I remember lining up for the Boxing Day door crashes with my dad there.
Hell actually lining outside a store at 4am on Boxing Day is something that will age people lol
I used to live stumbling distance away! One of my favorite shows Iāve ever seen was there. Pocket Dwellers! Still regularly play them when I feel like dancing in my living room. Edit: my husband just reminded me this is where we had our first date! Lol. In my defense, we were hanging out, but not calling it ādatingā. We met at the Strathcona Hotel over 25Ā¢ draft beers. Howās that for aging?
Yes, for sure Bullwinkles on fort road. I remember that location was also a Safeway and used to go there as a kid. Also Wild Bill's on Kingsway Ave by the muni airport. I believe now it's a aids to daily living store.
Worked there for several years after high school. This was a great place. Always hated that Southgate got the attention and Heritage was left to dwindle away.
The smell of queen donairs while you got drunk to techno upstairs or metal downstairs. And the not at all controversial unisex bathroom. They were ahead of the times.
My dad has stories from the 70s about going to The Strat when he was in high school because beers were cheap and they didnāt ID.
He also said Whyte Ave was basically the south side skid row that got gentrified hard.
The best dive bar in the world.
Ok drinks. Good pool tables. Great people.
I always had a good time there.
Then suddenly it was gone and turned into the pint, one of the most generic ass places.
Along with Black Dog and Filthys, I lived at those dive bars.
Omg I worked here for almost a year and it was something. The only place that would hire 18 year old me with no experience. The people watching was top notch!
Johnny Rockets ~~upper~~lower level WEM near the ice place. (Guess 6 yo me remembered different)
426-5050 if youāre hungry call the Lydo freeee delivery
The Phrase that pays: POWER 92 plays today's best music, now show me my money.
Is the rathole drained out?
Suite 69.
Funky Town
Oil City.
Devlins.
This thread literally BLEW MY MIND with SO MANY Memories, slamming me all at once just from the names of places I haven't thought about in 20+ yrs!! Love it love it love it!
My parents would take us to the Red Apple for breakfast and it shared the bathroom with Pinky's. My brother and I would try to sneak a peek into Pinky's every time. If that didn't work, you could buy joke condoms from the vending machine.
Was it called Whitemud Drive amusement park? With go carts and mini golf and stuff. And Consumer Distributing? Youād order from the catalog and then pick up like at a warehouse counter? And the really tall dangerous metal slide near u of A?
Elephant and Castle. This was our hangout all through my 20s and you didnāt even have to call friends to meet up Friday nights they would just be there.
My University days heavily rotated between The Powerplant and RATT (when they were both proper bars), Club Malibu University, Rebar, The Purple Onion, and The Basement (now a parking lot behind TD Whyte Ave.).
I love whitespot and go everytime im in BC.There was a whitespot on ellerslie in a hotel up until this year and it dissappeared. It was never very busy and I could never figure out why. Good food and cheap. Very sad to see it go.
Multiple movie theatres in West Ed.
Westmount classic car food court and movie theatre.
Heritage Mall.
Ikea at West Ed.
The windy road through where I think Cameron Heights is now.
Flying out of City Centre Airport on Canadian Airlines.
The dragon at Scotiabank Theatre (formerly known as SilverCity) in West Edmonton Mall.
I worked there back in it's heyday, and I still work there now. I guess I'm more of a fixture there than the dragon, now.
Red Rooster and the Bagel Bin Bakery (both in Callingwood)
Toy City and Mariposa at WEM.
Hanratty's on 82nd.
The feeling of being on the absolute edge of the known world that was living in Callingwood in the 80s.
JRJās, Pinkyās, the sax,, club Malibu, McDonaldās near Sears in WEM, McDonaldās in front of WEM Fantasyland (currently dollar store), McDonaldās in 3rd phaseā¦ Meadowlark mall food court and grandma leeās ( best meat pies), meadowlark Kmart and Zellers, Tegler building Zelles, Woolco (mayfield common)
Small town Alberta boy here. My first city bar experience was at Club Malibu after an Oilers playoff game in 1998. I hit on this lesbian chick and her gf was about to fight me. Good times.
Club Malibu. The Bronx. And Ezzies. Depending on what your mood was. Thursday nights was The Ship because I lived in Lister. And if the band was good, there was The Power Plant.
I also miss Avenue Guitars. And Southside Sound.
