So just how "old"school are you?

[MC Hammered]

This thread is created due to a comment about Luvafair.

So how old do you go back?

I remember when the Drink was Systems, had the mirrored hallway you walk to get into the club and Eddie worked the main bar back then too.

Amnesia's was one cool club too until it mysteriously burnt down.

Graceland had the best techno nights and Church Night on Sunday was great.

Celebrities always had the best disco house in the city.

When Saturno Supperclub was THE place to have dinner and now is called Atlantis.

Your memories?

[Sitting Duck]

My first bar was the Nannimo Cambie, new years 2003, then i went to see HOT HOT HEAT (old friends of mine from high school) and got to go to the best afterparty ever...

yay catering

[omega_image]

hmmm..........

i remember when i could name every transformer or gi joe
when daddyo's was the bamboo
when atlantis was wett bar, and when wett bar was mars
when cigarettes cost $5
when we took ephedrine instead of redbull
when kandy was actually cool
when talksic tuesdays were still around
when the days of the spanish ruled
when i thought winston was a honger that couldnt speak english

[Wood]

i'm old skool victoria, but i do have my memories of Van from back in the day..... Sol @ Graceland w/ Markem & Isis.... HQ Comm. 'Break' parties... Airtight @ the Chameleon... seeing Logical Progression (Bukem, Blame, PFM, Conrad) and Metalheadz (Ed Rush, J. Majik, Doc Scott, Justyc) a week apart in Sonar's opening month.... E Theatre parties.... never went to Luvaffair, i got enough of that type o' action @ Scandals in Vic

i'd regail you with old skool Victoria anecdotes, but anyone on this board from the Island would be far too young to have any clue what i'm talking about...

[cyberdog]

Moved to Vancouver in fall of '94...

I remember (fondly) when Luv-A-Fair was busy every night, and Tuesdays had longer lineups than many other clubs did on weekends;

I remember my other favourite club, Twilight Zone, which has gone through numerous name/format changes and is currently 7 Alexander;

I remember Mondays and Thursdays at Graceland...and that it was changed to Palladium;

I remember raves presented by LoungeX;

I remember when electronica was considered another form of alternative music;

I remember Paul Oakenfold @ Riverside for $25;

I remember a rave at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for New Year's Eve;

I'm sure I would remember more were I not at work...

[DJDeeb]

I remember when:

Spanish was the party place and Riverside was the "Massive party" place

when wett bar was called MARS
going to Luvafair
when the Drink was Madisons ( that was one of my first clubs i went to )
when Shine was the Aztec or the Boiler Room ( can't remember which order they where in though )

[jim]

I remember when there was a club called mars, then someone got shot, and then it became wettbar, until someone got shot, and now it's atlantis until someone gets shot again.

I remember when daddy-o's was the big bamboo, and it sucked just as much then as it does now.

I remember the great tunes at celebrities.

I remember the paladium when it was graceland, both had stellar nights, max graham throwing down a couple times there.

I remember the town pump before it was sonar, used to be a great venue for live bands.

I remember the world back at it's old venue before it became a filthy crack den.

I remember the aztec club before it was shine.

and a whole lot more.

[Tease]

"old school" more like just plain "old"

[cinist]

i remember when i took busses to raves
and the morning ride home on those busses *shutters*
i remember when it seemed everyone was a lot older then me
i remember getting in fights on loungex and foraver.com
i remember the first time i saw an elderly asian crew dancing and wondered whut drugs i had taken
i remember going down to FF all the time
i remember endangered pleasures productions and raverside
i remember when the drink was madisons and it was scary
i remember when scotty oh was still liked
when e was like 25 dollahs, so i did acid instead
i remember information tables at parties with flyers on drugs, sex ect..
free candy and glitter
i remember dirty dirty afterhours like the amsterdam cafe
i remember when the pants were bigger and the attitudes smaller
i remember when permits fucked everything up
i remember buying liqs on davie street:)
i remember when i wore blue camo pants
i remember andrew the amazing lite up yo yo boy
i remember when i made a smart decision and stopped partying

[Senior]

Reading all of those just made me feel old. THANX

[shorerider]

When I could drink my face off at luvafair, get home at 4 am and be on my bike risking life and limb by noon the next day...

