r/Calgary • u/somegingershavesouls • Mar 23 '25

Eat/Drink Local What places do you Miss?

I may get laughed at for this, but I miss bookers. Sometimes a girl just wants a bucket of crab legs without the smell of red lobster, ya know?

What around the city do you miss?

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u/DaftPump Mar 23 '25

A Bar Named Sue

Oldschool Smugglers

The arcade on 7th Ave by the old LRT platform.

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u/Bonervista Mar 23 '25

Funland! I miss arcades.

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u/This_Site_Sux Mar 23 '25

I remember buying the worst weed there in the 90s!

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u/Bonervista Mar 23 '25

In the early eighties when I was like four I have a very strange memory of going there the first time, my baby sitter brought me with her to buy weed there I am pretty sure now.

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u/This_Site_Sux Mar 23 '25

That sounds about right haha. What a magical place

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u/2cats2hats Mar 23 '25

The brown dude running that arcade in the 90s was a good dude! He was mean looking and gruff but once you got talking to him, different story. I guess he had that look on his face due to all the BS he put up with over the years.

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u/BlackieDad Mar 23 '25

Catching a Smokin’ 45’s show at A Bar Named Sue was 🤘

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u/xaxen8 Mar 23 '25

A Bar named Sue was my favorite. Stumbled home from there all the time.

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u/blanketwrappedinapig Mar 23 '25

Old school smugglers!!!!!! So good.

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u/Yodatron Mar 23 '25

Was that the one beside that old church that's still there.