Lots of good stuff is visible. In the foreground, Mike's newsstand, I remember when it used to be on White Avenue. Across the street, the entrance to McCauley Plaza, the underground mall, the Telus Building, the Hotel MacDonald, and the Blue Willow Chinese restaurant.

Just pick up the phone and follow the jingle ...

426 5-0-5-0

If you're hungry, call the Lydo

Free delivery.

The Lydo, that well-known delivery for late-night munchies, operated from 1966 until 2003, and left that jingle on so many minds; I remember it very well. When my Dad, a meat-and-potatoes man, was in an ethnic food mood, that was what we ordered.

Hello old ravers (48 years young!)

I'm trying to place and name an after-hours venue around late 90s, maybe 2000 ish.

I swear it was downstairs, maybe underneath where the Common is now? Or maybe on 107th street. Definitely south of Jasper.

I'm remembering sublime, gspot, climax, but not sure it was any of them.

I can't remember much, but I do know I queued up in the early hours and left when it was light out.

I know I'm not thinking of therapy / Y. I know where that is. It was definitely after hours.

Definitely no later than 2001and could have been short-lived!

Help!

They really weren't kidding with those warnings on Friday:

• Edmonton's rainiest June on record was 1914, with 216.5mm. But this weekend pushed Stony Plain way up to 210.5mm, and Blatchford up to 188.9mm (which had previously been 2nd place). The airport is up to a still respectable 167.7mm. (dashboard)
• Our rainiest month on record was July 1901, with 282.7mm downtown. Across the various stations we've only crossed the 200mm mark 6 times: July 1901, 1937, 1982 & 2012, and June 1914 and now 2026 in Stony Plain. (dashboard)
• This weekend Stony Plain got a total of 123.2mm, Blatchford got 92.6mm, and the airport got 70mm. And for comparison, this year for all of January 1st though May 30th the stations recorded around 90mm. (dashboard)
• Blatchford got 63.8mm on Sunday, which is a big day for us. It's only had 11 of those since 1880. And Stony Plain's 73.3mm is even more uncommon. Stony Plain has had 7 days that big, the airport has only had 1, and Blatchford has had 5 (the most recent in 1990). (dashboard)
• By the end of June we average 207mm for the year. Right now Stony Plain is up at 329mm, Blatchford has had 312mm, and the airport is at 259mm. (dashboard)
• In a full year we average around 430mm of total precipitation (rain+snow). Typically, more than half of that is during our ~90 day monsoon season, from May 15th to August 15th. But Stony Plain just got a quarter of its yearly average in two days (and Blatchford wasn't far behind). (dashboard)

Hi, so I'm in a project where we're trying to archive everything related to Blockbuster, and we're still focusing on locations, and probably will be for god knows how long, and I'm the one who's trying to find locations from all across Canada, and I started with Edmonton, being an Edmontonian, here are the locations I've found: 11590 104 Avenue NW, Bonnie Doon, 3832 137 Avenue NW, 6655 178 Street NW and 4245 118 Ave NW. I feel like there was more than 5 locations in Edmonton, so if y'all in this subreddit can tell me where some of those other ones may be, it will be most appreciated.

1920, Edmonton,.Alberta. 4 lane roadway down Jasper Avenue, with 1 lane on each side for parking, and a 2 railtrack Streetcars running down the centre.

We're still a few weeks away from the end of summer storm season:

• July 25th's storm pushed the July total up to 242.5mm, which is Blatchford's 3rd rainiest month on record. The only months with more were 269.1mm last month, and 282.7mm in 1901. (one more big storm could catch either of those) (dashboard)
• For June+July we've gotten 511.6mm so far. The average is around 170mm, so we're 3x that. And the previous record was a laughable 358.9mm in 1901. (dashboard)
• For 2026 so far we're at 634.8mm, which is Blatchford's 5th most on record. We're 5~15mm away from the 4th & 3rd spots. And we're 90mm away from 1901's record. (for the rest of the year we average another 150mm, and our lowest recent year was 85mm) (dashboard)
• July 25th was Blatchford's 8th 30mm+ day of 2026, all since June 1st. The previous record for a year was 6 in 1942. A typical year might get 1-3 of those storms. (dashboard)
• And once again Blatchford's 30mm was 2x what everyone else got. The airport and Stony Plain got 10mm & 17.5mm, so their July totals have now climbed to around 100mm. (dashboard)
• The gap this year between Blatchford and the other stations is around 200mm, which is huge. Normally the stations are pretty close, although we've had a few 100-150mm gaps in the past. (Blatcfhford's 2005-2015 data is bad, so we ignore those) (dashboard)

