We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
I like the trams and stuff, but I will say Vancouvers glass skyline today is actually very beautiful and is what made it stand out as a city. Way better then alot of the rundown skyscrapers they have south of us.
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
Amazing footage. Back when Vancouver was a working class town, people were happy and respectful, and not a cop in sight. Love all the old trucks, wish I could find some to work on now. Thanks
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
4:24 loved stopping at the Peter Pan for early early breakfast with Mom and Dad before driving out to Horseshoe Bay to fish for salmon. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
@@MYNautiGirl You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
@briandriscoll1480 no, it wasn't tolerated. This is why they spiked people's brains, and used electro shock therapy on the temples. It was rampant. You just didn't have the same media devices we have today that makes people more aware.
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
That was right after the biggest war mankind has ever seen, there was a lot of work to do. Also wages were much fairer, all the money didn't go to the bosses. A mill worker earned enough to buy a house.
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function... the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight! nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism.... i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
Just to think my late grandparents and great grandparents were working and building their houses around the time while this individual was making this film. My parents were born a few years later. I recognize a lot of those buildings from the last time I was there. As I watch this i can't help wondering if they were driving by or walking by.🤔 Amazing how big a city it was still even in 1950..😮👍
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
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1947 Brill trolleybuses and they tried to replace them with flyer trolleys which only lasted about 15 years
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
I think Vancouver is already great in terms of design. We just need to find a way to get addicts off the street using good programs. As well as densifying our suburbs to make more supply for housing so that hardworking young people can have a future! More skytrain and bringing back the trams in this video would also be great
Very interesting how vibrant and busy was Hastings, Main, Cambie. Seems like good times in Vancouver. Unfortunately everything has changed in that area. Just poverty, drugs, homeless people. It’s very sad what happened to downtown Vancouver 😢
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
my Dad bought his first investment property bac in 1972 in west vancouver for $135K, sold it a year ago for $14 mil. He was keep saying he should have bought that property 1965 when it was 100K and put his 35K on another one in surrey. in fast he was able to get 2x 20,000sqf houses there. i will send him this video , thank you
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
WOW !! RETRO VANCOUVER Love IT !! IN Colour & comes with Sound Too BIG Thnx for The Time Machine Footage !! Let's See More Do you have any of Beach Ave during that Time ?
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
i like how this comment section is like 85% universally agreeable sentiments about how & why the city has gotten worse over time and then 15% old people being flagrantly racist for no reason
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
Have you read the news since 1950? The Empire is dead and, soon, its child empire will die too. I'm glad you enjoyed those times but I think it's time to move on. No more Jimmy Saville, Prince Andrew pedohphilia... and Harry's narcissistic family....no thanks, by the way of Dodo they shall go.
@@JayKarpwick the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction. This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
Like Seattle in that time frame, folks had purpose, God, Family and Country was very much a common bond regardless of age, gender, ethnicity. Now its none of that thus why the declines in many of these "once" beautiful and exciting cities
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.
Seems far nicer than today actually.
Is definitely nicer than today.
We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
It's so insanely overpopulated now :'c
Not too many high rises so light got in.
I like the trams and stuff, but I will say Vancouvers glass skyline today is actually very beautiful and is what made it stand out as a city. Way better then alot of the rundown skyscrapers they have south of us.
Iam in my 35th year as a transit operator and watching this makes me smile, times were different then and people payed the fare!
The fare gates are a joke for drugggiess and the increasingly larger invasive species, those who like to enter when someone else pays.
Thank you for your service! Bus drivers are super important, I actually wanted to be one a long time ago
🎉😂❤😅😊.
You're ✅️. Our bus drivers,stay safe & healthy.😊
Thank you 👍it’s been a great ride all these years!
@@mancunianmartin558that’s me alright!👍
That's amazing footage!!
Fascinating video.
Was born there in 1949. Everything seems so much more civilized back then when compared to the city today.
You sure got that right
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
Ok boomer
@@NicoleVanderwyst Devastating! Good for you, internet troll
It was more like a small town (but bigger).
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
Amazing footage. Back when Vancouver was a working class town, people were happy and respectful, and not a cop in sight. Love all the old trucks, wish I could find some to work on now. Thanks
Wow!! Excellent video. Vancouver had a great tram system in its day. Thanks for sharing.
