I just want to take a moment to thank the cameraman for spending all his money on the video camera, which seems to be a very high quality unit, rather than spending it on the very noisy rattling and squeaking Volvo they are in. But all jokes aside, thanks for the ride down memory lane. I met my future wife in the same year. I really do miss Calgary being more simplistic. At least I was able to hug the tower before they built all those buildings around the base of it.
Kevin, thank you for the kind words. Yes, my Volvo wagon was squeaky and rattled, but it served me well, my camera, now long forgotten did it's job. I'm delighted to you enjoy the footage. I have plenty more raw footage of Calgary waiting to be digitized and uploaded. Calgary continues to evolve and grow, one day, the Calgary Tower will likely be hemmed in with views reduced to looking at office and condo towers. Enjoy the memories.
@@ReelLifeCanada I'm absolutely elated that the person who filmed this posted it, I personally want to thank you for such an awesome video. like the above post said, the camera footage is quite high quality for those times. i' m age 48, and male, i guess there is a stereotype out there about men not liking change, I fall in to that stereotype. Your video's are emotional for me and I thank you for making them.
You'd hope a building or a bridge would last at least 30 years. The real shame is the lack of improvement over our poor infrastructure and urban design.
Except the major Main Water Pipe north of 16th Avenue North of Shouldice Park at the Bowness Safeway parking lot to expire and leak in June 2024 which was installed in 1975 with 5 more trouble spots to be repaired leaving Calgary in a precarious water shortage situation, with the 6 foot plus diameter main pipe lasting one year short of 50 years of dependable service!
The family came to Alberta in 1906 and mostly resided in Calgary, I left for the Okanagan in 1980 and I have often thought what it would be like to be in Calgary hell, had I not left!
Calgary's hell started after the 1988 Winter Olympics when the flood gates opened up and detrimental population explosion happened with cookie cutter box house districts popped up all over the place, and character designed houses and bungalows disappeared! I witnessed all of this, being born here and raised for over 65 years! The golden sixties were the best with 250000 people, and today were at a bursting 1.7 Million with infrastructure lagging behind, especially with road capacity and public transit woefully inadequate!
I remember that boarded up office building. When the city went into recession in the early eighties, the builder just walked away with it only partly built. It sat that way for years. There were also cases where the hole was dug, and then the builders walked away. There was one one Eighth ave mall that was left like that for ages. I worked in two of the buildings you showed downtown, one no longer there, other one different owner.
At 10:45 you see the words "El Salvador Vencera!" which means "El Salvador Will Win!". This is likely referencing the El Salvadoran civil war from 1979-1992. This stood out to me because my parents in 1990 were in El Salvador, and they actually moved here to Calgary in 1991 fearing that we would not get a good chance at life over there. I was born a month after we landed.
We came in 1985, and these streets have also been my home, but that moment in the video also was meaningful to me. Filmed two years before the war ended. That feels deep.
@@brianfantana8510 You’re right and also wrong. In my opinion. There are some world class buildings. And then there are buildings that are like from Soviet Russia. And many old character buildings were torn down. Calgary today is not bad at all, but it could have been so much more interesting, that’s how I feel. Because when you look at actual world class cities, you won’t really find ugly cheap housing in the downtown core. Or at least the architecture still fits the aesthetic, even if cheap, but some of the buildings in downtown Calgary are actually ugly and have no aesthetic value.
@@brianfantana8510 And the reason I like Calgary from that video more is mostly because there are no condos. I don’t like them very much because they’re mostly generic, it’s not great architecture. They will not be interesting in 50 years. They will be as interesting as those apartment buildings from the 70s. It’s just not great architecture. Stephen Ave has great architecture. And I’m not one of those who despise skyscrapers. I think Calgary has many impressive skyscrapers.