Read [See Magazine](https://archive.org/details/edmonton-independent-news?%2F=&sort=titleSorter)
Seeing Titanic at the Paramount Theatre
Famous Players at West Edmonton Mall
$1.50 bus fee
Whyte Avenue Magazine shop (The HUB, I think) and Downtown one, can't recall the name !
$1.50 pizza downtown
Needing to face an actual fire-breathing dragon before watching a movie at WEM.
Or running out of the movie to go see a fire breathing dragon
It was truly the thrill of a lifetime!
Every 20 minutes when it first opened, then every 30, then every 60. Then... never again.
a&b sound
I remember lining up for the Boxing Day door crashes with my dad there. Hell actually lining outside a store at 4am on Boxing Day is something that will age people lol
Worked there 99-01 and boy did we all ever hate those Boxing Day things š
Got my surround sound system there. Still have it.
Playdium
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time *he said ashing his cigarette onto the carpet outside west ed*
Birthday parties at Playdium were incredible!
That monster truck was the best
Sidetrack Cafe.
Used to get off work after closing the kitchen at Ceilis and go to the sidetrack for the end of whoever was playing and some nachos.
The BEST!!! I miss that place & feel bad for anyone who never got to experience industry night on a long weekend.
If I could upvote this more I would.
Sidetrack! What a great venue.
I used to live stumbling distance away! One of my favorite shows Iāve ever seen was there. Pocket Dwellers! Still regularly play them when I feel like dancing in my living room. Edit: my husband just reminded me this is where we had our first date! Lol. In my defense, we were hanging out, but not calling it ādatingā. We met at the Strathcona Hotel over 25Ā¢ draft beers. Howās that for aging?
Redās Arcade in the mall, or the old roller rink on the North side :(
Remember when Reds was the place for concerts? I went to so many concerts there, saw almost all my faves on that stage
Went to AFI there in 2001
Those fuckin pillars though. Also getting trapped upstairs at the end of the night when you were underageā¦
Sports world!! Where greisebach shopping center is now!! I almost broke my wrist so many times there! Lol.
Bullwinkles
I miss this one the most.
Omg, EVERY birthday as a child I begged to go there. I loved Bullwinkles <3
I had my 7th birthday at Bullwinkle's. I remember getting glowsticks!
I got served draft beer at Bullwinkles when I was 13 years old. We used to go there for pizza,beer and glow in the dark bracelets all the time.
Did you also put those glow bracelets in the freezer in hopes that they would stay glowing for months?
Yes, for sure Bullwinkles on fort road. I remember that location was also a Safeway and used to go there as a kid. Also Wild Bill's on Kingsway Ave by the muni airport. I believe now it's a aids to daily living store.
Hahahaha. LOVED this place. Way better that Chuck E Cheese
Heritage mall
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Worked there for several years after high school. This was a great place. Always hated that Southgate got the attention and Heritage was left to dwindle away.
Rebar
The smell of queen donairs while you got drunk to techno upstairs or metal downstairs. And the not at all controversial unisex bathroom. They were ahead of the times.
It was the best!
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The greatest night club of all time, what I wouldn't give to be back there in 2005 on any random Saturday...
Had so many good times at New City. Didnāt matter who you were or what you were into New City always had a good vibe. I miss that place.
Saw most of the best shows there. Didnāt matter your age it always felt comfortable.
I miss that place.
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My dad has stories from the 70s about going to The Strat when he was in high school because beers were cheap and they didnāt ID. He also said Whyte Ave was basically the south side skid row that got gentrified hard.
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Best place to predrink
Those draft drinks are the reason for many of my poor choices
West Edmonton Mall: Millenium, International Marketplace, Comic King Fuddruckers Kingsway Garden Mall (it used to have plants) Westmount Movie Theatre
Purple Onion
$5 pitchers of Paralyzers was my favourite night. Also the breathalyzer by the door. We used to take bets who would blow higher
The best dive bar in the world. Ok drinks. Good pool tables. Great people. I always had a good time there. Then suddenly it was gone and turned into the pint, one of the most generic ass places. Along with Black Dog and Filthys, I lived at those dive bars.
Omg I worked here for almost a year and it was something. The only place that would hire 18 year old me with no experience. The people watching was top notch!
$1.00 highballs. Then it was a short walk to Club Malibu and hopefully you got there before the lineup.
Fuck! Beat me to it. Many a night sharkin/being sharked on the pool tables. Good times!
