what's your first ever rock concert?

@blackarcher256 scarborough one year....bramalea 2 years...back to bc

@beermeplease I’d have chosen BC as well. I lived in Burlington until I left for university in the States and never moved back.

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What part of Burlington did you grow up in?

@swirlie Tallman Ave right off of Drury Lane

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Have you ever heard of the Roseland Bowling alley before?

@swirlie Yes, I remember bowling there as a kid. Did you live in Burlington?

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I learned how to bowl there too! My friend's parents owned the place.

@swirlie That’s crazy! I haven’t thought about that place in years.

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When I was in high school in Leamington Ontario, my girls gymnastics team and I would travel by bus to Burlington for regional competitions at Burlington Central High and Nelson High. While there on an over-weekend stay, I became friends with a girl that I competed against who lived at Guelph Line and Lakeshore. Her parents owned Roseland Bowling Alley and her and I and my whole girls gymnastics team would hang out at the bowling alley with our new friend every time we'd go there, then we'd go canoeing at Spencer Smith Park down at the lake!

@swirlie I know the area where your friend lived. I lived just around the corner from the YMCA. But I went to Lord Elgin High School which is at the north end of Burlington.

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Wow! That's pretty cool! I just looked up some property for sale in the vicinity of Guelph Line and Lakeshore and just slightly east of Guelph Line and right on the lake.

The cost of a typical home there is now $14.9 million and the annual property taxes are $48,000 on probably the busiest 2-lane road in Burlington!

@swirlie Wow! Makes me wish I’d held on to my dad’s house after he passed. But those taxes would have bankrupted me.

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Do you still live in Canada?

@swirlie No, after high school I went to university in the US and never moved back.

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Any regrets for not moving back?

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Which high school? Central, maybe?

@swirlie No, none. My parents were both American. We moved to Canada because the company my dad worked for opened a plant there. All of my extended family was still in the US. Canada never felt like home. We were one of only a handful of black families in Burlington, that and being Americans made me feel like an oddity. So when I got offered a full scholarship to an American university I took it and never looked back. My sister still lives there though.

@RenFur No, Lord Elgin

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Amazing story! Too bad the times of us being there were different. I could have taught you what I learned about hard core bowling leagues!

@swirlie I’m sure you could have. I’m a terrible bowler. I only go bowling now for the beer and to amuse my friends.

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Central High on Brant Street? I've been there!

@swirlie My older sister graduated from Central High

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Were you there when football coach Ralph Goldston was there?

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We use to go to Central to do outdoor gymnastics shows about 15 years ago!

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I asked because 4 of my nieces and nephews attended that school from the 60s into the 70s.