I grew up in Vancouver in the 70-80's, I recognize most of this, how I wish Vancouver was still like this.
@hannah19483 жыл бұрын
I really miss the original vancouver, wish I had a time machine.
@fastfootedone4 жыл бұрын
I'm fortunate to have grown up in this beautiful city, but sad it had to change.
@hannah19483 жыл бұрын
I know, it hasn't changed for the better.
@mamaj88887 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I was happy to see the corner of Granville & Pender. I worked at the Scotiabank there. Many fond memories of that area of downtown
@SovereigntyParamount19945 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting Stu. One of the best times of my life was when I first came to this amazing land in 1979. Every sunday my friends and I would just chill on Granville st. and Robson Square after partying the night before. We’d have lunch at McDonalds on Smithe and go to kits beach to play basketball. Thanks for that great memory Vancouver
@LoganLavery3 жыл бұрын
I moved to this metro area with my parents and siblings in April ‘79. Your comments resonate with me.
@theresa422134 жыл бұрын
Hey! l lived 2 minutes away from Lost Lagoon in '88 for 4 years! l did my runs around it, and my _Beautiful_ Bachelor apt, at ''Stanley Park Manor'' was only 425.00 a MONTH! Anybody could afford an apartment EVEN if you were on welfare!! The city is STILL really clean! Just astronomically expensive!
@LoganLavery3 жыл бұрын
I was in Pendrell St in ‘88 and you’re right - yeah rents were $400-500. As I was saying the other day to someone, most had their own apartment no matter what their income or job.
@theresa422133 жыл бұрын
@@LoganLavery ~ l feel terrible for this generation! Where can _they_ go? lf you're blessed, you are able to have a nice place with BC housing. But now...anyone can refuse you in those apartments for ANY reason. Even if you have THOUSANDS in the bank. And if you're a conservative, or a Christian, or they think you're ideology doesnt line up with theirs ....TOO BAD! :( Terrible!
@pescitheman9 жыл бұрын
That Vancouver was truly perfect.....why did it change so much?
@IanForsythWestCoast4 жыл бұрын
Deutsch-kanadischer ......Immigrants.......who do you think was here and built Vancouver for the 90 years before this video? Get a grip....Vancouver was awesome then and even better now. Stop dissing my home town.
@fastfootedone4 жыл бұрын
money and greed
@KingMoogoe3 жыл бұрын
@@IanForsythWestCoast better now? How so
@helgarivers62813 жыл бұрын
Casinos. I wonder what this place would be like if we never had them.
Ай бұрын
Because Brian Mulroney and Bill Bennett got together and invited the entire world over and they never went home FFS
@savodougo98716 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! What a great city Vancouver was. It definitely lost its charm now that it's all jacked up and just a place to park money
@veedriving62104 жыл бұрын
Everything looks so much more natural back then.
@Saint31883 жыл бұрын
I was born on 1984 and this is the Vancouver I wish I got to experience. I miss the the Vancouver and BC of 1990 to 2002.
@MapleSyrupPoet2 жыл бұрын
Love Vancouver ...always will ...was helped, by so many inspiring individuals there #VanCity
@michaelkennedy44447 жыл бұрын
As previously mentioned , it was our little secret till expo happened , then it all went down hill after that.
@masterchief1992HHQ6 жыл бұрын
And of course the Olympics made it even worse
@michaelkennedy44443 жыл бұрын
@Christopher Meisner Ya and now it’s congestion , dead zones where no one lives due to absentee owners, unaffordable housing., horrendous traffic problems , and of coarse let’s not forget the crime problem. I’d take 1979 any day , born and raised here.
@michaelkennedy44443 жыл бұрын
@Christopher Meisner A resource based economy is basically all of Canada , bringing up the VSE and the boiler room operations have nothing to do with the gist of what this topic was about . Dead zones , how about coal harbor area and the big towers with empty suites owned by offshore speculators. On the crime topic , are you kidding ???? Today , violent assaults are much more common in the downtown east side, as well as gangster shootings , the drug use is through the roof due to lax laws implemented by SJW politicians , I could go,on and on but I’ve got more important things to do then to argue with someone who probably wasn’t even around back then and is a transplant from Toronto or somewhere back east.
@althunder4269 Жыл бұрын
The Social Credit government of the day sold off the Expo lands to Li Kai Shing for next to nothing and that was the green light for Hong Kong to roll in which started the Asian invasion.
@Starknight005 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video.. really nostalgic for me as i was a kid then
@perinestor27176 жыл бұрын
beautiful british columbia,
@melaireality83892 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@gordyt9910 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Robson Square was brand new when you shot this video.
@deonal5 жыл бұрын
Well before the laundered money poured into the city.
@TheWolfsnack3 жыл бұрын
now downtown is so overbuilt it looks like flies crawling over a particularly odorous turd....
@darrinkulyk95603 жыл бұрын
Moved to the LML in 71 lol I live by the Portman Bridge right now . VanCity Is Awesome 💖
@cherobinson63712 жыл бұрын
Moved to Van in 80 from winterpeg. As a 10 year old o thought I died and went to Heaven.
@ericwang6045 жыл бұрын
The Geo Science building 1333 w Georgia st it’s called the “QUBE” . It’s really cool building . It’s been bought by developer at 2005ish then renovated to the residential sold to the market . Jet lee did a movie there . Lots of movie shooting sense happing there . It’s a cool building . If anyone knows more about this building please leave a common below . Much appreciate it.