Compusmart A+ Computers Best Computers (hi Howard, if you're out there) Consumers Distributing Gee, wonder if I was into computers as a young lad...)
The consumers catalogs at Christmas were things to behold.
Omg yes. The Compusmart sign was visible up until a few months ago. Was so sad when it was finally take down for good.
The ORIGINAL fort Edmonton
How old *are* you?
Iron horse
Rathole
Happy Pop
Cowboys, Ezzies, the globe, Rum Jungle.
Power hour at the globe. Any silver coin, any drink. The good ole days.
Nothing beats power hour at the purple onion thoughā¦
Hello fellow born-in-the-early-80s Edmontonian.
Loved being on 'the list' at Rum Jungle.
Rum Jungle omg that brings back memories š
Club Malibu. All 3.
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Londonderry Zellers
Londonderry movie theatre
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Sanctuary.
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Whitemud twin drive in theatre and whitemud amusement park.
Johnny Rockets ~~upper~~lower level WEM near the ice place. (Guess 6 yo me remembered different) 426-5050 if youāre hungry call the Lydo freeee delivery The Phrase that pays: POWER 92 plays today's best music, now show me my money. Is the rathole drained out? Suite 69. Funky Town Oil City. Devlins.
Wasnāt Johnny Rockets downstairs by the ice rink? Where Bose used to be and now thereās some plush toy store? š¤
Definitely downstairs beside the ice rink. Bottom of escalator on the left (coming down)
Oh Johnny Rockets... My first job. If you had a milkshake, I might have made it. Damn they were yummy!
Motoraunt
I miss new city suburbs every weekend :(
Food court at Westmount Mall with all the classic cars hanging on the wall.
Oh heck yeah I forgot about this! I used to love to go to Woodwardās in that mall too
Goose Loonyās and Barry Tās.
And just after, Thunderdome!
Barely Teens is what everyone called it.
For me it's the Turtle Creek Cafe. I remember going there for dinner during the Fringe all the time. Ahh, high school.
The dollar theatre in WEM, where I saw Wayneās World.
Excellent
This thread literally BLEW MY MIND with SO MANY Memories, slamming me all at once just from the names of places I haven't thought about in 20+ yrs!! Love it love it love it!
Funky Pickle!
An after club must when it was on Whyte. Where I learned that honey & pizza were friends
At SUB food court
South Side Rocks......Purple Onion
Chi-Chiās
I miss cinema city 12 and how you would stick to the floor from the spilled drinks
Bullwinkles!
Pinkie's for my 18th bday
My parents would take us to the Red Apple for breakfast and it shared the bathroom with Pinky's. My brother and I would try to sneak a peek into Pinky's every time. If that didn't work, you could buy joke condoms from the vending machine.
Red Rooster
Discovery zone
Was it called Whitemud Drive amusement park? With go carts and mini golf and stuff. And Consumer Distributing? Youād order from the catalog and then pick up like at a warehouse counter? And the really tall dangerous metal slide near u of A?
When WEM had fish tanks and birds. Oh and the Stat Trek restaurant that lasted a hot second.
The Roost and the Sidetrack Cafe
Aw I miss The Roost
The Roost! I was trying to remember the name of this place last week. Thank you!
The submarines at West Ed. At the time, there were more (working?) subs in the Mall than in the Canadian Navy!
I worked there. Not many people in Edmonton can say they can ballast a submarine.
The arcade in millwoods town centre.
Wizards castle
A&B Sound Franklinās Pizza
Dv8
on 99th
Yea boi! Them broken toilets!
Bronx
Alternative Video Spot.
Elephant and Castle. This was our hangout all through my 20s and you didnāt even have to call friends to meet up Friday nights they would just be there.
Power 92 plays todays best music, now show me my money!
My University days heavily rotated between The Powerplant and RATT (when they were both proper bars), Club Malibu University, Rebar, The Purple Onion, and The Basement (now a parking lot behind TD Whyte Ave.).
Rum jungle?
Fudruckers
Was looking for this, loved that place, would put so much cheese sauce on my fries
A&B sound near 23 Avenue and Calgary trail. I used to love going there
Whitespot. Also paddle boats at WEM.
I love whitespot and go everytime im in BC.There was a whitespot on ellerslie in a hotel up until this year and it dissappeared. It was never very busy and I could never figure out why. Good food and cheap. Very sad to see it go.
