Assassin Mayor Ken Sim is quickly ruining the Vancouver skyline. He doesnt care if he is re-elected his rich friends will take care of him. Rebecca Bligh is the true mayor, Sim the puppet.
Amazing footage. Back when Vancouver was a working class town, people were happy and respectful, and not a cop in sight. Love all the old trucks, wish I could find some to work on now. Thanks
4:24 loved stopping at the Peter Pan for early early breakfast with Mom and Dad before driving out to Horseshoe Bay to fish for salmon. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
There is a bunch of good single track in between DeLaura Beach and the South Jetty at Ft. Stevens if you know where to look! Been riding it for 30+ yrs...
i like how this comment section is like 85% universally agreeable sentiments about how & why the city has gotten worse over time and then 15% old people being flagrantly racist for no reason
Hi Reece, I was wondering where you got this film from? Apparently Harold filmed 2 films when he visited Vancouver, would you happen to have, or know where the second film is? If it even still exists?
my Dad bought his first investment property bac in 1972 in west vancouver for $135K, sold it a year ago for $14 mil. He was keep saying he should have bought that property 1965 when it was 100K and put his 35K on another one in surrey. in fast he was able to get 2x 20,000sqf houses there. i will send him this video , thank you
This was when life was simpler and definitely nicer. For sure they had problems, but it seemed like better times. My mum was born in 1953. She said it was amazing growing up in Vancouver in the 50s and 60s. They lived near Victoria and Marine. They were pretty poor growing up from what she said. But so was everyone else. I was born in 1976 and grew up in Richmond in the 80s and 90s. And those were amazing times too. My mum said up until the late 90s it was great living in Vancouver and Richmond. Its definitely not the same. Its a dump now. Thanks for posting this video.
Like Seattle in that time frame, folks had purpose, God, Family and Country was very much a common bond regardless of age, gender, ethnicity. Now its none of that thus why the declines in many of these "once" beautiful and exciting cities
This footage was shot only a couple of years after I was born. I rode those streetcars, though I was too young to remember. There have been a lot of changes since then, but what's remarkable is how many featutes of that entire route I can easily recognize. I've walked a lot of that right of way, many times. I bought an apartment beside the track in Kerrisdale. It's deeply part of my lived experience. CP Rail used to run a grain car about once a day on it, down to the brewery on 12th Avenue, just to maintain their right of way. Thst was until about 2010. Then they tried to sell it to the City of Vancouver for some extortionate rate. It languished in the courts for years. The city bylaws wouldn't let the railway operate it, so they were motivated to sell, but they didn't want to admit it. They put together some kind of astroturfing "neighborhood" campaign to try to get us citizens up in arms. It didn't work. Eventually the city acquired the land, tore up the tracks, made a nice linear park and pedestrian/bicycle path of it. But I had rather hoped they would bring back the electric trolleys as part of a quaint commuter service to downtown Vancouver. An espresso machine on board. Those nice wooden sash windows. Civilized.
Very interesting how vibrant and busy was Hastings, Main, Cambie. Seems like good times in Vancouver. Unfortunately everything has changed in that area. Just poverty, drugs, homeless people. It’s very sad what happened to downtown Vancouver 😢
I find this all poignantly charming. These excursions - and many others of course, on both sides of the border, some by sea and some on land - were a kind of exposition of technological achievement set within the natural landscape. Ordinary people could venture deep into these beautiful pristine places and be touched by their magnificence. At the same time, they could feel the scaffolding of technology around them, holding them more or less safe and providing more or less reliable service. I don't say this to disparage machinery but to report what it feels like to live a bit on the edge, as workers do in these industries. To be a member of the general public and able to go to the edge of these same achievements is thrilling, to be sure. I think it's totally cool that somebody got the idea of arranging excursions of this kind. It wouldn't be all tea and crumpets, that's for sure. There would be many discomforts and probably a few risks not mentioned in the brochure. But wouldn't it be a total blast?
I grew up in the early 80's in Richmond, by the curve in the line as it turned into the railway section....which eventually became the municipal works yard. great video. How it's changed, amazing.
What has become of Vancouver, once a vibrant and interesting city is now a wasteland of addiction and mental illness against a background of bland corporate sterility.
