What a perfect encapsulation of a period of time. I dig the fashion, plus the film's production values, editing style, synth music, narration - everything. I was born at the wrong time!
Yes, its amazing to listen to, the chord progressions are so much more sophisticated than anything you'd hear in contemporary popular music. Plus give it points for the use of the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.
Yep. Vancouver has changed a lot since then and not necessarily for the better. Who can afford a home now? Corporate and developer greed has taken over far too much now. And yes, Contemporary Pop music has been crap for a long time. I listen online for new music. There is good music now. It just doesn''t get commercial airplay. Vancouver stations have been compromised just like any other major city radio station has. That's why we have a station like Co-op Radio, which came into existence a year before this film.
It's more fucked up now than ever before, the vast majority of people are too far gone at this point. Most of the time it's easier to strike up a conversation with a bum on the street, and talk about the reality of shit going on, than trying to talk to the "normal" people who are basically mindless drones at this point. What is normal anyway? Don't even know anymore. Call BC Backwards Canada these days because everything is opposite. Right is wrong, up is down, forwards is backwards. It's a god damn circus and any semblance of identity that once made Vancouver so unique is rapidly fading. Some would argue the city already lost its identity years ago. In my opinion things really started going downhill after the 2010 winter Olympics.
1970's Vancouver might as well be another planet. People think we've progressed and evolved from that time, we have, for the most part not for the better.
Eliah Holiday Vancouver has its flaws and in many ways is still in its infancy, but Vancouver, the city, has greatly improved. It was practically empty when this film was made.
Oh that must have really sucked... having to buy a mid 70s muscle car. Probably all the smog equipment removed and and aftermarket carb, cam, and pistons and maybe 3.73s or 4:10s and it was as good as anything out of the 60s. Now crappy Chevy Novas are worth $40k. Cry me a river, boomer. I had to be well into adulthood to own something with 8 cylinders, and I already don’t drive it.
Bartonovich52 ...Omg you millennials and zoomers are whiny bitches. Every generation can look back and say the previous one had something better than them.....the generations following you will likely bitch about the entitled, self centered brats of your generation.
I know some of the Grouse Mountain Staff they show and at 7:05 they show the BC Lions playing and this is a rare and historic shot that also proves this is 1976. The Quarterback is not one of the QB's in 1976 but their new Kicker who also played QB at Simon Fraser University, along with kicking and receiving. He is the highest scoring Kicker and the player who played more games in CFL history, Vancouver's Hero, Lui Passaglia. Lui wore #5 all through his career except at the beginning when he occasionally played QB.
A time when there was hope and prosperity, unlike today in 2022 where there is no hope for a bright future. Thank you for sharing. Watching from Squamish BC ✌️🍻
Yeah it was before my time but I felt the same...wish I could go back to that!!!!! Everything looks so beautiful...and there seems to be a genuine sense of community.
@Chelsea O Vancouver already had a sizable chinese population 20 years before the city officially named Vancouver from Granville in 1886. Hongcouver is a century later arrival in escape of Chinese Communism. Now the Communists arrived in millions laundering everybody's money including the many Hongcouver , oldtimer chinese since 1870 , you and me.
Yeh., the way of most places....I'm from Richmond, but live overseas...come back each year.....it's completely different place now, Richmond and Vancouver.
To be honest it is sad to see how wonderful it used to be. Vancouverites easily forget where they came from and what made Vancouver, almost ashamed of it. Now it just looks like any other big city.
@@LambertTran it was a city of workers. Loggers, fisherman, and miners. Logging, which helped catapult Vancouver's economy in the earlier times, is a dirty word there now. Its lost it's spark and sold it's soul. It used to be a working mans city. Now It just feels like I'm visiting the states and leaving Canada when I have to go down there.
@@CamAteUrKFC Vancouver became a victim of it's own success. It's a city that's in a wonderful location, combine that with globalization and you get a place that everybody wants to live in. (Hence why it's so expensive now) It's kind of a shame, I remember it was a much nicer place back in the day.
Wow the place and year I was born! This is wonderful! I have 2 daughters that were born here and I saved the Vancouver Sun newspaper for them as a time capsule. I hope they like it when they see it!
Luna Belle What year is your edition of the Vancouver Sun from? My grandfather worked for the Sun during the 60’s as a City Hall Reporter and Journalist. George Peloquin was his name. If you had any editions from the 60’s that’d be fascinating to me!