Seeing burning spear at Playdium

Goth night on sundays at graceland :soak:

[MissBehavior]

-+> When Shrum tribe still threw parties.
-+> When you could throw parties right on Spanish banks and not get busted.
-+> When Riverside parties were massives and people actually looked forward to them. :hehe:
-+> When Jump-up was king in the jungle room (*shudder*).
-+> When I couldn't name dj's or differentiate between genres to save my life.
-+> When people looked forward to Summer Love all year.
-+> When Summer Love was a weekend-long event.
-+> When Twisted was a night at the Java Joint. ;)
-+> When loungex and THC were on the same server.
-+> When E cost $30-50 a cap and I did mushrooms instead.
-+> When Burger King at Robson and Granville was surrounded by ravers in bright colored Laramy cords during the day before a party.
-+> When I didn't know what Jib actually was.

Oh god...I'm sure I'll think of more...Nice trip down memory lane though. :D

[kandy kid]

I remember when every single person you met all night was really nice and friendly and gave you hugs. And that there were kandy kids everywhere. :kimmie:

[MissBehavior]

-+> When people offered you water and the only fear you had was that they might be sick.
-+> When glow-sticks were still considered acceptable.
-+> When there were smart-bars at parties.
-+> When Subeez was a raver pre-meet place.
-+> When random people would check up on you if you were sitting at a wall/by yourself.
-+> When the average age of ravers was 21

Man...I must have looked so young to those people...

[ty:rone]

i remember when all u can eat sushi wasn't as played out as it is these days

i remember when there weren't many assholes that complained about new ravers entering the scene

i remember when ravers never bragged about how long they were raving for

[MissBehavior]

-+> I remember who Tweke is (and still talk to him).

"spookshow (=Tweke)10:15 PM: 2. i remember when characters (1103 davie) was spuntino's, and we used to hang out there on friday and sat nights till we heard about a party, then would all scramble to the party as fast as possible just to get one of the 100 tickets"

(I was forced to post this...) ;)

[inkster]

i only go back to 2000, so i'm not that oldschool. unless that's the current definition of oldschool. someone tell me the scoop!

[PHUNK]

i go back to my first party in 1992 in calgary.

it was house of unity's second party, and it started the skater/punk/raver crossover in calgary. quite a neat experience for a young kid like me back then. all hardcore, with one house set. way different the the punk and hip-hop i was used to.

nobody had ever heard of those stupid candy kids or junglists idiots, there was just ravers. also, maybe only 25% of the people at them back then, did drugs. to bad it all went to hell.

if anyone from calgary is on here, they would remember the good old parties at the bank, and at the royal stag. even the ogden warehouse for silver and so phat one. i miss house of unity.

My first party was called Key-Ops, and was at the Lux. (1993)

I remember the first Emotion

I remember the bingo hall at the end of Granville which is now a hotel.

I remember the creepy little venue on top of Bassix

I remember Dose, Tribal Matrix, and Delicious.

I remember the venue on Napier. And the one by Dairyland. And the airport hangar.

*sigh* I really miss those days...... :(

[Sue Bitch]

umm this is my fiorst spooky i am still pretty new to this secen but i do remember the getto riverside partys once got a limo ride home from one that was dope

[Sue Bitch]

i wish the old days would come back in many ways sounds very fun and fun lovin

[inkster]

oh, here's my token 'oldschool' memory.

i remember when twister and dark_verses disbanded the NRG Bros for reasons unknown, without consulting the other Bros first.

[ebbomega]

I remember LoungeX

OWNZ0R3D!!!!!1

I'm not oldschool. I do, however, remember rocking out in my living room to Herbie Hancock when I was 3.

I'm middle-to-new-school I guess... I remember parties out in Forestry Pools... wait.... those still happen....

I remember sketch-ass bus rides in Sooke in Summer of 98 (99? I ferget) when we were trying to make sure that the cops didn't follow us to the party.

I remember the last Soundproof party before everybody started talking about Soundproof parties and it became the in thing.

I remember someone railing off of my armour at the Soundproof party after that.

I remember 5 overdoses and 2 deaths at Thunderbird Stadium and how it was the first real note of problems with this new "Ecstacy" drug that had started to kick around vancouver a lot....

I'm not oldschool really. I remember a shitload of stuff from the Van scene that a shitload more people were here long before then... I remember a rather uneventful island scene as it pretty much consisted of everybody just going fucking crazy in the period of night, and all kinds of fucking shit up occurring in such mass quantities that they actually were somewhat reminiscent of the Acid Tests that predecessed them by a good number of decades.

However, I also remember rocking out to Herbie Hancock in my living room last night.

[stringbeans]

i remember being at the java joint and watching some guys do jib for the first time and asking them how it felt

Doesn't anyone remember the Lux?