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.....

Really then you need to stay off the freeways that are gutting every city be consistent

i remember falsecreek when it was industrial with sawmills and rail yards ect . i kind of miss how things were 50 or more years ago

I remember going on the bus from North Vancouver to the old bus station near the QE theater

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.🇨🇦

@@paulineburns1967 : in the late seventies i rode all over Vancouver and around stanley park hundreds of times . it was great back then

Sad isn't it?

@@capnvancouver I love the old neon..It is very sad what this great city has become :(

@@Jazagod the globalists marched in with their post modernist box shit and made it just another cookie cutter global city. WEEEEEEEE

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

Better times for sure. The special feeling of Vancouver is gone

@@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

Expo 86 ruined Vancouver.

Thanks for your words

People are incredibly rude today, or misunderstand when you show good old fashioned mannerisms.

especially the chinese laundering dirty money and east vancouver.

Y’all with this old school attitude should move out so younger folks like myself can move back!!

​@@MVOH Quite a few younger folks moving out because they can't afford to live there.

Same I think in many places across the country. I'm in Toronto and feel the same. I miss the industrial grit and texture we once had.

1957 at VGH

1959 vgh

Me too.

You could walk the streets of skid row feeling safe

Crime has gone down since the 90’s

But id rather take the crime than the over priced yuppie international corporate city with no identity or character that it is now

@@nvanguy6868 Yup. The taken over by international investors city.

thanks for the comment Craig.

Lots of good old beer parlours.

fun time if your rich

thanks Elizabeth!

Thanks, Cheryl.

I remember Denman St in the 1960's. Cool place to walk

What year was that may I ask? It was before I was born most likely. Or the year I was born 1961.

@@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.

Hi, ya I think that One was on the Burnaby side of East Hastings, just before the hill down to the PNE.🇨🇦

@@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.✌🏾

0:58 is Lions Gate Hospital ca. 1963

High Low was a grocery store owned by Jim Pattison. The one shown is across from the old Lougheed Mall.

I do believe so. Lived near there on Dansey Drive

You mean a city that looks like 100 other cities with a lot of glass.

i loved gritty old vancouver of the 60's and 70's

Expo 86 is what took it down! Thank you, gentleman Jim!

@@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.

Thanks William.

Your Welcome Phil.

Did you live near there?

@@capnvancouver Once.

Thanks Jim

No, Fort MacLeod, Alberta

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.

Idiot comment

@@jacobrocks7 --- Idiot Leftist. Don't like the truth do you? If it was Yankee money you sure would be screaming.

Hard to please everyone crawnorris. But thanks for saying it would have been nice. LOL