Alberta's Old Businesses - post your memories please!

[Okotokian]

Acme Novelty

The Coffee Cup Inn (scary)

Studio 82 (So seedy LOL)

And I remember when Woodwards food floor was the place you went to get the fancy food.

[Sooner]

I can remember walking into the Cadomin General store as a kid thinking this is cool. Speedway was a fun place. Drive ins too.

[purgatory.sv]

Originally Posted by Norwest Alta

Used to go to the empire just down the road from the York. Good times. Lol

If we mention the york and empire why leave out the international?
one that is also gone is the King Edward Hotel,but it had a different location.

[HoytCRX32]

Trade Winds hotel and Corral Drive-in, both on Macleod Trail south.

[purgatory.sv]

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If my recall is correct kresge's was south and on the opposite side of the king edward on 101st?

[sns2]

Wan Q Restaurant on Stony Plain Rd - Great Chinese food and parents spent too much of my inheritance in the lounge

Don's Gunshop - Bought my first reloading kit and all my supplies there when I was 14. Would ride my bike over. Don answered all my many questions.

Denny Andrews American Bar - Worked there and was my second home from ages 18-24.

[Badgerbadger]

Silk Hat (not the new reno)

Lingnan (my parents used to get takeout from there, 50 yrs ago) the dishes they got still taste the same now.

Kingsway Inn

Rusty's

Emerelda's.

[Weedy1]

Q Mart in Petrolia Mall Edmonton - they had the best video games

[Badgerbadger]

Originally Posted by Weedy1

Q Mart in Petrolia Mall Edmonton - they had the best video games

I used to play pinball with some buddies, there.

MoroCraft on 82 ave

[Weedy1]

Originally Posted by Badgerbadger

I used to play pinball with some buddies, there.

MoroCraft on 82 ave

So you remember the ornery little Chinese dude and Hannigan's then? I can't even imagine how much candy was stolen from that place, no wonder the guy was ornery.


Was Morocraft the place with the slot car tracks?

[Scott N]

Anyone remember Plainsmen Sports down in Lethbridge, owned by the Kotkas family I believe? That's the place that got me hooked on shooting sports.

[Badgerbadger]

Originally Posted by Weedy1

So you remember the ornery little Chinese dude and Hannigan's then? I can't even imagine how much candy was stolen from that place, no wonder the guy was ornery.


Was Morocraft the place with the slot car tracks?

Ya, it almost seemed like a competitive sport!

Slot car tracks, yes! Rocketry, RC planes, models....9 yr old boy heaven is what it was!

[FishHunterPro]

Diggers and the Oil Can in downtown fort mac Always a good time

[double gun]

I liked it when Klondike, premier, canarm, and custom gun were all on the same street.

trail firearms - it was my favourite gunshop hands down.

[2 Tollers]

There was a men's wear and sporting goods store in Hanna that used to have a great selection on firearms. Don's on 118th and Trail were both good.

Old time feel for a store that is still in business is Bashaw Sports.

[calvin]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

Andy's Sports and guns up here as well as Beacon Hill Sports and Affordable Sports !
Cat

Andy lives next door to me here in the Athabasca area. I am from the south and I miss the old Kresge's and Woolworth store in downtown Lethbridge. Spent a lot of time in the Woolco mall down there as well.

[bb356]

Originally Posted by huntinstuff

Mini Mart. Fairview

How many plans made, played and strayed there

Open till 1030 after the rest of the town died at 6

bb356 - my female friends and I used to sit and watch the lights from Rycroft and Spirit River on clear nights, wondering what folks there were up to..... lol

[bb356]

Originally Posted by lannie

Roma Junction road intersection?...Junction maybe. I think at one time one of the Stephan boys ran it.

Yup Roma Junction ... still stumped .

[Jack Hardin]

Uncle John's Hobby Shop on 7th Ave just west of the Bay in Calgary The Isis theatre, The Hitching Post theatre on 8th Ave east of Centre St. that only played cowboy movies. All gone now. The last movie that I saw in Calgary was Tora Tora Tora at the Capital theatre in 1970. It was situated about 1/4 of a block west of the Bay on 8th Ave.

