thank you for posting this! I was born in 1982 (Halifax) but my father was born in '45 (in Spryfield). I love seeing old videos of HRM to see how much has changed. Its amazing!
Coming off the bridge in Dartmouth, past what became the Dartmouth Shopping Centre (where the Esso is). Dartmouth High School is on the right. It stops coming to Victoria Rd., where I grew up (in the 80's). We lived at 205 Victoria Rd. That was awesome thanks for posting!
I spent every Fri. night at 5:30 watching this show. In many later years I was able to share company with Ritchie Oakley and Jimmy White, who to this day remain my guitar idols and fine people!!!!!!
the Rotary, the bridge - my memories too even though I grew up in Westphal/Woodlawn :) I knew exactly where the car was going to turn next at the end of the reel, too!
What is funny is how much of it has not changed! From the start on the Bay road all the way across the old bridge. Yes some stuff is different but not really all that much. Great film!
I've been hoping to see a glimpse of the Irving Arch in one of these old films, my Grandmother lived in a building next to it, it was kind of a musty slum, but I was a little kid in the early-mid seventies and it was awe inspiring to go on a trip to the "city" lol, and watch the lights at night across the harbour at the Irving facility. The arch and all that area was knocked down by the late 70's or early 80's.
For me, it's always interesting to see footage from a period where there was a sense of expansiveness in the economy. Now, with debt overburdened families and governments, the only thing you can 'feel' is a sense of pending contraction.
You didn't.....but Gary Myers was inventive.....strapping a camera to a car was likely very uncommon. Just goes to show you the power of dash cams today....they are tomorrows memories. Might want to hold onto any footage you may create.
Its 60 years ago and honestly the infrastructure hasn't changed very much. That's a huge problem as there are now tens of thousands of more people now having to use that way into Halifax each day to work with the same transportation infrastructure as 60 years ago.
" A shame, though, that the film has jumps instead of being continuous, stopping before Mumford Rd and picking up below Agricola St (at Maynard?), skipping all the most interesting parts of North Street... :(" I know. That was an edit on the original source reel and nothing I cut out. One can only speculate why. The only edit was between the two reels of film, and was pretty obvious in the video....stopping on north street, then starting to go over the Macdonald Bridge.
I know this post is a year ago... but.....here's the real deal (or reel deal... lol) and not speculation... for the missing parts of this video....back then, an 8 mm reel only lasted 3 minutes, and it took a while to reload a new film to continue taping... you had to thread it through all the little notches and manually wind it through the cogs on the wheels. I remember it well... not only was it tedious to film on those old 8 mm film reels... it was also expensive back in the day!!! (And then yay!!! Super 8 film became available, and I can't even remember why it was "super" except I think we had to buy a new camera in order to use it. Not that we could afford it at the time.) Back in 1963 I moved to Halifax, and got my first job. working as a Secretary at the Pathology Institute for the Administrator... and my salary was........ wait for it....... a whopping $1,460.00 PER YEAR!!!!!!! (That's approx. $28.00 per week!... or $5.60 per day!)
this is NOT a 8 mm print, but 16mm print likely stock footage shot by Gary Myers, a local photographer who opened reid sweet, a camera shop in downtown halifax and was open for decades. That said, the two reels this was pieced together from were very short, 3-4 mins per, so it's similar in reel size....about a 3 inch reel. 8 mm would be a different frame rate and not as natural and likely more grainy
Ok I was born in 1959 and grew up very near the bridge and that hill (entering the bridge from the Halifax side) is exactly the scary hill I remember..funny thing is I was home 2 years ago and that hill is no longer that big..I walked the bridge and it was nothing. I did a google search trying to find out when they had fixed that but no info..I was beginning to think I was crazy. Then I saw this video..thanks for confirming my sanity
Glad to help! I might add the ESSO sign was a vague memory for me, so seeing that in this footage that was quite literally saved from the trash by an acquaintance at one point, also helped me too.
snarfdude , I'd love to see you have this transferred by one of the places in town that does frame-by-frame HD transfers. It'd eliminate the flickering, ghosting and keystoning. I know of at least two places -- one in Halifax, one in Dartmouth -- that have the gear and expertise to do the work. This film is worth the trouble. I'm tempted to ask you for the reels and pay for it myself! :)
... also, a little post-production work could even out the difference between the blown-out highlights and too-dark shadows... I'm sure there's detail in the film that could be brought out.
