| Vancouver Off-Topic / Current Events The off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum. |
 | | 
06-06-2020, 05:04 PM
|
#726 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
|
The Wagon Burger!
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| 
|  | |
06-06-2020, 08:07 PM
|
#727 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Langley
Posts: 4,102
Thanked 3,393 Times in 1,284 Posts
Failed 92 Times in 70 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by welfare  Wally's burgers haha. I remember when they filmed that episode of 21 jumpstreet there. My older sister and her friend got a Polaroid taken with Johnny Depp. She probably still has it somewhere. | I remember as a kid my dad taking us all the way to Kingsway even though we lived in Surrey just to have a burger lol.
For some reason what I remember most of that place was a poster inside of a kid looking at a bunch of ice cream flavors and the tag line of "Decisions decisions" on it lol.
| |
| | |
06-07-2020, 10:32 AM
|
#728 | | :inoutugh:
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: ඞ
Posts: 9,985
Thanked 5,850 Times in 1,843 Posts
Failed 970 Times in 279 Posts
|
So many memories going to Wally's after school. Deluxe Chuckwagon. Pinball machines on the side.
The later iterations never quite captured the same feeling as the Kingsway location.
Wally's opened in 1962, I just stumbled upon a burger place here the other day that started in 1967 that I want to give a try.
__________________
Posted from NE 1-J W Inglis Building | |
| | |
06-07-2020, 11:09 AM
|
#729 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Burnaby
Posts: 4,219
Thanked 5,383 Times in 2,037 Posts
Failed 265 Times in 101 Posts
|
I remember Best in Town -- A Chinese restaurant used to be across the street from the Wally's. We'd head there after the club at 3/4AM to eat and slam back beers poured in plastic cups.
Had a friend shot at through the window at that restaurant too, back when we were just out of high school.
Oh, the good ol' days.
| |
| | |
06-07-2020, 11:30 AM
|
#730 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
|
Speaking of restaurants. I remember "The Only," "White Lunch (I shit you not)," Aki Restaurant (knew the two brothers - lived six door down from the original restaurant on Powell Street), Aristocratic, Frank Baker's, etc. just to name a few. 60's and 70's.......... fun times. https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-...y-and-memories
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
06-07-2020, 09:57 PM
|
#731 | | RS.net, where our google ads make absolutely no sense!
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 931
Thanked 384 Times in 91 Posts
Failed 21 Times in 9 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by welfare I used to live on Clarke and 24th, two blocks south of consumers. Was born in that house actually. Mr sub, the Video Nest. Hoy's Wonton is still there, I believe. Same with triangle market..I think. Been awhile since I rolled through.
As kids we'd head into consumers and dig through the catalogs just to browse. Never bought anything. Don't know why but we thought it was fun.
Fields just down the street where mom used to buy our Lobo and Excalibur shoes. Anybody remember those? They were probably the cheapest shoes you could possibly find. The plastic soles were so hard it would take weeks to break them in haha. | I remember Lobo shoes! I had a few pairs as a kid. They were shit quality but I loved them just cause they were brand new lol. I had a lot of hand me downs as a kid.
My mom would buy a couple pairs a few sizes up, and I used to pull them out from under her bed so I could daydream about when I could fit them.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 12:39 AM
|
#732 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by SumAznGuy The BJ BMW dealership use to be a some bakery warehouse. My mind is telling me it was the brand with the little girl on it. Was it Weston bakeries? | Bump?
Well, I was just going through the thread........... started so long ago. LOL.
Anyway, got the answer for you.
The girl on the logo was a blonde with curly hair. Sunbeam bread. It was the best sliced bread you could get back then. I remember how soft it was. Bacon and egg sandwich using Sunbeam bread was heaven. I'm pretty sure it was Weston Bakery that made Sunbeam for Western Canada.