All gone now.

[Strix]

Does anyone remember Wolfe's Taxidermy in Edmonton?
As a young teen I used to ride the bus down into the river flats to visit
Wolfe's Taxidermy shop. I spent many a Saturday morning there watching Marcel
perform his magic on various mounts. I don't think they ever realized how much of
an influence they were to an impressionable young teenager.

[Strix]

X2 Speedway Park: Edmonton
stock car racing at Speedway Park north of 137 avenue on 127 street in mid '50s.
Brought back memories of Eddie 'Tiger' Matan (#101) and Gavin Breckenridge (#16) tearing around the quarter mile oval track.

[Diesel_wiesel]

if I remember a few names right Frenchie's, on 9th and 9th Calgary
Ron's outdoors in Edson
the Kingsway inn, (rodeo club and truckers saloon)
wwarcade on stony plain road Edmonton
and Mcleans auction mart in Calgary,
that was where my parents spent their Saturdays
I got my very first 22 there , I bid on it got it for $11.00
and I must have bought and sold 100 more after that but I still have that little 22 rabbit gun
the last time I was there 25 0r 30 years ago
I laughed some oriental people bought some ducks and the way they were jabbering and smiling I don't believe the ducks were gonna make it home

[honda610]

Ribtor Calgary had all kinds of everything.

[JimPS]

Originally Posted by 2 Tollers

There was a men's wear and sporting goods store in Hanna that used to have a great selection on firearms. Don's on 118th and Trail were both good.

Old time feel for a store that is still in business is Bashaw Sports.

Alberta sure had some greasy little old hang outs in the day. I loved them all.

George MacDonald Agencies in Didsbury comes to mind. Insurance, menswear and fishing tackle all under one roof.

[big zeke]

Don's Guns - IIRC it was Don Schwartz (sp?) brilliant and fair,

WW Arcade - the old one downtown, not the new one in the west end

Ribtor - back when Sol was alive it was amazing, like a time machine

Cottle Guns - don't recall the fellas name...a walking encyclopedia

Denny Andrews American Bar - lotsa babies made in that parking lot...lotsa fights

Rustys - used to call it the corrosion lab back when I was in school...many blurry memories

Chez Pierres - only went once, scary as hell. Every surface seemed to be sticky

Russells Sports - some of the best gun counter guys in Calgary at the time, sadly missed.

[guster]

Big chief sporting goods,bottom bay parkade
First gun from there couey 22

[stuckincity]

Originally Posted by Lornce

St Louis Hotel. Back in the day you could sit down and have a beer with Ralph Kline and do business.

Yeah, I remember.
We used to stop in after getting off the train from the NE Industrial after work.

Pretty eclectic crowd from all "social classes", all the way from construction working stiffs right up to suits from different offices, including aldermen.
We even ran into Ralphie a few times.

Never any trouble in the place no matter who came in.

And they made the best #@@%%&&# french fries I ever tasted!!

[TBark]

You guys got me thinking of the drive-ins in Calgary in the 70's.
Before the Corral 4 on the east side in the 80's.
The first ones in the 70's were...
Sunset, Stampede, Corral and the 17th Ave, or am I missing one ?

TBark

[warriorboy10]

Rex Hotel
The Hairport
Goose Loonies
Studio 82, used to take the old school bus outta Sherwood Park bounce down the fwy go watch Godzilla vs King Kong buy some popcorn and pop and bus home again for 85 cents. Better bring home some change!!

[badger]

Originally Posted by TBark

You guys got me thinking of the drive-ins in Calgary in the 70's.
Before the Corral 4 on the east side in the 80's.
The first ones in the 70's were...
Sunset, Stampede, Corral and the 17th Ave, or am I missing one ?

TBark

There was the Parkdale drive in where Point McKay is built. During junior high we would hop the fence in the summertime. Shut down about 1972.