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| Cement | The crazy old chinese guy from downtown.. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:02pm | ||
| Power Stad | I do. That guy was sweet. Talking to his shoes and picking up butts...the good life, yo. What about "Conan" the strung out body builder that gave out buttons with nude photos of himself flexing on them. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:06pm | ||
| Anonymous | What happened to that guy? He probably couldda won the Mr. Universe if he trained enough. Coke? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:11pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Shit I remember both those dudes! The chinaman used to hang out in front of Donut Maid. Remember Donut Maid? And that tall weird fucker used to try to sell me home "decorated" tank tops he drew on. I think they both died, so fuck 'em. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:13pm | ||
| Cement | Conan was SCARY - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:19pm | ||
| Anonymous | WHo remembers Memorial Stadium? thats old school - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:28pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Awww shit....or the Haida and Coronet theatres? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:30pm | ||
| stank ass | It's going to drive me nuts trying to figure out what the Chinese guy's name was. Sinota? Sinaurta? Sin.. something like that. I'll figure it out. I've always heard that he was a professor who dumped a bunch of chemicals on himself, causing him to get that way. I don't remember Conan, unfortunately. Although from the sounds of things, I'd probably kill for one of those pins to wear. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:37pm | ||
| Shaggy User Info... | Wow, haven't thought about Conan in a while :o He used to live at the "witches house" at yates and fernwood and was Willy's neighbor..lol He used to sell pencils too ;) Remember the asian guy real well too. Damn nice guy. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 7:42pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | The first apartment I ever had was in that house and he lived downstairs from me. He used to just wander in and try to show us naked pictures of himself. What a freak. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:02pm | ||
| Shaggy User Info... | Think Conan booby trapped his front door once as well didn't he? Or maybe that's one of Victoria's urban legends? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:06pm | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | Didnt everyone call him Tarzan???? he used to wear super nug cut offs. His huge muscles slowing skrinking each year. John Trail used to live in the top of that witch house. And that chinese dude used to have a little bag that he would exchange items for. Pick up a mcd's straw, leave a bottle cap. Pick up a feather, leave a piece of glass.... - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:08pm | ||
| Shaggy User Info... | John Trail lived in a few apartments there, including Conan's after he got hauled off by the cops/EMP. And think he used to call himself both Barbarian and Tarzan depending on his mood. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:16pm | ||
| FANGU | old fucks! - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:22pm | ||
| wronskian | is he the one who wore ladies shoes? specifically, red high heels? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:26pm | ||
| jay brown | Mind you, I sort of enjoyed seeing naked pictures of that naked dude. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:33pm | ||
| stank ass | That'd be the Chinese heeled dude. I wonder what ever happened to him. I wonder whatever happened to the roid monkey that worked at KFC. He smashed my head into the ground. Fucker. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:52pm | ||
| vulpine User Info... | Also known as Barbarian...looked scarier than he was. Story was he swallowed a 50 lot of acid and it perma fried his brain. He used to try to sit next to me on the bus ... lol...and tell me that my boyfriend was cheating... turned out to be true lol! - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 8:52pm | ||
| Troutbreath | Has anybody seen Geshe-la (sp?) around lately? He's the Tibetan Lama who lives over on Leonard ST. I lived in his basement when I first moved to Victoria. David from the Salty Seamen lived upstairs and was trying to become a monk at the time. Geshe-la used to be around town all the time but i haven't seen him for a while. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 9:04pm | ||
| odd jobs | I have one for you. Cliff aka... "odd jobs" aka..."spare a quarter for a cup of cawfee". Used to be on Yates from Douglas to Blanshard. Nice harmless old guy. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 9:10pm | ||
| FANG | k... the old chinese dude was named 1) jerry and 2)Sonyata... he had a split p. and he used to take the $ tyhe govt gave him and buy shovels and throw them out of his apt window...and repeat. he enjoyed salt in his coffee. and one day they shot him up full of drugs and he spent the rest of his days drooling in silence. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 9:16pm | ||