I miss the steam locomotives and the sounds of the horns echoing throughout the lower mainland's valleys.... I also miss the fewer cars on the roads highways and freeways... Most of all I miss the era without the computers and cellphones.
@@markwilkie7633 No. Its because of spoiled, plastic, lazy brats who would rather be fake than real. In the 70's there were lots of gays and transexuals out and about. That's around the time they began to feel free to start being themselves even though it was hard for them still
@@peatrude4872 Oh, and you were there to see it were you? My grandpa was born in Vancouver in the 30s and once a year they took the trolley to Chinatown to have a pair of pants made. Really the actions of people prone to "hatecrimed" someone! 🙄
@@andreassen6197 --only problems in the city back then were a lack of Native Rights, drugs/booze in a few enclaves, and a lack of Women's Rights but that was a problem all over the Western World and that problem was much WORSE (and still is) in the Middle East and South Asia and if you know of more problems, state them here.
Lol at the quote at 15:32 : - "Then there is that sedentary and completely chauvinist past time of Girl Watching. Vancouver has appropriate areas set aside for this endeavor. Interfacings of land and sea known as beaches."
The whole approach of the film I find humourously outdated. There are two other tourism ones you might want to see 1960 Vancouver Honeymoon ua-cam.com/video/5SYdpvk7B2U/v-deo.html 1938 Victoria and Vancouver Gateways to Canada ua-cam.com/video/ZKittvT2wdg/v-deo.html
as a young person born in van, i can see why so many people are reminiscing about van’s good old days, and yet i still think it’s a beautiful, great city despite the shitty housing crisis. it’s still seems largely the same, and you can still do all the cool shit this video shows off. false creek and Granville island are beautiful areas of the city, and there’s a lot of job/education opportunities. overall i’d still argue it’s still the same fantastic city it was back then
I was born 1980 in Vancouver and have lived here all my life, this city went from being amazing to amazingly pathetic. The people are rude, you cant afford a house unless you've got 2 million. Taxes are insanely high. Way to go Vancouver, you're a gold digger. Hate it here.
Cameron Ryan you don’t know how lucky you are man I’m from Germany and went there for 1 year for my exchange and it’s one of my Favorit city’s of the world okay there are a lot of drug addicts but beside this there is not a lot of bad things (in Germany you have to pay 50% taxes) and the people in other big city’s or, Germany are much more rude
This is pretty awesome. Such a relaxed pace, the opposite of modern hype. The City still feels very familiar even though it’s 43 years old, and there have been a few changes. But so much of this I remember, having graduated in 1973, at UBC in 1975, this is when we went to the beach a lot, I started skiing, went often to Queen Elizabeth Park, Stanley Park, and those things haven’t really changed. Loved the clothes, and the narrator rocks, he’s so calm, but got a little thrilled when he got to talk about that famous Vancouver past time, girl watching. And of course looking down at the comments, typical for anything that shows old Vancouver. Blah blah blah, was great then, shithole now.....so expensive....so crowded.....so (scratch the veneer slightly) Asian. I really get tired of it....a city is a living thing, it grows, changes, some things better, some not, irrelevant because it is what it is, and haters will hate.
I have to disagree with you. I don't think people make negative comments because they are 'haters'. I moved here as an immigrant and used to love the city. Now? The most rude people ever met, as in, incapable of any kind of conversation, it is going to force me away from a City I really love. Add to this the prices, which are out of control downtown and the massive issue (and growing) with homeless and druggies, I think the comments are fair. I think if the average (800sft Apartment) is over 1 million dollars then people are correct to expect slightly more from the city.
_Did you know??_ There are at least 3 versions of this video on the Vancouver archives site, one for the years: 76’, ‘85, and ‘94. ‘85 adds an Expo ‘86 promo. ‘94 adds an anniversary montage.
Back then it was a clean and comfortable place to live. Unlike today, the city is expensive, neighourhoods showing signs of blight, segregated ethnic communities and unapproachable people. The Canadian Charter - introduced by Trudeau - significantly changed the social climate of Canada giving a far too much libertarian idealism in immigration and a 'backseat' approach of recognizing our established Canadian culture.
@@carlosa9298 -----I wonder what the First Nations Peoples think now-a-days about the REST of the world NOW taking over their Great Land, maybe you should ask THEM..........
