Fond Calgary memories for the youngins'!

[RougeUnderoos]

I'm not exactly sure when 7/11 met the wrecking ball but it wasn't all that long ago. In the last 3/4 years for sure. The delicious hot dogs, chocolate milk and barbecue chips fuelled me through many educational afternoons in the 1980's. It was also where I got nabbed for stealing a caramilk bar. Bought my first pack of smokes there when I was 14 and looked like maybe 10. I spent many hours learning to defend my green self from the flurry of punches that "Piston Hurricane" would fire at me in the classic game Punch-Out.

Ahhh, memories.

Sorry for being so location-specific but I have a feeling the topic starter knows exactly what I'm talking about.

[JiriHrdina]

I miss the old driven-in theatres. The Corral 4 out on 17 Ave SE and the Sundance off of Edmonton Trail. Last one I saw was a double feature of Silverado and "Runaway" starring Tom Sellek. Good times.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Jan 12 2005, 09:23 PM
I'm not exactly sure when 7/11 met the wrecking ball but it wasn't all that long ago. In the last 3/4 years for sure. The delicious hot dogs, chocolate milk and barbecue chips fuelled me through many educational afternoons in the 1980's. It was also where I got nabbed for stealing a caramilk bar. Bought my first pack of smokes there when I was 14 and looked like maybe 10. I spent many hours learning to defend my green self from the flurry of punches that "Piston Hurricane" would fire at me in the classic game Punch-Out.

Ahhh, memories.

Sorry for being so location-specific but I have a feeling the topic starter knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh do I! Is it possible we went to Nickle at the same time? Sounds like it. I also remember Bill the Barber who owned the barbershop in Bonavista Mall. That dude must have cut my hair 4,000 times.

[flamesfever]

I drove out to Calgary from Ontario in the 50's, as a teenager, with my uncle who had just taken a job as president of a small oil company. I was only here for a few weeks before returning home. I then returned to Calgary as a geologist after graduation from Queen's in early 60's. Some of my early recollections are:

1. Calgary's population 200,000 to 250,00.
2. The way to Banff was on the old 1A highway.
3. The thing families did on weekends was to drive out of town to Bowness Park which had an amusement park for kids.
4. People drove out to Cochrane on weekends to drink beer and coming back at night up the Cochrane hill was quite an experience, so I was told at the time.
5. Eamons out on 1A, which later became a motel, was one of the big eating places.
6. Average price of a bungalow was $10,000 to 12,500, although you could pick up a starter home for +/- $5,000. I recall thinking it would be a wise move to buy a cheap house in Canmore for $4,000.
7. I remember having supper at the top of the old circular Summit Hotel watching the "Ink Spots" and marvelling at how you could look over the top of the city from the 9th? floor.
8. I remember watching cows graze on the North Hill from our house in Wildwood.
9. I remember doing the limbo at the Lone Pine Supper Club.
10. Had an opportunity to buy 3.5 acres up in Coach Hill for $3500. and declined because the view of the city was obscured by some power lines.

[Cowperson]

I remember the snap, crackle, pop of the electric street cars when my parents were driving us through Calgary on the way to the mountains.

I remember riding my bicycle back from Idaho/Montana and down the unfinished Deerfoot and hitting a dead end where they hadn't finished yet.

Cowperson

[RougeUnderoos]

My parents haggled over 15 grand in the early 70's and perhaps went the wrong way. Pops got his way and they did not buy a good sized home in Mount Royal for the princely sum of 45 thousand dollars. A vaguely similar house is currently up for sale for more than 900 Gs.

[JohnnyO]

I remember leaving early in the morning from Varsity to ride our bikes out to what is now Crowfoot, to shoot gophers.

I also remember the recreational area at Happy Valley which is now Valley Ridge. That was the big weekend event.

Then in '91 we moved to Edgemont and we were at the edge of the city we had a heard of deer that would blast through our yard every morning. There also used to be a horse ranch smack dab in the middle of Nose Hill park at Bresbois.

