admittedly it was a bit dingy, especially after metropolis opened up at metrotown, people just stopped going there. i remember watching the first batman movie the first day it was out there, and they still couldn't fill the seats :o

Does that mean we can blame it on the skytrain? ;)

You mean the second Batman movie. ;)

Sennasan, you have to go out there and take as many photos as possible, so in 50 years, your work can serve as a reference point like Mr. Herzog's.

Pics of people, places, events, skyscapes, etc.

Anyone have historic pics of Powell Street? Between Main and Dunlevy, to be exact. My old neighbourhood.

oops did i screw it up? the one i remember seeing was the jack nicholson/joker version.

the old brain ain't what it used to be as i stagger slowly to senior citizen status :cry:

chuck-e-cheese off lougheed hwy in coq. near lougheed mall. i had at least one birthday party there. i remember playing dragon lair for the first time there! they have been long-gone for awhile now... but i think the building is still there. not sure what it's being used for now.

That's funny. I was just talking to the wife about this place. We were trying to remember where the old building was. She said it was closer to the white spot and I thought it was closer to the WalMart.

hmmm.... closer to white spot and that shell station at the corner of lougheed/north rd. for sure because walmart is way over on the other side of lougheed mall.

anyone remember woolco?

i just got corrected by the "old-timer" at work... he says it was sunbeam, not weston's.

Yeah, the first Batman movie was the campy 60's one.

Dragon's Lair was awesome!

....and when did Chuck E Cheese shut down?

oh no not you too! :lol

i can't remember... i keep thinking it was in the late 80's.

there is still one left in langley somewhere.

I saw one in Mexico when I went to Puerto Vallarta.

I remember being at Chuck E cheese in the late 80's but I can't remember which building it was in.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=49.2472...,0.002237&z=18

So this should be where white spot is. Which building was Chuck E cheese?

Never mind.

It's now called Jolly Genies.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=J...00427&t=h&z=18

damn.. since im a young-gun (20), i dont have anything to really contribute..
but thanks for the insight! it's really helpful to know how the city you live in came to be.

i've been in the suburbs since kindergarten, so i dont have memories of dt van at all...
i kinda of remember chinatown, which i doubt has changed all that much...

^ It has, It's so quiet now and certain shops have closed.

Sigh, I walked by today and read the sign, they've been closed by the health board since March.

=[

On a happy note, Save On Meat Coffee Shop is still there. Wonder how the burgers are now that there's no meat shop right there?

I bet all the gambling places behind the shops are all but gone, too.

hm gonna try to make this thread veer slightly off course... does anyone remember minnam racing? when they used to be a small storefront on kingsway near boundary?

i used to go to chinatown when i was a kid.. its just not the same anymore.. not lively.. not colorful.. very dead nowadays

I made a post about that but no one replied. I feel so sad now.

This was back in the early 90's, and they were located in the mini-mall where the Subway is just before Samosa Garden.

Now, does anyone know where the Minnam's old Dyno is? I know Eurosport had it at one point in time.

What about Supra GT on Hastings and Jackson(?). The guy had a hard on for early 70's Corollas.

I bought a few things from him. Stuff took forever to show up. Nice enough guy. Biggest beef I had was the place he sent me to have things installed (Installation was inclded in price). Wing Fai Motors on Powell street. Those guys had no idea what they were doing. They went out of business... wAnder why? They're under a new name now or possibly changed ownership.

i always thought that there was another supra gt in n.van somewhere? :confused:

there used to be another shop near the intersection of clarke and hastings... i can't remember the name though. i remember paying too much for piaa stuff there... if you young kids out there complain about prices today, you should have seen what it was like 10-15 years ago :o