Ralph Dyck was a brilliant musician and inventor who lived in Vancouver, but did groundbreaking product development for the Roland Corp. I met him in 1978; he sold me a Roland SH-5 he wasn't using; picked it up at his apartment in Kitsilano. Nice guy, too.
I was a young man in 1976. Vancouver was kind of a sleepy peaceful place back then and not as cosmopolitan as it is now, but with that comes ethnic issues, traffic congestion and over crowding along with outrageous housing costs.
@Raza Khan you are full of crap and don't have a clue! What nastiness! I few up in Vancouver and we welcomed people from other parts of the world. But negative types like you sound very racist against Canadians who were born here! Please be most welcome to leave...it will be better without you here!
.and to label Europeans as stealing land...do u think a native person in Canada would love to go back to life without metal tools rifles and now electricity etc? No I assure you ! But you want to spread hate and no one in this country wants that...but your type!
I wish Vancouver never changed from when it was like in 1964. Now Vancouver is a mess with overpopulation of immigration and high costs of housing and employment issues. Expo 86 and 2010 Winter Olympics should of never happened! Vancouver would of been a hidden gem still and people would of felt the old community feeling, knowing their neighbors. Life was more innocent and simple back in those days. I was born and still live in Vancouver since 1974.
And also you won;t be bother by all these same sex this and that because in 1964 they are all thrown into prisons.The Chinese are still paying $500 head tax before they can come to Canada.High End English Bay is restricted to British Anglo only and color people keep out except Joe Fort !
If Vancouver never change since 1964 , you'll never see any color people in high positions in private and public offices and the society continuous to segregate between white anglo Saxon and the allien rest including the Irish and the Jews.
MovieManiac33 Blame the craKKKer hell's angels, white drug addicts, and junkies who flood your shithole east van. There's so many WHITE homeless bums begging for change; I just SPIT in their cracklet faces.
Watchers must remember how ignorant the world around us was at the time. For example, when I visited Chicago in 1979 obsoletely nobody I met knew Vancouver existed or where it might be. After the summer down there living with relatives and working as a golf caddy at the Barrington Hills Country Club (Caddyshack is in fact a documentary about my experience there!!!) and returning to Vancouver, it was only then how I realized how special our city was and is to this day - I knew then that the world would be coming to our doorstep soon enough.
Very interesting film. I couldn't help noticing that almost NONE of the events and festivals shown in this film exist today. (Abby Air Show being the exception). Gone are the Sea Festival, Folk Festival and so many others.
Yes, back then you could ski, sail, & golf in one day, but now the traffic...OMG. There's a large SUV comparison contest at every school between 0815-0915 & 1430-1530 every weekday.
I am not sure what you mean by that - in 1976 it was very rare to see a Canadian flag and Dominion Day, as it was known at the time, was a much, much smaller affair. It seems to me there is a lot more Canadian pride in 2016 than in 1976
I think so too.But the one should be proud of is the native aboriginal who arrived in BC before the mass intrusion of the white Anglo Saxon who call themselves 'proud' Canadian.
jason75 Bullshit. If you're just saying that cuz of all the Asian people living here then you are a moron. I know many Asian people who are proud to be Canadian and would never choose to live anywhere else. My ethnicity may be Asian but I grew up here, and have Canadian citizenship. This is my home and for that, I am a proud Canadian.
Been here all my life born and raised. These were the days when people were happy and smiling and happy, you actually got good happy customer service, drivers were curteous rush hour was short etc. After Expo86 starting 2-3years after it started growing more know it's a big crowded cold mess. Angry poeple on the roads nobody is smiling anymore. Mis the old friendly happy uncrowded Vancouver, don't recognize this place anymore.😦😦
@@lionelhutz5137 I'm such a rebel that I hold doors for people anyway. Vancouver is full of neurotics. It's kind of sad. I wonder if it's due to it raining for half the year.
these were the days where you could go out on the town and be safe as well as not spending a lot of money i had a lot of great friends which made it even better
Vancouver still nice. I love it here. Why is not a single rain drop on the video? And who ever is not happy of vanocuver now a days. You can go .. no one is stopping you. Plus this video is showing just the good .. residential school? .. vancouver is beautiful! Now! Who cares how was in 1970 that time is gone . lol..so love the city or leave..
