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[sebberry]

Mattick's farm mini golf is pretty sad these days.

Probably been about 5 or 6 years since I've played there.

[D.L.]

The had a scale city with roads and traffic lights etc and pedal cars that kids would use to learn about rules of the road

I went there a couple of times with the day care I sent to. Was fun.

Where is the brick house that contained the Maritime museum located?

[HB]

Where is the brick house that contained the Maritime museum located?

Esquimalt Rd right hand side as you go up the hill towards the Fleet Club/Officers Mess near the entrance to Dockyard

[HB]

Today we have Western Speedway on Millstream Rd

Previous to that we had the Langford Oval at Jacklin/Goldstream where Ruth King Elementary is

Before that we had the following........

[wisevictoria]

I like how the Fisgard Lighthouse had not yet been attached to the rest of Fort Rodd Hill.

[HB]

When they built the causeway to the lighthouse and here is a tidbit that most dont know.

The causeway has a few hundred automobiles under it that were brought there from local junkyards and used as fill. Rocks were piled ontop then the gravel ontop of that.

Same thing was done at islandview beach. A number of cars were buried there to help control errosion of the beach area.

[wisevictoria]

I guess not so far different from the artificial reefs created by sinking old boats. I can only imagine the political furor that would occur if someone proposed this type of intervention on nature today - particularly with scrap cars as part of it.

[VicHockeyFan]

I guess not so far different from the artificial reefs created by sinking old boats. I can only imagine the political furor that would occur if someone proposed this type of intervention on nature today - particularly with scrap cars as part of it.

I presume in today's climate a project such as the Tsawwassen ferry causeway would never be built.

[arfenarf]

I like knowing that the Velodrome (indirectly) replaced a much larger oval from long ago.

[HB]

The track was actually from the bear morn arena to the far end of the golf course on the flat area not in the hole where the bike track is

[patrick venton]

is there a difference between burying cars on above ocean land and the land under water... by the way old (or New) car tires really create great reef life.... it takes a while though before you cant see the tires.... can be mind damaging to the newby.

[VicHockeyFan]

 

Anybody know what they are doing with the waterslides admin/washroom buildings?  That's a pretty big building.

 

I can see this being a homeless tenting place (the parking lot, now very over-built) and then they have showers, washrooms and admin in the building.

[Coreyburger]

I can see this being a homeless tenting place (the parking lot, now very over-built) and then they have showers, washrooms and admin in the building.

 

Major issue: you are nowhere near any services and not on any frequent bus routes. Travel challenges for the poor are one the biggest reasons that they don't get services (medical, social, etc.)

[nagel]

LRT directly to Our Place.

[VicHockeyFan]

[Sparky]

^ I used to drive go-carts there. There was also a golf driving range at that same location at one time.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ I can find so little info on it.  I remember I was too young to drive the (3/4 scale or so) Formula cars, you had to be 16 and have a real licence.  Essentially time trials, no contact between cars.   I can't really remember the go-carts.

 

I DO recall bumper boats.  They had a gas outboard engine that was essentially mounted to your vertical steering column.  And you could turn the column an infinite number of turns.  As a kid, it was sort of hard to figure out, without thinking through the physics of it.  A 360-degree turning propeller.

 

I remember the big slide was lightly used only.

[Nparker]

My siblings and I used to beg our parents to take us to Fun City. Other than my older brother who turned 16 in 1981, neither my sister nor I ever went. I am sure by the time I was old enough to take part in all of the FC attractions it had already become this.

 

[VicHockeyFan]

^ Go carts around those buildings would be a cool course.

[Rob Randall]

The ratio of driving past Fun City and being allowed to visit is about 50:1 for the average child. Because of its high-profile location next to the highway and the fact that children saw it every time their parents took them up the Pat Bay, the United Nations declared that tormenting children in this manner was cruel and unusual.