My MIL was a nurse and road to work on the trolley bus.
You could take rail transit from waterfront all the way to Chilliwack.
Nice find!
No jaywalker was harmed in the making of this video.
growing up in Vancouver, this is amazing footage to see the major transformation along Granville Street South. Incredible. wow.
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
4:24 loved stopping at the Peter Pan for early early breakfast with Mom and Dad before driving out to Horseshoe Bay to fish for salmon. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
Thank you for sharing! I'm below 30 years old so your memories are really valuable to me since I didn't see Vancouver back then :)
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
@@Nob-c3j "your" younger? That'd be 'you're' younger. Did you go to school? Sorry?
@@wintermutt9090 Sorry I made a mistake in typing to quickly. Deeply Sorry, my mistake.
@@wintermutt9090 The hero I needed
What is truly amazing is how many of the buildings in this are still standing, still occupied and by the same business.
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
@@glenw-xm5zf
Now is the time ⏲️ 🙌 😊.
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
House on Vancouver West side 1950 = $16,000 (60 foot lot) today same house
$ 5 million
Getting rid of "character" in Vancouver is a simple as abc development...
@@glenw-xm5zf It's certainly worth the $4,984,000 price difference, much safer and cleaner now. Traffic is better too.
@@MYNautiGirl You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
West on Hastings, before it totally became the Downtown Eastside. I remember shopping there as a kid.
West Hastings is sill pretty darn nice.
Army and Navy, and the Whitecap cafe'.
@@glenw-xm5zf I remember a neon-lit butcher sign that featured a pig. Also, the old Woodwards Department Store.
Would be nice in a week. Just have to crack down like the Chinese Emperor is visiting.
@@matzrat5006Yes from Cambie towards west.😊
Imagine if Vancouver kept all those trolleys!
All the people out going about their business on east Hastings, uncivil behaviour wasn’t tolerated, what a contrast to today.
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
Before the planned destruction of the West by the people who we are not allowed to criticize.
@briandriscoll1480 no, it wasn't tolerated.
This is why they spiked people's brains, and used electro shock therapy on the temples. It was rampant. You just didn't have the same media devices we have today that makes people more aware.
Born in Vancouver in 1947. Can remember the excitement when the trolleys were replaced by "rubber". A big mistake!
Why a mistake? -Born in '45, in Vancouver
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@@kenneth7027 Vancouver Burnaby New West was also like 500,000 people. Huge diff for traffic
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
All the trams and trolleybuses running on electricity... until the oil companies got rid of them.
Probably considered quite mundane at the time of its making. This film now is priceless and fascinating.
Just spotted 3 1950 Plymouths just like mine. Light Green 4 doors !
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
My parents ( father was a vet ) always housed vets with ptsd from the time I was born until I was 16.
@@Libertyjack1 I should be? Do you know anything about me?
@@Test-vl1ibI could be wrong but your comment sounds like something a boomer says while mid rant about how everyone is lazy today.
@@patty109109 You could indeed be.
What amazing footage!! I couldn't take my eyes off it. I live in Vancouver and have driven in all those areas for years. Wow - thanks for the upload 👍
Did you notice everyone was working.
That was right after the biggest war mankind has ever seen, there was a lot of work to do. Also wages were much fairer, all the money didn't go to the bosses. A mill worker earned enough to buy a house.
i noticed another thing people had in common too
I didn't see the part where this entered people's homes to find this out.
😂😂😂
Some of the captions aren't accurate. A lot of the "Going South on Granville" section is actually Broadway.
Feels like time travelling
So many beautiful cars back than
ROFL yeah like the doors would fly open. We miss the era more than the cars.
I only saw super ugly cars.
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
LOL. Door that pop open when you turn a sharp corner. No thank you.
Now you would swear you walked onto the set of a zombie movie
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function...
the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight!
nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism....
i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
That's because when you went to the movies, you got two cups of popcorn, not two gallons!
People had to save every penny back then, and food was scarce after the war.
@@westerlywinds5684 Food wasn't scarce in Canada. There was plenty to eat. They were the biggest, healthiest people on the planet.
All adults smoked.
Just to think my late grandparents and great grandparents were working and building their houses around the time while this individual was making this film.
