Most of mine have been mentioned already, but a couple more came to mind:
- Going to "Pick a Pop" (or something like that) where you filled a plastic crate with assorted flavours of bottled pop, then returned your empties next time you went there.
- Boomers soccer games - none of the teams we got afterward ever seemed to approach that level of play, with some big-name European players in the league.
- Growing up in a neighbourhood where pretty much every other house on the street had young kids, and having schools in communities where young families could actually afford to live.
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Oh man did we used to get hammered there in high school. I would have been 16 or 17 maybe. Good times.
They would bring us four at a time. After a few rounds of four, we would stumble to Electric Avenue (Coconut Joes, now a day care), but we were too incoherent to talk to the ladies.
The Dale Harney Show featured Dale Harney (who also starred in Dale Harney's Magic Palace and Lynsky and Co.) with a magazine of magic tricks, social games, riddles and a segment, "It's a Fact," presenting unusual information from sources such as Ripley's Believe It Or Not or the Guinness Book of Records. The segment was without visuals--simply a graphic card with voice-over. The riddles were presented by Harney and the answer given after the commercial or public service message. A studio audience of children participated in the magic tricks and in the games for which prizes were given. The program was produced in Calgary.
Original Broadcaster(s): CFAC
I remember his hot little wife who was his magician's assistant.
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Yeah the original Republik was great and so was the weird little club upstairs. I also liked the Westward Club a lot around 1995ish, which I believe was the second iteration of the club. Nirvana played the first Westward Club.
HA-Ha-Ha, I had my stag in that weird little club upstairs. I don't rememeber the name, but one of my buddies was part owner. That was in 95
Ahh, some great memories in this thread for certain! As has been mentioned, the North Hill Theatre was sick! The threatre was not ghetto, it was the best theatre in Calgary....the rest of the mall though, yikes. Someone also mentioned Easy Street - that place was great.
Others that stick out for me: Circle K convienence stores, Cart Gardens and the wicked arcade that used to be in Beddington mall. I remember when we moved to Sandstone in the late 80's the field up the road from our house had horses and cows in it for years (well, a few anyway). Also, anyone else remember that big area of farm land that used to be right in the middle of the city? (in the NE somewhere..?)
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Still huge in Quebec...basically St. Huberts and Swiss Chalet got tired of competing so Swiss drew out of Quebec and Huberts left the rest of Canada to them.
- The bobsleigh and ski jump simulators in the Calgary Tower
- Bonzai water slide on Macleod was awesome. Count me among it's victims - I still bear a small scar on my rib cage from getting my impaled by the valve stem of one of the tubes on their tube ride.
If I recall correctly they have both ski jump and bobsleigh simulators at the olympic museum at COP now so they could be infact the same simulators. although I havent been to the museum in about 10 years at least so I may be out to lunch haha
I loved that tube ride! probably not the safest but damn it was fun, I remember getting all clogged up cause you wouldnt just flow nicely out of the pool section and down the slide part haha.
On the same note I remember both Wild Rapids at sylvan and the waterpark in West Ed being super awesome and now they're just old and mediocre haha.
I think that they should open up a six flags amusement park/waterpark here, or at least upgrade our existing themepark. The only thing im not too sure on would be the feasibility as we only have about 4-5 months a year it could be open.
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St-Hubert's was awesome, I wish Quebec didn't get them exclusively. Swiss Chalet sucks in comparison.
Pic-A-Pop brings back lots of childhood memories. So many flavours of sweet goodness. Wow, these guys are actually still around, http://www.picapop.com/. Hmm, not so many flavours as I remember.
