Me too. I seriously cry at how much I miss the old Vancouver

Indeed Lived here since the early 70s i live by the Portman Bridge atm 😁

@@darrinkulyk9560 The Port Mann? My grandfather helped build it; the original one, that is.

That's really pathetic

keep crying. We are all here now.@@ericaespinosa4030

What the leaders of BC wanted at the time with expo was to attract industry technology manufacturing etc (the GM pavillion at expo for example) not attract a bunch of real estate crooks and corruption Sadly in 1991 we got this terrible string of liberal/ndp governments that continues today and instead of advancing our economy with technology and industry like the socreds wanted we chased off a bunch of our business and replaced it with real estate corruption. I guess thats what happens when people fall for the false promises of the left

Yeah and how low crime rate it was

And then in 2010 we invited the world, again! And then they didn't leave, again!

I worked for EXPO’86 Site Planning & Design. M proud of our work and I’m proud of all the magnificent positive changes & all the newcomers who made Vancouver become a cosmopolitan multicultural society rather than backward provincial branch office-town with limited employment opportunities. Vancouver is way more dynamic now then it ever was.

@@smallstudiodesign ---- --- why don't you just admit you are one of the tens of thousands of European-Canadians (popularly known as "white people" by "Visible Minority" immigrants) who are Left-Wing Internal Migrants who came to Vancouver from "Out East" from the late 1960's onward, and socially engineered the city over the decades into what you think is a "Left-Wing Utopia". AT LEAST have the guts to admit that Metro Vancouver's Asian Gang Epidemic from 1990 to 2010, which invaded nearly every high school in the city with secretly organized, virulently racist, viciously weaponized intimidation and violence (so bad that the Provincial Gov't was eventually forced to set up task forces to combat it) was at least as bad as any "white supremacy" that affected the city in previous decades, but of course the Asian Gangs were hushed up or even ignored by your Left-Wing controlled news-media, or if they were not Left-Wing ( BCTV News was NOT) they were under constant fear of being labelled "RACIST" by people like you if they accurately reported on it and told the truth. Want to call me the Left-Liberal's constant accusation of being a "Bigot" or a "Xenophobic" ...........you Leftist-Liberal Xenophiliac Bigot? Go ahead, I dare you....... The nice part of LeftCouver is that Western Canada turns moderate Right Wing and sane and sensible as soon as one leaves the 604 area code.........and it does that all the way to Winnipeg, now called LiberaPeg.

Definitely Proper Living

You'd be a millionaire today

no need to be sorry for telling ther truth

Rofl greatly put.

Yeah, the big party was back in the late 1960's, the 1970's and the early 1980's. By 1990 the "white population" of this city was burnt out, and still has not recovered..........

@@davidmarshall718 that’s a little racist 😂

@@moneymalc globalist hate truth, allergic

@@moneymalc cry about it then

Grow up and get your own place you freeloading loser. Some might say.

Youre so right

Yep, it was Lotus Land... now it's like Carmen Miranda's hat full of dog shit.

Read some history and you come to know Vancouver is not that 'innocent' especially during the 1920's.

@@canman5060 I was born here, I know all about that, I was referring to the title of the video, 1985, before it became stifling from trade and economic growth.

It has always been a port city full of sailors and tramps.

P77777777 oy mate you’re under arrest for extreme racisms Whites don’t deserve to be a majority in their racist countries.

Preach

Don't forget the influx of entitled brats from southwestern Ontario who have soured the atmosphere here aswell, I remember in the 70s when people from back east made an effort to fit in with the locals instead of imposing themselves on our way of doing things

It’s a promo for Expo’86 ... specifically the theme of the World Exposition was “Transportation & Communication” ... so multimodes are featured ... plus it’s an invitation to the world ... a film sent across Canada, the USA, and worldwide to get people to come.

I was 20 in 1985 and from Richmond, so no exactly what you are talking about. The essence and vibe that Vancouver had in the mid-80s are gone somewhat, I definitely agree. Same goes for Seattle. It was such a treat to drive down for the day or even a night way back then - or to Bellingham for Fred Meyer, Target or Bellis Fair. Memories are flooding back. Don't do that anymore. One thing is still true - my mom and brother do still nip over to Blaine to visit USA Gas!

islandbee Now the whole country is lost to the poisons of liberalism and political correctness. Real estate prices are sky high, and there is no popular culture. Popular culture went out about 2003.

94.5 The Beat when it first came out around 2002, was such an awesome station to me. Even the Seattle stations couldn't touch it. And then they went on this downward spiral to garbage. Yeah, that's the Vancouver I remembered. When they really went against the grain of the mainstream.

islandbee . The only time I’ve seen Canadian pride in Vancouver was at the olympics when we beat the US for the gold medal . Sid the kid with the golden gold. However with the recent Covid-19 issue you are seeing what pride every nation has at the moment. This is truly a sad time for everyone. But it is also a great time for pride in all the nations of the world. I was born in 85 so I have no recollection of what Vancouver used to be before that. I did live in the city from 2010-2014. It was really difficult finding cheap rent so I moved back to the valley. I think when the liberals took away our parades downtown and the downtown east side started getting dicey in the early 90s that’s when Vancouver changed. You can’t say that the Asian population had anything to do with Vancouver changing because we’ve always had a strong diverse culture in Vancouver. And they bring lots to the table.

