Really good photographs that capture the vibe and the way Vancouver used to be. A comment here was about the situation with the hard core drugs and addicts. Mind you, it is not a new problem. My parents both attended UBC from 1960-1962 (dad proposed in the cafeteria). My day worked evenings at a pharmacy in the DTES. He told me the pharmacist used to sell drug "kits" in brown lunch bags for $2 out the back door to the alley. My father said they had amphetamine and barbituate pills and needles. Nothing like now though with people dying everywhere. I can guarantee the Volkswagen Beetle is the most popular car in those days judging by the photos. Love this, and thanks for your work!
Thanks for your comment and sharing your memories. This is the most-watched video on this channel so neither Madonna nor Melania Trump have anything over Vancouver in the 1960s. :)
3 :53 69 Shelby, Vancouver was cool back then, I remember as a kid 7ish seeing a Plymouth winged superbird at Guilford mall thinking thats weird love to have it now $$$$
This is one of the greatest videos on UA-cam. In fact it's one of the greatest videos ever made. The channel Tommy Thompson isn't available anymore. Will Vancouver in the 50s ever make an appearance again? Anemoia is nostalgia for a time never lived in. I feel intense nostalgia for Vancouver in the 50s and 60s even though I was born in 1970. I lived in Vancouver from 1973 - 2005. I miss Vancouver vibes which are heavenly. I will still visit Vancouver at least once a year.
This is Tommy Thomson’s channel. I am Tommy Thomson. I just changed the name of my channel because my focus is now music videos. I am an urban geographer with a master’s degree from UBC and I’ve given up on making content about important issues or intellectual matters because whenever I do, at best, I get censored, and at worst, I get attacked. It’s simply not safe in the current social climate. So I’m an artist now instead of an academic/intellectual.
My former colleagues at UBC ignored my desperate pleas for over one year. I eventually asked them to return my thesis to me. They returned my thesis to me. Why should the UBC library have the privilege of holding a thesis in its collection from someone who the entire UBC community ignores and much of the community has contempt for me. So I demanded my thesis be mailed to me, and after a few months of terse email exchanges, they finally honoured my request.
At this point, I’ve been run out of Vancouver by the politically correct intelligentsia who run the city and their minions. I’m in a very different place now. I couldn’t be more alone than I am now, but there is a certain peace that comes with that. Although it’s very hard for me here too.
I’ve tried to make intellectual geography content about the place where I relocated but that got censored too. Pretty much anything I say or do gets censored. Even my artwork and music videos which have zero social political content gets censored and deboosted by social media algorithm.
@@tommystunestoons I've never heard of anyone being run out of Angercouver Bonkerscouver. There are tent cities on Hastings Street with hard core drug users, hard core, so to be run out of Vancouver is quite an accomplishment. UBC is a heavenly place with heavenly vibes. UBC vibes. I plan to visit UBC again very soon. I dropped out of first year college. To get a Masters Degree requires a lot of reading. UA-cam videos and apps such as Subway Surfers have wrecked my attention span for reading. I used to read books from cover to cover at one time years ago. Best of luck, Tommy Thomson. I really enjoyed your archival videos about Vancouver. I even downloaded them, that's is before they were taken down, as mp3s which I have on my Walkman to this day. Years ago, all I ever did was smoke pot at UBC. I quit smoking due to chronic fear and anxiety. I'm not sure when or if I'll smoke pot ever again despite it being legal in Canada and more recently in Thailand too which I also visited 3 times totalling 13 months. I actually thought your old channel was taken down because Madonna found out about all the Madonna videos on that channel lol. Best wishes.
My older siblings and I used to go there Sunday morning instead of church but we'd make sure to go by to chat with the Priest when mass got out so he'd mentions seeing us to our Mum later in the day. It was the first time I was trusted with a secret
@@Gerhardiumthat’s fantastic and happy to hear you had the nouse to have a chat with the priest to make it all legit. I’ve heard of that restaurant but before my time. We only had Binos that was open all night and White Tower Pizza on Robson in the 80s.
Very amazing to see this, though I didn't exist with those years displayed in the video, but I was raised in West Vancouver for the years I grew up. Vancouver has always been an awesome city for me. I enjoyed the days studying and working in downtown Vancouver, thanks very much for the memories!!