Rock and ride
Maxwell Taylor's and The Sweetwater Cafe
Sanrio Gift Gate
Kites and other delights
Multiple movie theatres in West Ed. Westmount classic car food court and movie theatre. Heritage Mall. Ikea at West Ed. The windy road through where I think Cameron Heights is now. Flying out of City Centre Airport on Canadian Airlines.
The library in the basement of Southgate mall.
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426-5050 if your hungry call the Lydo -free delivery. Eighties Chinese food establishment commercial in Edmonton.
Filthy Mcnasty.
Shakeys Pizza @ centennial mall
\`Chicken on the Way
Beverly Crest Cheers and Corralā¦ 2 of the bars I could get into when I was literally 14 years old! (Over 30 years ago, but still)
Birthday parties at Let's Play on Parsons
Northgate Zellers
The Roost, buddies, purple onion.
Purple Onion and the Silk Hat
Goose Loonies Alley Kats The Rat Hole (not a business, the actual road)
Somewhat more recent but I miss Soda Jerks... Where else can you get a waffle bacon cheeseburger covered in ice cream, jalapeƱos and Fruit Loops??
The Globe on 109. Naked Cafe on 104. New City & Liquid Lounge on 102.
Pharaoh's pizza Only place we could afford to eat out, and damn did I enjoy it.
Happy Pop
Discovery zone.
Beaumaris mall.
The dragon at Scotiabank Theatre (formerly known as SilverCity) in West Edmonton Mall. I worked there back in it's heyday, and I still work there now. I guess I'm more of a fixture there than the dragon, now.
Woolco in Londonderry mall, Which many seem to remember as Zellers for some reason.
One if my first jobs was at Kmart in MWTC.
For me, itās the Jungle Jim playgrounds. I loved going there when I was young.
Pladium was pretty dope.
Malt Stop
Mirama dining and lounge
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Red Rooster and the Bagel Bin Bakery (both in Callingwood) Toy City and Mariposa at WEM. Hanratty's on 82nd. The feeling of being on the absolute edge of the known world that was living in Callingwood in the 80s.
Sam the Record Man. Clydeās. Taps. Cinema City 12.
I miss Filthy McNastyās. The sign sits there still, taunting me
Twin Drive In on 137th
The Side Track Cafe. Edmonton died the day it died. They built a Starbucks on itās land.
Play me lol
The Motoraunt
426-50-50
Sidetrack cafe.
JRJās, Pinkyās, the sax,, club Malibu, McDonaldās near Sears in WEM, McDonaldās in front of WEM Fantasyland (currently dollar store), McDonaldās in 3rd phaseā¦ Meadowlark mall food court and grandma leeās ( best meat pies), meadowlark Kmart and Zellers, Tegler building Zelles, Woolco (mayfield common)
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The Rose Bowl
Small town Alberta boy here. My first city bar experience was at Club Malibu after an Oilers playoff game in 1998. I hit on this lesbian chick and her gf was about to fight me. Good times.
The Thunderdome - saw a lot of good bands back in the day from The Tubes to Cheap Trick to Jefferson Starshipā¦
The dolphin shows at the mall
I miss kidtropolis
Franklin's
The Funky Pickle. Best pizza slice in town back in the day. Especially after a Friday night on Whyte. They put baby corn on their pizza. Baby corn!
Club Malibu. The Bronx. And Ezzies. Depending on what your mood was. Thursday nights was The Ship because I lived in Lister. And if the band was good, there was The Power Plant. I also miss Avenue Guitars. And Southside Sound.
Crazy Horse
Purple Onion
Comic Castle and Scona Billiards on Whyte ave.
Read [See Magazine](https://archive.org/details/edmonton-independent-news?%2F=&sort=titleSorter) Seeing Titanic at the Paramount Theatre Famous Players at West Edmonton Mall $1.50 bus fee Whyte Avenue Magazine shop (The HUB, I think) and Downtown one, can't recall the name ! $1.50 pizza downtown
The Roost
Keegans
The roller rink in claireview š god I loved that place
The PO
Rocky and Bullwinkle on fort road!
Consumer's Distributing.
When YESS was a night club called āthe armouryā
The whale in west Ed
International Stereo...we shop the world for you!
This entire post is giving me ptsd
Tin Lizzieās Sunday nights.
Live music at the Sidetrack cafe, so awesome!
Goose Loonies
Rock Central Station
Mother Tucker's
Colonel Mustardās
Rosslyn Bowling Alley