VANCOUVER 1964
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- In 1964, my Great Grandfather Marcel Holtze took a train from Toronto to Vancouver. The first half of the video are scenics from the rail car.
There's a stop at HornePayne (Northern Ontario ) train station. If you want to see what the station looks like now check it out...(It's abandoned)
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Shots of Vancouver as it was in 1964 start at 2:04 and you can see the Lions Gate Bridge at 2:13.
There are some shots from Prospect Point as well Queen Elizabeth Gardens.
All footage Shot by: Marcel Holtze
Edited by: Mark Holtze
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MUSIC: John Stockton Slow Drag by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommon...)
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I was a little kid in the sixties in Van, the many parks is what I remember and Stanley Park and the Lions Gate. I pulled the fire alarm downtown when I was 6 at a major park and the hook and ladder and all the others came wailing. Got in huge trouble for that. Just remembered this watching this video.
These films are very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It's cool to see how everything used to be in the 1960s-1970s.
Thanks Kyle. Ya I found it super interesting! It’s amazing what you can find in your parents basement :)
No problem. I might see if my grandparents have any old films, I know my grandma has a picture of her and a few friends standing near the Straits of Mackinac before they built the Mackinac Bridge. If I can find any old film I might upload it.
Do it! Be cool to see!
OK! I'll check both of my grandparents. Even my parents may have some old film.
Ya I got reels from my grandpas dad (great grandfather) and my grampa. Seeing my dad and uncles running around as kids was cool. Both my mom and dad as kids from both sets of my grandparents. You’ll love it! So will they when they see it.
Love the shot at 2:27 of the blue Beetle! WOW! Does that EVER bring back memories of me and my brothers being taken to Stanley Park by my mom in her blue Bug on any given Sunday!
And that's what it was all about - taking the kids out and you got to keep the memories
At 2:46 there’s what looks to be a white Oldsmobile in the foreground same as our family car! I was five at the time! Oh how I’d love to step into that frame just for an hour!!
Really nice to see the Vancouver of yesterday. The music is a beautiful choice.
Glad you enjoyed it Jason! Thanks for stopping by! ✊
Love historical videos like this, which never cease to be time-capsules; the atmospheric music is perfect. I'm in White Rock, BC, moved to metro Van in '79, the very end of the glory days.
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Beautiful job on this video! I was born around this time, and did several trips across Canada by train as a young child. I don't remember much of what I saw out the window. Mostly, I remember eating pancakes in the food car.
Thank you! Amazing to have gone on so many trips across Canada! Something I really want to do, especially now. The food car! The BEST car (for kids) :)
Gosh imagine your great grandfathers reaction if he knew how many people would see his film 50 years later.
The very thought has crossed my mind! :)
@@MarkHoltze @ about 4:06, where was that model of the Eiffel Tower? I don't remember ever seeing that? I lived in S. Burnaby/East Vancouver/ West End/N. Van from 1959-1993. Us 4 boys spent a lot of time at Stanley Park, and Prospect Point was a FAV place to hang out! Also the zoo, (the otters), and Lumberman's Arch.
Great video. So many memories of my childhood
Thanks for sharing Mark. I really enjoyed this. What a wonderful trip your GGF had!
Thanks Ivy! :) Happy you enjoyed it. Honestly it was the feeling of watching this stuff (even the generic scenics and how much they have changed) really got my heart pumping. I figured some people out must be able to find an ounce of personal value. Probably an unbelievable concept if he were still around and knew his stuff would be screened to an international audience 53 years later.
Delightful. It’s amazing that those old films have held up and not disintegrated or changed color. Kodak, if that is Kodak, did not use a stop bath and their films continued to ‘develop’. Or so someone said. Those shoeboxes full of bleached color photographs shows this. Other companies fully stopped the development and may not have this problem.
I began my interest in photography about the same time if not earlier. Recently I purchased an iPhone 8 Plus (could have been other brands) and my history of photography was crushed. Here in one tiny camera was more power and more quality than I ever had with all of the many expensive name brand cameras I purchased. Disregard the interchangeable lenses, the exposure, focus and quality is so superior. 4K HDR vs the old Kodachrome, get real. A million times better.
Of course there are scenes where colors are blown out because the user doesn’t adjust the exposure and focus may be on the distant background or a twig rather than the subject. But overall today’s smart phone enthusiast has so much more technology to work with and doesn’t know it.
It’s important to document the past. Anyone notice how little flesh the women were exposing compared to today? And how few were obese with rolls of fat circling their waist? Gotta love those 32 ounce sodas with 80000 calories.
Selfies back then were a 10 second timer on the camera so you could run and stand with the group.... Self-timer I should have written.
It is really cool to have thing like this for many years later...good vibes.
