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Alberta's Old Businesses - post your memories please!
The Ambassador Hotel Edmonton (early 80's? it was vague) downstairs lounge featuring BB King and it didn't fill the house. Unbelievable!!
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04-23-2017, 12:36 AM
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On 106st north of jasper,it was a blues hotspot ,before blues on white,and it followed several other spot before. john lee hooker played at the ambassador?i lived down town several years,and paid the price,but still am alive.
It had a good run.
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04-23-2017, 12:38 AM
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Kelly's bar Sexsmith .... Branding's GP moter inn ... LoneStar GP .... Ruby's poolhall Peace River ...
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04-23-2017, 01:51 AM
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04-23-2017, 05:48 AM
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hot grease.
Chicken On The Way, on the way.
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04-23-2017, 08:24 AM
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Woodward's in the Northgate Mall. Used to get the groceries from there.
The Londonderry Mall movie theater with its '70s red carpet.
WW Arcade downtown 97st
Dad bought me my first fly rod from there... blue fiberglass... still use it.
I miss the NoJack hotel....
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04-23-2017, 10:32 AM
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Ahh - Guncraft.
Russels on 10 Ave, Ribtor when they was on McLeod Trail, Simpson and Lea when they was on Centre St -and Crown Surplus when they actually sold genuine British, Canadian, American and German WWII surplus for cheap.
My outdoors dream stores as a kid when I ran amok in the big city.
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04-23-2017, 10:45 AM
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Ahh - Guncraft.
Russels on 10 Ave, Ribtor when they was on McLeod Trail, Simpson and Lea when they was on Centre St -and Crown Surplus when they actually sold genuine British, Canadian, American and German WWII surplus for cheap.
My outdoors dream stores as a kid when I ran amok in the big city.
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Klondike Arms and Cottle's gunshop
One if the best danged hat shops around was
Mr. John's
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Andy's Sports and guns up here as well as Beacon Hill Sports and Affordable Sports !
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04-23-2017, 10:55 AM
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York Hotel Bar in Edmonton. We used to go there when we were young to play one game of pool and have a beer just to see if we could make it out alive.
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04-23-2017, 11:03 AM
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Jimmy's Harware in Stettler, oooollllld school hardware store, with creaky oiled wood floors. Loved that place.
Chuck's Sports Center, Stettler, everything from model trains to firearms.
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Oh I miss it...
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04-23-2017, 01:11 PM
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Chicken On The Way, on the way.
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Is A & K Lick a Chic still around?
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04-23-2017, 02:46 PM
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York Hotel Bar in Edmonton. We used to go there when we were young to play one game of pool and have a beer just to see if we could make it out alive.
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Used to go to the empire just down the road from the York. Good times. Lol
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04-23-2017, 02:51 PM
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ALCB stores.
Wife brought home a 1954 Edmonton tourist guide and there were 4 in Edmonton at that time.
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04-23-2017, 03:31 PM
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York Hotel Bar in Edmonton. We used to go there when we were young to play one game of pool and have a beer just to see if we could make it out alive.
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Just south of the York a couple blocks...
I remember the Coffee Cup Inn that was across from WW Arcade. That was another rough and tumble place. I went to WW Arcade with my dad in the mid 60's to get firecrackers and bullets. Came out of the store and across the street in front of the Coffee Cup Inn there was two women engaged in a crazy cat fight. Everyone was just standing around watching. I didn't get to watch for more than a couple minutes.
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I miss the drive in theaters that used to be around in the 60's and early 70's. In Edmonton there were 2 on the south side, one on St. Albert trail and one on 136 ave..
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04-23-2017, 03:47 PM
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Is A & K Lick a Chic still around?
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Maybe on Oprah channel. Check it out and let us know.
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04-23-2017, 04:25 PM
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Drank quite a few glasses of beer at the Bowden Hotel. That's when Roy Rogers (not of film fame), was the bar manager. He was a character for sure.
On my 18th birthday I spent the better part of the day/night hoisting draft. Marg Osborne et al were playing and I still have an autographed happy birthday she signed.
The hotel closed just recently.
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04-23-2017, 05:02 PM
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St Louis Hotel. Back in the day you could sit down and have a beer with Ralph Kline and do business.
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04-23-2017, 05:13 PM
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Crystal Springs in Camrose. Used to DJ there as a college freshman in 1989/90.
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04-23-2017, 05:14 PM
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Coffee Cup Inn in Edmonton.
North side of Jasper at 95 or 97 st (can't quite remember)
Now I was too young to have frequented the establishment, but in the 60's and early 70's it was supposedly the best place for heroin and cheap hookers.
Quite the reputation in it's day.
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04-23-2017, 05:28 PM
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I miss the drive in theaters that used to be around in the 60's and early 70's. In Edmonton there were 2 on the south side, one on St. Albert trail and one on 136 ave..
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Cool ... I forgot about the good time's at the drive in between P.R and Grimshaw ... just can't remember the name ???
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04-23-2017, 07:30 PM
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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
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04-23-2017, 07:54 PM
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Drank quite a few glasses of beer at the Bowden Hotel. That's when Roy Rogers (not of film fame), was the bar manager. He was a character for sure.
On my 18th birthday I spent the better part of the day/night hoisting draft. Marg Osborne et al were playing and I still have an autographed happy birthday she signed.
The hotel closed just recently.
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I remember drinking beer at the Bowden Hotel and the Penholder with Dicky Dameron playing.
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04-23-2017, 08:01 PM
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I miss the drive in theaters that used to be around in the 60's and early 70's. In Edmonton there were 2 on the south side, one on St. Albert trail and one on 136 ave..
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Red Deer had the 2-11 Drive inthe north and on the south side was the 40 Ave Drive in. When I lived in Calgary there were the Sunset Drive In, Chinook Drive In, 17th Ave Drive In. One in West Hillhurst and one out towards Chestermere Lake.
Olds even had a Dive In theatre.
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Cool ... I forgot about the good time's at the drive in between P.R and Grimshaw ... just can't remember the name ???
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Roma Junction road intersection?...Junction maybe. I think at one time one of the Stephan boys ran it.
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04-23-2017, 09:01 PM
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Frenchy's in Calgary. 9th and 9th i believe. Walked in there as a 14 year old boy from small city Medicine Hat. The earth moved for me that day, my experience with sporting goods was the rifle rack at the Macleods Store. What a place!!
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Frenchy's in Calgary. 9th and 9th i believe. Walked in there as a 14 year old boy from small city Medicine Hat. The earth moved for me that day, my experience with sporting goods was the rifle rack at the Macleods Store. What a place!!
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Frenchys nephew, Cyril Sales was a good school chum of mine. Cyril's dad had a second hand store in Inglewood but, he died about 1956 +/-
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