Anyone that never experienced Vancouver in the 50's and 60's missed the Golden Years of this city. It's nothing more than a heartless metropolis barely a shadow of its wonderful past.
Indeed! The city doesn't have a real centre any more. The dreadful London Drugs building at Granville and Georgia, where Birks used to be. Granville Street has become a hideous monstrosity. I could go on and on.....
I was born and raised in Vancouver (North Van). I didn't know any better then but looking back now it was an awesome place to grow up in the 60's and 70's. Now, I'm glad that I live in northern BC. BC has so many nice places to live that there is no reason for everyone to cram into one little corner of it, but people do anyway.
@@jimthompson717 Racism and the ecology (today climate change) are as much an issue today as they where 40 years ago. Vancouver real estate has become a Commodity market for foreign speculators and as a consequence the price of your average house is well beyond the means of average income.
@@daniel213141 children of the 60s are the exact same selfish pr*cks who destroyed the city for thier own selfishness to inflate thier own asset prices....... disgusting people
Most of the people depicted in these shots, who were considered the radical hippies, were the very people who championed saving our city from being gutted by freeways, saved our oldest inner city districts, and helped with the transformation of False Creek from a cesspool to the recreational waterfront we enjoy today. Many of them were my professors in university at architecture school (UBC) and my mentors.
children of the 60s are the exact same selfish pr*cks who destroyed the city for thier own selfishness to inflate thier own asset prices....... disgusting people
I used to walk downtown from where we lived near Arbutus and 15th by crossing the train trestle (seen at 2:54) across False Creek and visit all the department stores, Hudson Bay, Eaton's, Woodwards and the Army and Navy and walk home after dark....at the age of ten. Never felt in danger for a second.
Now ,that is so cool, when we started 1976, my 2 friends & I would ride our Mustang bikes all the way Downtown from 49th & Knight , Over the next decade our bigs got better, & we moved on ,but we couldn’t stop exploring Our Beautiful city, 56 yrs old living in the Valley now, but I use All my timeshare credits (4 weeks a year) , to keep on exploring this ever evolving City.🇨🇦
Have great memories Part of my youth and who I am today. Proud of where I’m from. No sadness just pride. Live today in Tokyo Different time and place. It’s all perfect
That was my era from a teenager into my 20s. It was a far better city than it is today. Half as many people, half as much traffic, a sleepy cool town where working people could still buy a home. Best of all it had a great night life--- lots of clubs and bars and lounges with live music for every taste. Vancouver was a happening place. But it's all gone now, thanks to a massive influx of Asian immigrants and an enormous real estate boom that has destroyed practically every live entertainment venue in the lower Mainland. Vancouver sucks in comparison today to what it used to be!
Our son was at the top of the Hotel Vancouver last year installing elevators, and they put in 3 floors of offices where the Panorama room used to be. They have preserved the broadcasting booth though!
Thanks for posting some photos of what the city looked like most of the time even back then, dull grey and rainy... Funny how it didn't feel as depressing as it does now though.
In 1971 i had my appendix taken out at Lions Gate Hospital and a few days later a guy from my class went though a glass door he was cut up real bad . any ways while we were both recovering there ,our high school French teacher came to visit us and she brought along two packs of Players cigarettes' for us LOL
Big money rolls in and sucks the soul out of our provincial town. Expo, the Brits leave Hong Kong and then the Olympics. Boom it's gone. Loved my old city more than I knew and miss it just like an old love.
I lived during those time and it was exciting. I even took a photo (while working at Van Sun) of Marilyn Munroe coming out of a Mens clothing store in crutches. She had bought a tie for her boyfriend Joe D. A week before she had sprained her ankle when she fell off a raft while filming "River of no return". Great music on this video.
@@spitfireaace it was 1955 and I was a pimple faced teen. Even now at my age the Queen thinks Im a spring chicken. Oh how I miss the Cave night club of Vancouver back then.
@@genemccormick3935 I picked out the old sun building in the background of one of the pictures and it brought back memories of my uncle who worked there. we invited the world to vancouver to see expo 86 and vancouver was never the same afterwards.
Marilyn filmed River Of No Return in Banff and Jasper in '53 or '54 and went through Vancouver to and from there. If you Google Images "M.M. Vancouver or Calgary or Banff or Jasper" there are some good photos.
How did you ever get this thru the filters?? I get flagged if I have the beach boys playing on AM radio in the background if filming out the window. good for you!
Phil Carroll, 0:58 seconds is a building. Where and when was this building torn down? 1:06 is another building and 1:17 is a location not recognizable. At 1:23 is Pender and Columbia? 2:22 High Low use to be what type of business and what where was this located? I was born in the mid 70's and make out most of the pictures but some I still am not sure of. Thanks!
@2:00 in there is a picture of Rickshaw Restaurant... i had always thought the only one was here in Surrey on KGH... was there others, much like the Dragon inn?
@@sandyburns3635 Firstly what a great video - Rickshaw was on the Vancouver side on Hastings between Skeena and Kootenay streets same side as what was known as the Kootenay loop where the trolley buses turned to go back downtown, we used to sell sacks of pigeons to the Rickshaw which we caught be the 2nd narrows bridge, pigeons were pretty chubby all grain fed from scraps from the Wheat Pool next to the bridge, think it went in the chicken chow mein, a box of beer was $2.65 back then, we were all under the 21 yrs drinking age but could get in to hang out at the Stratford,Dufferin,St Regis and the Waldorf to name a few, those were the days, ( the chant report when Templeton High School led the first student strike in Van's history inciting Brit and Tech high schools ) I think I could right a book as could most of us!
@@johng6509 My Bad, Ya you’re right with the location, & especially Right when talking about Our Fair City that we Love, There should be a Social site for all of Us born here in Beautiful Vancouver B.C. One that includes ALL BACKGROUNDS Because a lot of uncredited Labour went into Building this Town.✌🏾
I REMEMBER WHEN MOST OF THE WEST END WAS HOUSES............AND IT WAS A MUCH BETTER TIME THAN WHAT THE KIDS HAVE TO GROW UP IN NOW..............JUST NOT THE SAME......PEOPLE ARENT ANYWHERE NEAR AS FRIENDLY AS THEY WERE THEN.....NOW EVERYONE IS IN A REDICULOUS RUSH SO THEY CAN PAY THE MORTGAGE AND EAT........THOS WERE FAR BETTER TIMES......
Welcome to the 21st century. Don't you REALLY miss the utility poles along Pender Street near Ming's and Bamboo Terrace? Reminds me of the earlier pics of the 20's. Finally, Vancouver begins to look like a world-class city with a lot of class! There you have it - my opinion, and I'm sticking with it. Cheers, and enjoy the fabulous views that still exist! Wish I still lived there. HOW ABOUT A NICE Saskatchewan January winter? Yuck!!!
She was born in Ft Macleod, grew up in Saskatchewan, but has had a long association with Vancouver as an adult. She was involved in the "60's music scene in Vancouver and in the early '70's bought a country retreat outside the city which she owns to this day and visits frequently, and her Manager is based in Vancouver.
@@snidepete5700 I think Expo is overrated as the catalyst to the exponential growth. Lack of foreign property ownership laws coupled with the repatriation of Hong Kong to China and the liberalization of the Chinese economy has more to do with the growth and the cost of living.
Okay...love the pictures but for crying out loud lose the annoying and distracting transition effects from pic to pic. They do nothing for this presentation. Or any presentation for that matter.
