a stroller and child walking towards the scene, knowing what they were about to see, I ran across the 'mess' to stop them.

*Sorry about the gore. Not something I would want anyone else to have to see.

Originally Posted by Circa89

- I even had the unfortunate experience of literally watching a guy fall off my balcony as he was attempting to scale the building while high.
I talked to him, asked him to get off my balcony and 2 seconds later he was dead.

Good times.

Wow, I really feel for the two of you. I don't know how I'd handle something like that.

Glad to see you're both doing ok

[Circa89]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Wow, I really feel for the two of you. I don't know how I'd handle something like that.

Glad to see you're both doing ok

It was about 8 years ago now so I've almost forgotten about it but it was pretty traumatic for me for a while.
Sometimes I hate living in the burbs but then I'm reminded of things like that and they're not so bad after all.

[Ayrahb]

I used to live in 140 10 avenue. I swear to God, there was vomit on the elevator floors every weekend.

I also lived on the 12 floor of Continental Towers 920 9 Ave. We were eating dinner one evening when I noticed a kid's legs dangling from the balcony above. All of us held our breath as the boy stood on our balcony railing, and having seen us, slowly climbed back up. He was about 12-13 and thankfully survived.

That building also sucked when it came to passing trains, but was perfect for watching the Stampede Parade.

[Incogneto]

Bromley.....awesome.

Had a girlfriend that lived there once....had sex on the balcony overlooking the city (south) on more than one occasion.

[sclitheroe]

Ah, Bromley.....In no particular order:

- my next door neighbor's brother was a crackhead, and decided to go swinging from balcony to balcony to break into apartments looking for money...this was on the twentieth floor. He eventually holed up in an empty suite, claiming he had a gun, prompting a standoff with police and police dogs

- riding up the elevator on the way home from work with two forensics guys in full hazmat suits...two sisters OD'ed in their apartment, and rotted for several weeks before the landlord acted on complaints of bad smells in the hallway. Even better was listening to the maintenance guy describe how the one girl died in the bathtub, and her flesh stuck to the tub, and peeled away from her when they tried to remove her. Management wanted him to simply re-finish the tub, but he refused.

- One stampede, a dude jumped down the garbage chute on a dare, and broke his leg landing in the dumpster at the bottom. What he didn't know, is that the compactor is pressure activated, and he was crushed to death before he could crawl out.

- walking past a Honda parked out front, marked off with police tape, riddled in bullet holes

- watching bum fights outside the Seed from your balcony. Throwing ice-cubes at the bums to get them to shut up

- the guy that severed his leg stunting on his motorcycle on 11th Ave was pretty gruesome, there was a small river of blood running down the storm sewer

-There were several jumpers during my stay there. During the rental crush back in the late nineties, it was funny, cause there would be no vacancies, someone would jump, and you'd see the sign outside the next day advertising suites for rent.

- As others have noted, endless problems with hot water. Leaks in general were a pain in the ass, our ceiling leaked several times, and one of our heating pipes also burst.

- we had a pantie thief on our floor, it happened to one of my neighbors a couple of times, which was kinda creepy

- one of my neighbors would get into screaming matches with her parrot...yes, her parrot. Apparently it spoke to her.

- the "cat fee"...if you wanted to own a cat, you had to pay a fee of something like $200, non-refundable. No explanation as to why

- variable rate parking...everyone paid something different for parking, it was amazing how much we paid compared to others

- the hot tub in the "gym"... I won't get into the perversity I head about that thing.

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. Definitely an interesting place, but all in all, I still remember it fondly, it was a fun place to live when you were young and crazy.

[Flashpoint]

- One stampede, a dude jumped down the garbage chute on a dare, and broke his leg landing in the dumpster at the bottom. What he didn't know, is that the compactor is pressure activated, and he was crushed to death before he could crawl out.

That one actually won a Darwin award. World famous.

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-31.html

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Scrambler

-unfortunate experience of watching some dude from 2901 leap to his death last summer. A massive black cloud and raging hailstorm enveloped the downtown core soon after. It was very eerie and left me pretty shaken for awhile. I had to under the instruction from the authorities go down to explain what I saw to the investigator. When I got down there, there was no ambulance, police or anything yet. I saw a woman with a stroller and child walking towards the scene, knowing what they were about to see, I ran across the 'mess' to stop them.

sick couldn't imagine seeing the "mess"

[Cowboy89]

Ah yes my memories of Bromley Square . . . my buddy used to date this girl that lived there and every once in awhile a few friends and I would get invited over for a drink or two before hitting up the town. Quite often discussions would get interupted by cases of domestic violence either in the building or on the street level 20 floors below.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I had a friend who lived there for a bit. For those of you that like ghost stories. Bromley is full of them. My friend was coming home one late night, and while getting out of the elevator, she swore she saw someone or something dart into the elevator. When she turned around, no one was there.

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

I had a friend who lived there for a bit. For those of you that like ghost stories. Bromley is full of them. My friend was coming home one late night, and while getting out of the elevator, she swore she saw someone or something dart into the elevator. When she turned around, no one was there.

Yeah...ghost rats...

[Flames_Gimp]

anybody ever live in Grosvenor house? that is a dumpy apartment building as well....corner of 12ave and 12th street sw.

[Scrambler]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

- the "cat fee"...if you wanted to own a cat, you had to pay a fee of something like $200, non-refundable. No explanation as to why

- variable rate parking...everyone paid something different for parking, it was amazing how much we paid compared to others

I never told them about my cat and got away with it until I forgot and asked them to come fix something in the suite. I got a 72 hours notice when I got home that night but I later convinced them that I had moved my cat away. They wound up forgetting about it later anyway.

I made a small fortune selling my two parking stalls to downtown workers

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I knew a couple of girls who lived there. We used to drink at their place and then go to (this may take some people back) The Ranchmans, and then later Ahhs. Electric Avenue, when it was happening, was up the street also.

Yes, this definitely took me back, lived in Calgary all through the 80's, still miss it very much even though I am sure it has changed a lot.
Ranchman's (aaahhh) and Electric Avenue (aahh) were big in my time there. That brings back memories. Lived couple blocks off McLeod Trail near Stanley Park, had a great view of the Saddledome from our rooftop balcony.

Hope to be back there someday!!

[mattyk19]

I lived there for about 6 months. Girlfriend and I broke up, and I broke the lease. But within that 6 months there are a lot of stories;

-) One of the saddest ones. Apparently a previous tenant kept a copy of his key, went in to the building and in to his old suite where he raped a girl. This was told to me by one of the security guards.

-) One night I saw a guy climb off his balcony and scramble... UP to his friends place that was several floors up, and one or two suites to the side.

-) Two cars broken in to in the garage.

-) I came home one night to police tape just down a couple doors. Drive by shooting.

PRO'S

-) Don't know if it's still there, but there was a hairdresser on the bottom floor run by this Italian dude. There was an absolute fox that used to cut my hair and give me beer when I went there. Damn, I wish I could remember her name.

-) There were several other dirties that would come in and out of that place. That was kind of fun to watch.

-) When I broke my lease, I had my arm in a sling from a dislocated shoulder (see other posts). They let me go scott free from the lease. I couldn't believe it.