Thank you and I'm honoured. I enjoy producing these projects. I love your content as well. I'd love to collaborate with CTV (CFCN) on that amazing late 70s footage. I suspect there is more.
I lived in Calgary from 1978 to 1988 - I went to the Stampede every year! I loved Calgary in those days. Sadly an ill mother made me have to return to southern Ontario. Several years ago I moved to Kelowna BC and I now visit Calgary a couple of times a year! Peace
I love that shot of 7th Ave! I remember cutting class at CHHS and going to the Calgarian on draft day. $.25 glass of draft and strippers! What more could a teenage boy want?
I was only 4 or 5 months old when this was filmed it great to see the City and how much it has changed in 50 years I look forward to seeing the future of this great city
The same thing that happens to every place that gets too big. Growing up here (born the year this film was shot) it felt like a small town. Now it just feels busy and big.
That shot down 7th Avenue SW has changed considerably thanks to the C-Train. Also easy to notice where the filmmaker was able to film that shot, the skywalk from The Bay to their parking garage. Also noticed the rotating Renfrew Furs sign where the 58 storey Telus Sky building sits today.
Thanks! That was fun. I would have been in grade 8. Back then at the Stampede there was an area called Flare Square. You could wander around and look at free displays and that year it was dedicated to the RCMP. I was in a room and suddenly everyone was moved to the edges and the middle of the room was roped off and then Queen Elizabeth wandered through.
That purse of 12.900 and some dollars would buy a Haysboro 3 bedroom bungalow in 1960 at PIT payments of 90 per month for 25 years at 6 percent interest!
Royal American Shows with their roaring, revving gas engines powering the rides. I remember that sound and the creepy carnies and gore shows. Good times lol. No footage of the famed RCMP Musical Ride? I was there and saw it, pretty impressive. I think the year after was Salute to Aviation, with a small air show right over the infield! I remember Art Scholl (and his dog, Aileron) doing aerobatics, as well as a wingwalker - female iirc.
These videos bring me sadness and joy. Joy; because the prices were right, people were sane, life was good, cars were awesome, women were women and most days thoughts were probably "what am I going to do on the weekend". Sadness; Prices are not right, people...well..., cars are still awesome, well..some are, women are well...somewhat women, most dress like guys now and thoughts are "what the heck is going to cost me more tomorrow and what do I have to get rid of because I can't afford it now". I want the OP to know that I still really appreciate these videos, even with the craziness of today, it's so grounding to know it wasn't always like this. Thanks!!