Oh I know what a frame by frame or even a real time transfer will do with the right Telecine. I'm surprised I got anything anywhere near decent in this experiment by shooting off the screen. That's why the reels haven't seen the light of day under now. I haven't really been impressed by some of the local transfers I have seen, but mostly those were sourced from 8mm, 16mm would be a less grainy and like you say, bring out a bit more detail if they can do anything anywhere decent. The cost is prohibitive for me. you're looking at maybe $200-400 based on copycat digitals prices. Probably about 600-700ft of film. I don't have that. My specialty is radio production/audio transfers, which I do fairly well. They want $40 for an album transfer? I've underpriced myself for years....:) I won't easily release the reels. They might go to the NS archives at some point, as I already have a small collection there from material I saved from CHNS and transferred years ago and technically I don't necssarily own the copyright. Gary Myers does. How valid that is at this point, is a matter of debate, but It's nice to have this much interest in this material. Scott S.
snarfdude Thanks for the thorough reply. As another Scott S. who's traditionally more audio than video, I get where you're coming from. I had my transfers done over in Dartmouth at Hourglass Media. Reasonable prices, decent service. And, yeah, you can get good results from telecine as well...I took a one-night telecine course at a film co-op in Toronto that chained a projector with a rheostat to adjust the frame rate to match a DV camera, shooting it all through a flying lens....or something....good results, but probably not what you'd get from a workprinter these days. Glad you've already given this some thought. I've seen some of the stuff from the NSArchives, and I really wish someone would get them the resources to do better transfers, too. I'm going to subscribe in hopes of one day seeing another gorgeous transfer of this! Thanks for putting up what you've been able to.
A Very interesting video, The shadow of the vehicle shows on the road in early frames, indicating something fixed on its roof. This is consistant with the smoothness of the video (not handheld) & height - not shot through the windshield of a car of the era. Also there is sun shining through the vehicle from the rear window suggesting not a bus or anything more than an open backed pickup or maybe a sedan. Time of year can be placed by shadows and angle of the sun. I'm guessing an evening maybe in early spring.
That was a 8 hour drive from Dartmouth to yarmouth via highway 3. Highway 1 used to be the fastest until like 1958 when highway 101 open then of course highway 103.
Yeah cause it hasn't changed at all, mainly due to all of the seniors who would like to keep Halifax as a small little city and keep preventing it from progressing as it should be
In 100 years people will be watching your videos with you in it and saying "I wonder who they were?" .. Knowing you are long gone. Sad but that's time for you.
I was born in Halifax 5 yrs after this was taken haha, I feel old now ;) . Thank you so much for this video .
Wow! I was surprised at how much hasn't changed in 50+ years!
I sent thsi to my Mom a couple years ago. that was her reaction too !!
Thats exactly what I been thinking
thank you for posting this! I was born in 1982 (Halifax) but my father was born in '45 (in Spryfield). I love seeing old videos of HRM to see how much has changed. Its amazing!
Coming off the bridge in Dartmouth, past what became the Dartmouth Shopping Centre (where the Esso is). Dartmouth High School is on the right. It stops coming to Victoria Rd., where I grew up (in the 80's). We lived at 205 Victoria Rd. That was awesome thanks for posting!
Great video/film. Thanks so much for posting, I was born in 1960 and this brings back so many memories of the city from that time.
I spent every Fri. night at 5:30 watching this show. In many later years I was able to share company with Ritchie Oakley and Jimmy White, who to this day remain my guitar idols and fine people!!!!!!
I love this video! I wish there was more. Such a great trip down memory lane! Thanks for posting.
my house on right for seven years at 2:32...so nice. this was 37 years before I bought it but...same
the Rotary, the bridge - my memories too even though I grew up in Westphal/Woodlawn :) I knew exactly where the car was going to turn next at the end of the reel, too!
What is funny is how much of it has not changed! From the start on the Bay road all the way across the old bridge. Yes some stuff is different but not really all that much. Great film!
Great Video, I was born in 1957 and grew up in Armdale off the Bay Rd. Turn right at the .35 second mark and I am home on Edgehill Rd.
I've been hoping to see a glimpse of the Irving Arch in one of these old films, my Grandmother lived in a building next to it, it was kind of a musty slum, but I was a little kid in the early-mid seventies and it was awe inspiring to go on a trip to the "city" lol, and watch the lights at night across the harbour at the Irving facility. The arch and all that area was knocked down by the late 70's or early 80's.
wow oh wow. Thank you for posting this, it was so cool to watch. I used to live on North Street on exactly the part that you drove down.
great video..just luv it,i biked this route many times in the 1960s goin out to the lakes from the north end
For me, it's always interesting to see footage from a period where there was a sense of expansiveness in the economy. Now, with debt overburdened families and governments, the only thing you can 'feel' is a sense of pending contraction.
