A bunch of childhood hangouts have already been mentioned.. I remember checking out chicks and eating shitty pizza at Stardust while listening to Ice Ice Baby. Damn that shit was dope.
Ozone, Delanies.. I used to get in there when I was underage as well using my brother's ID. I must have looked 12 but still got in. Muggs & Jugs.. my first apartment was right in the area and my now-wife and I used to regularly go there in the summer for the AC and a quick beer before trying to fall asleep in our hot ass apartment.
Daily street hockey, Bart Simpsons indoor mini golf, mountain biking pretty much every day through Delta watershed, building a bunch of tree forts in the forest around my house only to watch them slowly get taken down one by one for stucco houses
Finding porn in said forests.. I used to find porn everywhere it seemed. Looking back I suppose dudes would buy them and be too afraid to bring them home and just chuck them out the window.. alas the internet has robbed today's youth of such boner inducing discoveries.
Cash too.. for some reason I would find 1's and 2's, sometimes the odd 5 on the street or parking lot. I guess debit, loonies and twoonies have reduced the odds of finding cash blowing down the sidewalk.
A lot of my memories are a result of being outside all day every day when I wasn't in school. It was safe enough that when I was 7, my brother who was 9 and I would be out on our Norco scooters in Ladner where my grandparents lived and roam around all day until we were hungry. To the public pool for a swim, to the city centre, to the slough to try and see fish. Wherever we wanted, whenever we wanted we could go it seemed. I now have a 7 year old daughter and she doesn't leave my sight in our neighbourhood and it is a safe one.. times have changed!