| Anonymous | There were even 'odd jobs' T-shirts with Cliffs picture - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 9:25pm | ||
| stank ass | I never see that old guy, Starvin' Marvin, with the white beard and mesh baseball cap around anymore either. "I'm Starvin Marvin. Spare some change?" How do you know they did that to Soynata? Poor fella. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 9:58pm | ||
| Dr.LOAD | I remember the old Chinese man, everyone in my social circle used to call him "The Professor". One of my friends dads used to have coffe with him and yeah, he was a really nice guy whenever I talked to him. I'm sure that the shooting him up story is just another of downtown's stupid urban legends and I hope whereever he is that he is doing well. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:08pm | ||
| wronskian | and then there was the guy who said "spaaaaaare a little change today" over and over again incessantly. funny at first, but then irritating. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:19pm | ||
| stank ass | Is that the same guy who's around today? The blind guy? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:31pm | ||
| FANG | "they" meaning the psychiatric doctors. Sonyata used to walk into the sally cafe covered in blood for getting beat up because he wears womens shoes and they would have to patch him up. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:38pm | ||
| Japanese Air Force | Yeah. The "Spaaaaaaaaaaare a little change today" guy is still around. I've seen him down towards Legends. I haven't seen the opera singing, red pump wearin' Chinese guy for a long time, or Starvin Marvin, for that matter. I wonder what happened to Starvin Marvin. He was a good guy. - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:39pm | ||
| Anonymous | and what about that 'sweater girl' Brenda!! who used to be seen walking. Did anybody know her? - Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:59pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Old School = the swimming pool skate park by Esquimalt school. Fuck loved that place....... - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:03am | ||
| jay brown User Info... | Ah yes the sweater girl. The Contempo cafe even had a drawing of Cliff sitting on a garbage can on yates as the cover of their menu. Hey dude, if your gonna use my name at least do something good with it, your really kinda boring, put some thought into it. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 3:38am | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | haha ya sweater girl!!!! baboom! And Red (rip), Aqua Velva Tim, and the old bag with the mustache that play harmonica in a wheelchair. The bitch could walk!!!! - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 4:34am | ||
| Anonymous | old shcool = skate bowl on cedar hill - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 9:53am | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | That old lady who walked around town who's tits were so huge i think she used rope to hold 'em up. And remember townies? Little fucker shitebags. And Merlins? And the Neufield apartments? And the original SJD school building on Fairfield that they tore down for a shitty dump that's there now. Assholes. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:16am | ||
| anyone remember? | What about the guy with the big wooden cross. That's gotta be 15 years ago now, just when I first started going downtown, but he'd been around for a long time at that point. Bowl at cedar hill, fuck ya - old school gordon mutherfucker! - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 1:11pm | ||
| anyone remember? | What about the sawdust piles/bmx course behind hillcrest school? shit ya. PK Rippers and Factory ku's. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 1:13pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | that wooden cross guy is still at it man. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 1:14pm | ||
| Anonymous | Does he still have the cross? - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 1:16pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | yeah last summer i saw him dragging it around town giving out pamphlets and spreading the word. gotta love determination..... - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 1:21pm | ||
| ML7Mike | My dad lived with that old chinese guy back in the 60's.. Apparently he was very intelligent and a top student. I remember years ago when I was a teenager, I sold the guy a gram of hash. He came walking up , and he was talking to his hand, acting all strange, then all of a sudden he snapped out of it, and was ultra normal, checked out the hash, nailed me on it being a .8 gram, paid me, thanked me, then instantly snapped back into weird mode and started walking up the street talking to his hand again. Who remembers the nut that looked like Woody Allen and would walk around performing plays into the air? Then of course there is the boob lady.. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 2:11pm | ||
| wronskian | and jesus . . . *someone sneezes* "bless you, my child!" - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 2:28pm | ||
