A Trip Through Halifax circa 1960

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10 жыл бұрын

A trip down Bay Rd., through the Armdale Rotary, up Chebucto Rd., then down North St across the MacDonald Bridge, circa 1960

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@emilelapointe 10 жыл бұрын

Great video/film. Thanks so much for posting, I was born in 1960 and this brings back so many memories of the city from that time.

@GWAILIN 6 жыл бұрын

Coming off the bridge in Dartmouth, past what became the Dartmouth Shopping Centre (where the Esso is). Dartmouth High School is on the right. It stops coming to Victoria Rd., where I grew up (in the 80's). We lived at 205 Victoria Rd. That was awesome thanks for posting!

@MoparArtbyautomolove 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! I was surprised at how much hasn't changed in 50+ years!

@JMac-fj1rg 3 жыл бұрын

I sent thsi to my Mom a couple years ago. that was her reaction too !!

@bluewhaletoca8619 Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what I been thinking

@peterwhite507 10 жыл бұрын

Great Video, I was born in 1957 and grew up in Armdale off the Bay Rd. Turn right at the .35 second mark and I am home on Edgehill Rd.

@funkydrummer14 10 жыл бұрын

I love this video! I wish there was more. Such a great trip down memory lane! Thanks for posting.

@ianjohnston7617 2 жыл бұрын

my house on right for seven years at 2:32...so nice. this was 37 years before I bought it but...same

@PeggyfromPorcupine 9 жыл бұрын

the Rotary, the bridge - my memories too even though I grew up in Westphal/Woodlawn :) I knew exactly where the car was going to turn next at the end of the reel, too!

@w9x7cv3vg6 9 жыл бұрын

great video..just luv it,i biked this route many times in the 1960s goin out to the lakes from the north end

@jennifergrover766 7 жыл бұрын

wow oh wow. Thank you for posting this, it was so cool to watch. I used to live on North Street on exactly the part that you drove down.

@robertsonsid 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks you...didn't realize the street cars crossed the bridge.

@vintages10 Жыл бұрын

What is funny is how much of it has not changed! From the start on the Bay road all the way across the old bridge. Yes some stuff is different but not really all that much. Great film!

@larryrhindress2972 2 жыл бұрын

I spent every Fri. night at 5:30 watching this show. In many later years I was able to share company with Ritchie Oakley and Jimmy White, who to this day remain my guitar idols and fine people!!!!!!

@dianneamacker-warren1799 3 жыл бұрын

WOW ! A trip down memory lane, for sure ! Loved it !

@NatalieWestlakenattomdi4 10 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@sherryhirtle9328 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, awesome ❤️

@jimplaysric 3 жыл бұрын

I've been hoping to see a glimpse of the Irving Arch in one of these old films, my Grandmother lived in a building next to it, it was kind of a musty slum, but I was a little kid in the early-mid seventies and it was awe inspiring to go on a trip to the "city" lol, and watch the lights at night across the harbour at the Irving facility. The arch and all that area was knocked down by the late 70's or early 80's.

@BilnBax 9 жыл бұрын

I lived on the Bay Rd in the 60's. Thanks for the upload,............. never knew we had dash cams back then ; )

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

You didn't.....but Gary Myers was inventive.....strapping a camera to a car was likely very uncommon. Just goes to show you the power of dash cams today....they are tomorrows memories. Might want to hold onto any footage you may create.

@hamiltonontkeith 10 жыл бұрын

That was great. THANKS

@samb2989 22 күн бұрын

Very cool, didnt know cable cars went over the bridge!

@hubberts 9 жыл бұрын

For me, it's always interesting to see footage from a period where there was a sense of expansiveness in the economy. Now, with debt overburdened families and governments, the only thing you can 'feel' is a sense of pending contraction.

@n0va59 9 жыл бұрын

Ok I was born in 1959 and grew up very near the bridge and that hill (entering the bridge from the Halifax side) is exactly the scary hill I remember..funny thing is I was home 2 years ago and that hill is no longer that big..I walked the bridge and it was nothing. I did a google search trying to find out when they had fixed that but no info..I was beginning to think I was crazy. Then I saw this video..thanks for confirming my sanity

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

Glad to help! I might add the ESSO sign was a vague memory for me, so seeing that in this footage that was quite literally saved from the trash by an acquaintance at one point, also helped me too.

@randyburrill2340 9 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! Nantucket looks to be a one-way street back then? Just amazing.

@jerryswallow 6 жыл бұрын

i remember the day it opened, walked across, and cost 5 cent..s

@gatar5875 Жыл бұрын

love this

@TANCOOKislandgirl 10 жыл бұрын

This is pretty cool. You should post the exact same video from 2013.

