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Answering the question on Reddit r/Ottawa, " What is your favorite part of Ottawa? " Bank Street For me, it has been everything up and down Bank Street (when I was young I lived in Metcalfe and for me Ottawa *was* Bank Street).  - Vernon, where my Grandmother lived,  - Spring Hill, where my father and brother rest now,  - Ernie's on what was then highway 31, where I worked as a breakfast cook,  - the Old Ottawa sign,  - the Quarry where we swam on what is now John Quinn Road at Stone School Road,  - Leo's Livestock, where the Metcalfe Walk would begin,  - Greely,  - Rideau-Carleton Raceway (where I once worked; I'd walk to Bank Street and hitchhike home),  - the old K-Mart in Blossom Park (now a FarmBoy - big improvements),  - the Conroy Pit (and the rest of the Green Belt),  - shwarma corner at Hunt Club Road,  - the old McDomalds at Alta Vista Plaza (across from where I bought my first car),  - Canadian Tire at Heron,  - Wild Birds Unlimited,  - and the big Bell

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