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Honest Nats Department Store
49th and Fraser!

Orange is Beautiful (CP Air)

Canada......We love you. (Expo 67)..

Wayne and Shuster

The Seawall before it was split in two.

Back alley's that were still gravel

Woodwards in New West

Dairy Queen before they had burgers!

The Owl Prowl with Jack Cullen

Tom Wilkison as a Lion on a football card

Cash registers that went ch-ching
Cashiers who counted back your change to the last penny
Family movies on a projector
The intersection of Cassiar and Hwy 1
The gondola at the PNE
The English Bay Cafe
Polar Bears at Stanley Park
Lansdowne Park was a horse track before it was a shopping centre

David wrote:a proper old-fashioned zoo in Stanley Park, with monkeys, penguins, and a sad looking yellow polar bear.

I remember the Stanley Park zoo very well. I was disappointed with the plebiscite closed it in 1994. I remember taking pony rides around the children's farm. I also miss the killer whale shows at the aquarium.

TheLionKing wrote:White Spot Drive Ins

How could this be a thing of the past? Several White Spot locations still have this option.

when the 4 main grocery store chains were loblaws, dominion, safeway and supervalue.

West Coast Blue Fan wrote:
Mojo candies...2 for 1 penny

Mmmmmmm mojo candies. The green ones were the best

Rotary phones
No cable, no color. rabbit ears.
quakashake (sp?)
6 0z class pop bottles.
going down to the corner to sit on a pony for a picture.

pinkfreud wrote:

crburrows wrote:Remember:

• *The farm at the corner of Lonsdale @ 29th in North Vancouver?
  *Dick Irwin - What a Great Great Guy!?
  *Transit busses had the BC Hydro logo?

Yep

Do you remember...

• *The Hippopotamus Club at 3rd and Lonsdale
  *Canyon Gardens on Cap Road
  *Willy Woozle
  *Woodwards Park Royal
  *Daddy Long Legs in the International Plaza
  *The International Plaza when it was a hotel

LOL

I had forgotten about each of these. Good ol' Willy Woozle! Mom never took me there, but I remember the funky 70's stylized characters drinking their - - - woozles?

Had some friends who worked at the Canyon Gardens, and remember having our Wolf Cub Dad's dinners there - that's when I started my love affair with oriental mini-corns. I continually amaze my wife when I eat an entire can of them before dinner. Now our kids are addicted, too.

That poor Hippo Club. How many incarnations did it have before it was mowed down? The Royal Bank had a branch at that mini-mall.

Do YOU remember the Dairy Queen which on Lonsdale at about 4th? I always got the chocolate-dipped; my Dad got the banana split - I was always jealous. Later, for about two years, it was a Tastee-Freez, then it was mowed down, too. Condo's, now.

I remember Daddy Long Legs and the Plaza - but was too young / disinterested. Closed in my early 20's, I think.

My fave memory of Woodwards Park Royal was riding in the big part of the shopping cart with Bradley Curtus. One of the front wheels kept wobbling on every crack. That was the beginning and end of my engineering career.

Dammit, we used to have to roll up the car windows by hand, AND walk all the way across the room to change the channel to the other station. Now get grandpa another scotch...


("House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!"

"You were lucky to have a ROOM! We used to have to live in a corridor!"

"Ohhhh, we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph."

"Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us."

"We were evicted from our hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!"

Etc.)

CJOR600 was famous for its Pat Burns Hotline show on weeknights. And we all know it was the birthplace of Sportstalk with Dan Russell in October 1984. The station became classic rock CHRX on September 2, 1988. That station lasted until January 7, 1994 when it converted to CKBD 600 playing Christian music.

CHRX was the best AM radio station in history. Really gave CFMI and CFOX a run for their money.

pinkfreud wrote:Do you remember...

• *The Hippopotamus Club at 3rd and Lonsdale
  *Canyon Gardens on Cap Road
  *Daddy Long Legs in the International Plaza
  *The International Plaza when it was a hotel

I remember those. Especially getting down on the dance floor at Daddy Long Legs, and all the jokes from my friends that the joint was named after my long legs.....

Do you remember The Bistro and Tugs in the Lonsdale Quay and Holidays on West 1st?

Yes, and the Totem theatre where Jack Lonsdales now resides

And L'il Olys

TheLionKing wrote:Rolf Harris singing Vancouver Town at the Cave Supper Club.

Nah, Pointed Sticks playing at the Cave Nightclub. It was way more fun once it got seedy. And:

The Smilin' Buddha

O"Keefe's "Hi-Test", desireable for the extra 1% alcohol. Do they still make that?