04-30-2012, 02:40 PM
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#761
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Shaggin Wagon
From Calgary Tower's Wikipedia page:
Developers deliberately misled the public, claiming the tower would stand 187 metres (614 ft), in the hopes of preventing competing developers from surpassing the Husky Tower's height record. Shortly after officials in San Antonio, Texas attempted to claim the record in announcing the completion of the 190 metres (620 ft) Tower of the Americas, developers revealed the Husky Tower's true height (190.8 meters).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Tower
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Call me crazy but it sure looks like San Antonio's tower is taller:
Roof height easily beats us, so I am guessing it was the antenna element that originally had us taller than theirs (which they seem to have remedied by adding their own).
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05-07-2012, 02:28 PM
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#762
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: https://homestars.com/companies/2808346-keith-my-furnace-guy
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MORTAL COIL in Mission ....used to get so stupid drunk in that place ...never planned it before hand but the staff would sit and drink sometimes.
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05-07-2012, 02:42 PM
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#763
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
Esso Plaza movie theatres... man those were tiny theatres. loved it
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Oh man.. Esso plaza!
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05-07-2012, 03:42 PM
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#764
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Calgary
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I miss Food City with their VHS rental boards with white flip-cards to see the front and backs of the movies and the little clips you took to the counter to get your casset. Oh and Happy Chips. Salt and Vinegar. Those were the BEST chips ever. Small ridge chips just drenched in vinegar and loaded with salt. My mouth still puckers and my eyes still water just thinking about them. But the clown on the bag was sure creepy with his giant smile.
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05-08-2012, 10:08 AM
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#765
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Lifetime Suspension
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Was Food City the place where you could sample about 60 different flavours of soda, with those little white cups? Good times!
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05-08-2012, 10:10 AM
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#766
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Lifetime Suspension
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K-Mart cafeteria jello with the dollop of whip cream.
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05-08-2012, 10:22 AM
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#767
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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after hours bars. They might still be around, and I just don't go to them anymore, maybe.
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05-08-2012, 11:19 AM
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#768
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Marshmallow Maiden
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by North East Goon
Was Food City the place where you could sample about 60 different flavours of soda, with those little white cups? Good times!
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It was indeed. I remember this from the location on 52nd Street NE. I think it was near Temple?
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05-08-2012, 11:24 AM
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#769
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by fotze
Screw Chicken on the Way. Go to Olive Chicken if you want tasty fried chicken.
You will never find a cleaner asian place.
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I haven't been there lately but do they still have the hot korean wondergirls serve you fried chicken on the weekends?
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05-08-2012, 11:27 AM
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#770
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
loved it, back in school
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I found a full case of that in the basement of a house I was renting, they must have been 10 years old. The caps were rusted on, a bunch of sediment...
A drunk liquor-pig friend of mine ended up drinking them at a party, he was sick for a week.
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05-08-2012, 11:31 AM
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#771
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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I still shed a tear and crave the Sate from Sizzling Wok to this very day. Best restaurant i'll ever eat from in my life!
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05-08-2012, 11:55 AM
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#772
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola
I found a full case of that in the basement of a house I was renting, they must have been 10 years old. The caps were rusted on, a bunch of sediment...
A drunk liquor-pig friend of mine ended up drinking them at a party, he was sick for a week.
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To be fair, that would happen even if the stuff was fresh from the brewery.
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05-08-2012, 05:23 PM
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#774
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola
I found a full case of that in the basement of a house I was renting, they must have been 10 years old. The caps were rusted on, a bunch of sediment...
A drunk liquor-pig friend of mine ended up drinking them at a party, he was sick for a week.
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who the hell wasn't sick for a week after drinkin that slop......god I loved it.
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12-13-2012, 11:47 AM
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#775
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Draft Pick
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i miss stampede wrestling
ckxl am
nhl hockey
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12-13-2012, 11:59 AM
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#776
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Sort of fits here. A pretty fantastic resource provided by the Calgary Public Library.
A digital archive of lots of old photos from Calgary and surrounding area:
http://cdm16114.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search
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12-14-2012, 12:34 PM
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#777
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chilliwack, B.C
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I miss the Heavy Metal Bars, Calgary Cannons, watching Flames Hockey on 2 & 7, when all Flames Fans hated the Oilers, and it was Vancouver who? I miss the stripper bar at the York Hotel drinks in litre bottles. When the Cecil Hotel wasn't a crack hangout. I miss the old Eaton's Building downtown now its where (Holt Renfrew is). Miss the old Stephen Avenue Mall before it became a corporate mini mall, loved the old head shops and stores that used to be there, the old Palace theatre where I saw Rocky IV, Dune, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and the twin bill of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. I miss going to the ESSO plaza for one dollar movies. That was the first theatre I snuck into to see a restricted movie (Beverly Hills Cop). I miss it when the Scotiabank Saddledome was called Olympic Saddledome, and the old Flames home jerseys. I remember as a kid going to Mac's and getting a slushcat/froster for 45 cents and a bag of Hostess chips for 25, and when you opened it you checked to see if you won a free bag of chips. When the C-train stations looked new and clean, when I would go on my parents patio in Macewen Place and see farmland everywhere, now its all houses, and going to Wildwood elementary in the early 80's and having an air raid tower in the school yard. The old Mark's Work Wearhouse sign on Bow Trail, the old theatre at Westbrook Mall where I saw Edward Scissorhands and Christmas Vacation.
Last edited by calgaryred; 12-14-2012 at 04:23 PM.
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12-14-2012, 01:11 PM
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#778
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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I have lived in Calgary for most of my life. Been here since 1989 and I can honestly say, I don't miss much from the old Calgary. The Calgary of the last 5 years is way better than the Calgary of the 90s.
I do miss the old Flames Jerseys though and a few old nightclubs from my University days.
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12-14-2012, 01:23 PM
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#779
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Lifetime Suspension
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I preferred how life was when there were no cell phones. When stores were closed on Sunday. When people didn't need a whole slew of electronic gadgets to make themselves feel better. Back when kids actually played outside. Kids rode bicycles. Built forts. Made go-carts. Where this time of the year, every child's fantasies lied between the worn out pages of the toy section in the Sears Christmas Wish Book. Life was simple...
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12-14-2012, 01:25 PM
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#780
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by Rudee
I preferred how life was when there were no cell phones. When stores were closed on Sunday. When people didn't need a whole slew of electronic gadgets to make themselves feel better. Back when kids actually played outside. Kids rode bicycles. Built forts. Made go-carts. Where this time of the year, every child's fantasies lied between the worn out pages of the toy section in the Sears Christmas Wish Book. Life was simple...
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Just ignore me...I'm in a mood today.
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