[Agamemnon]

Originally posted by Tron_fdc+Jan 12 2005, 09:20 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tron_fdc @ Jan 12 2005, 09:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Hahahaa! Oh man, do I ever! You sir, have a fantastic memory!

I only remember it because they sold glow in the dark Ghostbuster T-shirts, and because my mom would ditch me for hours down there while she cleaned out Arnold Churgin whenever they had a shoe sale.

What was the name of that head shop down there? I used to buy indian smokes when I was 13 from them. I think it's still there, actually. [/b][/quote]
Wasn't Funky Punkers where you went to get Silly-Putty when it was the rage?

Reminds me of various childhood trends. Anyone remember Muscles? Those little wrestling figurines were useless, but man, everyone wanted that Referee.

[CaptainCrunch]

jeez all this talk about Nickle Jr

I went there from 84 to 86. used to hang out at the 7-11 on the corner. I remember the big vacant lot that went all the way from the trailer parks to Canyon Meadow Drive.

I lived in Lake Bonivista on Willow Road from 1976 to 1989, and watched the house prices double then double again.

Wow I'm fricken old

[Ironhorse]

Originally posted by fotze@Jan 12 2005, 03:41 PM
Those horses at 90th were the patton's. Isn't one still there. Those old buggers have held off on selling that land forever, they are gonna make some sweet bucks there.

It's old homestead land, isn't it? That's why they can keep horses on it. I think they've sold parts of it over the last 15 years, as Pumphill is slowly moving in.

Didn't anyone grow up in the woodbine, oakridge, palliser type areas. I remember driving around the undeveloped pumphill area in my friends golf carts.

The bangers who used to hang out at Sev with the ten speed with the handle bars turned upside down and smoke.

Hey, I used to hang out at that Sev in Braeside...

The alpine slide at paskapoo.

Or remembering that it was called Paskapoo... :P


edit: spelling matters.

[Bertuzzied]

Does anyone remember the Zoo when they had half their animals on the top of the hill on the otherside of Memorial Drive. It was weird, it was free but it was only like 6 cages and half the time you couldn't see the animals because they were hiding.

The thing i miss the most from "old" Calgary is the North Hill Theatre and bowling alley. I saw sooo many great movies there! and the palace too, and the uptown! hahaha

[RougeUnderoos]

Not really related, but Global runs those "Hello Calgary Channels 2&7 love you" commercials sometime. Those things take ya back.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Jan 12 2005, 11:10 PM
Not really related, but Global runs those "Hello Calgary Channels 2&7 love you" commercials sometime. Those things take ya back.

Steve Abrams and Darlene Murphy. They use to flirt all the time on screen. I still don't understand her weather reports.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally posted by Bertuzzied+Jan 12 2005, 11:12 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Bertuzzied @ Jan 12 2005, 11:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RougeUnderoos@Jan 12 2005, 11:10 PM
Not really related, but Global runs those "Hello Calgary Channels 2&7 love you" commercials sometime. Those things take ya back.

Steve Abrams and Darlene Murphy. They use to flirt all the time on screen. I still don't understand her weather reports. [/b][/quote]
I always figured that those two were doing more then the weather if you know what I mean

[Bertuzzied]

Originally posted by CaptainCrunch+Jan 12 2005, 11:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (CaptainCrunch @ Jan 12 2005, 11:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Steve Abrams and Darlene Murphy. They use to flirt all the time on screen. I still don't understand her weather reports.

I always figured that those two were doing more then the weather if you know what I mean

[/b][/quote]
I always watched 2and7 news just because their set looked better, and i hated darryl janz! i dont' know why, he seems like a nice guy. hehe

But Stampede Wrestling and Ed Whalen on Saturdays was the best! Dynamite Kid, JR Foley, Davey Boy Smith and the Viet Cong Express. I onced cried when Bret Hart lost his heavy weight title to the toilet bowl, Makhan Singh. I wanted to kill someone.

[Superfraggle]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Jan 12 2005, 02:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Jan 12 2005, 02:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Table 5@Jan 12 2005, 02:03 PM
but I dont really think those were built in the best interest of the animals as much as perhaps they should have been.

