02-27-2013, 09:39 AM
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#41
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Calgary - Transplanted Manitoban
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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
A sad day for Canada.
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I have good memories of you being dragged out by bouncers....
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02-27-2013, 09:39 AM
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#42
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Yeah it was kind of like the BDSM club under Chicken On The Way.
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02-27-2013, 09:40 AM
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#43
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Anyone else remember the after hours bar under a 7 eleven somewhere near downtown from about 15 years ago? You had to tell them some kind of secret password and they'd take you down into the basement.
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A social group i was associated with also ran an afterhours club for a few years. It was mostly for bar staff.
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02-27-2013, 09:55 AM
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#44
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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I agree with whoever said they usually got dragged to Crack the odd time they went, that's how I usually felt but I almost always had a great time once I was there. Wish I was old enough to have experienced Electric Ave. Heard good stories.
Crazy how quickly things change in the club scene, as someone pretty much 30, I'd have an entirely different list of now closed or re-named bars; Outlaws, The Drink, Bourbon St, Cowboys, Embassy, Palace...and then if you felt like slumming, Metro and Crack Alley. Can usually bet on a scrap outside at either of those places.
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02-27-2013, 10:04 AM
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#45
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Lifetime Suspension
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I frequented the bars every weekend back in the nineties and for some reason never once stepped foot in the Crack Alley or Cowboys, how does this happen?
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02-27-2013, 10:08 AM
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#46
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Lest We Forget
Denny Andrew's
Back Alley
Hollywood North
Fox and Firkin
Night Magic
Curly's
Cecil Hotel
St. Louis
Coconut Joes
Electric Avenue
Three Cheers
Banditos
Live Wire
Highlander
Misty's
Dooey Steven's
Crowchild Inn
Beacon
Franky and Johnny's
Warehouse
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The Night Gallery.
Loved that place.
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02-27-2013, 10:09 AM
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#47
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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I have never been to the Crack Alley. My youth was always spent at Cowboys. Or The Taz 
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02-27-2013, 10:34 AM
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#48
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NOT Chris Butler
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Originally Posted by dammage79
Worked there for a bit. Got fired for being too nice in the early 2000's smelly joint but some good clevage to be seen. Saw one of the 500 buckcherry shows there about a decade after.
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Worked there myself for about a year in the Hardcore days (mid-late 90's) when the bouncers looked like an IFBB crew. My sister was dating one of them, and he got me on as a doorman. I saw some really, really bad things happen to some patrons there at the hands of them, and didn't want to stick around and be part of it. One of the best 'career' decisions I made.
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02-27-2013, 10:38 AM
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#49
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by pylon
Worked there myself for about a year in the Hardcore days (mid-late 90's) when the bouncers looked like an IFBB crew. My sister was dating one of them, and he got me on as a doorman. I saw some really, really bad things happen to some patrons there at the hands of them, and didn't want to stick around and be part of it. One of the best 'career' decisions I made.
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The group I always went with knew that if you got thrown out the backdoor, you were eff'd. You would always see two bouncers escort a guy out and then one would stay inside and guard the door. Pretty messed up stuff for sure.
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02-27-2013, 11:26 AM
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#50
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Lest We Forget
Denny Andrew's
Back Alley
Hollywood North
Fox and Firkin
Night Magic
Curly's
Cecil Hotel
St. Louis
Coconut Joes
Electric Avenue
Three Cheers
Banditos
Live Wire
Highlander
Misty's
Dooey Steven's
Crowchild Inn
Beacon
Franky and Johnny's
Warehouse
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Don't forget The Magic Stick! The nights the Kings Crew and the Grim Reapers would be there at the same time....good times.
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02-27-2013, 11:37 AM
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#51
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Airdrie, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
Anyone else remember the after hours bar under a 7 eleven somewhere near downtown from about 15 years ago? You had to tell them some kind of secret password and they'd take you down into the basement.
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You mean the 7-11 on 17th Ave and 5St?
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02-27-2013, 11:41 AM
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#52
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Originally Posted by Raekwon
You mean the 7-11 on 17th Ave and 5St?
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Technifluids had a mud lab in that basement - I worked there one summer in the late 80s?
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02-27-2013, 11:47 AM
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#53
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Not sure
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Originally Posted by MissTeeks
I have never been to the Crack Alley. My youth was always spent at Cowboys. Or The Taz |
Ah yes the Taz, what an awesome place that was. Only bar I ever bought a VIP pass for. So many good times there.
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02-27-2013, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Ah yes the Taz, what an awesome place that was. Only bar I ever bought a VIP pass for. So many good times there.
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Taz was great for 15 year olds . . . Easiest bar to get into!
I actually miss the Crazy Horse more than I thought . . . Went there when I was about 20, and thought to myself this is where I'm going to pick up hot cougars when I need sex with women who know what they're doing
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02-27-2013, 12:20 PM
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#55
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Franchise Player
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I got thrown out of the Back Alley once and was way too drunk to remember why. All I remember of that incident is eating one of those ####ty hot dogs outside after being thrown out and arguing with the bouncer about it.
What does one even have to do to get thrown out of the Back Alley, did I kill a guy?
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02-27-2013, 12:24 PM
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#56
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Even though I felt like I would get an STI just walking in the door, there was nowhere more fun than the Alley when it was at its best. Trashy, classless and cheap drinks to fuel it all.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Toss up between The Alley and Essie's in Red Deer back in the day as to where I had more fun.
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02-27-2013, 12:41 PM
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#57
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta
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When I lived in Calgary 00-02, we partied a lot at (correct me if i'm wrong) Metro, near Chinook and Outlaws on MacLeod (Not sure what it is now) Both fun places to party and pick up women! Never made it to the back alley although my friends loved it!
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02-27-2013, 12:55 PM
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#58
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
Worked there myself for about a year in the Hardcore days (mid-late 90's) when the bouncers looked like an IFBB crew. My sister was dating one of them, and he got me on as a doorman. I saw some really, really bad things happen to some patrons there at the hands of them, and didn't want to stick around and be part of it. One of the best 'career' decisions I made.
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The back door at the Back Alley was not a place I really want to see again. Only place that really used the back door policy as a regular thing. In my short time there the rest of the security team ran on very short fuses. Couldn't even accidentally bump into them on the packed floor without getting your head used as a door opener on your way out. The beer tub girls were awesome though. Sweater kittens everywhere!
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02-27-2013, 01:35 PM
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#59
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raekwon
You mean the 7-11 on 17th Ave and 5St?
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Yeah, that sounds right.
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02-27-2013, 02:18 PM
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#60
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Lest We Forget
Denny Andrew's
Back Alley
Hollywood North
Fox and Firkin
Night Magic
Curly's
Cecil Hotel
St. Louis
Coconut Joes
Electric Avenue
Three Cheers
Banditos
Live Wire
Highlander
Misty's
Dooey Steven's
Crowchild Inn
Beacon
Franky and Johnny's
Warehouse
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You forgot Malarky's. being a Wise Wood guy. 
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