Fond Calgary memories for the youngins'!

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by fotze@Jan 13 2005, 02:44 PM
Spaghetti factory is down near Eau Claire. Just awful food though.

Crazy Crazy's I bought my intellivision and intellivoice there.

REmember Consumer's Distributing?

Oh Consumers was HUGE for a long long time and then blammo! Chapter 11 overnight!

Another South Centre memory...anyone remember those ugly water fountains they had? Metal poles with giant circles on top spouting water? 70's art at its best!

[Eagle Eye]

Originally posted by JiriHrdina@Jan 12 2005, 11:05 PM
Well since we are on to bars, here were some of my old haunts.

Botany's (in the NE Radisson - horrible place)
Fox n' Firkin NE
CJs (of course)
3 Cheers
Yankee Doodles (the precusor to Shanks)

Haha you had to bring up those bars, lots of good times and bad

[Frank the Tank]

Was there a bar called something like Denny Andrew's American Bar or something stupid like that? Am I dreaming? I seem to recall going there, I can picture it but I'm not sure if thats the name and I don't remember where it was. Wow. I'm a lot of help. Maybe it was Yankee Doodles, I dunno.

[the_only_turek_fan]

I loved going bowling there, and then watching those shows on stage, and eating pizza, and playing in the arcade. As a kid, I was in heaven. So much fun there.

Also to add to my previos post, I remember when Fish Creek Park and Anderson LRT Station were as far south as you can go in this city, now I would say 5-10% of the city is below that part.

There used to be an old Shell Gas Station in Castleridge where I used to live, and the guy that worked in the store inside had funky hair and his name was Fresh.

Any how I will always remember the guy bc he worked at that store for about 10 years, and I would always go to get slurpees there.

Back in the day for a $1.32 (Thats with GST), you got a 32 ounce slurpee and a bag of chips. :P

Also I remember when the Taco Bell opened up in the North East for the first time, it was such a big deal, because it was the first Taco Bell in Calgary, and I used to love eating there (Still do hehhhehehe)

Also, I remember a grocery store called Food City by Temple. I remember going there with my mom when it was closing down and they were liquidating all there stuff.

And then there was Food For Less by Whitehorn Station, now a Safeway. I will remember that place bc I met Gary Roberts, and Doug Gilmour there back in the early 90s, and they were giving a way mini hockey sticks and they signed one for me. But of course me being like 8 or something I played hockey with it and totally ruined it. I also met Mike Vernon there as well.

[Mango]

Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Jan 13 2005, 07:51 AM
Oh Consumers was HUGE for a long long time and then blammo! Chapter 11 overnight!

I remember the Consumers catalogues when the NES first came out. We went to go pick one up and I think you had to fill out card and then wait for then to bring it to you. The lines ups were out the door.

[Deelow]

Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Jan 13 2005, 02:43 PM
Hey Lanny, where was Rose Kahn arena? I know I played there but I can't picture it...

Heritage, just West of Macleod.
Across from The Heritiage Train Stop.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by Deelow+Jan 13 2005, 03:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Deelow @ Jan 13 2005, 03:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Frank the Tank@Jan 13 2005, 02:43 PM
Hey Lanny, where was Rose Kahn arena? I know I played there but I can't picture it...

Heritage, just West of Macleod.
Across from The Heritiage Train Stop. [/b][/quote]
Ah right, I remember now. Thanks Deelow. I also remember having to go to the Indian Reservation for some games as a kid. Rough rough games.

[calf]

Chi-Chi's by Sundridge mall too

...mmmm, Fried Ice Cream

[Homer_J]

*I didn't grow up in Calgary, but spent a lot of time there with my cousins in the 80's. I remember riding our bikes to a convenience store called "Rick's" in the SE where we'd get soft ice cream slurpees, and head down the hill to the park. Beaver Dam rings a bell, they had a couple big wooden play structures down there. For some reason, I still remember that he went to Banting and Best Elementary school. What area would that be in?

*I used to love Consumers. I remember buying Blades of Steel there for my NES.

*Bullwinkles was my favourite place on the face of the planet. Walk in, order the pizza, go play as many games as possible with our tokens, return to the table for tasty cardboard pizza and the same water fountain / animitronic show, and then back to the arcade to spend our remaing tokens.

*My Mom went to UofC in the late 60's/early 70's and told me that the South end of the city at that time was basically Glenmore Trail. She used to work at the bank which is now A&B sound downtown(or still was, last time I checked).

*Remember that old Ikea store in the NE?

