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

[Locke]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

You my friend are speaking of Willy's Burgers.

There as also one down the street from LBHS. Once a month they had $0.25 1/4 burgers, limit 4 per person.

Oh man, the Willies Muscle Car nights were the best, I was so young I hadnt even modified my Mustang yet, but forget the burgers, the cars were glorious!

[CliffFletcher]

Browsing for movies at Video & Sound in Chinatown, which had easily 5x the selection of any other place in the city.

Playing arcade games at Wizards (Chinook Mall) and Three Ring Circus (8th Ave Mall).

Live music at the Westward Club.

10 Foot Henry's.

The old Dinny's Den at the U of C (when you could smoke). Actually, being able to smoke at any bar (even though I have about two smokes a year).

Devonian Gardens before it became a sterile food court.

The Sweet Tooth Sundae Palace on Southland Drive. Giant 24 scoop sundae for the win!

Getting a curb spot at the Stampede Parade if you were only 20 minutes early.

Movies at the Palace Theatre (and the Grande).

The Sunset and Stampede drive-ins.

Dart buses (you would phone Calgary Transit and they would schedule a bus to pick you up at your house).

The 'trim track' at South Glenmore Park.

Drinking a boot at Franz's Gasthouse.

The Haysboro Pool Hall.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The Haysboro Pool Hall.

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.

[Cflames_12.5]

Consumers distributing
Scotties arcade in transCanada mall

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The old Dinny's Den at the U of C (when you could smoke). Actually, being able to smoke at any bar (even though I have about two smokes a year).

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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

New Mac Hall sucks donkey dong, as does the new Den.

[Sliver]

Yeah the old Den was the best. For how small it was, you could sure pack a lot of us in there. $5.25 jugs in the late 90s.

[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.

[Fuzz]

Oh the Den...spent many a night with my feet stuck to the floor there. And the smell, oh the smell. Good times though. I remember after the re-did it one of my friends walks in and says "WTF is this place? Looks like something out of Dawson's Creek".

[GullFoss]

$100 oil

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah the old Den was the best. For how small it was, you could sure pack a lot of us in there. $5.25 jugs in the late 90s.

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

[JiriHrdina]

Oh man. How I miss Willys

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Oh man. How I miss Willys

Those fries mmmm

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

The 'trim track' at South Glenmore Park.

Drinking a boot at Franz's Gasthouse.
.

These two struck home. There was also a similar trim track at Confed.

And my grandad got kicked out of Gasthouse because they thought he had stolen a boot. He hadn't - but they were convinced he had for some reason.

I think they pretty much banned him for life.

[InglewoodFan]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah the old Den was the best. For how small it was, you could sure pack a lot of us in there. $5.25 jugs in the late 90s.

And we never ever let go of that jug, just took it back up to get it refilled. In the late '80s early '90s anyway, they ran out of jugs all of the time.

I got dean's vacation in '89 and got a union job in a plant making what 19 year old me thought were fat stacks of cash. Had a ton of friends at U of C and just kept going to the Den to subsidize the party.

I swear when they reno'd that old carpet must have gotten hauled away as hazardous waste.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by pac_4_ever

Not sure how exactly I came across this thread, but I am resurrecting it. Anybody miss renting video games and movies? Specifically at places like Game Station, Rainbow Video, & even Mega Movies? Also didn't forget about Blockbuster and picking up games at midnight for release! Some good times renting new SNES or Genesis games. Even better was when you were able to rent out whole systems like Neo Geo, N64, Sega Saturn etc. Best of all...winning the free rental in the gumball machine!

Sega Channel! 30 games/month straight to your sega g. on your cable bill

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

You my friend are speaking of Willy's Burgers.

There as also one down the street from LBHS. Once a month they had $0.25 1/4 burgers, limit 4 per person.

Willy's and a Movie at London town Sq. Way better than Fat Burger and a defunct Sobeys. Those were the days.

[LanceUppercut]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Oh the Den...spent many a night with my feet stuck to the floor there. And the smell, oh the smell. Good times though. I remember after the re-did it one of my friends walks in and says "WTF is this place? Looks like something out of Dawson's Creek".

You would always know when the Den opened because the smell would waft up into the rest of Mac Hall. The new Den really is a travesty and does not capture the essence of what it used to be.

[Jbo]

I am Sure in the 800 posts some of these have been covered....

-McDonald's Pizza's, loved those things (or at least childhood me, did)
-A time when entertainment was more pure. If you had a nintendo, you judged a rental on the box art and cover. You also did not form opinions based on reviews, and you had no guides or internet to help you. And on that note;
-Renting movies. Man I miss picking out a VHS or DVD at Rogers Video in Varsity.
- Arcades. Wizards Castle in Market Mall, and waiting in line for 20 minutes to play Mortal Kombat 2 and challenge the teenager who whooped you quickly to the back of the line, or to beg your mom for another couple of bucks;
- Back when my Dad was a younger man. Wish I had taken him up on more adventures. As he gets older, he is not able to do things like Ski or even golf (He has a form of muscle dystrophy) and I miss hanging out with my dad when he was invincible.
-Pizza hut in Brentwood when it was an actual place to go eat, and not a crappy delivery place. Had many a dinners and birthdays at a Pizza Hut.

My list is kind of a combination of Calgary stuff and nostalgic stuff.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Jbo

-Pizza hut in Brentwood when it was an actual place to go eat, and not a crappy delivery place. Had many a dinners and birthdays at a Pizza Hut.

Man, that Pizza Hut lunch buffet was the bomb! I used to go there all the time back in Jr High. Just the other day I was explaining a pizza hut dessert pizza to someone, you know the ones that were basically an apple or cherry crumble with icing on top of a pizza base... I could really go for one of those right now!

[HelloHockeyFans]

I haven't been back in Calgary for a very long time, so I'll just list things I remember and ask y'all folks to let me know if they're still around:

1. Village Square Leisure Centre - Took swimming lessons here, went skating, went on field trips and played arcade games on the basement floor! Is the library still there?

2. Silver Dragon in Chinatown - Just remember this restaurant being super dark!

3. Food for Less in the NE (or was it Food City?)!

4. Sunridge Mall

5. Franklin Mall

6. That indoor garden in that downtown mall

7. Do you still have to press a button on the C-Train to open the train doors?

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

These two struck home. There was also a similar trim track at Confed.

And my grandad got kicked out of Gasthouse because they thought he had stolen a boot. He hadn't - but they were convinced he had for some reason.

I think they pretty much banned him for life.

WTF is a trim track?