Yeehaw - at Stampede time in Calgary, all you regular folks can come on down and have a hoedown and all ya have to do is dress up like a cowboy. Aw heck, even if ya don`t , just wear your shorts or your jeans and have a knee slapping, pancake eatin, horse watchin good time.
The whole city puts their best boot forward for this 10 day stretch of summertime every year. Country music up and coming stars jostle the stage with Nashville names to win the hearts of big, well fed crowds all over town, and at any time of day. The free pancake breakfasts hosted by major shopping malls and wealthy oil companies are well planned and well attended. Booze has taken a backseat at most of these, but not all.
The true blue rodeo action is played (on tv`s) and played up in content and in ceremony, everywhere.
I guess this otherwise conservative metropolis will never lose its wild west heritage since they spend so much energy using their history to propel them past another year in the book of business.
Calgary doesn`t boom and bust, anymore. It just goes boom, boom, boom.
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