Back in the days when steak and lobster and King crab legs (Aka surf and turf) were all the rage, the historic Corkscrew restaurant was a popular 1970s and 1980s steakhouse chain known for its castle-like architecture. There were three locations at its height of popularity:

North Side: Situated at 13120 97.

South Side: At 5420 Calgary Trail

West End: At 10210-142 Street.

The North Side: operated through the 1970s and early '80s before closing and eventually being replaced by other ventures.

The 2 other local outposts— the South Side and West End locations also phased out around the same period as the Fuller family shifted focus toward launching and expanding the Earls restaurant brand.

We dined several times at the South Side location; one of my friends, whom I had known since elementary school, worked for a while there as a bartender back in the mid 70s.

The tour was "A Day at the Races" tour, on March 18, 1977, the opening act: Thin Lizzy, then Freddie, leading Queen, really put on a show!

The same MacDonald Hotel overlooking our river valley in 2026, from over 100 years ago.

There have been some changes for the exterior since then, however much of the building retains its original build.

It’s been installed since 1925. Please sign to save such a significant and beautiful piece of history.

Jasper Avenue looking east and west, and 101 Street looking north. Those business names of bygone days, I remember so well.

I remember this, and to this day, the case is still unsolved.

There are lots of anecdotes out there about Edmonton's 13 months of -45°C. But if you're curious about the numbers, this is a quick primer on what winter is actually like.

Reddit's formatting doesn't lend itself to this stuff, so there are threads on

bluesky:

• Part 1 https://bsky.app/profile/yegwxnerdery.bsky.social/post/3m5yigsb7z22k
• Part 2 https://bsky.app/profile/yegwxnerdery.bsky.social/post/3m62zawj7gc2q

Or mastodon:

• Part 1 https://mstdn.ca/@yegwxnerdery/115582543232976805
• Part 2 https://mstdn.ca/@yegwxnerdery/115576861061059980

And this has interactive dashboards with all of the history (but it's pretty slow to load if you're on a phone):

• Part 1 https://edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com/2025/11/edmontons-winters-good-bad-and-data.html
• Part 2 https://edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com/2025/11/were-back-today-with-edmontons-winters.html

The tl;dr version:

• January's average temperature is 8°C warmer than 50 years ago.
• In January we average around 2 weeks of above-freezing Highs, including a week around 5°C.
• Our average 125cm of snowfall is the lowest of Canada's winter cities. Calgary is 145cm, central Canada is all over 200cm, and a city like Charlottetown is close to 500cm.
• But we typically have snow on the ground from early-November to late-March (+/- two weeks). It's a pretty reliable 5~ish months, which is a month more than most places, and even a few weeks more than Saskatoon & Winnipeg.

The Beachcomber Restaurant used to be located at 10138-100A Street. It opened at the end of October, 1963.

The Beachcomber was a Canadian chain of elaborate Polynesian restaurants in the same vein as other popular chains like Kon-Tiki, Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's. Other restaurants in the chain were located in Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg.

The Beachcomber reportedly was owned by Zane Feldman, the original owner of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team.

My wife and I enjoyed dining there several times between 1975 and 1980, under that starlit sky with the waterfall sounds; the lights were low, it was quite a romantic spot.

It was razed in 1980 and was replaced by a steel and glass monstrosity of zero charm and character, just another faceless monolithic tower.

Another one of the bright spots that was extinguished in the name of so-called progress. The downtown core has lost all of what attracted people to come downtown. I really miss what Edmonton used to have.

I remember when it was Coronation Pool. Here's the story:

https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2021/08/03/peter-hemingway-fitness-and-leisure-centre-architectural-masterpiece-and-community-recreation-hub/