[Undead]

I saw The Return Of the Jedi on the Saturday it opened at the Famous Players cinemas there. Of course, it was Towne and Country mall back then. (We jokingly pronounced it "towny and country")

Yeah I pronounce Van Horne the same way

 

[Edward Skira]

I'm not that old, but my mom bought me the cassette of Van Halen's 1984 at a small music store there in the summer of the titular year, and a calculator at Bi-Way a few years later for high-school math (still have both). There was a good video game store, Video Games Plus, there about 25-30 years ago. Plus, Carlo's No Frills is excellent.

Sam The Record Man had a location there. Where I started buying records.

 

[Strange Advance]

Sam The Record Man had a location there. Where I started buying records.

That must have been it. It was on the west side, a bit north of the current No Frills. Fell in love with "Jump" that summer when a neighbour teen at the cottage blasted it on his porch, and it remains a top fave to this day. There aren't many more exuberant, rousing songs in existence.

Damn, think of everything Canada has lost in the last 30 years, in terms of homegrown businesses! Sam, Eaton's, Simpsons, The Bay, Zellers (trying to make a comeback), BiWay, Bargain Harold's, Hy & Zel's, and many others (the preceding list was mainly culled from my childhood).

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

That mall once had a smoke shop/cigar store (c. 1990s) in one of the hallways next to the Canadian Tire that had the best selection of magazines and comic books I'd ever seen outside of stores like BMV and Silver Snail downtown. I'm old enough to remember the Woolco that was there with the angled moving walkway to the second floor.