04:22 One of scores of corner grocery stores that served the various districts. The vast majority of them were located east of Cambie St. They mainly sold bottles of pop stored in floor coolers, candy/confection, tobacco products and the staples like dairy, bread, canned goods etc. When you ran out of something you didn't drive to a strip mall (they didn't exist then); you walked or biked to the local grocery store except on Sunday when they were all closed. In Little Italy, there were five grocery stores located on Victoria Dr. between Parker St. and 1st Ave.
Great collection. Excellent quality. Reminds me of my childhood there. What a lot of people who live in Vancouver now-a-days often do not realize is Vancouver was not always a "Left-Wing Progressive Utopia" (or so they believe)........ back in the1950's and 1960's it was in general a little right of center, but became more and more Liberal and Left in the decades after 1970 following the "Hippy Era" of the Vietnam War tragedy down south and the migration of similar-minded people from other parts of Canada.
Let’s face it-that’s a situation based on the pandemic, and not normal circumstances. Thant being said, it would be better to start from scratch and completely rewrite the provincial liquor laws.
My theory is that there are so many nuts back east that they all head west and could not go further so they stayed here... look at the sorry drug problem and all sorts of crazy ways we try and convince ourselves to legalize them.. this shows me they have given up... druggies from all over the world will now stay in Vancouver... Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. I agree that our current Mayor Kennedy is worst and that is saying a lot... useless professional politician
I remember honest Joe's store and army and navy stores. On hastings street and woodwards. They had a restaurant named the white lunch. Was a cheap place to eat and the seafood restaurant was popular also. My parents said it used to be a nice street back in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the early 1970s it started going downhill, it seems. They had a photographer who took people's pictures walking on hastings street. Quiet popular also. It used to be a clean place to shop and safe street. Too bad how it is now .
I used to work at Army and Navy, when it was still safe to walk around in that neighbourhood, even at night. It saddens me to think of what it has all become now.
When moving to Coquitlam in 1968 from Ontario, all the roads were still gravel! 69, they started paving North Rd, Austin Ave, Como Lake Rd, then all the side streets after that. Guildford mall(via Patulla Bridge ) and Brentwood Mall were the only malls to shop at. Lougheed Mall was just starting construction! We would see deer walking up Reagan Ave coming from Como Lake Park early in the morning, that was so cool 👍 To whom is responsible for this video, thanks for the flashback memory 👍👍👍👍😎 Cheers from a former Coquitlam resident 🤙👍😎
@@tommystunestoons Thanks for the reply 👍 Sounds like your family has quite the history background in the Vancouver area (especially New West Minister) Any streets or landmarks named after your family name?? Just curious! Anyway, thanks again, looking forward to more videos from ya, hopefully 👍 Cheers!
No, I come from a working class background so no one in my family history was prominent enough to have streets or landmarks named after them. Have you seen my 'MVCA Deconstructed' video? There are two photos in there of my ancestors from New Westminster in the 1860s: ua-cam.com/video/AvjUG_AHajo/v-deo.html
Bill Chow Jewellers is still there on W41st. Movie land Arcade Games Movies Shooting still had a similar sign there on Granville in 2018 50 years later. That P&O ship in ‘68 was either Oronsay or Orsova. They used to do big trips from NZ & Australia to the US west coast via Vancouver
No, the Lux was farther East on Hastings, between Columbia and Carrall. The Army & Navy store eventually bought the old Theater after it closed then joined it to their store
i remember that Z shaped cut up on mount seymour . always would see it from far away when coming home from horseshoe bay or anywhere west or south . not sure if its there anymore .
Do you have any colour photos from that part of the city in the 1960s? I can only include the photos that I find and evidently I didn't find any from that part of the city in he City of Vancouver Archives and that had already been digitized.
300 block west pender, still today a book store on that corner. Feb 18 1965 pic, I was 5 days old, born in VGH. Yup, one of the few actually born in Vancouver.
Thanks for watching and commenting. It is indeed rare to meet people born in Vancouver. I was born in New Westminster. I feel like I meet more people who were born in Vancouver living in Kamloops than I would in Vancouver itself, ironically.
