Shops at Waterloo Town Square

[jeffster]

I spent a lot of time there as a kid, mostly downstairs though. One of the best spots for pool and bowling. I don't think I've been there once since they tore down the original mall.

Yep, Twin City Bowl is where I was most of the time too, most every afternoon after high school except for the period when there was the arcade on the main floor. So much Street Fighter 2.

Oh yeah, but I seem to recall playing Street Fighter downstairs as well. When I was a teen I did some contract work (for another guy) at Scotia Bank. They had a super old vending machine to dispense soda. The soda itself had been in there for a long time. You know how kids are...we didn't care. 10¢ for a pop (glass at that) was a good price back then. Now thinking about it, probably wasn't a great idea drinking 15 year old pop, and why Scotia Bank kept the machine plugged-in and around for so long without it being used by staff is a mastery.

But I gotta tell you, that pop tasted fantastic. It also reminded me when I helped decommission the Labatt brewery in Waterloo, they had old Coke cans (the 280ml ones) that had been laying around for years which we all drank. I was a little older but clearly didn't care. Sugary goodness, real Coke taste. Pretty much every Coke can spills some of its slop when you opened it. They too were about 10 years old.

Survived to tell the tale. I wouldn't do the same these days, a quality of food isn't the same. No one uses sugar anymore either to make drinks. HFCS will kill ya.

The type of vending machine was called a "slider".... https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/v...-533953689 though I believe machine that Scotia had was PepsiCola.