"Our Town" Footage of Victoria BC people and places in the 1960's
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2018
- This footage from the 1960's comes from a 16mm film I purchased from an estate during my days as proprietor of Camera Traders. The cameraman was Rick Crawford, his company was Nomad Films. Crawford was a cameraman in the US navy (see my colour 16mm footage of the USS Hawkbill submarine in WWII). Crawford was also a street preacher in Victoria.
Heartbreaking to see that beautiful home tore down...very very sad
The houses being bulldozed look like the ones which were destroyed to make way for the Blanshard Street project. Lots of them were removed in the Hillside area. No excavators, hardhats, or hi vis vests back then! I remember the Sudbury II quite well. It was a deep sea tug and a friends father was an engineer on it. This video brings back lots of memories from when I was young. Thanks for posting!
I live in Victoria
It’s nice to see Victoria as it was and not what it has become
Grumpy. That's why we left.
Too bad there's no sound track or narration to explain what we're looking at.
Very sad to see the destruction of the beautiful home. I live on Vancouver Island and I used to like to visit Victoria but since the 1980s it is not anything I want to see.May as well visit downtown eastside in Vancouver. Beacon Hill Park used to be beautiful. Last time I was there, the grass was almost knee high, there was garbage everywhere.....it looked like a homeless camp.
If they only had any idea back then lol.
At ~3:15 bulldozing a Queen Anne style wooden house: wow what a waste of good wood. Glad to see demolitions today use “unbuilding” & recycling of the materials.