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So I was looking at their old interviews, specially the one where they mentioned the shootout near the Trade Winds Hotel.

This is referenced in one of their remix and possibly the origin of "To the wind".

Now I had tried in the past to find that hotel on google map and didn't manage to do it. I tried again today and found some old archived stuff.

The Trade Winds Hotel was a Motor Hotel used mostly for wedding receptions. As you can see by this 60's flier with a picture of said hotel (on a side note It looks very boccish/Societas X)

Now what I didn't expect to find was that while looking at other documents I found this little advert in a Jewish newspaper and right under the advert it is said in bold: (Directly opposite to the CHINOOK Center)

Chinook is actually an area of calgary. Forget this dumb post. Trade Winds hotel picture is cool tho. byebye now.

I'm adding this here:



The hotel's address is 666

Brilliant find!

TheStatPow wrote:Chinook is actually an area of calgary. Forget this dumb post. Trade Winds hotel picture is cool tho. byebye now.

Chinook is also the name of an American military helicopter. I don't know if this adds anything, but thought I'd throw that out there.

rodox_head wrote:

TheStatPow wrote:Chinook is actually an area of calgary. Forget this dumb post. Trade Winds hotel picture is cool tho. byebye now.

Chinook is also the name of an American military helicopter. I don't know if this adds anything, but thought I'd throw that out there.

It is interesting when some military themes like this are showing up in their music. I bet there are still few more of them in other box records.

It's a wind that comes down from the Rockies, every Canadian knows that.
Snow Eater in native's language.

"It's a small world. I stayed in Braeside for a while and I remember a shoot out near the Trade Winds hotel, when I was told to get down on the floor of the car."

Magrathea wrote:It's a wind that comes down from the Rockies, every Canadian knows that.
Snow Eater in native's language.

Yep, that's how I've always heard it used (I'm not Canadian but I live near the border in the far northern US). The song has always sounded like a violent winter wind to me, too.

Chinook is also the name of a Native American/First Nations people, and a type of salmon. Lots of things. I think the hotel theory sounds a lot like them though, like maybe some sort of nostalgic memory tied to the place. Who knows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinookan_peoples

Edit: they seem to like things that are nebulous and could refer to many things, so it could be a combination of influences as well.


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TheStatPow wrote:So I was looking at their old interviews, specially the one where they mentioned the shootout near the Trade Winds Hotel.

This is referenced in one of their remix and possibly the origin of "To the wind".

Now I had tried in the past to find that hotel on google map and didn't manage to do it. I tried again today and found some old archived stuff.

The Trade Winds Hotel was a Motor Hotel used mostly for wedding receptions. As you can see by this 60's flier with a picture of said hotel (on a side note It looks very boccish/Societas X)

Now what I didn't expect to find was that while looking at other documents I found this little advert in a Jewish newspaper and right under the advert it is said in bold: (Directly opposite to the CHINOOK Center)

A Chinook is also what they call the hot winds that happen in Alberta between Nov and May
https://cwf.ca/research/publications/fi ... o-calgary/

My guess is they were referring to this.

Surfaise (The Trade Winds Mix by Boards of Canada)