Comments on: Spruce Cliff Shopping Centre https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:49:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35102 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:56:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35102 In reply to Connie Biggart.

Glad you liked it.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35101 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:56:42 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35101 In reply to Barry Moon.

That moment you discover coffee…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35100 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:56:21 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35100 In reply to Jamie Gray.

We’d be flipping tables and the the cops would show up…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35099 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:55:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35099 In reply to Stevie Neil.

It really hasn’t changed much in forty years.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35098 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:55:30 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35098 In reply to Coinoath Sarsfield.

Death metal actually.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35097 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:55:05 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35097 In reply to Mike Lowe.

Hung around too much and spent too little. Then the next week, those transgressions would be forgotten.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35096 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:54:39 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35096 In reply to Jenn Tanaka.

Yes, and each of these places have not been the same since…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35095 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:53:41 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35095 In reply to Lisa Lisa.

Nothing beats the scent of fresh baking bread! Thanks for sharing your memories.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35094 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:52:59 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35094 In reply to Michael LeBaron.

Now the cat’s out of the bag!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35093 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:52:48 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35093 In reply to Amber Misner.

We’ve come across more than a few in our travels, oddly. This is a nice one.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35092 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:52:02 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35092 In reply to Julie.

If your teachers were ruined, you know who to blame.

]]> By: Connie Biggart https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35087 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 02:12:42 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35087 You painted a great a picture!

]]> By: Barry Moon https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35082 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:33:11 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35082 I believe every town and city had THE place to hang out after school. In our case in Chatham, Ontario where I grew up it was the Sunshine Restaurant for cherry cokes after school. We then got sophisticated and drank coffee like grown ups..lol.

]]> By: Jamie Gray https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35081 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 01:10:49 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35081 Rabblerouser.

]]> By: Stevie Neil https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35083 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 04:29:53 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35083 Nice photos of my neighbourhood!

]]> By: Coinoath Sarsfield https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35084 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:18:12 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35084 I’m guessing you are only allowed to play the blues on that piano?

]]> By: Mike Lowe https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35085 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:49:40 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35085 If you were kicked out so many times, it’s a wonder that they ever let you back in.

]]> By: Jenn Tanaka https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35086 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:34:59 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35086 LOL did every teen have a nondescript strip mall hang out? Mine was in Temple in the good ole NE.

]]> By: Lisa Lisa https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35091 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:43:25 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35091 Recall trips to the bakery with my mom in the 1960s. The smell was intoxicating.

]]> By: Michael LeBaron https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35088 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:03:36 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35088 Shhh, that little strip mall is a secret, only for a special few.

]]> By: Amber Misner https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35089 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:34:02 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35089 I love random pianos, especially when you see kids or anyone sitting down and plinking away. This one is beautifully painted!

]]> By: Julie https://www.bigdoer.com/46587/exploring-history/spruce-cliff-shopping-centre/#comment-35090 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:12:03 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=46587#comment-35090 I went to Scott and Manning, but a couple years after you.

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