What a great year 1990 summer of that year is the year we moved to ontario from Fort McMurray Alberta good video and good times watch were you go... and remember where you've been
Lower Deck of Centre Street Bridge was also used in the 1976 film 'Silver Streak'. As you drive down 4th Avenue SW and pass the Westin Hotel, the bar attached known as the Owl's Nest was where the Caesar was born. Didn't know the building that has Supreme Men's Wear kiddie-corner from the Westin was still vacant land back in 1990. 14:11 - Old school AGT long distance billboard was still on side of building before the Grand Theatre until around the early 2000's. Old Calgary Herald building and printing building will be replaced with Brookfield Place many years later too. Glass tower after Bay Parkade on 6th Avenue would house the Federal Government's National Energy Board (now Canada Energy Regulator) 18 months later. No 'potato mashers' between TD Square and Banker's Hall yet. I love the 'The End' at the end of the video.
Wow, I was born in 1991, got my driver's licence at 14, and have been driving for almost 16 years and I know this city so well my wife calls me a human GPS 😂. It's amazing how the roads are exactly the same as they were 30 years ago. Only things that have changed are the buildings. I should drive this same route.
I first started coming to Calgary in 94, before I finally escaped Edmonton, and landed in 95, been here ever since. Great place to live. Friendly people. Multicultural.
Haha, I love the "escaped Edmonton" part. I lived in Edmonton, it was like a sentence for doing something wrong. I actually moved to Calgary in may of 2005 as I was in O&G at the time, I moved back to my home town in 2023 outside Red Deer. Calgary was good to me, I have moments were I miss it, I'm old now and said I was going to move back to my home town by age 50, I left at age 47. Calgarians are incredible people I will always hold Calgary near and dear to my heart, I live a quiet life on my acreage now, I wouldn't have it any other way.
@@18432 The difference between Edmonton in Calgary. Edmonton complained constantly about Calgary, we had taller buildings, a better airport, closer to the mountains, and so on, where as in Calgary, we simply don't care. :)
@@18432 It always felt like they didn't have the same international understanding and view as those in Calgary. More likely the result of bring in international help into Calgary to help with the O&G. I find the city to be more intellectual. Maybe that was just my circles. Management consulting to O&G. Cities have their strengths, like Edmonton's impressive river valley or the arts scene, with more musicians, music places, galleries, theatres and the Fringe. I love the chinooks, though, like getting spring 4-5 times/year. :)
Im only now just discovering these. Curious, where is all this footage coming from?? Its hard to imagine someone with a big camera filming randomly. Thanks! Absolutely loving these😁✌️
As the video goes past Shouldice Park, the day I type this (June 10 / 2024), a massive water main break occurred flooding the park and causing 1 million residents to conserve water. Hopefully the problem will be resolved before Stampede time (just like the 2013 Flood).
I remember that trailer park beside 16th and the BOW River. Friend's family had a house just past there, along the river, with a little over an acre of land. Hard to watch with the camera movement.
Makes you wonder how amazing it will be to dive back in time to lets say 2021 from 2081 and view it all in 4k video, with walking, driving, drone footage, thats if we make it as a humanity that is and not nuke ourselves by then.
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I just want to take a moment to thank the cameraman for spending all his money on the video camera, which seems to be a very high quality unit, rather than spending it on the very noisy rattling and squeaking Volvo they are in. But all jokes aside, thanks for the ride down memory lane. I met my future wife in the same year. I really do miss Calgary being more simplistic. At least I was able to hug the tower before they built all those buildings around the base of it.
Kevin, thank you for the kind words. Yes, my Volvo wagon was squeaky and rattled, but it served me well, my camera, now long forgotten did it's job. I'm delighted to you enjoy the footage. I have plenty more raw footage of Calgary waiting to be digitized and uploaded. Calgary continues to evolve and grow, one day, the Calgary Tower will likely be hemmed in with views reduced to looking at office and condo towers. Enjoy the memories.
