Those were the days, my friends

[thewave46]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Hey, remember the days of this forum before 3 members held us all hostage to their never ending rants and gaslighting defending racism?

Remember when members didn’t ruin fun apolitical threads by complaining about posters in political threads?

The Toronto video is a cool throwback. Here is another Toronto throwback:

• Video Link

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by Wigs

How is this from 1990, because Scotia Plaza was built in 1988 and is not in the skyline footage shots?

unless it's just an agglomeration of stock footage from the 1980s lol

Most likely a bunch of stock footage from the 80s, as SkyDome is clearly completed in some shots and that opened in June 1989.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by thewave46

Remember when members didn’t ruin fun apolitical threads by complaining about posters in political threads?

The Toronto video is a cool throwback. Here is another Toronto throwback:

• Video Link

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[thewave46]

Originally Posted by Acajack

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Um?

Not a baseball fan I take it?

It is still a cool moment.

[esquire]

It is crazy to think that event is more recent than the last Stanley Cup win by a Canadian NHL team!

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by thewave46

Um?

Not a baseball fan I take it?

It is still a cool moment.

World peace will be better off because I deleted that post.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by manny_santos

Most likely a bunch of stock footage from the 80s, as SkyDome is clearly completed in some shots and that opened in June 1989.

I forgot how old SkyDome is!
I still remember my Uncle through connections got a sneak preview before it opened to the public and he was telling my Dad, brother, and myself all about it for like 20 minutes bragging about the amazing engineering of the retractable dome and how awesome it was.

The public went from "This dome is costing too much money!" to
"Wow, this is a Canadian showpiece"

I'm glad to hear it's being refurbished.

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Hey, remember the days of this forum before 3 members held us all hostage to their never ending rants and gaslighting defending racism?

True, but in complete fairness, Molson, you, Wigs, I, and others have used some threads to ridicule and lambaste assorted antediluvian slackjaws with abandon. I enjoy it, but I suppose one must tolerate one if one tolerates the other.

Originally Posted by esquire

It is crazy to think that event is more recent than the last Stanley Cup win by a Canadian NHL team!

Hmm, I don't follow the NHL, but I was under the mistaken impression that Montreal won one or two Cups in the last 25 years.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Gresto

True, but in complete fairness, Molson, you, Wigs, I, and others have used some threads to ridicule and lambaste assorted antediluvian slackjaws with abandon. I enjoy it, but I suppose one must tolerate one if one tolerates the other.
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Did our jokes about bowlofanuses take over several threads for dozens of pages? No. They were kept to an appropriate off topic thread.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Gresto

Hmm, I don't follow the NHL, but I was under the mistaken impression that Montreal won one or two Cups in the last 25 years.

Montreal 93 was the last time..That was the year that a Toronto-Montreal final was very close..The entire playoffs that year were good actually..Lots of game 7's.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Razor

Montreal 93 was the last time..That was the year that a Toronto-Montreal final was very close..The entire playoffs that year were good actually..Lots of game 7's.

Yeah, that was in the spring of '93. The Jays won in the fall.

Stanley Cup and World Series wins in Canada in the same year... seems like a fever dream by modern standards

[harls]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

We had a giant Satellite dish in the early 90's. It would physically rotate to connect to the satellites and I ended up discovering that you could halt it in between and pick up pirated channels. Needless to say there were some adult content channels such as Playboy. That was pre-internet days.

I had one of those mammoth dishes too. A friend at high school did as well. He taught me the art of clicking the the buttons just off the satellite feed to receive the non-scrambled signal.

He is now a professional poker player.

[harls]

Originally Posted by Acajack

This too. I think it was paired with Three's Company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBI6L9eOeRM

Not sure which one was on first.

They paired a lot of Beverly Hillbillies and Three's Company back to back (late 80's-early 90's).

This is why a lot of people my age from rural Manitoba know about 'grits' and the 'cee-ment pond'.

[MolsonExport]

the best pairings of the old days were "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons". Great times on the tube.

[ssiguy]

I loved Eight Is Enough. I had such a crush on Tommy.

[ssiguy]

I miss going to the movies and asking for popcorn with butter and not getting "golden topping" and when they said the movie started at 7 it actually did.

[Hawrylyshyn]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

I miss going to the movies and asking for popcorn with butter and not getting "golden topping" and when they said the movie started at 7 it actually did.

What's "golden topping"???

[north 42]

Originally Posted by Hawrylyshyn

What's "golden topping"???

It’s usually melted margarine.

[Razor]

Don Cherry's game 7 too many men on the ice..I was in the 7th grade and had 5 bucks riding on that game with a classmate named Shawn..Big money at that time, but he paid up!.Why do I still remember that?

Also, what am I? "Madge, your hands are so soft!"

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

Palmolive