I lived on the Bay Rd in the 60's. Thanks for the upload,............. never knew we had dash cams back then ; )
You didn't.....but Gary Myers was inventive.....strapping a camera to a car was likely very uncommon. Just goes to show you the power of dash cams today....they are tomorrows memories. Might want to hold onto any footage you may create.
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW ! A trip down memory lane, for sure ! Loved it !
Its 60 years ago and honestly the infrastructure hasn't changed very much. That's a huge problem as there are now tens of thousands of more people now having to use that way into Halifax each day to work with the same transportation infrastructure as 60 years ago.
Thank you, awesome ❤️
Thanks you...didn't realize the street cars crossed the bridge.
I wish they still had them, would’ve been cool to keep
They were trolley buses
This is awesome! Nantucket looks to be a one-way street back then? Just amazing.
" A shame, though, that the film has jumps instead of being continuous, stopping before Mumford Rd and picking up below Agricola St (at Maynard?), skipping all the most interesting parts of North Street... :("
I know. That was an edit on the original source reel and nothing I cut out. One can only speculate why. The only edit was between the two reels of film, and was pretty obvious in the video....stopping on north street, then starting to go over the Macdonald Bridge.
I know this post is a year ago... but.....here's the real deal (or reel deal... lol) and not speculation... for the missing parts of this video....back then, an 8 mm reel only lasted 3 minutes, and it took a while to reload a new film to continue taping... you had to thread it through all the little notches and manually wind it through the cogs on the wheels.
I remember it well... not only was it tedious to film on those old 8 mm film reels... it was also expensive back in the day!!! (And then yay!!! Super 8 film became available, and I can't even remember why it was "super" except I think we had to buy a new camera in order to use it. Not that we could afford it at the time.)
Back in 1963 I moved to Halifax, and got my first job.
working as a Secretary at the Pathology Institute for the Administrator...
and my salary was........
wait for it.......
a whopping $1,460.00 PER YEAR!!!!!!!
(That's approx. $28.00 per week!...
or $5.60 per day!)
this is NOT a 8 mm print, but 16mm print likely stock footage shot by Gary Myers, a local photographer who opened reid sweet, a camera shop in downtown halifax and was open for decades. That said, the two reels this was pieced together from were very short, 3-4 mins per, so it's similar in reel size....about a 3 inch reel. 8 mm would be a different frame rate and not as natural and likely more grainy
i remember the day it opened, walked across, and cost 5 cent..s
Very cool, didnt know cable cars went over the bridge!
Ok I was born in 1959 and grew up very near the bridge and that hill (entering the bridge from the Halifax side) is exactly the scary hill I remember..funny thing is I was home 2 years ago and that hill is no longer that big..I walked the bridge and it was nothing. I did a google search trying to find out when they had fixed that but no info..I was beginning to think I was crazy. Then I saw this video..thanks for confirming my sanity
Glad to help! I might add the ESSO sign was a vague memory for me, so seeing that in this footage that was quite literally saved from the trash by an acquaintance at one point, also helped me too.
That was great. THANKS
This is pretty cool. You should post the exact same video from 2013.
I totally want to do this now in 2020! Will let everyone know if I make one :)
I never realized that that bridge has seen cars from 1955 cross it. I knew it was built back then but I never thought of the bridge as being that old.
It's cool how the mcdonald bridge was repainted green but not the bars and kept it red
some more really great shots of Halifax from the late 40s
scrapes - All the Houses
Notice on the bridge that there is fencing to prevent suicide jumpers only over the dockyards.
Wow! The MacDonald bridge was only had two lanes that was a long time ago before I was born
1955 it opened, the date on the film indicates it might have been shot in 1960.
Macdonald*
Wow.. it's almost exactly the same today!
HA! Halifax Nova scotia! I was about to send to my family in Halifax, Yorkshire.
My mom saw the sound of music in that movie theater. Hyland
Know whats weird? Im only 23 yet still recognize most of this video... Jesus... it all looks the same yet completely different...
snarfdude , I'd love to see you have this transferred by one of the places in town that does frame-by-frame HD transfers. It'd eliminate the flickering, ghosting and keystoning. I know of at least two places -- one in Halifax, one in Dartmouth -- that have the gear and expertise to do the work. This film is worth the trouble. I'm tempted to ask you for the reels and pay for it myself! :)
... also, a little post-production work could even out the difference between the blown-out highlights and too-dark shadows... I'm sure there's detail in the film that could be brought out.
... and I'd gladly re-shoot the route with my HD dash cam if it'd be of interest to anyone... we could do a side-by-side repeat video.