I got the dates from the Vancouver Archives but I have found that they do get the dates wrong on photographs sometimes. Please feel free to let me know what needs to be corrected so I may do so for any future versions of this video I may make.
Depends on what you deem "nice." Temperatures seldom went over 85 F. (no Celsius scale in those days). We had heavier rains in April, May and November than we do today. Summers were warm but generally lasted only to the end of the first week in September when the cooler air became rather noticeable. Winters were considerably colder for longer stretches with at least two major snow dumps -- one in December and another in January or early February. You could count on outdoor skating on lakes and ponds virtually every winter. That happens now in Vancouver only once every seven or so years.
I Grew Up 1460 Nelson @ Nickola Right Across From Firehall #6 Lord Roberts School back when the school House (painted Grey made of all wood ) was center dirt field that was Primary School Grade 1-4 grade 5-7 was the big brick school 200 feet away. mom would make a Baloney Sandwich or give me 3 Nickles and a dime you could get School Lunch (plane hot dog & and a bowl of chicken soup) boxed Lipton. Brother & Sister went to King George . Weekends and Summer Break ask mom or dad "can I use the phone?" then from breakfast on we were out on our (Banna Seat Mustang Bikes) Exploring everywhere but mostly Stanley Park we had to be home when the 9 O'Clock went off and a fight was a fight just fist's maybe a bloody noise or black eye 🤗 miss those days
Thank you for watching and sharing your knowledge on the history of Vancouver.
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So bizarre seeing the DTES filled with healthy happy people living their best lives instead of a post apocalyptic zombiescape of drug addled psychopaths 😢
Well said. You have a way with words. I vaguely remember when it was just mainly drunks, in the early 80s when Woodward's was still open and their Christmas window display was a must-see.
yup! I didn't know Main x Hastings was a much better area back in 60s!, ua-cam.com/video/txJooOZeMU8/v-deo.html this @3.37 ....I have only seen the DTES with junkies
@@l.5832 No, I don't think so. But you could probably find a photo of that on the City of Vancouver Archives website, which is where I got most of the photos in this video.
Given that "Technicolor" was a process applied specifically to, and only ever, to movie film, and these are all still photographs, we can only assume that you mean Kodacolor or an equivalent. 🙄😖
I actually did not know that so thank you for the explanation. I don't think I was meaning to use the term 'technicolor' in its technical sense (pardon the pun, lol). I just liked the way it sounded so I took some creative liberty and just used 'technicolor' in the name of the video because of the sentimental nostalgia that the term evokes in me. I remember David Eby, many years before becoming Premier of BC, wrote an opinion piece in the Georgia Strait in which he said something to the effect of people who wanted to see affordable housing in Vancouver were "dreaming in technicolor" so perhaps that metaphorical use of the term was in the back of my mind when I made this.
Recognized just about every slide, played it slowly, and savoured it. Thanks.
Really good photographs that capture the vibe and the way Vancouver used to be. A comment here was about the situation with the hard core drugs and addicts. Mind you, it is not a new problem. My parents both attended UBC from 1960-1962 (dad proposed in the cafeteria). My day worked evenings at a pharmacy in the DTES. He told me the pharmacist used to sell drug "kits" in brown lunch bags for $2 out the back door to the alley. My father said they had amphetamine and barbituate pills and needles. Nothing like now though with people dying everywhere. I can guarantee the Volkswagen Beetle is the most popular car in those days judging by the photos. Love this, and thanks for your work!
Thanks for your comment and sharing your memories. This is the most-watched video on this channel so neither Madonna nor Melania Trump have anything over Vancouver in the 1960s. :)
It starts when I was born sept 68. Cool st Vincent hospital. Love the tunes. Funky.
The White Lunch next to the Capitol....those waiters rotating around the teacup on the sign mesmerized me as a kid and I loved eating there.
What a difference 50 years make, unbelievable cant imagine what Vancouver will look like in the next 50 years, very sad how it has gone down
Back before the world knew we existed. Much better & nicer place. Like the shots of my youth: Kerrisdale.
I worked at Brown Bros Motors, a Ford dealership @ 40th/West BLVD in 1970. My dad was sales mgr there.