@@andrewgaudry6132 - Use to watch Wok with Yan in the 80s. And I believe that was based in Vancouver. Vancouver, I believe has the second biggest Chinatown in North America. But, Vancouver has a real European flair to it as well. Love that city.

And the cancer thats infested vancouver is going to advance across the rest of BC What we need to do is kick the liberals and the NDP out of power forever and bring a BC party back into power again like we had in the 80s. The 1991 election is going to be remembered as the second greatest political mistake in BCs history (the first being joining confederation)

Minimum wage in 1985 was $4/hour. I was 20 years old then, living in the valley, and bitching with all my friends about how we will never afford a house in the valley, let alone the big city. Now I live in Coal Harbour, and my bay window looks across the inner harbour to Stanley Park. Fun times.

P77777777 You’re the cancer here

@@MrTingabug great..... nobody cares

100%. That's why I moved. Zero community. East van is all asian and we are forced to be ok with having no English speakers to live beside. Horrible

At least now the bastards get to be taxed for doing so. _That_ move sent the real estate world into a fervor, but we need to tax these foreigners if they are just going to be buying housing to keep their money in and not living in it.

They are taxed already.Most of them are Chinese from Mainland China.Do you want to bring back the Asiatic Exclusion Act and Head Tax to them also ?

lol you people are hilarious. complain when there's not enough money, complain when there's a lot of money. when has gentrification ever been a problem? every great city had its humble beginnings

aLi Reynolds When has anyone ever embraced change? Its always back in my days music was better, back in my days we didnt need social media, back in my days women didn't need to work, back in my days we fought wars with bullets instead of economic sanctions. You know what there's no going back you either adapt or move on. Native americans probably felt the same way about your father's 4 generations ago.

aLi Reynolds corrupt by utopian standards? that's the problem with Vancouverites: entitlement. learn to appreciate what you have (or had in case you're a victim of gentrification, by the sounds of it you are lol)

BC PLace was completed in 1983, not just before Expo 1983 was the first year the Lions played under the dome

@@BigChib Rubbish B.C. Place was completed to coincide with expo 86. Were you even born then? I was there.

@@BigChib oops sorry it was 1983 but bc place was part of expo 86 infrastucture

Trust me its not the same. So many old spots that made Vancouver delightful is now replaced with B.S.

100%

your wrong

The film was made in 1985 😳

What an ignorant xenophobic racist comment. Thanks for confirming the horrible nature of Vancouver’s white supremacist past. Unless you’re First Nations, then you & i and everyone else is an immigrant.

This is the kind of woke idiot that is destroying this country. Wonder how many of those indians would go back to living teepees again if they could smartass.

You fucking asshole

As silly as your comments sounds to me, I get where you are coming from. Assuming you are born post 2000, the 80's probably seem so far back in time. The world developed massively post World War 2. Minus the technology, we still have plenty in common with how life was in the 1980s.

@@mickanvonfootscraymarket5520 Yep, the world from the 80s until today wasn't anywhere near as different as the same timeframe looking back from the 80s.

it is close to 40 years ago

And another thing, all the Chinese that came to BC did so to escape Communism and persecution in mainland China, not to take over Canada, we didn't "sell out" to China, we saved millions of lives. Hardeep Nijjar came to Canada seeking asylum from religious and political persecution in India, as many Punjabi citizens did, because he fought for Secularism and religious equality for Sikhs, the Far Right were actually defending the Hindu Nationalist Indian PM who's the main suspect in his murder because anyone representing the separation of Church and State is obviously the evil villain who needs to be eliminated. Our Far Right Conservatives are just as bad as the Far Right Republicans in the USA claiming everyone's a Commie and all Liberal cities aren't white enough and full of crime, drugs and homeless.

I really like it when it starts at 10:12 and then it transitions to the night time music 🕺💃🏙🌇🌃🎶🎵

Yes.its horrible. Lol

Lol

Good eye. They cribbed a bunch of stock footage from an earlier 1976 promotional tourism film about Vancouver ... CP Air 747 shown was orange in the ‘70’s ... meanwhile by the ‘80’s it became Canadian Airlines International with completely different livery.

It is correct sir.

I am not even sure who would ahve seen this film in the mid 80s so I am not sure anyone would have noticed

There's a lot of different periods mashed up in this film. 1985 makes sense for some of it - BC Place is up and the Expo lands are bare waiting for everything to be built for the fair - that says 1983 to 1985. But the styles of dress in some of the scenes definitely say 70's

So true!!

already moved p8ick. hope your kid becomes a drug addict from toxic globalist culture.gotta move from the place my for fathers built

More like shallow minds using ignorance to perpetuate bs...and you know it.

Its their country for god's sake. I would be messed up too if my country was taken by force and lies and looked down on.

That is rather harsh

Simple truths usually are to the unaccustomed...@@BCHistory