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 01:01 AM
|
#733 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by nabs We always used to go to china town for Rice and other asian goodies... i remember you pay for your rice then you get a ticket, then go around the corner give your ticket to another worker and he gets the rice for you. lol. that's the most significant china town thing i remember from when i was younger. | Sounds like Rice World on Powell and Gore
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 01:13 AM
|
#734 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by SumAznGuy Nick's is still on Commercial drive. I go there for lunch with customers/suppliers once every few months.
Little Billy's was on Nanimo and 2nd. That place has changed owners/restaurant names quite a few times. Now it is called Jaguar's or something like that and they serve chinese food and BBT.
Not too sure about Plum Blossum. | There's a Little Billies in my neighbourhood now. Hastings and Sperling. I could have sworn they used to also be at 5000 Kingsway Plaza at one time or another. Little Billy's Steak House
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 01:20 AM
|
#735 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: CELICAland
Posts: 25,666
Thanked 10,387 Times in 3,913 Posts
Failed 1,390 Times in 625 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by MG1 Sounds like Rice World on Powell and Gore | iirc u could order dessert tofu in there too, or nearby, I always loved going to rice world cuz my mom would get a tub of tofu too
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 01:36 AM
|
#736 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by skyxx I did. Wasn't the best school haha. Had some fond memories. Apparently it's one of the lowest ranked school in Vancouver. Anyway, speaking of Macdonald elementary. I heard it's like 80% native now. My buddy's sister goes there and one time she got lice from one of the kids. Pretty funny stuff. On one of her report cards. It states that she did well in some aboriginal dances. That's all that was said. haha | Templeton ranked one of the lowest? Is that why a team from Templeton took first place in the provincial junior Reach for the Top competition, beating out private schools?
And top ten in the senior national championships........ https://www.vsb.bc.ca/News/archivedn...-2017_121.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple...condary_School
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 01:52 AM
|
#737 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
|
Damn, so many pages to go through. I have to thank people for their contributions to this thread and to keep it alive.
I also have a lot more to contribute, but need to make sure I don't repeat the stories of life in the DTES.
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
Last edited by MG1; 10-01-2020 at 02:22 AM.
| |
| | |
10-01-2020, 07:50 AM
|
#738 | | I don't get it
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Tri-Cities
Posts: 423
Thanked 113 Times in 55 Posts
Failed 1 Time in 1 Post
| Quote:
Originally Posted by MG1 There's a Little Billies in my neighbourhood now. Hastings and Sperling. I could have sworn they used to also be at 5000 Kingsway Plaza at one time or another. Little Billy's Steak House | That Little Billy's used to be by Duthie and Pandora (it's a townhouse now)
I remember when I lived nearby in the early 90's getting on/off the 95 bus in front and going to convenience store that was also there.
Moved out of that area early 2000's, apparently their history page says a fire took out the complex in mid 2000s.
| |
| | |
10-04-2020, 02:36 PM
|
#739 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 3,233
Thanked 4,085 Times in 982 Posts
Failed 131 Times in 34 Posts
| | |
| | |
10-04-2020, 04:20 PM
|
#740 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: BC, HK, USA
Posts: 7,498
Thanked 2,423 Times in 1,017 Posts
Failed 166 Times in 73 Posts
|
If you want some chinese history of BC, there is this thing called A Seat at the Table in china town, UBC + Museum of Vancouver co-lead / sponsored.
Very small, easy 40 minutes and it's free.
Chinese Canadian Museum of BC in Chinatown - 27 E Pender St
Open: Friday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm
Admission is free. We recommend booking tickets online.*   
This pic got me... memoriesss  | |
| | |
10-04-2020, 05:06 PM
|
#741 | | linguistic ninja
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 16,131
Thanked 3,836 Times in 1,395 Posts
Failed 141 Times in 80 Posts
|
^was wondering about this...Masks not mandatory?
| |
| | |
10-04-2020, 09:44 PM
|
#742 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
|
I remember the "going out of business" sale at Iwase Books. I got me a very nice Shogi board, as well as, a Go Set for like 75% and 80% off.