| Anonymous | "Who remembers the nut that looked like Woody Allen and would walk around performing plays into the air?" Jason Flower was it? - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 3:09pm | ||
| crow | you say the old fucker Cliff is still around!I heard he died years ago.And Brenda fuck she made me laugh! - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 3:18pm | ||
| Anonymous | cement ...eh - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 4:49pm | ||
| Troutbreath | When I was 16 I worked at a Boat Rental in Horseshoe Bay. It was a popular place to fish in those days and I'd see the occasional wrestler, Don Leo Johnathan and Gene Kiniski to name a couple. One afternoon I was alone in charge of the place. The office was out on the floats and I was just hanging inside when the floats started rocking up and down. I looked up the docks to see what was going on and here came this HUGE guy and someone who turned out to be his wife. He was carrying an ice chest that looked like a kids lunch box he was so big. He came to the office window and I realized I was looking at 'Haystack' Calhoun. He weighed about 650 lbs. The dock the office was on was awash. I had water lapping at my ankles. We rented clinker built wooden boats with little one cylinder 'putt-putt' motor in them. The largest one had a maximum capacity of 700 lbs. I had to explain to 'Haystack' that he was.......um.....well I told him he would be more comfortable in a bigger boat. I had to send him over to Sewell's where they had big cabin cruisers. I think that was the day I learned diplomacy. My knees where shaking after he left. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 5:02pm | ||
| Troutbreath | Oh shit, sorry wrong place, damn. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 5:17pm | ||
| Anonymous | Can anyone tell me who the blonde ugly girl who wears sportsgear and a ball cap backwards, she is ALWAYS RUNNING. I have been here 8 years and everyday i see her run down esq road, then in the afternoon i will see her running in damn near sydney. She is 5 ft 5ish blonde big teeth ugly. Run mother fucker Run - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 7:02pm | ||
| stank ass | I don't know who the blonde one is, but there's a near twin of her I'm guessing. I used to see this woman with long dark brown hair walking everywhere. I'd see her in Cordova Bay, Sidney, Esquimalt, downtown... fucking everywhere I went. I haven't seen her around in quite a while now though. - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 9:15pm | ||
| Pick-toe-county | The Surfside? - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:51pm | ||
| Anonymous | the chinese guy in high heels used to come into steves music shoppe when i worked there and freak out customers ... unfortunately i had to boot him out a couple of times but my bro worked at sweet thunder records for a while and the lil guy would drop by sometimes and he knew huge amounts about jazz....kinda cool anyone see the crazy east indian lady who would walk up and down hillside shakin her ass and changing her outfit a couple of times a day?....she would scream out at people calling them white trash and how we all have aids and she would try to whack cars with her purse too! havent seen her for a long time and what about the guy in his forties who rides his bike everywhere wearin cut offs and no shirt sporting a crazy tan ...fuk ive seen that guy in sidney and sooke and downtown ....everywhere man! hehehe - Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:59pm | ||
| Anonymous | Everybody I know called the chinese guy 'Heels'. That's what I love about this city. Crazys are like celebrities here. God, Heels, Smiles, Jesus, starvin' marvin...So many. Remember when the old hobo Kelsey died and they painted a mural of him in the alley he died in? is it still behind Off the Cuff? - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 1:39am | ||
| kirk | I was watting for someone to bring up the hillside hooker.lol Anyone seen the pepsi dude.He allways had a pepsi in his hand. - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 9:05am | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | the pepsi dude... Was he the skinny dude with black hair and always wearing a purple jacket? If so, I remember him well. HIs name was Tony and he always came into the convenience store I worked in back in 95. He'd buy two 2 litre bottles of diet pepsi and slam one back right there! He told me that he usually drinks between 4 and 5 of them a day. - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 9:35am | ||
| stank ass | Remember any of the coke heads that used to hang around the Day & Fright and at the corner of Broad at Yates when the benches were there? I got to know a few of them when I was selling pot down there when I was a wee little tyke. Here's a few of my oldtime favourites: Crack Head Claire doing the chicken walk in the middle of Yates Street... Pickalo, the black dude with the gold, engraved teeth... The crack head with the hook for a hand, who told me he was going to shove the hook through my dog's back for rough housing with another dog... Pony, the 30 year old pimp who knocked up, and subsequently had a child with, a 13 year old prostitute... And those were the days of our lives... - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:51am | ||