My parents were born a few years later.
I recognize a lot of those buildings from the last time I was there.
As I watch this i can't help wondering if they were driving by or walking by.🤔
Amazing how big a city it was still even in 1950..😮👍
Wow people get on and off the trolleys in the middle of granville. I'm surprised no one got hit by a car
tiny bit less traffic!
I'm sure lots of people got hit by cars. My Mother-inlaw said it was pretty dangerous.
@Stone_Horse but I remember they stared down at their roadmap while driving.
Yes,sometimes they were hit & worst!!!☠️
How did people back then survive without a safe supply of meth and crack?
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
It a great question. Lot's of road cracks.😮
They had lots of drugs.. Amphetamine was prescribed to so many people. Every second housewife was a speed freak.
@@jcmurr2669
The Purple Pill
Alcohol
Vancouver is a diverse over populated expensive hole now where the English language is as tough to spot as a Sasquatch sighting.
It’s great. Better restaurants and bakeries now thanks to immigration, and make new friends from far away places. I like. 😅
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
Sad but true 😢. Lived there for over 20 years and moved away 4 years ago. It was nice while it lasted. But things became more difficult to stay there.
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
@AdamtheGrey02 cry more lmao! If you don't like it, get the fuck out! Maybe Germany? Mind you Hitler is no longer in power though. Just FYI! 😂
wow main and broadway;. that building is still there. so cool!
no encampments or drug addict losers, what a time to be alive !
Yeah it was nirvana. Raging alcoholics with PTSD from the war, who beat their wives every night. What a time to be alive!
The city has changed so much since the time.I visited Vancouver so many times l love this city !
Ave you been to Vancouver recently? It's a pest hole.
Than move to Hastings Street bwn Abbott & Main st dump & stench!!!😊
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.
They have hand signals in those days. No indicator lights.
my dad told me the trams rolled from vancouver to chilliwack when he was a kid
Tracks are still there, from Cloverdale to Chilliwack.
@@matzrat5006 i know i grew up in langley but left BC a couple years ago now
isn't it more or less just a trail with a power line down the middle?
yes they did through langley and abbotsford
The cars were all so big back in those days. The trolley/tram things were before my time but the rounded Brill buses I loved to ride
Big cars, with next to nothing brakes.
The city has the same bones, but much more new, one of the most beautiful city's in the world.
Not now…faceless inhuman highrises
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
1947 Brill trolleybuses and they tried to replace them with flyer trolleys which only lasted about 15 years
Remarkable footage for 1959
0:12 so there was a time when construction workers were actually working in road repair.
What a glorious time. Wise guys were all over the place!
Mamma mia, there were no junkies on East Hastings! What a nice city😊
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
Buses increased greatly the nasty pollutions,not the smokers!!!😂❤😊
i don't think you have ever driven on a main road that still has the tracks in it. and the rough brickwork that makes driving oh so much fun.
@@glenw-xm5zf driven? You just admitted the problem.
@@misterfunnybones You weren't here in the fifties, were you??
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
Actually the water in False Creek was dirty as a cow's bowels. Today not so
We had street cars in Saskatoon. They disappeared around the same time as Vancouver's. Sad.
Make Vancouver Great Again!
You have to make the people great again first.
Impossible, unless God does it
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
@@westerlywinds5684 People are replaced by Indians now.
I think Vancouver is already great in terms of design. We just need to find a way to get addicts off the street using good programs. As well as densifying our suburbs to make more supply for housing so that hardworking young people can have a future! More skytrain and bringing back the trams in this video would also be great
Very interesting how vibrant and busy was Hastings, Main, Cambie. Seems like good times in Vancouver. Unfortunately everything has changed in that area. Just poverty, drugs, homeless people. It’s very sad what happened to downtown Vancouver 😢
Omg, I didn't know that Main and Hastings looked like a normal corner! No junkies shooting up, and no tents! WTF HAPPENED!
i was in my 60s back then. now im in my 70s! good times...
Way more developed than I thought it would be.