[La Flames Fan]

I remember when I lived in Sundance, across highway 2 (mcleod) where walmart is now, it was nothing but field. There was a huge chainlink fence around a sewer opening and some friends and I decided we'd like to go into the sewer. Yah. We ran across #2, opened a whole in the chain link fence, opened the sewer opening and went caving.

I was younger than the others and got scared and ran home, where my dad gave me a lickin' HAHAHA....

I also remember having to walk home from Sundance to Chaparral because there was no bus service yet and I couldn't drive....That was fun in December and January.

[La Flames Fan]

Does the Jimmy Condon arena still have the 'N' changed to an 'M' by a clever do gooder?

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally posted by calf@Jan 13 2005, 10:22 AM
Chi-Chi's by Sundridge mall too

...mmmm, Fried Ice Cream

YES!!!!!!!!!

Chi-Chi's was great.

I fell in love with Mint Chocolates at that place. What a great place.

[La Flames Fan]

Didn't the Chi Chi's song go:

Fry eye eye eyed- Eye eye eye ice cream! HAHAHA

[browna]

Consumer's was a great place...there was always that nervous anticipation after you filled your order out (GI Joe's, usually)..waiting 3-5 minutes.

Either the toy popped out on the rolling line, or, the returned (out of stock) card did.

Toy City
Tops 'n Toys (in the old SouthCentre..Market too I think)

[Ironhorse]

Originally posted by Homer_J@Jan 13 2005, 09:42 AM
*I didn't grow up in Calgary, but spent a lot of time there with my cousins in the 80's. I remember riding our bikes to a convenience store called "Rick's" in the SE where we'd get soft ice cream slurpees, and head down the hill to the park. Beaver Dam rings a bell, they had a couple big wooden play structures down there. For some reason, I still remember that he went to Banting and Best Elementary school. What area would that be in?

Ogden. I live in the area. And Rick's is still there. I had an ice-cream slurpee there last summer (they only sell them in the summer though. )

[RougeUnderoos]

I truly miss Mother's Pizza. Somehow they could get the pepperoni on top to slightly burn and curl up on the edges and jut nobody else can recreate that. It was the scene of many hockey wind-ups and gallons of orange crush.

Denny Andrews is called the BackAlley now Frank. It's a dumpy kinda place where for example Lee Aaron or Nazareth would play if they were coming through town.

I don't know who mentioned it but they definitely had polar bears in the zoo. They were in a not-so-large "environment" with a pool and a plastic white arctic-looking kind of set up. I think it was where the gorillas are now.

[browna]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Jan 13 2005, 11:27 AM
I truly miss Mother's Pizza. Somehow they could get the pepperoni on top to slightly burn and curl up on the edges and jut nobody else can recreate that. It was the scene of many hockey wind-ups and gallons of orange crush.

278-1111 (that was the old Mother's Pizza number)

Still have some fountain glasses (from Coke floats) from the Restraunt where Boston Pizza is by SuperStore and the Black Swan (which used to be called Gullivers). Then Mothers opened a take-out place in Bonavista.

The first Earls was right near there too at Southland and Mcleod.

[Bleeding Red]

Originally posted by browna+Jan 13 2005, 07:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (browna @ Jan 13 2005, 07:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RougeUnderoos@Jan 13 2005, 11:27 AM
I truly miss Mother's Pizza. Somehow they could get the pepperoni on top to slightly burn and curl up on the edges and jut nobody else can recreate that. It was the scene of many hockey wind-ups and gallons of orange crush.

278-1111 (that was the old Mother's Pizza number)

Still have some fountain glasses (from Coke floats) from the Restraunt where Boston Pizza is by SuperStore and the Black Swan (which used to be called Gullivers). Then Mothers opened a take-out place in Bonavista.

The first Earls was right near there too at Southland and Mcleod. [/b][/quote]
That Earl's was way different from the ones around today - I remember a tropical theme with parrots all over the place.

A Friend and I won superkids t-shirts at some event at the Southcentre Centre - that orange with brown benches open area.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by Bleeding Red@Jan 13 2005, 12:38 PM
That Earl's was way different from the ones around today - I remember a tropical theme with parrots all over the place.

A Friend and I won superkids t-shirts at some event at the Southcentre Centre - that orange with brown benches open area.

The orange and brown benches area! I forgot all about that. Gawd, what a decor. It was so freaking dark in there to. Nightclub lighting in a mall food court.

[MrMastodonFarm]

For those of us no longer in Calgary... this thread has got to stop