| S.V. | Ah lifestyles of the wierd and infamous...what about... Chris Crudd (the pretender ;) Cliff the photographer (silver shoe guy) Red & Mick (Johnson St. Bridge Boys) Angel(Danny) Constable Valentine Braineater 12 Midnite Speed Queens - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 1:21pm | ||
| Anonymous | aaaahahaha....the hillside hooker! she's still around. just saw her the other day in front of money mart at the bus stop. too funny - Mon, 14 Apr 2003 1:55pm | ||
| Anonymous | Does anyone remember Red and his dog Tequila? Red would play his harmonica standing on his head for a quarter. He was a great guy. - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 1:27pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | I remember x-mas eve in 87 or 88, Red was panhandling in front of the dominion and I stopped to say hi. He was all alone and I just felt shitty for him, so I went and bought us a 24 and sat and got hammered with him for a few hours. Shitty deal he died he was one of the only bums I've ever met downtown that I truly liked, he was a good guy. Fuck I havent thought of Angel in a lot of years. Yet another one of the old crew thats dead. - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 2:24pm | ||
| eat my ass brown | Quit fuckin' lying---you just got a story 'bout everything don't ya mr. seenitallhasbeenloseroldman. - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 3:13pm | ||
| Anonymous | hahahaha - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 4:48pm | ||
| S.V. | That's who I was talking about when I said Red & Mick above. Mick was the guy who would tell cheesy jokes for a quarter...best way to panhandle. I didn't know Angel died or Red for that matter. I remember many a fine night drinking Ruby Red with Red & Mick at St. Ann's orchard. They were a blast! Follow that with breakfast at the 9/10 club and you have a fine weekend ;) Oh BTW the shirtless guy who rode a bike (often with his cat) was named Wally. I lived with him briefly at his infamous artsy house in James Bay. What a creep!!! - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 5:26pm | ||
| S.V. | Now I'm remembering all sorts of freaks from days gone by.... Andy(glueboy) Tim (Drunk 24/7) Craig (above Demitasse)...or was his name Greg? Max & Joey Crystal Allan (preacher) Taz Chico Where are they now??? Jay? You seem to know what's up with most people. :) - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 6:00pm | ||
| Anonymous | cuz he's a tryhard-neverwas-mouthfucker - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 6:17pm | ||
| Anonymous | ...and a bitch. - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 6:19pm | ||
| glenn tipton | what aboot that dude who used to talk top himself, scream at people, he was always downtown, he would like shave his burns way too high, short, dark hair, kinda looked like Dave Kkknight? Check it out! He seem fine and works at 385 pawn at bay and gov't. Must be takin his meds. You go, girl!! - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 7:51pm | ||
| Hey Fuck-o | No one was, or ever will be as pretty as Dave "Knight". - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 7:57pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | Alan's a priest now, I still talk to him quite a bit actually. Craig has an art studio up above the One Lounge, he still plays his flute all the time and looks like a hippie. Tim's still a drunk downtown. Chico's dead. I've seen Max a few times over the years but we lost touch a while ago, he's still kicking though. Taz, I havent seen in at least ten years, thats a name I'd totally forgotten till you mentioned it. Red died of liver failure, and Angel kissed a big fucking truck on his motorcycle doing about a hundred. He did that once before as well and walked on a cane for a few years just trying to be able to walk again. He had a wife and a new born son the last time I talked to him, he died about two months later. To the anon idiot, why on earth would you hack me when I'm just trading old time stories with my friends here? What on earth does it accomplish to do that here? Idiot........... - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 8:30pm | ||
| S.V. | Thanks for the update Jay. I've seen Alan around. He's fairly high profile having just recently run for City Council (got my vote). Shame about Angel, when did that happen? I'm not surprized Chico snuffed it, that was only a matter of time. The last time I saw him was during his "near death" experience with Ski & Ed. I worked with Taz for a while in '91. Glad to know Max & Craig are still living the good life. As for Tim....yeesh. I see what you mean about a good portion of the "old crew" having snuffed it....I guess we're a dying breed ;) - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 9:34pm | ||
| curious | what about that old dude God dressed all in white used to just walk every where sometimes preached stuff?? - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:33pm | ||
