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Topic: Vancouver Foosball
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Vancouver?
Nice city.
Lots of coffee places, Asian restaurants, nice scenery.
Even the hockey team is looking good theses days.
Shame, they don't have any foosball...
Oh well!
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There is foosball. I saw some bar hacks playing on a warped, crappy table at the Richmond Curling Club.
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I disagree. I came out to play for the first time a couple weeks ago. Had 10 or so players turn up, good competition, and a small singles tournament. Even noticed others in the place putting loonies up to play. The turnout was similar to what calgary gets every week, when I lived/played there in 2010. Perhaps the friday night events aren't promoted and scheduled as much as calgary but they doesn't seem too far off to me.... Plus tuan sold me his old table so I'll be out more for sure.
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Hmmm ... that gets me to thinking, and that doesn't happen too often. I wonder who brought foosball to Vancouver. I started playing at UBC in 1979 on a glass top. Then on to Dillinger's downtown all through the early 80's.
I know Richardo remembers playing in the interior in the mid 70's, but that's not Vancouver. Who remembers playing foos in Vancouver before 1979 ... ???
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I never played in Vancouver until the early 80's I played in Dillingers a couple times only. Played at Mike's arcade in Richmond, he had a few tables like a glass top tornado, dynamo, TS. Also played at pie in the sky in Burnaby.
In the mid-seventies I played my first game of foos in the Netherlands, I always thought it was a blue top TS.
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I played my first game in 1968 in the Enlisted Men's Mess at the Sixth Field Militia Armoury. Beer was involved despite the "year mathematics" not working out.
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1977 UBC Games Room. I think the glass top came a year or two later. Played a lot when I should have been studying. Gave up the game in 1980 and my average went up 29% in one year. Not kidding.
Ha ha...
Graeme, are you sure that you are in Vancouver? It wasn't Mongolia? My friend up there tells me it is very popular thses days. But they have fun names like "Aged Goat", "Camel-boy", "Dfnd-uighur" and The Next Onegolia"!
I get the two places mixed up all the time...
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Freddy, i am literally laughing so hard tears are forming at this ... "The Next Onegolia"
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The Aged Goat had more of that effect ob me haha
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Well .. that got me grinning from ear to ear for sure  .
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You should hear what the Mongolian guys think about your names...
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I think it is time that Fred gets a make-over, I'm sure they can fix you up in China to not look white. Looking forward to hearing from "ButHeDoesntLookWhiteAnymore"
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You know it Pete lol ...
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ok, I am in. I will order the hair gel today...
I actually bought some Charlie Chan DVDs and brought season 1 of Kung Fu with David Carradine. My Chinese friends think that they are hilarious!
The Chinese references, sayings, philosophy are so wrong! As funny to them as all the Chingrish signs are to us.
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Posted: Apr 12 2011 6:40PM