Recently came across this old video footage of a drive around Truro, shot on Jan. 6, 1985 - the day after a major snowfall. (Apologies in advance for shoddy camera work, occasional audio issues and inane commentary!!!)
Thanks. I have lived in truro and bible hill my entire life. Watching this was real cool. It's funny that I had forgotten about alot of places that are no longer in our town. We need the trees back. Thanks for the memories
A truly wonderful video to a time that I will never forget, and would return back to gladly if a time machine existed. The new generation can't imagine how we all had it so much better with a fraction of the toys have today. Thanks so much for the great memories.
Got to love the am radio station, not so good when you are driving though. Things sure have changed. When this country girl first moved to Truro I couldn’t believe that the street lights weren’t turned off at night and there were people going all night long.
Damn I was born in Truro and Lived in Bible Hill all my life, While I’ve only lived here since ‘02 it still feels nostalgic seeing some places like cavanaghs where I grew up because my friend was the owners grandson
I am sitting at my desk at work weeping watching this. Somewhere in that town, my mom was probably making donuts. My dad was drinking at the legion (likely). My uncle Ronnie was probably working at the Irving when went by. I was in junior high. So much still to come. Thank you so much for this random little time travel episode.
Shawn Jakudo Hinton amazing! I never knew anyone from the Moore side. Aunt Grace was my dad’s sister. I am adopting you as a cousin. Another uncle, Vince Weatherby, owned the Gulf station at the end of the esplanade too.
My friend sent this to me while I was asleep last night, I wasn't expecting to get slapped with so much nostalgia when I woke up today lmao! I got lost in the Shoppers Drug Mart in the mall when I was 4 or 5, I forgot they were in there. For more time traveling when you're in town - the Fundy Trail mall still has the same flooring from the 80s but they built up the floor because of flooding. I remember Homestead donuts being in there and smoking being allowed lol. Now it's an empty shell.
Wow! Moved to Truro in 1992 and still here :-) Now we are January 2019 - 34 years later! Almost all the businesses have changed! At Mall Dominion was IGA when I came but shortly after it left. Kmart became Zellers but now Winners and Michaels and no more Sears. Shoppers moved. BIG changes on Prince St. No Youlds. Cinema now the Chamber of Commerce. No Library building at all for it is in old YMCA building. Police station is now town offices. Immanuel Baptist was torn down and new building on top of Yonge Street. Cdn Tire and Ford moved and replaced by Toyota. BMO same! SunSpun Same! BIG changes on Esplanade. No more Carsand-Mosher. Murphys Fish & Chips moved. Bike Monkey and Dollar Store in now. Bible Hill expanded and new housing took over the hundreds of acres of fields in Valley, especially when Dalhousie University bought the NSAC and made it the Dal U Agriculture Campus.
Great video. A number of buildings now gone like the town hall and the library and the Bank of Nova Scotia at the corner of Inglis and Prince. And what a change in businesses in 33 years. A good video to share with the historical society.
Thanks for the drive down memory lane. I left Truro in 1985 and in my mind it still looks like this. My Mom worked at Margolians for 30 years, I know Inglis St like the back of my hand.
So many memories from this video. When you turned onto Inglis, at about that time 88ish ithink, i slammed into one of those cement pillars as a kid on a crazy carpet, knocked my front teeth out.
Holy crap, Mary Brown's was a thing outside Newfoundland 40 years ago? I thought it was only around 2010 that you started seeing them expanding everywhere. Thanks for uploading this video, a real time capsule.
Remember when we got stuck in that old k mart with your mother and the power went out. Think it was a flood or something. They were coming around with flashlights telling us to get out lol.
That was such fun to watch. I moved to the Truro area in 1982 and enjoyed looking back at the different stores that were here at the time and then comparing how things have changed since then.
This was filmed on my 5th birthday!! Thanks for the upload, it’s wonderful to remember all the little details about town that I had forgotten as I grew up!! 🎉
This is awesome I’m glad I got to see what it was like when my mom was younger and I got to see ware my grate grandfathers ford dealer was and Fletcher’s :) it makes me happy to see it
