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
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.
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!
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!
@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.
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
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**
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.
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.
@@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.
@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
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)
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
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.
This was The Vancouver of my childhood. 77-83 . A Beautiful place to live. Comicbooks, my bike, little brothers, street hockey, little league, and truth or dare just around the corner. Vancouver was already diverse and coming from the Eastern end of the Country it was where I first encountered the East that came from all over Asia. The first schools attended when coming to Vancouver were General Wolf (not to be mistaken for Gen Wolf secondary in Oakvilke Ontario) and Florence Nightengale. Didnt check spelling. Then there were two others I cant remember the name of followed by Gilmour in Burnaby and Franklin just one street behind the Kootenay Loop on Hastings st. We Moved alot and next stop would be Toronto Ontario. Sorry didnt check spelling.
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.
I grew up in Vancouver in the 70-80's, I recognize most of this, how I wish Vancouver was still like this.
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
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
I moved to this metro area with my parents and siblings in April ‘79. Your comments resonate with me.
I really miss the original vancouver, wish I had a time machine.
I'm fortunate to have grown up in this beautiful city, but sad it had to change.
I know, it hasn't changed for the better.
Thank you for posting this video.. really nostalgic for me as i was a kid then
That Vancouver was truly perfect.....why did it change so much?
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
Thank you for sharing
Love Vancouver ...always will ...was helped, by so many inspiring individuals there #VanCity
Thanks. Robson Square was brand new when you shot this video.
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
Well before the laundered money poured into the city.
now downtown is so overbuilt it looks like flies crawling over a particularly odorous turd....
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.
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!
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!
Everything looks so much more natural back then.
As previously mentioned , it was our little secret till expo happened , then it all went down hill after that.
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.
great work
I lived in Kitsalano on Balaclava right near Wreck Beach
I worked at Orestes' restaurant in the 80s. Broadway and Balaclava.
Fun times then
fantastic!
Moved to the LML in 71 lol I live by the Portman Bridge right now . VanCity Is Awesome 💖
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
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**
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@@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**
Home sweet home
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.
0:42 - 051 is the intersection of Granville and Dunsmuir - not Georgia.
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.
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.
COOL!!!!!
Moved to Van in 80 from winterpeg. As a 10 year old o thought I died and went to Heaven.
A time when construction didn’t dominate the landscape! When things ran so much smoother!
O. Yes ..TIME is fast
any pictures to share? like photographs from this time?
Back when you could go downtown on a Friday night and catch a movie without worrying about being stabbed to death?...
Thats film man. Not video. Home video cameras didn't exist until the mid 80's
@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
Traffics looks more appealing 😒
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)
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
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.
seems like a lot less cars then
More people = more problems
Well, at least lost lagoon looks the same.
Groovy
This was The Vancouver of my childhood. 77-83 . A Beautiful place to live. Comicbooks, my bike, little brothers, street hockey, little league, and truth or dare just around the corner. Vancouver was already diverse and coming from the Eastern end of the Country it was where I first encountered the East that came from all over Asia. The first schools attended when coming to Vancouver were General Wolf (not to be mistaken for Gen Wolf secondary in Oakvilke Ontario) and Florence Nightengale. Didnt check spelling. Then there were two others I cant remember the name of followed by Gilmour in Burnaby and Franklin just one street behind the Kootenay Loop on Hastings st. We Moved alot and next stop would be Toronto Ontario. Sorry didnt check spelling.
I think they were building the new Eaton Centre.
Nope, it was finished in 1973, 6 years earlier.
Vancouver very expensive housing and rent .
An overpriced dump now.
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.
beautiful british columbia,