Nostalgic Calgary Memories?

[dj_patm]

What are some fond memories you have of your childhood specific to Calgary?

This just came to my head...

"Power 107 plays todays best music now show me my money!"

Also I can clearly remember when the only thing in Westhills was a Safeway. There was a large hill on the other side and it seemed like they were prepping construction forever.

I grew up in the brown apartment buildings across from westhills so most of my really early Calgary memories are from there.

[AE92_TreunoSC]

3 words that take me back.

Hard Rock Cafe


Back when Eau Claire had life. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when haha.

[flipstah]

I remember when Temple was safe.

[rage2]

AM 106 top 6 at 6.

Number ONE one one one...

[FraserB]

I can remember Chinook before ALL the renovations, even the theaters.

[dj_patm]

I remember the old glass arches and the Easy Street. I still have like 20 mugs from that place haha.

Southcentre used to have a theater as well.

[FraserB]

Any idea where on the net might have pictures form way back of Chinook?

[AE92_TreunoSC]

Originally posted by flipstah
I remember when Temple was safe.

Haha, I think the NE started going to crap right around the time the first explosion at the thunder run went off.

I loved temple, right until about 1996-7

[Nissanaddict]

When Midnapore mall had a few stores
When the office building I now work in was the cheap theatres on Southland
When the cheap theaters were expensive before the coliseum was even built
Willy's

that's it off the top of my head.

[dj_patm]

Couldn't find any on Google but I remember when they had a model of the "new" chinook on display. Seems like ages ago.

If I remember correctly it had black framed, glass arches, no tower, no theater. The food court used to be an Easy Street (kids play thing).... thats all I got.

[KandabashiDevil]

When people in this city used to have tolerance for each-other.

Everyone acts like this is New York now.

[pf0sh0]

Not that old... but there was a light on deerfoot in douglasdale about 7-8 years ago

[Jim2]

Three Cheers, Coconut Joes, Electric Avenue, Fox'n Firkin, some place beside Fox n Firkin, The Keg, and some others which have evaporated from my mind due to the damaged brain cells from this reigon of the city.

First club on 10th and 4th? (May have been called 10-4s)

Kipling Square had a club upstairs and in the basment was "Boys Town Metro". As a joke a friend dragged me in there once, then I figured out...hey, no chics!

The Cove(really dating myself here) and lots more but I forget all the names. Can anyone else bring up some other names?

Lots and lots of good times were had in those few blocks until the city put the brakes on electric ave.

[SOAB]

when Marlborough Mall had a Woolco.

[EM1FTW]

Easy street and before all the crowchild overpasses in the northwest

[88CRX]

Bullwinkles.

[RY213]

I remember when the big helicopters lifted the flame cauldron onto the Calgary tower. My family watched it from scotchmans hill.

I also remember when 162nd ave went one block west of Macleod and there was nothing there. There used to be horses along Macleod and there was a grain elevator close to where the humptys is now.

[Graham_A_M]

The '88 olympics, I was just 6, but I remember them quite well. Also when 22x was FAR south of everybody, now it's a part of Calgary, I miss the very friendly calgarians, and the rush hour that really wasn't. Wow this city has changed

[corsvette]

When they used to put christmas lights on the cfcn tower on signal hill, AKA- the worlds tallest christmas tree.

The Buckshot show.

The original "Egdemont Club"

Going to Cochrane as a kid for ice cream- not much else was there and it was a 20min drive from Calgary

Unwinders pool hall in motel village

[RY213]

Originally posted by FraserB
Any idea where on the net might have pictures form way back of Chinook?

I'd love to see pics of the original chinook as well. I have a lot of early memories of shopping there. Remember kresges, met mart (with a cafeteria inside), marks and spencer, and woodwards???