@estherbonitto7177 3 жыл бұрын

I totally want to do this now in 2020! Will let everyone know if I make one :)

@Anthem-nd8sh 4 жыл бұрын

Its 60 years ago and honestly the infrastructure hasn't changed very much. That's a huge problem as there are now tens of thousands of more people now having to use that way into Halifax each day to work with the same transportation infrastructure as 60 years ago.

@scottsnailham 10 жыл бұрын

" A shame, though, that the film has jumps instead of being continuous, stopping before Mumford Rd and picking up below Agricola St (at Maynard?), skipping all the most interesting parts of North Street... :(" I know. That was an edit on the original source reel and nothing I cut out. One can only speculate why. The only edit was between the two reels of film, and was pretty obvious in the video....stopping on north street, then starting to go over the Macdonald Bridge.

@Hectanooga1 9 жыл бұрын

I know this post is a year ago... but.....here's the real deal (or reel deal... lol) and not speculation... for the missing parts of this video....back then, an 8 mm reel only lasted 3 minutes, and it took a while to reload a new film to continue taping... you had to thread it through all the little notches and manually wind it through the cogs on the wheels. I remember it well... not only was it tedious to film on those old 8 mm film reels... it was also expensive back in the day!!! (And then yay!!! Super 8 film became available, and I can't even remember why it was "super" except I think we had to buy a new camera in order to use it. Not that we could afford it at the time.) Back in 1963 I moved to Halifax, and got my first job. working as a Secretary at the Pathology Institute for the Administrator... and my salary was........ wait for it....... a whopping $1,460.00 PER YEAR!!!!!!! (That's approx. $28.00 per week!... or $5.60 per day!)

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

this is NOT a 8 mm print, but 16mm print likely stock footage shot by Gary Myers, a local photographer who opened reid sweet, a camera shop in downtown halifax and was open for decades. That said, the two reels this was pieced together from were very short, 3-4 mins per, so it's similar in reel size....about a 3 inch reel. 8 mm would be a different frame rate and not as natural and likely more grainy

@janewrin1830 Жыл бұрын

HA! Halifax Nova scotia! I was about to send to my family in Halifax, Yorkshire.

@cwa9276 3 жыл бұрын

Wow.. it's almost exactly the same today!

@scrapesmusic 9 жыл бұрын

some more really great shots of Halifax from the late 40s scrapes - All the Houses

@Nikkii199045 Жыл бұрын

It's cool how the mcdonald bridge was repainted green but not the bars and kept it red

@canadianmike711 2 жыл бұрын

My mom saw the sound of music in that movie theater. Hyland

@helenavondrakenstein4969 7 жыл бұрын

cool

@FriedRiceINC 10 жыл бұрын

I never realized that that bridge has seen cars from 1955 cross it. I knew it was built back then but I never thought of the bridge as being that old.

@finnmacdonald4439 9 жыл бұрын

Wow! The MacDonald bridge was only had two lanes that was a long time ago before I was born

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

1955 it opened, the date on the film indicates it might have been shot in 1960.

@finnmacdonald4439 2 жыл бұрын

Macdonald*

@Navisworker 9 жыл бұрын

Notice on the bridge that there is fencing to prevent suicide jumpers only over the dockyards.

@Shadeserenity380 4 жыл бұрын

Know whats weird? Im only 23 yet still recognize most of this video... Jesus... it all looks the same yet completely different...

@ScottSimpson 10 жыл бұрын

snarfdude , I'd love to see you have this transferred by one of the places in town that does frame-by-frame HD transfers. It'd eliminate the flickering, ghosting and keystoning. I know of at least two places -- one in Halifax, one in Dartmouth -- that have the gear and expertise to do the work. This film is worth the trouble. I'm tempted to ask you for the reels and pay for it myself! :)

@ScottSimpson 10 жыл бұрын

... also, a little post-production work could even out the difference between the blown-out highlights and too-dark shadows... I'm sure there's detail in the film that could be brought out.

@ScottSimpson 10 жыл бұрын

... and I'd gladly re-shoot the route with my HD dash cam if it'd be of interest to anyone... we could do a side-by-side repeat video.

@scottsnailham 10 жыл бұрын

Oh I know what a frame by frame or even a real time transfer will do with the right Telecine. I'm surprised I got anything anywhere near decent in this experiment by shooting off the screen. That's why the reels haven't seen the light of day under now. I haven't really been impressed by some of the local transfers I have seen, but mostly those were sourced from 8mm, 16mm would be a less grainy and like you say, bring out a bit more detail if they can do anything anywhere decent. The cost is prohibitive for me. you're looking at maybe $200-400 based on copycat digitals prices. Probably about 600-700ft of film. I don't have that. My specialty is radio production/audio transfers, which I do fairly well. They want $40 for an album transfer? I've underpriced myself for years....:) I won't easily release the reels. They might go to the NS archives at some point, as I already have a small collection there from material I saved from CHNS and transferred years ago and technically I don't necssarily own the copyright. Gary Myers does. How valid that is at this point, is a matter of debate, but It's nice to have this much interest in this material. Scott S.