My uncle and mother worked at the dry cleaners at W 41st and West Boulevard in the 80s, not sure if they were there in the 70s
3 :53 69 Shelby, Vancouver was cool back then, I remember as a kid 7ish seeing a Plymouth winged superbird at Guilford mall thinking thats weird love to have it now $$$$
Thanks 🙂 Love VanCity came to the LML in 1971 lived there mostly . I currently live at the north end of the Portman Bridge 🙂
:) WOW! THANKS MUCH for sharing! I DO REMEMBER it WAS A GREAT PLACE to grow up! : ) ALL the BEST and Cheers! ! ! : )
Thank you for watching and commenting.
This is one of the greatest videos on UA-cam. In fact it's one of the greatest videos ever made. The channel Tommy Thompson isn't available anymore. Will Vancouver in the 50s ever make an appearance again? Anemoia is nostalgia for a time never lived in. I feel intense nostalgia for Vancouver in the 50s and 60s even though I was born in 1970. I lived in Vancouver from 1973 - 2005. I miss Vancouver vibes which are heavenly. I will still visit Vancouver at least once a year.
This is Tommy Thomson’s channel. I am Tommy Thomson. I just changed the name of my channel because my focus is now music videos. I am an urban geographer with a master’s degree from UBC and I’ve given up on making content about important issues or intellectual matters because whenever I do, at best, I get censored, and at worst, I get attacked. It’s simply not safe in the current social climate. So I’m an artist now instead of an academic/intellectual.
My former colleagues at UBC ignored my desperate pleas for over one year. I eventually asked them to return my thesis to me. They returned my thesis to me. Why should the UBC library have the privilege of holding a thesis in its collection from someone who the entire UBC community ignores and much of the community has contempt for me. So I demanded my thesis be mailed to me, and after a few months of terse email exchanges, they finally honoured my request.
At this point, I’ve been run out of Vancouver by the politically correct intelligentsia who run the city and their minions. I’m in a very different place now. I couldn’t be more alone than I am now, but there is a certain peace that comes with that. Although it’s very hard for me here too.
I’ve tried to make intellectual geography content about the place where I relocated but that got censored too. Pretty much anything I say or do gets censored. Even my artwork and music videos which have zero social political content gets censored and deboosted by social media algorithm.
@@tommystunestoons I've never heard of anyone being run out of Angercouver Bonkerscouver. There are tent cities on Hastings Street with hard core drug users, hard core, so to be run out of Vancouver is quite an accomplishment. UBC is a heavenly place with heavenly vibes. UBC vibes. I plan to visit UBC again very soon. I dropped out of first year college. To get a Masters Degree requires a lot of reading. UA-cam videos and apps such as Subway Surfers have wrecked my attention span for reading. I used to read books from cover to cover at one time years ago. Best of luck, Tommy Thomson. I really enjoyed your archival videos about Vancouver. I even downloaded them, that's is before they were taken down, as mp3s which I have on my Walkman to this day. Years ago, all I ever did was smoke pot at UBC. I quit smoking due to chronic fear and anxiety. I'm not sure when or if I'll smoke pot ever again despite it being legal in Canada and more recently in Thailand too which I also visited 3 times totalling 13 months. I actually thought your old channel was taken down because Madonna found out about all the Madonna videos on that channel lol. Best wishes.
@34 seconds, I used to eat at The Avenue Grill regularly in 1970. Usually the strawberry waffles!
My older siblings and I used to go there Sunday morning instead of church but we'd make sure to go by to chat with the Priest when mass got out so he'd mentions seeing us to our Mum later in the day. It was the first time I was trusted with a secret
@@Gerhardiumthat’s fantastic and happy to hear you had the nouse to have a chat with the priest to make it all legit. I’ve heard of that restaurant but before my time. We only had Binos that was open all night and White Tower Pizza on Robson in the 80s.
Very amazing to see this, though I didn't exist with those years displayed in the video, but I was raised in West Vancouver for the years I grew up. Vancouver has always been an awesome city for me. I enjoyed the days studying and working in downtown Vancouver, thanks very much for the memories!!
