Who remembers...

[KnowItAll]

Old local TV stations: BCTV, CKVU, CHEK...
Old local Radio stations: CJOR600, LG73 . . .
When the Cambie Street Bridge was made of wood
When the Lougheed Hwy was called the Central Arterial Hwy.
Major prisons in Burnaby (Oakalla) and New West (BC Pen)
When False Creek went all the way up to present day Clark Dr.
In 1956 you could buy a lot in the British Properties from $3,800
When ambulances were station wagons

wow, I had no idea you were that old.

[KnowItAll]

when all restuarant hamburgers were real homemade type thicker ground beef.

when people left money for the milk man, that was often stolen by kids on their way to school.

When french fries actually tasted good before these health freaks started making a fuss about what oils were used.

when women were women and men were men.

when prison was actually a bad place to be.

When parents and principals were able to give children and teens the punishments they deserved and needed for their own good, as well as society's (I got the strap 9 times in grade 4 alone. Deserved it every time and understood the difference between that and the physical abuse I got from my mother) I would have been a lot worse in todays school system\society. Hell, I was once niave enough to actually be afraid of going to jail.

When the west end was mostly houses, with just a few low apartment buildings.

[Robbie]

This is taken from a jokes page, but I think it's applicable to most of us.

Remember when...
A computer was something on TV from a science fiction show
A window was something you hated to clean....
And ram was the cousin of a goat.....

Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And gig was something you did on stage for money
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes.

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano

Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3 1/2" floppy
You hoped nobody found out

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens, they wish they were dead.

[pinkfreud]

I remember going to Lions games in the early 80's as a kid, and when a hot chick walked up the stairs of the section the men would all chant, "Take your clothes off, take your clothes off!" And everyone just laughed. No outrage. Nobody getting sued or punched in the face. Must have been pre-political correctness.

[crburrows]

Fire alarms on most corners

I remember one in East Van (near Grandma's house on 47th @ Quebec). Obviously long since gone. (Both).

Air raid drills at school
colored sugar cube vacinations (polio?)

Nope. We didn't have the money for the horses to play polio.

the old fraser street bridges

Nope. But I do remember occasionaly waiting for the old Cambie Bridge swing-span to let a boat through.

Johnny seven OMA
Secret Sam

Nope. Wait - if you can "remember" Secret Sam, you probably didn't have anything to do with it. I am having some fuzzy memories of something "Secret Sam"-ish.

Using roller skate keys

Yes! I remember those bloody awful rickety things. To make it worse, we lived on the side of a hill in North Van, and you could either struggle to go uphill, which would usually result in one or both of them coming loose - or, you could go down the hill, and feel terror every time you rolled over a pebble or grain of sand fearing that it would send you into a tumble resulting in some road rash on your face.

[crburrows]

Remember:

• *The farm at the corner of Lonsdale @ 29th in North Vancouver?
  *The armory building at the base of the north tower of the Lions' Gate Bridge?
  *General Foods? (Who would name a company that, today? Kinda screams 'spam.')
  *St. Alice Hotel on West 1st in North Van? (Like I said about Silent Sam . . . .)
  *HARRY HAMMER'S WAREHOUSE!!!!! And his obnoxious ad's on CKNW?
  *Dick Irwin - What a Great Great Guy!?
  *Saturday Night Videos? (NBC, pre-MTV)
  *Friday Night Videos? (Shaw Community Access - played the ones nobody else would)
  *NFL footballs had white stripes?
  *Transit busses had the BC Hydro logo?

[KnowItAll]

I remember going to Lions games in the early 80's as a kid, and when a hot chick walked up the stairs of the section the men would all chant, "Take your clothes off, take your clothes off!" And everyone just laughed. No outrage. Nobody getting sued or punched in the face. Must have been pre-political correctness.

so, do tell, did you do it???

[Robbie]

Driving south on Highway 99 and just before you reach the Highway 91 interchange, if you look left you saw a large barn with the word GOLF written on the roof?



I didn't know until much later that it used to be the clubhouse of Delta Golf Course, but was abandoned after the construction of Highway 91.

http://www.deltagolfcourse.com/index.ph ... &Itemid=12

I wonder what was inside that barn after it was abandoned. The barn still stood until around 2001 when it was demolished. Apparently, the BC Rugby union tried to convert that barn into a new clubhouse, but it fell into disrepair so it had to be demolished. There are plans to use the wood from that barn to construct a new clubhouse. I wonder if that will actually become a reality.

http://www.thenownewspaper.com/issues04 ... ports.html

[Whisperin' Jimmy]

Major prisons in Burnaby (Oakalla) and New West (BC Pen)

Heck, I'm old enough to have been IN Oakalla. Only for a couple of hours to interview a client, but it was one scarey-ass dungeon.

The BC Pen site was of course the site of the Royal Engineers' camp of 1859, and their cricket ground was just up the hill where Woodlands is now. How's that for being an old-timer? Now get off my lawn, you damn kids. :lol:

[pinkfreud]

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

[pinkfreud]

I remember going to Lions games in the early 80's as a kid, and when a hot chick walked up the stairs of the section the men would all chant, "Take your clothes off, take your clothes off!" And everyone just laughed. No outrage. Nobody getting sued or punched in the face. Must have been pre-political correctness.

so, do tell, did you do it???

I was 10! They weren't talkin' to me!

[pinkfreud]

This was my grandpa's jewellery chain during the 60's and 70's. Does anyone remember it?

[img]http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n309 ... ellers.jpg[/img]

[LFITQ]

Maybe raising the bar a bit higher (younger) for "nostalgia" but ...

Blue screens being good to see on a computer
Hard drives? We don't need no stinkin' hard drives we got big ass floppies
VCR's barely fitting into an oversize suitcase when you rented it
Getting yelled at by customers when I put the price of gas up to 39.9 per LITRE
Commodore 64 being more than enough power for a computer ....
BBS's that only allowed you to connect for 20 minutes at a time ...
The scariest things I saw were in horror movies instead of the evening news.

[KnowItAll]

I remember going to Lions games in the early 80's as a kid, and when a hot chick walked up the stairs of the section the men would all chant, "Take your clothes off, take your clothes off!" And everyone just laughed. No outrage. Nobody getting sued or punched in the face. Must have been pre-political correctness.

so, do tell, did you do it???

I was 10! They weren't talkin' to me!

hopefully

[KnowItAll]

This was my grandpa's jewellery chain during the 60's and 70's. Does anyone remember it?

[img]http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n309 ... ellers.jpg[/img]

looks familiar. give a hint what general area, ie downtown, kits, etc.