@ScottSimpson 10 жыл бұрын

snarfdude Thanks for the thorough reply. As another Scott S. who's traditionally more audio than video, I get where you're coming from. I had my transfers done over in Dartmouth at Hourglass Media. Reasonable prices, decent service. And, yeah, you can get good results from telecine as well...I took a one-night telecine course at a film co-op in Toronto that chained a projector with a rheostat to adjust the frame rate to match a DV camera, shooting it all through a flying lens....or something....good results, but probably not what you'd get from a workprinter these days. Glad you've already given this some thought. I've seen some of the stuff from the NSArchives, and I really wish someone would get them the resources to do better transfers, too. I'm going to subscribe in hopes of one day seeing another gorgeous transfer of this! Thanks for putting up what you've been able to.

@InfinitumVlogs 10 жыл бұрын

Scott Simpson Just as another place that would do it, AFCOOP has the facilities now to do the transfer.

@luketracey3269 4 жыл бұрын

🍀

@ictube7638 6 жыл бұрын

The esso sign is where McDonald's is lol that's crazy

@canadianmike711 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the new McDonald's opened in October of 1996 there.

@ictube7638 2 жыл бұрын

@@canadianmike711 took u three years to respond mister. I was born at the end of 2001 so I didn’t exist.

@sherrylush5474 3 жыл бұрын

I was 5 at time of this movie projector film

@PeggyfromPorcupine 8 жыл бұрын

Need a follow-up video of the same trip, circa 2015/2016 :)

@eighteenin78 10 жыл бұрын

A Very interesting video, The shadow of the vehicle shows on the road in early frames, indicating something fixed on its roof. This is consistant with the smoothness of the video (not handheld) & height - not shot through the windshield of a car of the era. Also there is sun shining through the vehicle from the rear window suggesting not a bus or anything more than an open backed pickup or maybe a sedan. Time of year can be placed by shadows and angle of the sun. I'm guessing an evening maybe in early spring.

@thatstheguy07 10 күн бұрын

Do you have a longer version?

@trentmiller8139 5 жыл бұрын

They should have left the color of the Towers orange looks appealing!

@tazztower44 8 жыл бұрын

at 2:50 you can see 3 VW bugs in the frame...1 is crossing in front and the other 2 are coming from the opposite direction

@scottsnailham 10 жыл бұрын

We believe it was shot from inside a car.....

@C-Stanz 10 жыл бұрын

I had no idea the street cars went over the MacDonald bridge.

@jerryswallow 6 жыл бұрын

they were after the street-cars,, electric bus, with rubber tires,, the wires above is what they attached to..

@canadianmike711 2 жыл бұрын

That was a 8 hour drive from Dartmouth to yarmouth via highway 3. Highway 1 used to be the fastest until like 1958 when highway 101 open then of course highway 103.

@UnkleBot 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah cause it hasn't changed at all, mainly due to all of the seniors who would like to keep Halifax as a small little city and keep preventing it from progressing as it should be

@user-om9hh5ig4k 7 күн бұрын

The Film Is Very Dark.

@alissakauffman3727 8 жыл бұрын

did know the bridge was curved till now

@bluewhaletoca8619 Жыл бұрын

Did you film this?

@MrRefocus 10 жыл бұрын

Was this taken from a bus or car? Was a reasonably smooth recording

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

car likely...based on the shadow.

@JakeABurke 7 жыл бұрын

jesus christ the harbour is blue. like actually blue, the colour blue!

@finnmacdonald4439 8 жыл бұрын

I never knew the speed limit on the macdonald bridge was 30 back then! But I did know it only had 2 lanes

@tjh9825 3 жыл бұрын

30 mph then kmh was in the late 70 s

@finnmacdonald4439 Жыл бұрын

@@tjh9825makes sense! Little me 7 years ago didn’t know that haha. I was only 11 when I wrote that

@CptSchmidt 8 жыл бұрын

Do you have the original, unedited video?

@calvinbaII 8 жыл бұрын

+CptSchmidt The original filmer was the original CptSchmidt lol

@scottsnailham 7 жыл бұрын

there's nothing to really see....the only different is black I just put in the crossfade to combine the two reels of film into 1

@CptSchmidt 6 жыл бұрын

Ah. So there's no video of Chebucto Road and North Street between the Armdale Rotary and Agricola?

@TheDigitalPillars 5 жыл бұрын

In 100 years people will be watching your videos with you in it and saying "I wonder who they were?" .. Knowing you are long gone. Sad but that's time for you.