04:22 One of scores of corner grocery stores that served the various districts. The vast majority of them were located east of Cambie St. They mainly sold bottles of pop stored in floor coolers, candy/confection, tobacco products and the staples like dairy, bread, canned goods etc. When you ran out of something you didn't drive to a strip mall (they didn't exist then); you walked or biked to the local grocery store except on Sunday when they were all closed. In Little Italy, there were five grocery stores located on Victoria Dr. between Parker St. and 1st Ave.
Great collection. Excellent quality. Reminds me of my childhood there. What a lot of people who live in Vancouver now-a-days often do not realize is Vancouver was not always a "Left-Wing Progressive Utopia" (or so they believe)........ back in the1950's and 1960's it was in general a little right of center, but became more and more Liberal and Left in the decades after 1970 following the "Hippy Era" of the Vietnam War tragedy down south and the migration of similar-minded people from other parts of Canada.
Malcolm lowry wrote that vancouver was a provincial , conservative place where you couldnt get a drink on sunday .
Let’s face it-that’s a situation based on the pandemic, and not normal circumstances. Thant being said, it would be better to start from scratch and completely rewrite the provincial liquor laws.
My theory is that there are so many nuts back east that they all head west and could not go further so they stayed here... look at the sorry drug problem and all sorts of crazy ways we try and convince ourselves to legalize them.. this shows me they have given up... druggies from all over the world will now stay in Vancouver... Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. I agree that our current Mayor Kennedy is worst and that is saying a lot... useless professional politician
I remember honest Joe's store and army and navy stores. On hastings street and woodwards. They had a restaurant named the white lunch. Was a cheap place to eat and the seafood restaurant was popular also. My parents said it used to be a nice street back in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the early 1970s it started going downhill, it seems. They had a photographer who took people's pictures walking on hastings street. Quiet popular also. It used to be a clean place to shop and safe street. Too bad how it is now .
I used to work at Army and Navy, when it was still safe to walk around in that neighbourhood, even at night. It saddens me to think of what it has all become now.
I used to work at the Army and Navy in 2000 and 2001. I am very sad it is closed now. That store had a lot of character.
Weird to see the exact building I'm currently living in lol
When moving to Coquitlam in 1968 from Ontario, all the roads were still gravel! 69, they started paving North Rd, Austin Ave, Como Lake Rd, then all the side streets after that. Guildford mall(via Patulla Bridge ) and Brentwood Mall were the only malls to shop at. Lougheed Mall was just starting construction! We would see deer walking up Reagan Ave coming from Como Lake Park early in the morning, that was so cool 👍 To whom is responsible for this video, thanks for the flashback memory 👍👍👍👍😎 Cheers from a former Coquitlam resident 🤙👍😎
Thank you for sharing your memories. I made this video myself. My name is Tommy and I trace my ancestry in New Westminster back to the 1860s.
@@tommystunestoons Thanks for the reply 👍 Sounds like your family has quite the history background in the Vancouver area (especially New West Minister) Any streets or landmarks named after your family name?? Just curious! Anyway, thanks again, looking forward to more videos from ya, hopefully 👍 Cheers!
No, I come from a working class background so no one in my family history was prominent enough to have streets or landmarks named after them. Have you seen my 'MVCA Deconstructed' video? There are two photos in there of my ancestors from New Westminster in the 1860s: ua-cam.com/video/AvjUG_AHajo/v-deo.html
Bill Chow Jewellers is still there on W41st. Movie land Arcade Games Movies Shooting still had a similar sign there on Granville in 2018 50 years later. That P&O ship in ‘68 was either Oronsay or Orsova. They used to do big trips from NZ & Australia to the US west coast via Vancouver
Thank you for watching and sharing your knowledge of the history of Vancouver.
@3:19 the Majestic Theatre? I thought the Lux Theatre was close to Army&Navy on Hastings st DT?
No, the Lux was farther East on Hastings, between Columbia and Carrall. The Army & Navy store eventually bought the old Theater after it closed then joined it to their store
i remember that Z shaped cut up on mount seymour . always would see it from far away when coming home from horseshoe bay or anywhere west or south . not sure if its there anymore .
What about the East Side. Between Commercial and Boundary Road. AKA Hastings Townsite area. Rupert Street and Renfrew?
Do you have any colour photos from that part of the city in the 1960s? I can only include the photos that I find and evidently I didn't find any from that part of the city in he City of Vancouver Archives and that had already been digitized.
