Personal Vancouver Archives: Robson Street (circa early 90's)

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Personal Vancouver Archives: Robson Street (circa early 90's)

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Andre Tardif

Күн бұрын

Transfer from tape. Unedited.
Vancouver, BC.
Canada

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@Saint3188 3 жыл бұрын

This is the Vancouver I miss the most life was so simple back then.

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@brennansawyer391 Ай бұрын

I was touched in the summer of 92😭

@briangraham1024 2 ай бұрын

I had a great run living in Vancouver from '94 to '21. Enjoyed it immensely and I wish that city only the best. Nowadays I'm happily back home in Halifax.

@orionsentry Жыл бұрын

Yes , Robson was much more lively and vibrant back in the 90s to early 2000s. I remember there were street artists that did drawings/pencil portraits of tourists for a few bucks. Gave the street more atmosphere.

@canman5060 3 жыл бұрын

Used to be a number of bookstores along Robson Street but now they are all gone !

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

@sophieandherdoggylife8496 4 ай бұрын

Seeing the old bus. Remember those tear off transfers? lol.

@Oldschool-hb8rk 3 жыл бұрын

Looked pretty safe back in the day.

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

That was before most of the gang bangers from the suburbs showed up.

@stefincanada 2 жыл бұрын

I was never worried

@ogopogo1397 2 жыл бұрын

Was, completely. Even Gastown and pigeon park were completely different. Stetchy yes but nothing like what it is now

@colouredbills4869 17 күн бұрын

@@ogopogo1397what was the hood back then ?

@jordancarlin9687 4 күн бұрын

It’s safe now . Only a lame lets someone walk up behind them or swing for no reason … and that’s an issue everywhere

@joericci4094 11 ай бұрын

Nostalgic....Back in the late '90s I lived on Broughton right of of Robson....GOOD MEMORIES!!!

@lukewarmwater5320 3 жыл бұрын

I miss eating at Fresco's on Davie late at night...hammered! Lol!

@ogopogo1397 2 жыл бұрын

2 peice fried chicken meal was 5.45 I think and a staple for me

@stefincanada 2 жыл бұрын

I loved to go shopping on robson in the 90s

@gregtessmer1849 Ай бұрын

When I was 14 years old in Vancouver!!! Downtown in gas town district it was completely safe to wander around for kids. That was in the mid 1970’s. Now with league drugs it’s a hellacious place

@ogopogo1397 3 жыл бұрын

I remember the Pastels corner. Wow its different. Vancouver was fun back then. It became worse and worse until all the character was just gone.

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

@automatic5579 2 жыл бұрын

La Brocca was opposite Pastels,and two Starbucks.

@peterk3227 3 ай бұрын

A result of the smothering affects from woke-ism and the invasion of immigrants forced upon the citizens of this once quiet Canadian paradise .

@lukewarmwater5320 3 жыл бұрын

No Asians...weird.

@schwags1969 2 ай бұрын

Mostly white people in this clip, Canada has become multiculturally diverse though.

@user-rs9pg5dl9k 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, not sure if you or anyone reading this would remember, or know of. Haha, but I've always remembered and loved this one gift shop on Robson Street. I have no idea when they shut down. Back when I was a kid, I use to love going to this shop, it was full of like holographic everything. Mirrors. Toys. Everything. Stickers. Gifts. Cards. All that stuff. Not Spencer's. Pretty sure it wasn't Spenser's. That was in Metrotown. I believe. But this one store on Robson, was a good reminisce.Sweet video.

@retrovancouver 3 жыл бұрын

I don't remember the name of it, but it was on Robson next to the Starbucks that's now an Aritzia. That might narrow down finding out what it was called. We used to go in there to look at all the holograms, it was a very 90s kind of place.

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember Spencer's in Metrotown. Got my first Lava Lamp there.