Thanks....So many good memories...spent first 30 years in Vancouver and Burnaby..worked 2 years 1964 to 66 near Georgia and Burrard...movie houses on Granville street.. QE park.....one year skated on lost lagoon in Stanley park..been back couple times but wouldn't want to live there now
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The year I was born in Vancouver
nice music!
Great footage! It would've been nice to have some music from 1964 on the soundtrack though. Beatles 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', Martha and The Vandellas 'Dancing In The Street', Dusty Springfield 'Wishin' And Hopin' and the Beach Boys 'I Get Around' would've made it even better. Copyright issues though. Anyways... great video and thanks for the history.
Would love to use Beatles but UA-cam is pretty tight on copywritten stuff so there would be a good chance they would just mute the sound all together since I don't own the rights. I use UA-cam music to avoid any of that stuff.
Creatively I wanted to keep it pretty generic to appeal to the imagintions of whoever is watching. I see these more as dream like realities vs the era in a literal sense.
I agree though music from that era would be cool. Just play some Tunes and mute the video ;)
Thanks for your feedback. Going to check out a few of those tunes I don't recognize.
Good point Justin! A few years ago I Googled Vancouver DJs, and sports broadcasters and it really got me reminiscing! In the 60s I listened to CKLG, and CFUN of course, and when I got older and played hockey, I used to watch Sports Page every night to see the BC Lions/Canucks HiLites!
this is awesome!
Thanks! What's not awesome is how long I've been sitting on these films with them in a closet.
Happy you enjoyed it. :)
this is a treasure. thank you for sharing.
My pleasure. I'm having the films professionally transferred (scanned in HD) so keep an eye out in the next few weeks I should post the new stuff. Should be a much cleaner picture :) Thanks for watching Dan!
Just curious Dan, how did you find the video?
the daily hive vancouver? their facebook page i think
These films are so beautiful Mark! Thank you for sharing them with us. In this one there is occassional sound of the train. Was your GGF shooting Super 8 sound? or did you add sfx? It is super 8 right? And are some of the edits in camera, on the footage? Thank you.
Films are 8mm I put in the sounds just for effect. I enjoyed the silence but felt the sound really put you into the moment. Super 8mm and sync sound would be brilliant.
Thanks for your kind feedback, happy to share them :)
Wow, so not even Super 8, just 8mm. The colour is amazing.
They look so much better protected...I'm officially obsessed with it...spring I'm going to dig out the camera and get some film.
Used to live near Q.E. Park in the early to mid-2000's. Sill lovely decades later.
Great memories
Hi what camera did that old bugger used mate?
I'm not sure, I have a few of his, but I think it was a Keystone.
Hi Mark! This is such great footage - what a cool memento to have. I work with ABC News in New York, and have an inquiry about the video, what is that best ways to reach you directly? Thanks much!
53 years ago.....
Weird just curious where all this traffic is coming from? It's been dormant since Feb pretty much. How did you find the video? Wasit linked from somewhere?
Great video, but the Hornepayne train station was not in Winnipeg - it was in northern Ontario.
Look at that, it's true! Not sure how I missed that, probably at :32 seconds I saw the sign "Winnipeg" after Horne Payne...will annotate thanks!
Eiffel Tower in Vancouver? (4.06min) Where was that?
+joe north Van? Definitely didn't survive if you guys do know where it is today. ;)
its really nice to see the difference from the old Vancouver, when comparing to the present Vancouver which is right now. it seems like in the old days people are more social. right now in vancouver alot of people are very anti social tbh
So many more distractions now maybe? So many options on things to do? I'm curious about this as well.
I wish Vancouver never changed from when it was like in 1964. Now Vancouver is a mess with overpopulation of immigration and high costs of housing and employment issues. Expo 86 and 2010 Winter Olympics should of never happened! Vancouver would of been a hidden gem still and people would of felt the old community feeling, knowing their neighbors. Life was more innocent and simple back in those days. I was born and still live in Vancouver since 1974.
What kind of English is "overpopulation of immigration"???
quick! to the DeLorean!
We have to go back!
1.21GW GO!
@@MarkHoltze dang, i made a mistake... 1864!!!!
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@@MarkHoltze actually, Doc Brown may have been onto something, 1864 doesn't look too bad. Fresh air, i can trade fur, get some free gold, maybe get into a fistfight with Amor De Cosmos...
@@SilverBullet93GT I can't help think about the tooth decay though....that and how shit the ale must have tasted lol
Must have been extremely affordable back them.
My parents bought a house on 36th a little East of Knight Street for $11,000 shortly after this. Maybe 1967. A little while later bought their next house in Richmond for 23k.
WOW i was born 25 years later fucking WW2 footage