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Originally Posted by 89blkcivic
Holy cow....... I forgot about those swingbars.
Eaton's warehouse was on Renfrew and Broadway. Chong Lee on Rupert and 22nd used to be Stong's.
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I remember when that restaurant on Renfrew and Grandview had part of that old bus as the window display. Now that corner is the adult section of Tom's video.
I remember that episode of X-files where they were in the old bus graveyard in Surrey/Delta. Not sure which one it was. Always wanted to go there and check out those old buses like what Hondracer did.
The Eaton's warehouse is still there, not part of Eaton's of course. Chong Lee's new warehouse is right beside the old Eaton's warehouse. I remember going to the old Eaton's outlet store upstairs from the warehouse. Beside the Eatons outlet store use to be a small bus loop for the Broadway bus to turn around, when it didn't have to go all the way down to Boundry rd. Now it has been replaced with that technical center on Broadway.
The corner of Rupert and Broadway use to be an old MacMillan Bloedel office, until they went belly up and Public storage came in and turned it into what it is today.
Behind the PNE, where New Brighton Park is, on the west side, there use to be some old metal building. The first time I saw it, I must have been around 7ish. That metal building is no longer there, and there are no signs of it ever being there. Well, maybe except for a few pieces of broken concrete with heavy rust stains, assuming those are still there.
The condo building on the north east corner of Victoria and Broadway use to be a shady mini mall with a vietnamese restaurant named May May. They had limo tinted windows and I've heard it was full of bad people. Before that, it was a Gulf gas station. I think I still have an car window ice scraper that was from that Gulf station. And accross the street use to be a shell station.
I do remember the chong Lee being a Stongs way back in the day.
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?
The Fitness Depot on Lougheed hwy use to be another bakery warehouse.
And the Circuit Circus that use to be in the same mall as the Boston Pizza and Cactus Club use to be on the second floor upstairs in the back of Brentwood Mall.
Oh yeah, and the first building as you enter the PNE from Hastings and Renfrew, use to be an ice rink where Hastings minor hockey played. Instead of glass, they had the metal fence on top of the boards.