@Josh01815 2 жыл бұрын

@@retrovancouver yes!!! My favorite store as a kid growing up in Vancouver. I love the little things. Those kinds of memories. The store. It was definitely my vibe to this day! Lol I think you may be correct too, on that, I was too little to remember, what the surrounding area look like, and what was beside it I don't remember. But you may be talking about the exact store I'm thinking about. Anytime you tell anyone about this store nobody knows. 😆✌🏼 That's cool thank you.

@Josh01815 2 жыл бұрын

@@poodtang2104 the other store talking about on Robson was not Spencer's, but yes I believe there's still a Spencer's in some mall far from Vancouver, I can't remember what mall Spencer's is in now, I just know it's not near dt Central Grandville area anywhere. Lol that's a pretty cool store though. Spencer's.

@orionsentry Жыл бұрын

@@Josh01815 There's a Spencer's in Coquitlam Centre. Hot Topic also sells similar stuff.

@mishasusoeff4070 5 ай бұрын

`Its unbelievable how badly this country is screwed up now....

@user-kl4bh4lq6r 28 күн бұрын

Not a smart phone 📱 insight heaven❤

@matthewnahnee6485 Жыл бұрын

Was nicer when it wasn't crowded with international students and immigrants now they're all over and way more crime came with. We also have a housing crisis and lack of jobs, dead end traffic. I remember life was simpler even in the early to late 2000s now it's hectic can't do anything about it but pray all these people go back home or move give Vancouverites their city back.

@Neethan3247 11 ай бұрын

There is nothing wrong with having immigrants and international students.

@althunder4269 6 ай бұрын

@@Neethan3247 Then read his comment again because it says what the problem is.

@2Guapo Ай бұрын

Did everyone forget their cellphones at home?

@peterk3227 3 ай бұрын

This is just yesterday to me . 😎

@Ynalaw 3 ай бұрын

People used to walk in a straight line. My Nigerians friends walk in a mob. They bump into everything including people, cars and mailboxes.

@user-ov4mk9ox8y Ай бұрын

Starbucks Trivia: what intersection has two Starbucks juxtaosed to each other?? Thurlow and Robson.

@poodtang2104 2 жыл бұрын

Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

@nvanguy6868 4 жыл бұрын

Things sure looked different before the invasion

@Maximillion666 4 жыл бұрын

Invasion ?

@way2kool100 3 жыл бұрын

IAN m Hongcouver buddy and facts don’t care about your feelings.

@canman5060 3 жыл бұрын

@@way2kool100 This is what Fox News always said.

@canman5060 3 жыл бұрын

Invasion of what ? Chinese ? They were there long before the City was incorporated in 1886. I am chinese and Queen Victoria is my biological great great great aunt !

@MD-kh4cf 3 жыл бұрын

@@way2kool100 this is a cringey comment

@noelleQB Жыл бұрын

The Golden Age of Vancouver. Too bad it’s been destroyed.

@RoryStarr 4 ай бұрын

Some very weird comments on this so I should add that, statistically, crime has dropped since this time. What's changed is the population of the entire world has exponentially grown. There are way way more people in Vancouver then there was then.

@schwags1969 2 ай бұрын

Statistically yes, numbers wise WAY up. I figure it is a lack of general respect, and maybe multiculturalism did not help, we are losing our identity as a country. Food for thought.

@generalemail1964 25 күн бұрын

@@schwags1969There is more people of course incidences will go up. Say anywhere in the world. The fact is crime per 100,000 people is down. But you continue on being racist.

@user-ov4mk9ox8y Ай бұрын

Back just before the Leaseholds became some of the most expensive in N. America. REmember Minoya?? A really cheap nutritious Japanese style lunch to go, and you're gone.

@hallu7477 3 жыл бұрын

now everyone's hot and fit! Lol!

@hirsch4155 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah back then the hot and fit people hung out other places lol, shopping on Robson wasn’t really a thing because it wasn’t the place really to be seen and the stores weren’t that fashionable.

@ogopogo1397 2 жыл бұрын

Joking?