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

[Flames in 07]

I haavent read all 30 pages so maybe a fata but the garlic bread w cheese from mothers pizza. 284.1111.

Fun fact about mothers was that you got every 25th home delivery order for free.

[Stormchaser]

90's traffic....

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by stormchaser

90's traffic....

I really miss the traffic lights on Deerfoot! Although in the 90's it didnt matter so much...

[drhu22]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

It should have been gnu video

haha great minds think alike!
That was my thought too, because it is a real thing that creates a mental image/association. (better advertising strategy)

[drewboy12]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

The polar bear and seal exhibit at the zoo.
Hookers on 3rd ave.
Not having to pay any sales tax!

I hate the sales tax the hookers charge now to

[LGA]

Originally Posted by getbak

Here's one that always cracked me up...Remember UNG Video on Edmonton Trail?

It began its life as a gun store and had a huge neon sign in front that said "GUN". After the government made it a lot harder to buy guns in this country, the gun shop closed down. The new owners turned it into a video store, and rather than either tearing down the sign, or calling their new store "GUN Video", they rearranged the letters, and UNG Video was born.

I don't know when it was torn down, but it's now just an empty lot on the corner of Edmonton Trail and 12th Ave.


Sadly, Google Images has no results for it, if you search "ung video calgary", you get a lot of photos of Asian people, and one of Olli Jokinen.

Haha, my uncle was the one who did that. He opened a chain of video stores in Calgary called Gold Video, UNG was supposed to be one of them, but it was cheaper to just rearrange the gun sign.

[Barnet Flame]

Does anyone remember the Uncle Nicky's commercials of the early 80s? My new Grade 10 Religious Studies looked somewhat familiar and then someone called him out on being Uncle Nicky.

[ricosuave]

3web as your free internet provider?

[shermanator]

I think I miss this man's PBP more than anything. Maher is still the best, but Whalen is the best TV PBP the Flames have ever had.



Oh, and I also miss:

[getbak]

"Batten down the hatches and bar the door...It's Stampede Wrestling time, once more."

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I really miss the traffic lights on Deerfoot! Although in the 90's it didnt matter so much...

wait wait wait

deerfoot had LIGHTS?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

wait wait wait

deerfoot had LIGHTS?

rofl, I hope you are kidding.

Deerfoot trail had lights at all intersections from Douglasdale/24St to 22x until the early 2000's. I think it took them until 2004 to finish the last one.

edit: Wiki says it was fall 2005 when the last one was finished.

[ricosuave]

Yeah, I vaguely recall that now, although I never used to go much further south than Glenmore...

For some reason, I thought you meant all along it, or in the north section or something strange like that.

[Timbo]

I am old so bear with me... Grad Dr. E.P. Scarlett 1980

"The Pits" Motocross/BMX area where Diamond Cove is now and taking my bike with ape hanger handle bars banana seat and sissy bar there.

Gopher hunting right out the door from the house(S) Southwood then in Bonavista . There were no such things as acreage's then it was all farmers fields to Fishcreek.

Fun Boat Arcade in the Bonavista Mall and having my friend (who was the smallest of us) reach up and release the lever and play fooseball for free.

The Old Gnome Shop beside the old Corral then in Midnapore.

The Trophy Room Pub at the Tradewinds.

Parties at Fish Creek (22x bridge) (end of elbow) Glenmore park(end of 90th ave.)

Milk Chutes with money in them

JR. Houstons

Downtown Christmas decorations

Norms Ski Hut

Diving off the balconies of the Inn at Bonavista. And snorkelling and finding all the money and silverware tossed by patrons. (there was a time when you could see the bottom of the lake clear as day.)

Smoking while getting groceries.

17th Ave. Drive inn.

The mural on the wall at the old Calgary International Airport.

Great thread brings back a whole lot of memories

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Timbo

"The Pits" Motocross/BMX area where Diamond Cove is now and taking my bike with ape hanger handle bars banana seat and sissy bar there.

I remember dirt biking where the Shawnessy Co-op is now. Driving down McLeod was pretty different 20 years ago. No LRT, no businesses except the garden center. There was that grain elevator where the Nissan dealer is now. And there was that big orange barn looking thing on the Father Lacome property that burnt down about 12 years ago. That was a hell of a fire. I was working in Deer Valley that day, and the smoke plume was pretty enormous.

Which reminds me of the Hub Oil fire. Me and a buddy lived in the old army barracks houses by ATCO, and we decided to ride our bikes down to Eau Claire to stare at women, but as we were making our way there, we saw the huge plume of smoke, so we decided to ride all the way to the hood to watch the fire. There were some pretty substantial explosions that day. We were down by where teh RR tracks cross 52nd st, and when that one big explosion happened, we could feel the heat all the way over there. Must have been at least a km away, but it was like we were standing by a bonfire.

[Red John]

Good memories:

-Market mall had a movie theatre
-Debaji's at Northland mall
-Woolco
-Grant Pollock, Ed Whalen and Nirmala Naidoo-Hill from 2&7
-Bullwinkles where the Shanks is now on macleod
-old Chinook mall - had a Flames store, a really cool fountain and Easy street as well as a cool parkade
-Stephen Avenue Soup Co. in the old food court upstairs in chinook
-when old Market mall had Woodwards where zellers is now, and A&W was on that end of the mall
-the playground at the old Devonian gardens downtown
-elevators going up to the Devonian gardens were ultra slow, these two guys had a fight in it once
-how the old Bay parkade was so much scarier than the Eatons centre parkade
-breakfast at Earls at TD square, still had the parrots
-place at Scotia centre called "Baguette", had good cream cheese danishes there
-old Penny lane mall accessible from Eaton centre, had this meaningless escalator down which led to nothing but a fountain
-going to Nose Hill libary just to get on the Internet...good old Netscape Communicator
-gas was around 54 cents a litre
-how you could actally win a tiger in your tank from Esso
-Canadian Airlines saddledome and the 1995 renovations
-when Nose Hill drive was just a field where wild horses grazed
-Sun Ice jackets
-Rustic Sourdough Bakery, free cookies for kids
-Calgary Tower was tallest building in Calgary and 12th tallest in North america
-you had to take the elevator to the observation deck at the Tower and then walk down a flight of stairs to get to the restaurant
-Brentwood mall had a Kmart which had this huge wishing well outside of it to drop pennies into
-feeding the fish at Devonian gardens, cost 25c
-Mmmmmarvelous Mmmmmmmuffins downtown
-Imax theatre at eau claire market
-Hub oil fire
-painting a brick at Hawkwood elementary, and being there the first year it opened
-United Furniture Warehouse song
-when the corn fritters were good at chicken on the way
-picnicking at Riley Park - wading pool
-blue yellow and red stools at the food court at Southcentre
-whos who in the zoo at YYC
-someone winning the van in roll up the rim to win at YYC
-most of the good radio stations being on AM except kick107
-watermelon flavoured Jones soda
-eating at Oscars in the ne
-Udderly Art contest

[Komskies]

United buy and sell, furniture warehouse!

There is a Chicken on the Way opening soon in McKenzie Towne, where the Blockbuster video used to be.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Komskies

United buy and sell, furniture warehouse!

Dum! Dum!

[North East Goon]

The Malt Shop or Malt Stop in every mall across Canada.

[Magnum PEI]

Originally Posted by Red John

Good memories:
-Calgary Tower was tallest building in Calgary and 12th tallest in North america

I don't mean to call you out, but where did you hear this? i can pretty much guarantee its incorrect.