Thanks for your comment and sharing your memories. This is the most-watched video on this channel so neither Madonna nor Melania Trump have anything over Vancouver in the 1960s. :)

I worked at Brown Bros Motors, a Ford dealership @ 40th/West BLVD in 1970. My dad was sales mgr there.

My older siblings and I used to go there Sunday morning instead of church but we'd make sure to go by to chat with the Priest when mass got out so he'd mentions seeing us to our Mum later in the day. It was the first time I was trusted with a secret

@@Gerhardiumthat’s fantastic and happy to hear you had the nouse to have a chat with the priest to make it all legit. I’ve heard of that restaurant but before my time. We only had Binos that was open all night and White Tower Pizza on Robson in the 80s.

I used to work at Army and Navy, when it was still safe to walk around in that neighbourhood, even at night. It saddens me to think of what it has all become now.

Malcolm lowry wrote that vancouver was a provincial , conservative place where you couldnt get a drink on sunday .

Let’s face it-that’s a situation based on the pandemic, and not normal circumstances. Thant being said, it would be better to start from scratch and completely rewrite the provincial liquor laws.

My theory is that there are so many nuts back east that they all head west and could not go further so they stayed here... look at the sorry drug problem and all sorts of crazy ways we try and convince ourselves to legalize them.. this shows me they have given up... druggies from all over the world will now stay in Vancouver... Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. I agree that our current Mayor Kennedy is worst and that is saying a lot... useless professional politician

Thank you for sharing your memories. I made this video myself. My name is Tommy and I trace my ancestry in New Westminster back to the 1860s.

@@tommystunestoons Thanks for the reply 👍 Sounds like your family has quite the history background in the Vancouver area (especially New West Minister) Any streets or landmarks named after your family name?? Just curious! Anyway, thanks again, looking forward to more videos from ya, hopefully 👍 Cheers!

No, I come from a working class background so no one in my family history was prominent enough to have streets or landmarks named after them. Have you seen my 'MVCA Deconstructed' video? There are two photos in there of my ancestors from New Westminster in the 1860s: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9yaiKqQpq7FmqM.html

This is Tommy Thomson’s channel. I am Tommy Thomson. I just changed the name of my channel because my focus is now music videos. I am an urban geographer with a master’s degree from UBC and I’ve given up on making content about important issues or intellectual matters because whenever I do, at best, I get censored, and at worst, I get attacked. It’s simply not safe in the current social climate. So I’m an artist now instead of an academic/intellectual.

My former colleagues at UBC ignored my desperate pleas for over one year. I eventually asked them to return my thesis to me. They returned my thesis to me. Why should the UBC library have the privilege of holding a thesis in its collection from someone who the entire UBC community ignores and much of the community has contempt for me. So I demanded my thesis be mailed to me, and after a few months of terse email exchanges, they finally honoured my request.

At this point, I’ve been run out of Vancouver by the politically correct intelligentsia who run the city and their minions. I’m in a very different place now. I couldn’t be more alone than I am now, but there is a certain peace that comes with that. Although it’s very hard for me here too.

I’ve tried to make intellectual geography content about the place where I relocated but that got censored too. Pretty much anything I say or do gets censored. Even my artwork and music videos which have zero social political content gets censored and deboosted by social media algorithm.

@@tommystunestoons I've never heard of anyone being run out of Angercouver Bonkerscouver. There are tent cities on Hastings Street with hard core drug users, hard core, so to be run out of Vancouver is quite an accomplishment. UBC is a heavenly place with heavenly vibes. UBC vibes. I plan to visit UBC again very soon. I dropped out of first year college. To get a Masters Degree requires a lot of reading. KZfaq videos and apps such as Subway Surfers have wrecked my attention span for reading. I used to read books from cover to cover at one time years ago. Best of luck, Tommy Thomson. I really enjoyed your archival videos about Vancouver. I even downloaded them, that's is before they were taken down, as mp3s which I have on my Walkman to this day. Years ago, all I ever did was smoke pot at UBC. I quit smoking due to chronic fear and anxiety. I'm not sure when or if I'll smoke pot ever again despite it being legal in Canada and more recently in Thailand too which I also visited 3 times totalling 13 months. I actually thought your old channel was taken down because Madonna found out about all the Madonna videos on that channel lol. Best wishes.

Do you have any colour photos from that part of the city in the 1960s? I can only include the photos that I find and evidently I didn't find any from that part of the city in he City of Vancouver Archives and that had already been digitized.

Depends on what you deem "nice." Temperatures seldom went over 85 F. (no Celsius scale in those days). We had heavier rains in April, May and November than we do today. Summers were warm but generally lasted only to the end of the first week in September when the cooler air became rather noticeable. Winters were considerably colder for longer stretches with at least two major snow dumps -- one in December and another in January or early February. You could count on outdoor skating on lakes and ponds virtually every winter. That happens now in Vancouver only once every seven or so years.

Well said. You have a way with words. I vaguely remember when it was just mainly drunks, in the early 80s when Woodward's was still open and their Christmas window display was a must-see.

It definitely did

Agreed and the 2010 Olympics was like a fentynyl chaser

Putin and his bullshit isn't helping either , now thanks to Justin millions of refugees are pouring in with no jobs no shelter