300 block west pender, still today a book store on that corner.
Feb 18 1965 pic, I was 5 days old, born in VGH. Yup, one of the few actually born in Vancouver.
Thanks for watching and commenting. It is indeed rare to meet people born in Vancouver. I was born in New Westminster. I feel like I meet more people who were born in Vancouver living in Kamloops than I would in Vancouver itself, ironically.
Some of the dates are off but nice post nonetheless. Thank you.
I got the dates from the Vancouver Archives but I have found that they do get the dates wrong on photographs sometimes. Please feel free to let me know what needs to be corrected so I may do so for any future versions of this video I may make.
No tent cities or out of control crime.
Right On Brother !
Wow, we had much nicer weather back then as well, lol.
Depends on what you deem "nice." Temperatures seldom went over 85 F. (no Celsius scale in those days). We had heavier rains in April, May and November than we do today. Summers were warm but generally lasted only to the end of the first week in September when the cooler air became rather noticeable. Winters were considerably colder for longer stretches with at least two major snow dumps -- one in December and another in January or early February. You could count on outdoor skating on lakes and ponds virtually every winter. That happens now in Vancouver only once every seven or so years.
Title of the Music track?
Shazam it
i did shazam. there is not on spotify ㅠ ㅠ
The song is called 'Man With Long Hair'
1969-70 Shelby GT350 or 500 03:52
Kerrisdale...the old stomping grounds!
I grew up in Marpole, which is pretty close to Kerrisdale.
I Grew Up 1460 Nelson @ Nickola Right Across From Firehall #6 Lord Roberts School back when the school House (painted Grey made of all wood )
was center dirt field that was Primary School Grade 1-4 grade 5-7 was the big brick school 200 feet away. mom would make a Baloney Sandwich or
give me 3 Nickles and a dime you could get School Lunch (plane hot dog & and a bowl of chicken soup) boxed Lipton. Brother & Sister went to King George .
Weekends and Summer Break ask mom or dad "can I use the phone?" then from breakfast on we were out on our (Banna Seat Mustang Bikes) Exploring
everywhere but mostly Stanley Park we had to be home when the 9 O'Clock went off
and a fight was a fight just fist's maybe a bloody noise or black eye 🤗
miss those days
Thank you for watching and sharing your knowledge on the history of Vancouver.
So bizarre seeing the DTES filled with healthy happy people living their best lives instead of a post apocalyptic zombiescape of drug addled psychopaths 😢
Well said. You have a way with words. I vaguely remember when it was just mainly drunks, in the early 80s when Woodward's was still open and their Christmas window display was a must-see.
yup! I didn't know Main x Hastings was a much better area back in 60s!, ua-cam.com/video/txJooOZeMU8/v-deo.html this @3.37 ....I have only seen the DTES with junkies
@@tommystunestoons Do you have any pics of Woodward's window (or Woodward's at all?)
@@l.5832 No, I don't think so. But you could probably find a photo of that on the City of Vancouver Archives website, which is where I got most of the photos in this video.
Given that "Technicolor" was a process applied specifically to, and only ever, to movie film, and these are all still photographs, we can only assume that you mean Kodacolor or an equivalent. 🙄😖
I actually did not know that so thank you for the explanation. I don't think I was meaning to use the term 'technicolor' in its technical sense (pardon the pun, lol). I just liked the way it sounded so I took some creative liberty and just used 'technicolor' in the name of the video because of the sentimental nostalgia that the term evokes in me. I remember David Eby, many years before becoming Premier of BC, wrote an opinion piece in the Georgia Strait in which he said something to the effect of people who wanted to see affordable housing in Vancouver were "dreaming in technicolor" so perhaps that metaphorical use of the term was in the back of my mind when I made this.
Internet ruined everything.
Expo 86 ruined Vancouver.
It definitely did
Agreed and the 2010 Olympics was like a fentynyl chaser
Putin and his bullshit isn't helping either , now thanks to Justin millions of refugees are pouring in with no jobs no shelter
Really? cause it looks like Vancouver was a shit hole
Certainly changed things. Ruined, maybe, but forever altered, certainly.
Both expo ‘86 and olympics 2010.