They had a subscription service for Japanese magazines and books that was pretty darn good. Now you have to go through OCS Canada, which is actually just as good.
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-04-2020, 10:55 PM
|
#743 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 24,928
Thanked 11,628 Times in 4,966 Posts
Failed 316 Times in 202 Posts
|
Speaking of bookstores, anyone remember Book Off downtown Vancouver? That place was awesome. Used books and CD's. Just when I got into their stuff, they closed down. Damn.........
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
10-04-2020, 11:32 PM
|
#744 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Okanagan
Posts: 16,722
Thanked 9,404 Times in 4,094 Posts
Failed 427 Times in 225 Posts
|
If you guys like seeing historical shots of Vancouver, check out gregforaday on instagram.
__________________ 1991 Toyota Celica GTFour RC // 2007 Toyota Rav4 V6 // 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee
1992 Toyota Celica GT-S ["sold"] \\ 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD [sold] \\ 2000 Jeep Cherokee [sold] \\ 1997 Honda Prelude [sold] \\ 1992 Jeep YJ [sold/crashed] \\ 1987 Mazda RX-7 [sold] \\ 1987 Toyota Celica GT-S [crushed] Quote:
Originally Posted by maksimizer half those dudes are hotter than ,my GF. | Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp reading this thread is like waiting for goku to charge up a spirit bomb in dragon ball z | Quote:
Originally Posted by Good_KarMa OH thank god. I thought u had sex with my wife. :cry: | | |
| | |
10-05-2020, 12:46 PM
|
#745 | | My homepage has been set to RS
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 604
Posts: 2,422
Thanked 45 Times in 28 Posts
Failed 1 Time in 1 Post
|
Greg's shots are probably some of my favourites that I see in the office.
| |
| | |
10-06-2020, 08:43 PM
|
#746 | | RS.net, where our google ads make absolutely no sense!
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 918
Thanked 400 Times in 86 Posts
Failed 51 Times in 8 Posts
|
Im having brain fart. Before Telus and shAw, what companies were offering TV service back in the 90's?
Sent from my SM-A505W using Tapatalk
| |
| | |
10-06-2020, 09:10 PM
|
#747 | | RS Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: GTA
Posts: 29,844
Thanked 11,520 Times in 4,710 Posts
Failed 440 Times in 282 Posts
|
Rogers Cable. They sold their western cable footprint to Shaw and left the Western provinces to concentrate on Ontario and the Atlantic provinces.
If you are old enough, you may recognize some of their old logos from back in the day. https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Rogers_Communications
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS I literally do not plan on buying another vehicle in my lifetime, assuming it doesn't get written off. | | |
| | |
10-07-2020, 02:36 PM
|
#748 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: vancouver
Posts: 5,988
Thanked 1,380 Times in 479 Posts
Failed 51 Times in 26 Posts
|
those were the days where you used a "black box" to watch all the tv channels lol
| |
| | |
10-07-2020, 03:01 PM
|
#749 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 9,342
Thanked 3,674 Times in 1,798 Posts
Failed 693 Times in 217 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by lilaznviper those were the days where you used a "black box" to watch all the tv channels lol | Speaking of TV and other telecommunication, I remember one of my older cousins bragging to me that he just bought a new.....pager.
Forgot about a big cellphone the size of water bottle. That cousin back in the day thought having a Cantel pager was cool as a university student. 
__________________
Go Canucks go!
| |
| | |
10-07-2020, 03:53 PM
|
#750 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 37,719
Thanked 15,059 Times in 6,019 Posts
Failed 2,068 Times in 693 Posts
|
Rogers was seemingly the first to offer broadband internet. Remember the joys of having dat cable modem probably 1999/2000
__________________
Dank memes cant melt steel beams
| |
| | | |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 02:45 AM.
|
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
