OT: One More Off Topic Off Season Thread

[yukoner88]

So it's starting to look more n more likely I'll be spending the bulk of the spring n summer of '25 in Edmonton

 

[rboomercat90]

So it's starting to look more n more likely I'll be spending the bulk of the spring n summer of '25 in Edmonton

One of us. One of us.

 

[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

One of us. One of us.

Gooble, gobble, we accept him, we accept him, one of us, one of us!!

 

[yukoner88]

One of us. One of us.

For 6 months lol

 

[brentashton]

This, the General Lee and Burt Reynolds Trans Am are probably my favorite iconic movie or TV cars.

Agreed. I’d put those on my list too. Steve McQueen’s Bullit maybe another?

And as for movies and shows with a car as the theme or underlying theme, would like to nominate Gran Torino. The car was nondescript but the movie…f*** I love that movie.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Agreed. I’d put those on my list too. Steve McQueen’s Bullit maybe another?

And as for movies and shows with a car as the theme or underlying theme, would like to nominate Gran Torino. The car was nondescript but the movie…f*** I love that movie.

here is retro for yeah

I remember watching it when it first aired

 

[brentashton]

here is retro for yeah

I remember watching it when it first aired

Hey that’s Mary Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie in the background.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Hey that’s Mary Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie in the background.

yep



For those too young to know. roller skating was huge in 70s and 80s--I think Edmonton had 10 roller rinks at one time

 

[brentashton]

yep



For those too young to know. roller skating was huge in 70s and 80s--I think Edmonton had 10 roller rinks at one time

Because I know who Mary Ingalls is I am going to go full honesty and say I roller skated on those 4 wheeled mini foot skateboards under the disco ball.

We had 1 in the town I lived in.

Like most others it was eventually converted into a bingo hall and then a storage warehouse and then just bulldozed down.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Yup been at the roller rinks as well, not sure my kids would approve.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Yup been at the roller rinks as well, not sure my kids would approve.

Yep.--I enjoyed my times at a couple of the rinks. A couple of my friends from Edmonton were in London over the summer and they brought their kids.

It was amusing how my buddies left over some key parts of their high school years in talking with their kids. They spent a lot of weekends at the rinks and summer in bush parties--and according to their stories they never went out on weekends and went to church every Sunday. Their daughter, who will be attending the London School of economics, politely reminded her mother that her grandmother had kept a list of all her mother boyfriends from JR High through uni. I never got involved with her in school cause I refused to stand in lines and take numbers. Goes without saying she was not happy with her daughter response, The daughter is a smart girl and after a little more back and forth pointed out that her oldest brother was born 6 months after her parents got married.

 

[rboomercat90]

yep



For those too young to know. roller skating was huge in 70s and 80s--I think Edmonton had 10 roller rinks at one time

I remember Sportsworld, along the LRT tracks north of the Stadium and south of the horse racing barns in the late 70’s but none of the other ones. I wasn’t too familiar with the rest of the city back then.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I remember Sportsworld, along the LRT tracks north of the Stadium and south of the horse racing barns in the late 70’s but none of the other ones. I wasn’t too familiar with the rest of the city back then.

The two I have a clear memory about were one out by west Edmonton mall and the other in Dovercourt. I believe there were rinks in Millwoods and Sherwood Park. I remember they started dying out in the late 80s partly due to the natural decline of roller skating but due to lawsuits from people being injured doing stupid things. I know the hockey rink at Ross Shepp was turned into a roller rink a few times in the summer

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

So it's starting to look more n more likely I'll be spending the bulk of the spring n summer of '25 in Edmonton

But we're full.

 

[bellagiobob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835140447582204389

 

[Senor Catface]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835140447582204389

 

[Stoneman89]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835140447582204389

Kind of like the old Edmonton Planetarium. Only a thousand times bigger.

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

 

[Fourier]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835140447582204389

I was hoping to catch U2 in the Sphere but it did not work out. The film they made of the concert is suppose to be excellent but it looks like they are stopping it soon as well.

 

[bellagiobob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835560169083912537

Probably the same bird who’s been crapping on my boat cover all summer.

 

[timekeep]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1835560169083912537

Probably the same bird who’s been crapping on my boat cover all summer.

He doesn't give a crap

 

[Bryanbryoil]

He doesn't give a crap

If he didn't give a crap there wouldn't be an issue!

 

[timekeep]

If he didn't give a crap there wouldn't be an issue!

He doesn't give a crap where he craps!!

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Is this a hoax or did this courthouse building really exist in Edmonton in the 70s?

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

How do these people function in the real world?