Oh I know what a frame by frame or even a real time transfer will do with the right Telecine. I'm surprised I got anything anywhere near decent in this experiment by shooting off the screen. That's why the reels haven't seen the light of day under now. I haven't really been impressed by some of the local transfers I have seen, but mostly those were sourced from 8mm, 16mm would be a less grainy and like you say, bring out a bit more detail if they can do anything anywhere decent.
The cost is prohibitive for me. you're looking at maybe $200-400 based on copycat digitals prices. Probably about 600-700ft of film. I don't have that. My specialty is radio production/audio transfers, which I do fairly well. They want $40 for an album transfer? I've underpriced myself for years....:)
I won't easily release the reels. They might go to the NS archives at some point, as I already have a small collection there from material I saved from CHNS and transferred years ago and technically I don't necssarily own the copyright. Gary Myers does. How valid that is at this point, is a matter of debate, but It's nice to have this much interest in this material.
Scott S.
snarfdude Thanks for the thorough reply. As another Scott S. who's traditionally more audio than video, I get where you're coming from. I had my transfers done over in Dartmouth at Hourglass Media. Reasonable prices, decent service. And, yeah, you can get good results from telecine as well...I took a one-night telecine course at a film co-op in Toronto that chained a projector with a rheostat to adjust the frame rate to match a DV camera, shooting it all through a flying lens....or something....good results, but probably not what you'd get from a workprinter these days.
Glad you've already given this some thought. I've seen some of the stuff from the NSArchives, and I really wish someone would get them the resources to do better transfers, too.
I'm going to subscribe in hopes of one day seeing another gorgeous transfer of this! Thanks for putting up what you've been able to.
Scott Simpson Just as another place that would do it, AFCOOP has the facilities now to do the transfer.
Need a follow-up video of the same trip, circa 2015/2016 :)
love this
at 2:50 you can see 3 VW bugs in the frame...1 is crossing in front and the other 2 are coming from the opposite direction
Cool video! I don't know what possessed you to put that terrible noise in though. What the hell?
Do you have a longer version?
A Very interesting video, The shadow of the vehicle shows on the road in early frames, indicating something fixed on its roof. This is consistant with the smoothness of the video (not handheld) & height - not shot through the windshield of a car of the era. Also there is sun shining through the vehicle from the rear window suggesting not a bus or anything more than an open backed pickup or maybe a sedan. Time of year can be placed by shadows and angle of the sun. I'm guessing an evening maybe in early spring.
I had no idea the street cars went over the MacDonald bridge.
they were after the street-cars,, electric bus, with rubber tires,, the wires above is what they attached to..
That was a 8 hour drive from Dartmouth to yarmouth via highway 3. Highway 1 used to be the fastest until like 1958 when highway 101 open then of course highway 103.
I was 5 at time of this movie projector film
cool
They should have left the color of the Towers orange looks appealing!
The esso sign is where McDonald's is lol that's crazy
Yes, the new McDonald's opened in October of 1996 there.
@@canadianmike711 took u three years to respond mister. I was born at the end of 2001 so I didn’t exist.
Did you film this?
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I never knew the speed limit on the macdonald bridge was 30 back then! But I did know it only had 2 lanes
30 mph then kmh was in the late 70 s
@@tjh9825makes sense! Little me 7 years ago didn’t know that haha. I was only 11 when I wrote that
Was this taken from a bus or car? Was a reasonably smooth recording
car likely...based on the shadow.
Do you have the original, unedited video?
+CptSchmidt The original filmer was the original CptSchmidt lol
there's nothing to really see....the only different is black I just put in the crossfade to combine the two reels of film into 1
Ah. So there's no video of Chebucto Road and North Street between the Armdale Rotary and Agricola?
did know the bridge was curved till now
We believe it was shot from inside a car.....
Yeah cause it hasn't changed at all, mainly due to all of the seniors who would like to keep Halifax as a small little city and keep preventing it from progressing as it should be
In 100 years people will be watching your videos with you in it and saying "I wonder who they were?" .. Knowing you are long gone. Sad but that's time for you.
It sounds like his car is ready to blow up
The Film Is Very Dark.
North Street hasn’t changed that much
jesus christ the harbour is blue. like actually blue, the colour blue!
Driving on the wrong side of the road mate
Looks like it's high enough that it'd be on the roof of a car.
At the start of the video you can see the shadow of the camera on the roof of the car. Probably mounted to roof racks.
A daylight trip would have been great :-(
All I could think was how boring it must have been to have to walk across the bridge without headphones. I can't go anywhere without them
Hang changed in some parts all that much.
Wow....was a dump of a city back then too
Two seconds into this video and I already knew it was St Margaret’s Bay Road. Not much has changed