@@ReelLifeCanada I'm absolutely elated that the person who filmed this posted it, I personally want to thank you for such an awesome video. like the above post said, the camera footage is quite high quality for those times. i' m age 48, and male, i guess there is a stereotype out there about men not liking change, I fall in to that stereotype. Your video's are emotional for me and I thank you for making them.
It's amazing seeing much of the stuff that's still relatively intact after 30 years. 😲
You'd hope a building or a bridge would last at least 30 years. The real shame is the lack of improvement over our poor infrastructure and urban design.
Except the major Main Water Pipe north of 16th Avenue North of Shouldice Park at the Bowness Safeway parking lot to expire and leak in June 2024 which was installed in 1975 with 5 more trouble spots to be repaired leaving Calgary in a precarious water shortage situation, with the 6 foot plus diameter main pipe lasting one year short of 50 years of dependable service!
Thank you for the trip down memory lane!!
Thank you so much for sharing it! It's like a drive through my childhood. I appreciate the explanations too.
Watching this I suddenly miss the good old station wagons that are everywhere! They certainly had their place!
This is just incredible
The family came to Alberta in 1906 and mostly resided in Calgary, I left for the Okanagan in 1980 and I have often thought what it would be like to be in Calgary hell, had I not left!
Calgary's hell started after the 1988 Winter Olympics when the flood gates opened up and detrimental population explosion happened with cookie cutter box house districts popped up all over the place, and character designed houses and bungalows disappeared! I witnessed all of this, being born here and raised for over 65 years!
The golden sixties were the best with 250000 people, and today were at a bursting 1.7 Million with infrastructure lagging behind, especially with road capacity and public transit woefully inadequate!
I remember that boarded up office building. When the city went into recession in the early eighties, the builder just walked away with it only partly built. It sat that way for years. There were also cases where the hole was dug, and then the builders walked away. There was one one Eighth ave mall that was left like that for ages. I worked in two of the buildings you showed downtown, one no longer there, other one different owner.
From 1982 until 1999 i was a bike courier in Calgary brings back many memories from that time.
At 10:45 you see the words "El Salvador Vencera!" which means "El Salvador Will Win!". This is likely referencing the El Salvadoran civil war from 1979-1992. This stood out to me because my parents in 1990 were in El Salvador, and they actually moved here to Calgary in 1991 fearing that we would not get a good chance at life over there. I was born a month after we landed.
We came in 1985, and these streets have also been my home, but that moment in the video also was meaningful to me. Filmed two years before the war ended. That feels deep.
@@rosita061I'm glad we are safe and sound
Love this!
Wow, what a blast from the past
Calgary of the 90s looked better than the present. Makes me sad.
Couldn't disagree more. Calgary's downtown, especially the architecture is world class.
@@brianfantana8510 You’re right and also wrong. In my opinion. There are some world class buildings. And then there are buildings that are like from Soviet Russia. And many old character buildings were torn down. Calgary today is not bad at all, but it could have been so much more interesting, that’s how I feel. Because when you look at actual world class cities, you won’t really find ugly cheap housing in the downtown core. Or at least the architecture still fits the aesthetic, even if cheap, but some of the buildings in downtown Calgary are actually ugly and have no aesthetic value.
@@brianfantana8510 And the reason I like Calgary from that video more is mostly because there are no condos. I don’t like them very much because they’re mostly generic, it’s not great architecture. They will not be interesting in 50 years. They will be as interesting as those apartment buildings from the 70s. It’s just not great architecture. Stephen Ave has great architecture. And I’m not one of those who despise skyscrapers. I think Calgary has many impressive skyscrapers.
What a great year 1990 summer of that year is the year we moved to ontario from Fort McMurray Alberta good video and good times watch were you go... and remember where you've been
My deepest condolences on your move to Ontario! We Calgarians will welcome you back on your return!
Wow, no traffic the good old days
Thanks for posting... completely forgot the Robin Hood mill.
Lower Deck of Centre Street Bridge was also used in the 1976 film 'Silver Streak'.
