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Originally Posted by 89blkcivic
The fire hall just north of the produce warehouses never used to be there. I also remember a certain sausage company that had a factory outlet on either Williams or Napier. Just a block or so east of that rather large park on Venables. Googling that area, I see it is called Strathcona Park now, but I swear it was called something else before. It had a track and a grandstand. The grandstand was where guys took their g/f for you know..... anyway, I used to go by the sausage place on my way to Brit to get their famous pepperoni sticks. I have forgotten the name of the place. Someone remember the name?
Back in those days walking to and from school was no big deal. I bet if kids nowadays had to walk that far, they'd die of a heart attack. LOL.
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When I was 14, we were playing baseball at that park. This was back in 91 and it was already called Strathcona park. Even back then, there was a huge prostitute/drug problem. Like today, there were condoms and condom wrappers all over the place as well as disgarded needles.
Doing some research for an RS thread about old racetracks in the 604, that track was actually used as a race track back in the 50's. IIRC, it was called the False Creek Stadium.
http://www.canadianracer.com/track-d...&extra=history