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Originally Posted by nfotiu
How sad that many people here don't know where electric avenue was.
How sad that the city had to go all nazi and shut it down. You'd think they could have found a way to make it work. Staggered closing times or no closing times would have gone a long way, I'd think.
That strip was pretty legendary through most of Canada for a while. You visited Calgary as a twenty-something year old, there was no question as where to go.
fox and firkin, king's horse, coconot joes, 3 cheers, Yankee doodle, the upstairs part of yankee doodle where you got to sit in lazy boys to watch the games, while being served by waitresses in lingerie... ah good times.
I don't think I ever made it to the bar called electric ave though.
There was a lot of nostalgia there for me. Oh well, I guess I went and got too old to make any use of it these days anyway.
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I don't think it's all that tragic. I guess I missed the height of it as I turned 18 in '96, but from what I remember, it was one block of drunken idiots with one hot dog vendor and one macs and 8 bars. No parking, fights over cabs, fights over bumping in to someone while walking a crowded street...
I think 17th is 10x better. It's stretched out over a much longer area. There are alot more stores and restaurants and coffee shops and parking spaces. IMO, ideal. Cabs cruise the strip, people scoping bars cruise the strip. The distance between bars means that us pervy guys get to see cuties strut their stuff in their skirts. I'll take 17th over Electric, or 1st street any day of the week.
