No idea if true but a few years ago a fellow told me the biggest reason Happy Valley closed was because the city wouldn't approve a race/drag track complex the owner proposed, he ended up selling it to some american group who drove it in the ground.
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Oh man me and a friend were reminiscing about Calgary, and have been stuck trying to think of the pretty large video store in Deer Valley by the McDonalds, and Co-Op, it was before Rogers video came along, started with a V I think Video something perhaps?
I think on this map is roughly where it was, it either eventually became a gas station or was torn down and a gas station built?
Also been trying to find old pictures of South Center mall with the old arcade, found this gem on beyond.ca on google of the center of the mall in the old old days. Sadly a terrible quality image.
Oh man me and a friend were reminiscing about Calgary, and have been stuck trying to think of the pretty large video store in Deer Valley by the McDonalds, and Co-Op, it was before Rogers video came along, started with a V I think Video something perhaps?
I think on this map is roughly where it was, it either eventually became a gas station or was torn down and a gas station built?
The old Rogers video is up and to the right ant the end of the next strip mall. It’s a daycare and pet sitting now. As for the name Jumbo Video? Video Station? Video Ststion was mid 80s.
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Also been trying to find old pictures of South Center mall with the old arcade, found this gem on beyond.ca on google of the center of the mall in the old old days. Sadly a terrible quality image.
That’s a mint picture. That was a proper centre court. Like a wrestling pit.
Carpet, dark red brick, vinyl black. Forgot that SouthCentre had its own logo.
I don't remember its name. Video Connection seems familiar, but I can't be sure. They were a small chain that got bought out by Rogers and converted into a Rogers Video. Rogers later built the stand-alone store in the corner of the parking lot and moved in there.
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I don't remember its name. Video Connection seems familiar, but I can't be sure. They were a small chain that got bought out by Rogers and converted into a Rogers Video. Rogers later built the stand-alone store in the corner of the parking lot and moved in there.
That sounds right
I worked for Rogers Video for many years back in the day
There were two of these stores you are talking about in Calgary. One in Deer Run and the other on Macleod at Southland in the corner where freshi now is
Other old video stores:
Video and Sound (downtown at the bottom of centre street - they boasted the largest selection for many years...they also had a location on 16th Avenue and later just around the corner on Centre approaching 16th Ave)
Video Vault in the old Beddington Mall (one of the VERY originals)
Flicks (largely in the NW/NE - in the old mall in Hunterhorn with the bowling alley, and also on 4th Street NW and one at the far north end of Centre Street, by the Co-op in Beddington)
More than Video (in Bowness, on Elbow and the one in Huntington Hills where I worked for many years, later became and still is the Black Bull pub). We later moved the video store down to Edmonton Trail and McKnight and that killed the business
Video HQ
Jumbo Video
Of course that's just a few of them. There were of dozens of other independently owned shops. Video and Sound was one of the last independent ones, but the very last was Bollywood Hollywood in the NE. After he went out of business Blockbuster and Rogers soon followed and that was it. EDIT: Actually this isn't true as Casablanca out-lasted them all of course.
I personally put myself through college working at Rogers Video: at the 14th Street location (the old two story building) then later up at the one by the Hamptons in the NW, then way down in Woodbine, followed by a long stint at the Mt. Royal one on 17th Avenue. I have some stories from that one. My first job out of University was moving to Richmond BC where I worked in Rogers Video marketing department.
But some of my best times were spent working at those stores. Really fond memories.
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