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You know you're from Kingston when...



You remember K-mart and Woolco

That there used to be NOTHING out highway 15

you know that the military base didn't have any security whatsoever until September 12, 2001, and that up until then it was a shortcut

you know to stay the hell away from the heights

You know what the heights means

Collins Bay pen is Mickey Mouse's Castle

ALCAN SIGN and you knew by seeing those red letters that you were home....

you've lived through the disappearance and return of Burger King

The multiple Zellers downtown in the same building

You know what it means to get in the line up to catch the boat

The pre expansion Cat Centre

you remember life with no Rio Can centre

You wonder if anything will ever stay open at the restaraunt at the Frontenac Mall

You know the Frontenac Mall sucks

You remember AJ's and that it used to be the place to go, and Stages was sketch and for the underagers...

you surviced ICE STORM 98

you remember Kingston Transit garages being downtown

The bus station was on Division St.

we got Starbucks all of 3 years ago

you remember BEAVER LUMBER!

you remember the golf course across the street from Beaver Lumber

You know damn well not to swim in Lake Ontario...but you probably do anyways (oh Maida...it's so terribly terribly true... lol)

you remember when "Mel Gibson's" boat was parked at the Basin

Vendetta transformed downtown

You've been to Buskers Rendezvous!

you think City Hall looks better all green

You know what Block D is

School trips and Canada Day at Lake Ontario Park!

You've been to the drive in!

You know there are 8 prisons in Kingston and you sleep fine at night

you remember when the Kingston Centre was a rockin indoor mall

you remember Sears was at the kingston centre

You've been to a Fronts game

you know that the memorial centre is actually a frozen in time memorial to 1957....as it hasn't been repaired or updated SINCE then

you remember the giant fire at the Shoppers Drug Mart downtown, and at the Old Goodwill store

You shopped at IGA!

S&R right in the heart of downtown!!

That we used to have the female prison

You knew that Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka were bad people, and now they lived at the prisons by the water...but you were too young to understand why.

You walked around yelling SAVE THE DIEU!

You've never ridden the bus...

You ate at Dan Aykroyd's Ghetto House Cafe, or at Don Cherry's

you drove all the way to the township to go to the McDonald's Playplace (and that it used to have a ballroom and tunnels in the walls)

your parents left you at the babysitting place at the Frontenac Mall

You remind everyone that Muller, Gilmour, and Cherry are all from Kingston

You hang your head when someone mentions the name Ryan Malcolm (whatever happened to that guy anyways?)

Queen's is just about your Last Choice U, unless you are going there for something that it actually is reputable for teaching well.

When St. Lawerence College had tennis courts instead of residence...and no residence at all.

You went to the Apple Mill!!!

You call the entire area on the other side of the Causeway The Base

You call the causeway the Green Bridge

You've never been to a museum unless your class went (and we have a few)

Fort Henry realllly isn't all that interesting..

You took class trips to the Ryan Centre on the Island

You remember Celebrity Sportsworld A.K.A Studio 801!!!!

You went so summer camps in the sketchy places, like Belle Park, where te counselors warned you about what to do when you found a syringe, and you swam in the river until they closed it down because of the insanely high levels of contamination because it's an old landfill.....

You remember when Goodlife Fitness was the Legion building

You took swimming lessons at Artillery Park

You hate and/or can't wait to leave Kingston

You've played on the "art" in front of KGH