We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
@@Adam-en4zm You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
That was right after the biggest war mankind has ever seen, there was a lot of work to do. Also wages were much fairer, all the money didn't go to the bosses. A mill worker earned enough to buy a house.
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function... the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight! nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism.... i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
1950 Vancouver. Just a little before my time but not by much. Thinking that I could go back to 1950 and be able to blend right in but the same couldn't be said for someone from 1950 to suddenly find themselves in 2024. Talk about a culture shock.
I thank god that my parents who were of the earlier more civilized, respectful generation aren’t still here to either observe or have to live through what goes on today.
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
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1947 Brill trolleybuses and they tried to replace them with flyer trolleys which only lasted about 15 years
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
Just to think my late grandparents and great grandparents were working and building their houses around the time while this individual was making this film. My parents were born a few years later. I recognize a lot of those buildings from the last time I was there. As I watch this i can't help wondering if they were driving by or walking by.🤔 Amazing how big a city it was still even in 1950..😮👍
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
WOW !! RETRO VANCOUVER Love IT !! IN Colour & comes with Sound Too BIG Thnx for The Time Machine Footage !! Let's See More Do you have any of Beach Ave during that Time ?
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction. This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
This is when Vancouver was still considered to be one of the top manufacturing and industrial capacity sites of the British Empire or Canada you could say.
Okay I went back in time and I found the guy. He was a war veteran and had both of his legs amputated. He was about 120 lb and the camera was 180 lb. I told him that someone was watching this video on their phone and asked for a smoother picture but I don't think he heard me because his ears were missing I think he lost his hearing from artillery shells
1:06 - Thats the corner of Main and Hastings. Owl drugs the pharmacy is still around, I believe. Walk on that corner today and its all junkies, methheads, drunk natives and dealers selling dope. Crazy how times change for better or worse. Most of those buildings are still there btw
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.
