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

[Bigtime]

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

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).

[EVERLAST]

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.

[Jordan!]

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Esso Plaza movie theatres... man those were tiny theatres. loved it

Oh man.. Esso plaza!

[FlamingC4Life!]

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.

[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!

[North East Goon]

K-Mart cafeteria jello with the dollop of whip cream.

[DuffMan]

after hours bars. They might still be around, and I just don't go to them anymore, maybe.

[Mango]

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!

It was indeed. I remember this from the location on 52nd Street NE. I think it was near Temple?

[Bertuzzied]

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.

I haven't been there lately but do they still have the hot korean wondergirls serve you fried chicken on the weekends?

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

loved it, back in school

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.

[Jordan!]

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!

[Puppet Guy]

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.

To be fair, that would happen even if the stuff was fresh from the brewery.

[undercoverbrother]

Kind of goes in here, I remember I used to go there to buy all my porn when I was in high school, cuz they never asked your age

Iconic downtown retailer Billy’s News has found a new location to set up business after having to move to make room for a proposed 53-storey office tower in the heart of Calgary

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Iconic+...#ixzz1uK8n0nA8

http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...153/story.html

[undercoverbrother]

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.

who the hell wasn't sick for a week after drinkin that slop......god I loved it.

[beav66]

i miss stampede wrestling
ckxl am
nhl hockey

[Flacker]

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

[calgaryred]

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.

[_Q_]

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.

[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...

[undercoverbrother]

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...