As you drive down 4th Avenue SW and pass the Westin Hotel, the bar attached known as the Owl's Nest was where the Caesar was born.
Didn't know the building that has Supreme Men's Wear kiddie-corner from the Westin was still vacant land back in 1990.
14:11 - Old school AGT long distance billboard was still on side of building before the Grand Theatre until around the early 2000's.
Old Calgary Herald building and printing building will be replaced with Brookfield Place many years later too.
Glass tower after Bay Parkade on 6th Avenue would house the Federal Government's National Energy Board (now Canada Energy Regulator) 18 months later.
No 'potato mashers' between TD Square and Banker's Hall yet.
I love the 'The End' at the end of the video.
Wow, I was born in 1991, got my driver's licence at 14, and have been driving for almost 16 years and I know this city so well my wife calls me a human GPS 😂. It's amazing how the roads are exactly the same as they were 30 years ago. Only things that have changed are the buildings. I should drive this same route.
And the cultures of the people, in race and behavior!
I first started coming to Calgary in 94, before I finally escaped Edmonton, and landed in 95, been here ever since. Great place to live. Friendly people. Multicultural.
Haha, I love the "escaped Edmonton" part. I lived in Edmonton, it was like a sentence for doing something wrong. I actually moved to Calgary in may of 2005 as I was in O&G at the time, I moved back to my home town in 2023 outside Red Deer. Calgary was good to me, I have moments were I miss it, I'm old now and said I was going to move back to my home town by age 50, I left at age 47. Calgarians are incredible people I will always hold Calgary near and dear to my heart, I live a quiet life on my acreage now, I wouldn't have it any other way.
@@18432 The difference between Edmonton in Calgary. Edmonton complained constantly about Calgary, we had taller buildings, a better airport, closer to the mountains, and so on, where as in Calgary, we simply don't care. :)
@@18432 It always felt like they didn't have the same international understanding and view as those in Calgary. More likely the result of bring in international help into Calgary to help with the O&G. I find the city to be more intellectual. Maybe that was just my circles. Management consulting to O&G. Cities have their strengths, like Edmonton's impressive river valley or the arts scene, with more musicians, music places, galleries, theatres and the Fringe. I love the chinooks, though, like getting spring 4-5 times/year. :)
Cool thanks for sharing
Im only now just discovering these. Curious, where is all this footage coming from?? Its hard to imagine someone with a big camera filming randomly. Thanks! Absolutely loving these😁✌️
As the video goes past Shouldice Park, the day I type this (June 10 / 2024), a massive water main break occurred flooding the park and causing 1 million residents to conserve water. Hopefully the problem will be resolved before Stampede time (just like the 2013 Flood).
That did not affect me! I did not go with the flow!
13:00, you can still see the sign of the old VIA station in the basement of the Calgary Tower.
Lived in a basement apartment on memorial drive just pass the 14 st bridge (Kensington)get this, for 350 per month when this video was made. 😀
Yes, The Old Spaghetti Factory...railcar inside...great eating.
I remember that trailer park beside 16th and the BOW River. Friend's family had a house just past there, along the river, with a little over an acre of land. Hard to watch with the camera movement.
not realizing i will be driving along this same road 35 years ,later,,
So jealous of essentially no traffic. I work downtown and all those roads are the same but there are many times more cars.
Awesome video. Do you have something similar for Edmonton please?
Why? The best thing coming out of Edmonton is the highway! Lol!
@@agems56 And they botched that too.
Makes you wonder how amazing it will be to dive back in time to lets say 2021 from 2081 and view it all in 4k video, with walking, driving, drone footage, thats if we make it as a humanity that is and not nuke ourselves by then.
That KFC near home road is still there lol
wow that kfc in bowness was there 31 years ago? lmao its still there
And two pieces of chicken today for the price of that bucket full back then!
3:05 Gas price 43.4 cent
Hasn't changed a bit