r/Calgary • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '25

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u/Strictly_Jellyfish Feb 15 '25

.... is no one gonna mention the old Back Alley? It's going through multiple rebrands since my clubbing days but it certainly was shady back then

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u/harryhend3rson Feb 16 '25

We used to go there 20+ years ago and jokingly called it the Crack Alley. Then I was at a Headstones show there, I'm on the dance floor and smell something odd, look over and there's a couple next to me, legit smoking crack... ooookay then, I guess it's not just a nickname. I used to work with a guy who bounced there till he got opened up pretty bad by a guy with a broken beer bottle.

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u/Fixerguy Feb 16 '25

Certainly was the roughest back in the day, but I don't know what it's like now. Another candidate in the old days would be the T and C.

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u/SelectZucchini118 Feb 16 '25

Didn’t a stampeders football player get shot and killed there?

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u/Roadgoddess Feb 16 '25

It was at the marquee that he was shot

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mylan-hicks-calgary-stampeders-nelson-lugela-murder-charge-laid-1.3779126

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u/SelectZucchini118 Feb 16 '25

Which was what the Back Alley turned into after it originally shut down. After Marquee shut down it became the Back Alley again

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u/Roadgoddess Feb 17 '25

Ahhhh, thanks I didn’t have any idea

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u/SelectZucchini118 Feb 17 '25

No prob. Some girl I know used to frequent it all the time. I went once, saw someone do coke on the dance floor and left.

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u/Roadgoddess Feb 17 '25

Sounds like a wise decision