Maybe, but I really wouldn't know. Would they do something like that in this day and age? I mean it's not like they have two large mammals living in the centre of a shopping mall.

Anyway, that was an interesting comment about Calgary's affinity for the twin towers. I never really thought about it but yeah, talk about overdoing it. How many are there?

Banker's Hall
Petro-Canada
Husky
Shell... [/b][/quote]
Take a look at the cougar pen next time you're there. According to Ben Gadd's Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, Cougars have "territories averaging 87 km^2 (summer) to 96 km^2 (winter) for females and 314 km^2 (summer) and 204km^2 (winter) for males"

Bit of a downgrade in area for them, don't ya think? makes me mad

edit: just to prove I'm not an idiot...I did catch the sarcasm there...just adding my thoughts :P

[Foxy]

Originally posted by Tron_fdc+Jan 12 2005, 03:20 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tron_fdc @ Jan 12 2005, 03:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

Hahahaa! Oh man, do I ever! You sir, have a fantastic memory!

I only remember it because they sold glow in the dark Ghostbuster T-shirts, and because my mom would ditch me for hours down there while she cleaned out Arnold Churgin whenever they had a shoe sale.

What was the name of that head shop down there? I used to buy indian smokes when I was 13 from them. I think it's still there, actually. [/b][/quote]
I think the head shop you are thinking of is Boodlum, and it's still there. A tiny, narrow store stuffed with all kinds of interesting goods. Either that or Tropicana, cuz that one has been around for a while as well.

Does anyone remember Kelly's music store on 8th Ave as well? I remember very well the smell of the vinyl records in there, and the creak of the stairs that you went up to get to the Classical and Jazz sections, I think. Or maybe stereo components were sold up there?

[Deelow]

Originally posted by fotze@Jan 12 2005, 10:41 PM
Those horses at 90th were the patton's. Isn't one still there. Those old buggers have held off on selling that land forever, they are gonna make some sweet bucks there.

Didn't anyone grow up in the woodbine, oakridge, palliser type areas. I remember driving around the undeveloped pumphill area in my friends golf carts.

The bangers who used to hang out at Sev with the ten speed with the handle bars turned upside down and smoke.

The alpine slide at paskapoo.

Ya, I grew up in Woodbine, even now when I go back to visit my parents things are different than they were 6 months ago. Like that 37th St. bridge. That thing is crazy. It seems like just yesterday my brother stole my parents truck and rolled it right there at what used to be an uncontrolled bridge too narrow for 2 cars to drive across at once. He lived but I thought my Dad was going to kill him.

I used to wonder about those horses too. A buddy of mine lived in one of those houses backing on to 90th and I remember launching eggs at the rush hour traffic when I was in Junior High.

[KevanGuy]

Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Jan 12 2005, 03:55 PM
jeez all this talk about Nickle Jr

I went there from 84 to 86. used to hang out at the 7-11 on the corner. I remember the big vacant lot that went all the way from the trailer parks to Canyon Meadow Drive.

I lived in Lake Bonivista on Willow Road from 1976 to 1989, and watched the house prices double then double again.

Wow I'm fricken old

Yeah there does seem to be alot of Bonavista Alumni around here. I grew up across the street from Nickle. I grew up in Parkland from 77 - 83. Then on Lake Moraine from 83 - 99.

I remember when I was a kid looking over the ridge to Deer Run below and nothing else on the other side of the ridge. Red Robbins was a good memory down there. I took break-dancing lessens by the Red Robbin in Deer Run when I was 5 or 6.

I also remember taking out golphers with my sling shot where Avenida now stands.

Even life before the overpasses seems like a million years ago. Lights at Canyon Meadows and MacLeod? Are you kidding me!?!?

[Ironhorse]

Originally posted by Deelow@Jan 12 2005, 04:33 PM
I used to wonder about those horses too. A buddy of mine lived in one of those houses backing on to 90th and I remember launching eggs at the rush hour traffic when I was in Junior High.

John Ware ?

I remember going to the "pre-opening" opening of the Leisure Center pool.

Anyone remember the "haunted house" on 98th ave?