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
I liked how the south tower was in downtown 💀
Interesting, lack of overhead traffic lights. Old Granville street Bridge is similar to the old Cambie street Bridge
If I remember right, that was the old Oak street Bridge. The Ganville Bridge was opened in 1954
Both bridges were ugly and horrible
last few minutes is going east on broadway right up to main
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
my Dad bought his first investment property bac in 1972 in west vancouver for $135K, sold it a year ago for $14 mil. He was keep saying he should have bought that property 1965 when it was 100K and put his 35K on another one in surrey. in fast he was able to get 2x 20,000sqf houses there. i will send him this video , thank you
No stop lights I miss that
Looks like there were?
Vancouver before junkies
Vancouver, being a port city, had heroin addicts back then. But many of the junkies had jobs, and no fentanyl.
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
@@wintermutt9090 opium dens > fent heads
Shows you how little this city has evolved since the 1950s. The difference you notice is the trams and homelessness situation.
Seems less rain too back then.
Wow, so cool!
That was great! We should have kept those streetcar lines.
WOW !! RETRO VANCOUVER Love IT !! IN Colour & comes with Sound Too
BIG Thnx for The Time Machine Footage !!
Let's See More Do you have any of Beach Ave during that Time ?
Colour Film.. . . . Sweet!
Wow, jaywalkers galore. Making me nervous 😅
Some things never change.
Those are pedestrians not jaywalkers. The cars are what's out of place
Lol. We need those trams again
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
Sorry, those homeless people weren't born yet. 😂
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
@@rudihofer7212
I think it's called Pigeon Square or Pigeon Park, there was maybe one or two drunks there when I moved to Vancouver in 1972.
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
Hmm, I remember the Brill buses, but I was born after the streetcars.
Before the fentanyl zombies took over
This comment section is going be a blast to read. 😆
Before all the troubles in this area.
I wasn't born until the late 50 but I do remember some of this from the early 60s. Do you see any homeless on the streets cause I sure don't.
i like how this comment section is like 85% universally agreeable sentiments about how & why the city has gotten worse over time and then 15% old people being flagrantly racist for no reason
show me the racist comments. none there
@@glenw-xm5zf you probably can't see all comments, sort by newest
@@youngkappakhan I forgot about that. Tk's
I would love to have a time mashine and really walk in those times.
with both trolleys and many buses there was much more mass transit with only about 1/4 today's population
Look, no tents or druggies. What a socialist paradise we've built over the last fifty years.
YEP. The slide started in 1972. We elected a social worker as Premier. Almost as bad as electing a teacher for P.M.
0:48 that guy working on the overhead live wires...
Traffic was great back then lol!
So there was nowhere to park back then either, eh?
everyone driving classics 😀
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
Have you read the news since 1950? The Empire is dead and, soon, its child empire will die too. I'm glad you enjoyed those times but I think it's time to move on. No more Jimmy Saville, Prince Andrew pedohphilia... and Harry's narcissistic family....no thanks, by the way of Dodo they shall go.
So sad. We’ve deteriorated so much thanks to bad government policies.
Deliberate downfalls. 😮???!!!
❤
This could use some video stabilization.
No oe little Micro-plastics pollution back then, but it was just starting to take hold.
Proof that Vancouver was a pain to navigate in a vehicle from the beginning... Although it has definitely gotten worse
You should see it now,total dystopia.
Oh please. I live in Vancouver but have travelled all over the world. This is one of the safest, cleanest, most civil places on the planet.
@@adrianl7147West Coast is a zombie apocalypse and Vancouver is the epicenter.
Electric vehicles didn't catch fire back then and had unlimited range.
Sales tax was 5 percent, none on food. and that was the only tax we paid, besides income tax. How did we ever manage??
Some of the footage make pedestrians look like they have a death wish getting close to inter urban buses.
A lot of those bus-like vehicles seem to be trackless trolleys, with rubber tires but two overhead poles for power.
@@JayKarpwick the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
@@JayKarpwick Vancouver still has plenty of electric trolley buses; mainly on the primary city routes where the trams were removed in the 1950s.
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction.
This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
Where’s the tents and dope addicts?
Original.
65 years in the future
Like Seattle in that time frame, folks had purpose, God, Family and Country was very much a common bond regardless of age, gender, ethnicity.
Now its none of that thus why the declines in many of these "once" beautiful and exciting cities
Yep, and after we turned from God, along come the junkies, the dope dealers, and we thought we could do better without him . how foolish
Pain and Wastings wasn’t so painful back then eh!
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.