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

[Regulator75]

1. Village Square Leisure Centre -Still there

2. Silver Dragon in Chinatown - Still there

3. Food for Less in the NE - Gone (I think)

4. Sunridge Mall - Still there

5. Franklin Mall - Now Pacific Place

6. That indoor garden in that downtown mall - Devonian Gardens, it's been re-modeled and it looks like crap.

7. Do you still have to press a button on the C-Train to open the train doors? Yes (I think so).

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Komskies

The jugs were still only $8 or so in the mid 2000s. Great place to knock a few back.

Oh yes! Everyone orders a jug and theres a Victory Jug in the middle, first one done their Jug gets the Victory Jug!

New Mac Hall sucks, the old Ballroom was awesome.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by habernac

got in the old den when I was 17, thanks to some random person from Mac Hall who loaned me his driver's license. Good times.

Or you could just enter before the bouncers were at the door.

I uh... heard this from uh... a friend, yeah, that's it.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Locke

That place was great. I played soccer with the owner's kid and then I ended up working in an office there for a while.

An office in the same strip-mall as the pool hall, or in the pool hall itself?

Originally Posted by darockwilder

WTF is a trim track?

There was a huge public service push in the 70s to get Canadians fitter and more active. ParticipACTION is the most well-known program to come out of the effort. The trim tracks have come and gone.

Basically, they were a bunch of signs and fixtures spread out over a public park that made up a circuit of exercises. So the first sign might show someone doing jumping-jacks, with instructions for an easy, moderate, and hard level. Then 100 or so yards away, there might be wooden beam with a sign showing how to do swings over either side. Another 100 yards away, a series of posts that you were supposed to hop on and off. And so on.

The one at South Glenmore Park had 10 or 12 stations, making up a 2 km or so loop. The idea was you could walk or run between them and a do a circuit workout of variable intensity. The penultimate was a rope climb that was actually pretty high - about 15 ft. You can see the sign on the edge of the photo.



It was a cool and idealistic program. But vandalism, and wear and tear, eventually degraded the fixtures. And I'm sure someone pointed out liability issues at some point, so the trim tracks were left to fall into disrepair, and what was left of the rusted signs and worn beams were eventually pulled down sometime in the late 80s.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

An office in the same strip-mall as the pool hall, or in the pool hall itself?

It was a Safeway that was turned into the Pool Hall that was then converted into office space.

Its a shame it wasnt still the pool hall while I worked there, if you read my story in the other thread it would have made my life significantly better.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Locke

It was a Safeway that was turned into the Pool Hall that was then converted into office space.

Its a shame it wasnt still the pool hall while I worked there, if you read my story in the other thread it would have made my life significantly better.

Played alot of pool there and saw a few drug deals go down at the same time.

[Ozy_Flame]

Anyone mention that great Waterslide Park on McLeod? Fun times when I was a kid!

Also, does anyone remember Laser Illusions? I think it was in Southcentre. Basically you could go there, play any NES game from behind the counter and be given your own TV and Nintendo. I think there was an arcade in the back. Was great for parties as a kid.

Props to Wizards (or Scotties, was it?) at TD Square as well.

And oh yeah, Fairview Bowling Centre and North Hill Theatre!

[rotten42]

1. North Hill Movie theatre - it was the best
2. Buckshot
3. Off roading in our beater winter cars where Edgemont now is
4. Going down to Keen Craft (did I spell that right) on 11th ave in grade 9 to go hang out and play guitars all day in there showroom.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

An office in the same strip-mall as the pool hall, or in the pool hall itself?



There was a huge public service push in the 70s to get Canadians fitter and more active. ParticipACTION is the most well-known program to come out of the effort. The trim tracks have come and gone.

Basically, they were a bunch of signs and fixtures spread out over a public park that made up a circuit of exercises. So the first sign might show someone doing jumping-jacks, with instructions for an easy, moderate, and hard level. Then 100 or so yards away, there might be wooden beam with a sign showing how to do swings over either side. Another 100 yards away, a series of posts that you were supposed to hop on and off. And so on.

The one at South Glenmore Park had 10 or 12 stations, making up a 2 km or so loop. The idea was you could walk or run between them and a do a circuit workout of variable intensity. The penultimate was a rope climb that was actually pretty high - about 15 ft. You can see the sign on the edge of the photo.



It was a cool and idealistic program. But vandalism, and wear and tear, eventually degraded the fixtures. And I'm sure someone pointed out liability issues at some point, so the trim tracks were left to fall into disrepair, and what was left of the rusted signs and worn beams were eventually pulled down sometime in the late 80s.

Wow, I'm in my mid 40's and this is the first I've heard of them. I initially thought it was a colloquialism for a greasy hook-up location or something. "Headin' down to the trim track for some sweet, sweet 'tang" kind of thing. Guess I was pretty far off....

[Weitz]

There is a "trim track" in Varsity.

[Burke Salad]

ACE Pizza in Rundle, loved that place.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Anyone mention that great Waterslide Park on McLeod? Fun times when I was a kid!

Bonzai!

[BurningYears]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Bonzai!

I remember really really enjoying the tube float river there. Even if the tubes were crappy and you would always get poked with the air stem and had to watch the edges of each collection area. haha

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Bonzai!

There was also a "teens" nightclub attached to the same building there. It was a dance club for kids under 18. I can't recall the name.


I went once, it sucked.

[#22]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

There was also a "teens" nightclub attached to the same building there. It was a dance club for kids under 18. I can't recall the name.


I went once, it sucked.

Flipside, I believe

It did suck

[Erick Estrada]

Frankie & Johnny's ha ha ha. Seriously though in the late 80's (around the time the Flames won the cup) I had a blast partying around Electric Avenue. Lots of good times and memories going back and forth between Banditos, Coconut Joe's, Electric Ave, etc. While it got out of control and degenerated in the 90's when it was in it's prime it was a blast.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by rotten42

1. North Hill Movie theatre - it was the best

Does anybody have pictures of this? My memory is having trouble figuring out where it was, how it looked like.

Was the bowling alley connected to it? I think I saw Jurassic Park here when I was a kid.

[northcrunk]

1. Wizards arcade in Marlborough mall.

2. Arcades in general, they really were the bomb and I hope we can revive an adult version (dave & busters)

3. Gondola Pizza

4. $1 ride on Calgary Transit

5. Dickie Dees ice cream bikes

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Weitz

There is a "trim track" in Varsity.

By the duck pond next to Smart Technologies right?

[troutman]

Camp Gardner is closing (and moving?):

http://chin.scouts.ca/ca/camp-gardner

Camp Gardner will be closing October 1, 2015.

We will take the best of our history into the future. We have had the privilege of Clem Gardner’s “graze lease" donation since 1957 to enjoy a cub camp retreat for almost 60 years. What a wonderful place for young Cub Scouts and others to experience learning in the outdoors. It was the camp experience at Camp Gardner that laid the foundation to become a successful scouter.

The Cub Scout Way is to play! The experience of camping is not going away, it is simply being moved. Since the flood in 2013, we have re-directed our Cub Camp program to Tillicum Village at Camp Impeesa

They had a great obstacle course.