I was born in Vancouver in the mid 70's. Is there anyone here who lived in Vancouver as a adult when this video was created? Does anyone remember a wax/horror museum in Gastown in the 70's or 80's? I guess the lumberman jack and tree sawing attraction went downhill after the Claycote Sound protest for tree conservation in the 80's and 90's and McMillan Blodel was bought out. Now forestry has gone down greatly since this video. The fight for conservation has been won. 1)What happened to the elevator building (there is that yellow elevator) that is seemingly to be located on Burrard Street, beside the Bentall Centres? 2) The hotel with the outdoor pool looks like it was the old Westin Bayshore Hotel by Stanley park ? 3) Why did Vancouver get rid of the double decker buses? A major tour company operation until the 2010 Winter Olympics. "Ride A Boye the Traffic" has never been seen in Vancouver. What happened to the company? 4) Handgliding were never major sports in all my years as a child. What happened to these attractions? 5) Where was the water fountain with the flags located? I see the Hotel Vancouver in the background. 6) We had car racing after Expo 86 in Vancouver on the Expo site, but where did the car racing happen in Vancouver in the 70s? 7) The parade with the yellow double decker bus is going down Beach Avenue it seems? 8) What happened to the trampoline and kite surfing, boat race sport in English Bay or Spanish Bank area?
The good old days, back when Vancouver was peaceful and everyone was friends and smiling, east Hastings was just another street, things have changed for the worst. Rip the golden Vancouver.
@XBOXRULES Are you being sarcastic? What would be good about no seat belts and drinking and driving? Also, there weren't doctor house calls in the 70s.
@XBOXRULES Oh, you mean Canada? Sorry, buster. Canada wasn't 1850s Little House on the Prairie in the 70s. You want to start talking Canada? Psh. You're probably an American that moved last year or something. Some fool that ran away, instead of dealing with Donny Trump.
+Michael Cook - The Bentall Centre complex on Burrard Street, 3 out the four towers are seen in the film. A fourth tower was completed in 1981 or thereabouts.
Amazing how awesome Vancouver looked when it was still mostly white europeans. Well I guess I'll go back to learning mandarin so I can understand the manager of the bank I've been with for 37 years.....
When you ask living witnesses, it always seems to come up that there are really two Vancouvers (naturally, there are MANY, both in time and perspective, but I am speaking here of residents addressing a sense of character): Vancouver prior to 1986 (say, 1950 - 86) and Vancouver after (1987- present) - two roughly thirty year periods. This gem of a film appears as an apotheosis of that 'first' Vancouver: a fun, carefree, unselfconscious, open minded but provincial town, rife with the improvisational gestures that characterized the 70s. A kind of Klondike by way of Big Sur. Now, these last 30 years, the city seems more akin to some latter day Edwardian capital: sensible, proud of its 'good ideas' and 'right thinking', restrained in emotional spontaneity, cautious, mastering the art of the bargain and the better offer, pragmatic but within a limited range, profoundly divided by a covert nouveau riche class system, speculative, a system of views cannily branded as 'neighbourhoods'. A strange and beautiful place, but seemingly ever in rehearsal for a part it has no intention of playing.
Vancouver was ruined by Liberal news-media "essay writers" like you, who think they know everything but in reality know nothing, except you got the dates right.
The soundtrack may be a little corny to listen to now, but I really enjoy the sounds they seem to capture the essence of what this city used to be. Key phrase: used to.
See! Absolute proof that there was more freedom, more culture, community living when the population was at moderate levels. I need someone to comment about all the benefits since then. Tell me about this economic (population) growth. Tell me about how economic growth is infinite. Never having an end?
Everything changed after Expo 86’ when China moved in and bought everything in sight..our government sold us out. I’ve lived in many high rises and they are all empty. Taxes skyrocket. Independent retailers can’t afford the rents with$150,000 property taxes a year. So sad...
What a perfect encapsulation of a period of time. I dig the fashion, plus the film's production values, editing style, synth music, narration - everything. I was born at the wrong time!
I feel that 😢
4 years before i came to Canada as a 13 year old.
I honestly think that time was the best
Nearly 22 minutes and not a drop of rain visible.
😂😂😂😂😂
thats the first thing I thought
Soooooo true
it's the... California side of BC lol
not a drop of melanin either.
Ah the good ole days when you could buy a house in Van for 50 k
Now the same house is probably close to 20 x
@@FAKE-NAME 😂 you bet that right
@@NetomaMusic you are right even Chilliwack expensive too .
at 20% interest.
Stop the Chinese money laundering
"The synthesizer music used is cheezy!"