| lily_liquor | i saw jesus today...and mini-lemmy passed out with his SUDZY,,,i hate that stankycrackedout old ogre with the pink bathrobe...and the 'carrot-fingers' guy. crazyness.and so is the winter of our discontent..ahh broad st. http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/09-male/guiche/3guiche1.jpg - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:37pm | ||
| Anonymous | "No one was, or ever will be as pretty as Dave "Knight" You mean fat, right? - Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:56pm | ||
| Masturbating The War God User Info... | the old chinese guy that wore woman's high heel shoes?! He came into the Exit cafe once and gave me some green tea. I couldn't read through the whole thread, on account of my laziness, but what did happen to Yoshashi(that's what we called him, no idea on his name though) ? I've heard some pretty fucking wierd rumours about him. And how long has 'God' graced the streets? I've been seeing him for about 6 years now, and occasionally I see him at Tillicum Mall. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 1:55am | ||
| Anonymous | what about the old lady in the wheelchair by the bank, on the other side of the eaton's center, whose son used to drop her off in the morning and then leave her there all day with a cup for panhandling? that was really wierd and kind of sad. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 7:15am | ||
| Hey Fuck-o | " "No one was, or ever will be as pretty as Dave "Knight" You mean fat, right? " Tue, 15 Apr 8:56pm Ouch, that hurt. Now how about letting me know who you are? I'll wager I am much better at making it hurt. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:21am | ||
| ML7Mike | Last time I saw Jesus dragging the cross, John Livingstone went and took it away from him, put it upside down in a trash can on Yates st., doused it in lighter fluid and lit it on fire.. the cops drove by and laughed.. that was in about 1990.. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:03pm | ||
| Wreaker of Havoc User Info... | Or Jamer doing rail slides on it while the dude was still dragging it!!! haha. And Knight man are you ever turning into a surly old man.... - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:18pm | ||
| Dave | Okay, crazy talk-to-the-hand guy is Harold Saa. When I first talked to him around 1986 I thought he said Herring Saa so that's what we called him. He does go in and out of weird mode but there is also another guy the looks similiar to him as well - but I don't think he wears womens shoes. I used to work in Market Square and a friend of mine brought him in to see me. "How is your mothers day going, Herring Saa?" "It's muddas' day?" "Yup" "Not bad, I guess, but we are all mothers, aren't we?" Cliff is dead but what happened to Elfin Man? He looked EXACTLY like Colonel Sanders but wore little cowboy boots, sometimes a fur coat, sold newspapers. I could'nt stop laughing when I saw him dressed in all green for St Paddys day - Pretty funny. Oh the Speed Queens! I got kicked out of the Bay when I was with them once as they were spitting on people on the escalator - great gals, wonder where they are now... The huge muscular guy that used to wear cut-offs, sunglasses and try to sell paintings of himself we used to call Lemmy. Obviously one too many LSD nose dives for him. What about space lady and mommy that cruise the malls? Apparently they're called Puff & Spook. Older lady with younger lady that wears makeup like a cross between an open-casket and Mrs Munster. Anyone got any good stories about them? My buddy got approached by Space Lady and said she was inpregnated by aliens and he looked delicious... - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 5:13pm | ||
| Hey Fuck-o | Surly? All in jest as you well know, hermano mio. I enjoyed the Angry song you sent me....but I had trouble sleeping afterward. And regarding this thread: What about animal? He had like 1000 gang members that were "a phone call away" did he not? He was great at racing buses too. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 5:50pm | ||
| S.V. | Was Animal a little rocker weasle? The name sounds familiar but I can't place the face. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 5:58pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Who remembers Memorial Arena? That shit was old school..... - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 5:59pm | ||
| S.V. | Wait! Was Animal a First Nations, wannabe ninja guy???? - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 6:17pm | ||
| Hey Fuck-o | Yes he was. Nice P.C. on the "first nations" too. He used to hang out in the "cunt" er...ah...um...I mean the "vagina" outside the old Douglas McDonalds and stretch and kick and shit. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 8:51pm | ||
| S.V.P.C. | Right..I remember him clearly now. Though from the alley days...I never really got into the whole McDonald's thang. Douglas St. was rocker territory ;) - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 9:04pm | ||
| FActs for ye | the old native dude, is actually a black belt. I saw him training a class once in Crystal Pool park. I spoke to a lady who took his class. Then one day he was downtown passed out on a bench. We sat at the next bench. HE woke up, and asked if we wanted to fight him for the bench. We said NO DUDE. - Wed, 16 Apr 2003 9:08pm | ||
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