@IanForsythWestCoast4 жыл бұрын
Google Westcoast Transmission Building for a ton of info and some cool pictures. Https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8780
@higgy044 жыл бұрын
The original MacGyver used the exterior shot of the building as the Phoenix Foundation headquarters building
@bc52993 жыл бұрын
@@IanForsythWestCoast worked in that building from 75 to 85. had to straighten the pictures on the wall of my office quite often because the building kept shifting.
@IanForsythWestCoast3 жыл бұрын
@@bc5299 Was it the actual concrete core that was settling, or was it the sway that happens when the wind blows? I think I read that it can swing as much one foot off of centre.
@althunder4269 Жыл бұрын
It was originally the Westcoast Transmission building built in 1969.
@michaelarnold134 жыл бұрын
great work
@denisandre11652 жыл бұрын
I lived in Kitsalano on Balaclava right near Wreck Beach
@scruffskunk2 жыл бұрын
I worked at Orestes' restaurant in the 80s. Broadway and Balaclava.
@deutsch-kanadier9016 жыл бұрын
I remember when we were kids, in the "very back" of my dads' '62 Valiant wagon...passing Granville Square... we would point and say..."LOOK DAD!...THE "WAFFLE" BUILDING!"...of course...there were plenty of other buildings in Van that looked like they were made w/a giant waffle iron!...and...the Geo Science Bldg?...was...at the time, Vancouver's only 'earthquake proof' structure! Also, ever Sat afternoon...if we did GOOD ENOUGH at our piano lessons (in the morning)...my dad would take us to the Pacific Coliseum to watch the Canucks practice if they had a home game that night! This was more like 1970/71.
@RH-pn9qg4 жыл бұрын
great video, would be interesting if you could somehow do a side by side comparison. vancouver then and now. This video shows a much calmer less overcrowded vancouver
@scruffskunk4 жыл бұрын
I was going to try that but it would be hard to get into some places now. In 1979 you could just walk into any hotel and take a tour. It's not that easy nowadays. I'd probably have to make an appointment with the concierge at the Four Seasons Hotel Or stay there for the night **lol** .
@RH-pn9qg4 жыл бұрын
@@scruffskunk lol, another reason we're called no fun city. The only people that talk about how great it is these days are the stupidly wealthy. You want a decent night on the town in vancouver you're easily dropping a grand.
@scruffskunk4 жыл бұрын
@@RH-pn9qg Another reason not to do a side by side comparison is I am NOT a 28 inch waist as I was then. **lol** I wouldn't be able to fit into those le claudiers without a really big shoe horn. **lol**
@robatsea200911 жыл бұрын
fantastic!
@dalexkom Жыл бұрын
Fun times then
@calixa4 жыл бұрын
COOL!!!!!
@glenw-xm5zf25 күн бұрын
What days thy was. The Loose Caboose at the Ritz,. then Sneaky Pete's, Pharoah's Retreat, and a dozen other discos, and clubs. people had smiles on their faces,and there were only two genders (arghh! @ Lunacy 2024)
@mauiswift63914 жыл бұрын
Traffics looks more appealing 😒
Ай бұрын
Back when you could go downtown on a Friday night and catch a movie without worrying about being stabbed to death?...
@kerpin092 ай бұрын
Well, at least lost lagoon looks the same.
@Rocker55939 жыл бұрын
this must be shortly before Robson Square turned white and blue with Whitecaps fans ahaha i seen some archival footage of that parade probably from cbc when it was still up on youtube and just the amount of people always blew my mind (overhead shots were unreal!) they say probably about 100,000 ppl showed up for the parade and it definitely looked like it ahaha maybe even more, unfortunately i bet cbc took it down over copyright issues or something
@clubhouseme6 жыл бұрын
that celebration in 1979 was probably the biggest Vancouver has ever seen.BC Lions have won a few but can't compare to how popular the Caps were back then.
@araa92124 жыл бұрын
Vancouver very expensive housing and rent .
@r.crompton22865 жыл бұрын
0:42 - 051 is the intersection of Granville and Dunsmuir - not Georgia.
@12voltvids10 жыл бұрын
Thats film man. Not video. Home video cameras didn't exist until the mid 80's
@12voltvids3 жыл бұрын
@Christopher Meisner The first home video cameras were 2 piece units and arrived in 1980. The first 1 piece camcorder was the betamovie and it launched in 1984. 3/4" umatic were out in the late 70s
@pm66134 жыл бұрын
Groovy
@chickeee11 жыл бұрын
seems like a lot less cars then
@larryjohnstone62605 жыл бұрын
More people = more problems
@ARCOFJUPITER7 жыл бұрын
any pictures to share? like photographs from this time?
@canman50607 жыл бұрын
I think they were building the new Eaton Centre.
@IanForsythWestCoast4 жыл бұрын
Nope, it was finished in 1973, 6 years earlier.
@hoosfoosfull5 жыл бұрын
An overpriced dump now.
@lscannon35113 жыл бұрын
Is anyone forcing you to be there, go there, live there?
@IanForsythWestCoast3 жыл бұрын
I find it unfortunate that people who obviously never spent time in another city feel compelled to give there negative, toxic opinion of a Vancouver that I don’t recognize from their description. An overpriced dump....yes, it’s expensive, and why....because everyone wants to live here.....I guess dumps are where everyone wants to live.
@emilydouglass61413 жыл бұрын
Uhhh, I have lived here my whole life. Overpriced, yes, but clearly you don't know what you're talking about because it's not a dump.