I love that you wrote about the bricks this week. I too was uber impressed with the set-up at the Grounds. I wasn’t sure what to expect and was ready for a wait but it was just so well done. We were in & out in moments (I just had one brick to pick up). I would have been pretty bummed to not get the ‘successful extraction’ email but I would have understood. We had very recently been down to Olympic Plaza so I knew my brick was in good condition but who knows what could happen once they were removed from their comfy places in the ground. Some of the bricks on the east side were just so worn, faded and crumbling so I’m sure those folks knew it wasn’t meant to be. It’s really too bad, but I’m glad in the end they decided to do this for us. It was absolutely not an easy task and yes - the organization and manpower needed! Well done to the C of C! Thanks for the cute drawings and memories of Olympic Plaza, I had forgotten about some of those events :-)
Thanks Karen! Glad to hear you got your brick, too!! It’s interesting that the brick-retrieval experience seems like something that kind of brought all Calgarians together (at least, all the Calgarians who had bricks). It would be cool if whatever replaces Olympic Plaza, could include a design element that might do the same for future Calgarians! :)
I love that you wrote about the bricks this week. I too was uber impressed with the set-up at the Grounds. I wasn’t sure what to expect and was ready for a wait but it was just so well done. We were in & out in moments (I just had one brick to pick up). I would have been pretty bummed to not get the ‘successful extraction’ email but I would have understood. We had very recently been down to Olympic Plaza so I knew my brick was in good condition but who knows what could happen once they were removed from their comfy places in the ground. Some of the bricks on the east side were just so worn, faded and crumbling so I’m sure those folks knew it wasn’t meant to be. It’s really too bad, but I’m glad in the end they decided to do this for us. It was absolutely not an easy task and yes - the organization and manpower needed! Well done to the C of C! Thanks for the cute drawings and memories of Olympic Plaza, I had forgotten about some of those events :-)
Thanks Karen! Glad to hear you got your brick, too!! It’s interesting that the brick-retrieval experience seems like something that kind of brought all Calgarians together (at least, all the Calgarians who had bricks). It would be cool if whatever replaces Olympic Plaza, could include a design element that might do the same for future Calgarians! :)