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We’re along busy MacLeod Trail and looking at what was once the city’s most happening cowboy bar. It got good ‘n’ rowdy here and each year during Stampede came ten days of utter drunken madness. They did a killer business, but the decades long party ended in early 2020 –… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

…on the scene during one of Calgary’s biggest building booms. The building held title as one of the first business blocks constructed outside the downtown core. The area around was mostly residential at the time, although close to the the Warehouse Business District a few short blocks away. The main… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

…to ending, becomes 85th Street for a few blocks. Some sections are busier than others, but none are quiet in any sense. Parkdale Auto Service: The first business to show up in local directories, Parkdale Service, was in 1954 although the city says the building is a couple years older…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 1 in comments.)

…vacant buildings, vacant lots, overgrown sidewalks, as many things empty as occupied. No businesses, no traffic, the only things heard, the barking of some distant dog and perhaps the wind. Get the picture? We’re on Centre Street, just down from Railway Avenue in what was formerly Downtown Queenstown. And we’re… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…cups of coffee and an all-you-can-eat feed bag come Friday night. It’s old school defined and places like this a real slice of Canadiana. Presenting the Hong Kong Restaurant in Linden Alberta, sadly closed a couple years now. This business also had an attached motel and while no Hilton, it’s… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

…Paul Busch Chris – you will have to come back again when we do our investigation there next year…. Bob Ayres I went through the town 2 years ago in late May. It was earlier in the morning and it was not busy. Got some good pictures. Andy Davies I… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

There’s something magic about wandering a small town come evening and on road trips we do it every chance we get. Late in the day, the community’s charm and character is at its best and it’s a peaceful way to wind down. We lead such busy lives – go-go-go –… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

…founded about a century ago and at the peak, in the 1920s, was home to a couple hundred people with lots more on farms in the area. There were businesses and stores of all kinds and a busy main street. Trains came and went (it was the coming of the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

…soon after, but it’s not been 100% confirmed when. The bungalows remained in business, however, for a couple more decades before similarly call it quits. They stood empty for a time after. Damn photographers… While not in business for that long, Eamon’s became a Calgary icon and for those who… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)