I know, it hasn't changed for the better.

I moved to this metro area with my parents and siblings in April ‘79. Your comments resonate with me.

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.

@@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!

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.

money and greed

@@IanForsythWestCoast better now? How so

Casinos. I wonder what this place would be like if we never had them.

Because Brian Mulroney and Bill Bennett got together and invited the entire world over and they never went home FFS

And of course the Olympics made it even worse

@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.

@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.

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.

now downtown is so overbuilt it looks like flies crawling over a particularly odorous turd....

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

The original MacGyver used the exterior shot of the building as the Phoenix Foundation headquarters building

@@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.

@@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.

It was originally the Westcoast Transmission building built in 1969.

I worked at Orestes' restaurant in the 80s. Broadway and Balaclava.

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** .

@@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.

@@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**

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.

@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

More people = more problems

Nope, it was finished in 1973, 6 years earlier.

Is anyone forcing you to be there, go there, live there?

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.

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.