I remember my class and others on the Orange and brown Sea bus going to the Second narrows and back in the Harbour for a field trip of the the New "Sea Bus" 1977 not the typical across and back route...
Queen of Coquitlam on it's way to Burrard drydock where it would soon fall over and issue the first mayday from dry land 😢, also Princess Superior headed to the Canadian Pacific Railway pier in Downtown Vancouver
Those townhouses/apartments at 4:50 were a co-op rental housing development called 'The Castings'. My friend lived at 1133D The Castings. They are long gone now. I moved to Metro Van in '79 and my friend was from Ottawa - he worked at VGH and was a perfect place to live for him.
The Castings are still there, part of False Creek South, as is the red roofed False Creek Co-op. All the original 1970s developments are still part of False Creek. Unless the Castings was converted to condos, as far as I know the buildings are all still there.
I remember the Marco polo when it moved to the bottom of Chesterfield in north Vancouver then was demolished to build a theater then the theater was demolished aswell......im getting old i guess
Georgia Medical Dental building, i remember when that structure was imploded, probably the dustiest day in downtown history (probably full of asbestos too)
Landed in Vancouver from Tanzania in 1972. Probably the best years of my life. Never really got use to the rain and cold though. It was a vibrant and multicultural city. Although racism was prevalent but manageable. I think the community was adjusting to the all the immigration.
😂 every ethnic country is ‘racist’ japan to china the african tribes to one another the japanese to the koreans the hungarians to the romanians the punjabi sikhs to the hindu’s Anywhere there is a different identity there is a conflict and if its not that then its class warfare. The endless ‘racism’ talk is super annoying
6:53 I was told the center core was made then the building was built from the top down, suppose to be earthquake proof. Now I think they were turned into condos
Do you mean the suspended building at 6:26? The former Westcoast Transmission Tower, now Qube condos was built as you described, concrete core first, then cables were attached, the floors were build on the ground, then hoisted into place, starting with the top floor of course. It’s not earthquake p of, but earthquake resistant. In a heavy wind it can be felt to sway about a foot or so from the core in either direction. A little disconcerting at first, then you get used to it.
Ah Ken, you're 10 years early with your criticism. Old Ronnie (& Thatcher) didn't really show up until the following 80's. However, prior to their administrations the Hayek & Friedman philosophies were being well absorbed by all those upcoming capitalist raiders soon to enter that subseqent decade. 😮
Ah yes. The 1970s. Remember it well enough. That's when interest rates soared and Reaganomics began to destroy the middle class with enormous tax breaks for the rich and especially the very rich. Canada followed suit, as it always does. It was all supposed to trickle down, like piss from the leaky bladder of the monopoly man. But it didn't and instead many Canadians lost their homes, entered poverty, and never fully recovered.
Break point for me was 1980: the election of RR, Mulroney, and Thatcher and it's been pretty much downhill for the common man from then on. Posters think this shite started with "Justin" or "Biden" but they haven't lived life. Suicides in the eighties, Food Banks stared as a TEMPORARY solution, job CREATORS destroyed when young so the current billionaire families were the only ones allowed at the big poker table. Yeh, came north from Santa Monica in 1978, back to my birth country. Now look at the mess.
A wonderful, dreamy even, revisiting of the Vancouver I knew and loved as a child. Thank you!
I remember my class and others on the Orange and brown Sea bus going to the Second narrows and back in the Harbour for a field trip of the the New "Sea Bus" 1977 not the typical across and back route...
Moved to Vancouver in the early 80's, still looked a lot like this.
I came in 1993. The best time.
Queen of Coquitlam on it's way to Burrard drydock where it would soon fall over and issue the first mayday from dry land 😢, also Princess Superior headed to the Canadian Pacific Railway pier in Downtown Vancouver
Those townhouses/apartments at 4:50 were a co-op rental housing development called 'The Castings'. My friend lived at 1133D The Castings. They are long gone now. I moved to Metro Van in '79 and my friend was from Ottawa - he worked at VGH and was a perfect place to live for him.
The Castings are still there, part of False Creek South, as is the red roofed False Creek Co-op. All the original 1970s developments are still part of False Creek. Unless the Castings was converted to condos, as far as I know the buildings are all still there.
Not sure why I remembered the city like this as a kid...since I wouldn't have been born for atleast another 20 years....
Imagine driving around with no congestion everywhere
Late 70s as the SEA BUS didn't exist until 1977
I remember the Marco polo when it moved to the bottom of Chesterfield in north Vancouver then was demolished to build a theater then the theater was demolished aswell......im getting old i guess
Georgia Medical Dental building, i remember when that structure was imploded, probably the dustiest day in downtown history (probably full of asbestos too)
4:51 what are these buildings in the front, with funny roofs? They are just beautiful. Maybe someone knows the address? Thanks!
951 Lameys Mill Road. That was easy.
A lot of those photos are from the 80s
You're probably correct; the oldest look to come from 1976, some from as late as the 80s.
Before expo 86 and Gordo effed it all up
Landed in Vancouver from Tanzania in 1972. Probably the best years of my life. Never really got use to the rain and cold though. It was a vibrant and multicultural city. Although racism was prevalent but manageable. I think the community was adjusting to the all the immigration.
racism was prevalent
😂 every ethnic country is ‘racist’ japan to china the african tribes to one another the japanese to the koreans the hungarians to the romanians the punjabi sikhs to the hindu’s
Anywhere there is a different identity there is a conflict and if its not that then its class warfare. The endless ‘racism’ talk is super annoying
"bad things happen everywhere, so we should never speak up about bad things" what terrible logic you have.
6:53 I was told the center core was made then the building was built from the top down, suppose to be earthquake proof. Now I think they were turned into condos
Do you mean the suspended building at 6:26? The former Westcoast Transmission Tower, now Qube condos was built as you described, concrete core first, then cables were attached, the floors were build on the ground, then hoisted into place, starting with the top floor of course. It’s not earthquake p of, but earthquake resistant. In a heavy wind it can be felt to sway about a foot or so from the core in either direction. A little disconcerting at first, then you get used to it.
@IanForsythWestCoast yes, that one. Cool style. Would like to see it, in an earthquake lol
A lot of the places this was shot from are now inaccessible to the public since the port land grab in the name of security after 911
Wow Vancouver use to be clean
Ah Ken, you're 10 years early with your criticism. Old Ronnie (& Thatcher) didn't really show up until the following 80's. However, prior to their administrations the Hayek & Friedman philosophies were being well absorbed by all those upcoming capitalist raiders soon to enter that subseqent decade. 😮
Good video. But the "Old Canada series" tag is frankly, annoying. 1870s could be considered to be old, but not the 1970s.
You don't think 50+ years ago is old?
Ah yes. The 1970s. Remember it well enough. That's when interest rates soared and Reaganomics began to destroy the middle class with enormous tax breaks for the rich and especially the very rich. Canada followed suit, as it always does. It was all supposed to trickle down, like piss from the leaky bladder of the monopoly man. But it didn't and instead many Canadians lost their homes, entered poverty, and never fully recovered.
Break point for me was 1980: the election of RR, Mulroney, and Thatcher and it's been pretty much downhill for the common man from then on. Posters think this shite started with "Justin" or "Biden" but they haven't lived life. Suicides in the eighties, Food Banks stared as a TEMPORARY solution, job CREATORS destroyed when young so the current billionaire families were the only ones allowed at the big poker table. Yeh, came north from Santa Monica in 1978, back to my birth country. Now look at the mess.