Frankly, I love it.
Yes, its amazing to listen to, the chord progressions are so much more sophisticated than anything you'd hear in contemporary popular music. Plus give it points for the use of the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.
gotta love that warm Moog sound. i like it and film is peaceful
Yep. Vancouver has changed a lot since then and not necessarily for the better. Who can afford a home now? Corporate and developer greed has taken over far too much now. And yes, Contemporary Pop music has been crap for a long time. I listen online for new music. There is good music now. It just doesn''t get commercial airplay. Vancouver stations have been compromised just like any other major city radio station has. That's why we have a station like Co-op Radio, which came into existence a year before this film.
Anyone have any idea what the music is at the top?
Great Vancouver most expensive place to like in the world for 17years in a row!
And now it's a crime ridden, over expensive, broken city.
Scott October with Fake, racist, rude, and loud people.
@@ketandeswal4336 I take it you're a Vancouver resident then?
Truth!
It's more fucked up now than ever before, the vast majority of people are too far gone at this point. Most of the time it's easier to strike up a conversation with a bum on the street, and talk about the reality of shit going on, than trying to talk to the "normal" people who are basically mindless drones at this point. What is normal anyway? Don't even know anymore. Call BC Backwards Canada these days because everything is opposite. Right is wrong, up is down, forwards is backwards. It's a god damn circus and any semblance of identity that once made Vancouver so unique is rapidly fading. Some would argue the city already lost its identity years ago. In my opinion things really started going downhill after the 2010 winter Olympics.
@@EskCan44 Damn that's spot on. Most people a generation or two older though point to Expo 86 as the turning point.
I moved to Vanc'r in 1975. The city has changed more than I would have predicted (and not necessarily for the better).
Are y’all Canadian? Where’d you guys move from
I wanna visit van from toronto went on family vacation in the early 2000
@Billy Conforto unfortunately for you, i dont like gay people.
@@Booliocious you never said you weren't gay though
ima gine sorry to break it to you but that kind of makes you gay lmao
1970's Vancouver might as well be another planet. People think we've progressed and evolved from that time, we have, for the most part not for the better.
Eliah Holiday Vancouver has its flaws and in many ways is still in its infancy, but Vancouver, the city, has greatly improved. It was practically empty when this film was made.
@@nitrospice1222 Now Vancouver is filled by scum.
@@nitrospice1222 overly populated doesn’t mean better
@@svc6550 Vancouver is far from being overly populated.
@@AlCatSplat take it up with the person I was replying to
"Interfacings of land and sea, known as beaches" - Wow, was this narration written for Martians?
Haha
For Canadians
For mainland Chinese
@@mattfrankman You should change your "The Who" logo to "The Guess Who" when you comment on Canadian videos.
He was trying to be witty.
Vancouver was a much better city back in 76 not so much drugs or as expensive to live in back then.
Not to mention maruguana.It was totally illegal in those days.
An n those days u could be drunk as f$#k n still drive n the polic would let u continue if u were "close to home"
I hate how whenever I go back to my hometown, Vancouver, that it stinks of marijuana. Grow up, children. Do something productive.
Every douchebag in the world had to move here and ruin it
So what does that tell you about ppl
The Boomers never had it so good
Wrong !
@@christopherdunn317 OK Boomer!
Oh that must have really sucked... having to buy a mid 70s muscle car. Probably all the smog equipment removed and and aftermarket carb, cam, and pistons and maybe 3.73s or 4:10s and it was as good as anything out of the 60s.
Now crappy Chevy Novas are worth $40k.
Cry me a river, boomer. I had to be well into adulthood to own something with 8 cylinders, and I already don’t drive it.
Bartonovich52 ...Omg you millennials and zoomers are whiny bitches. Every generation can look back and say the previous one had something better than them.....the generations following you will likely bitch about the entitled, self centered brats of your generation.
@@christopherdunn317 ok boomer
I know some of the Grouse Mountain Staff they show and at 7:05 they show the BC Lions playing and this is a rare and historic shot that also proves this is 1976. The Quarterback is not one of the QB's in 1976 but their new Kicker who also played QB at Simon Fraser University, along with kicking and receiving. He is the highest scoring Kicker and the player who played more games in CFL history, Vancouver's Hero, Lui Passaglia. Lui wore #5 all through his career except at the beginning when he occasionally played QB.
A time when there was hope and prosperity, unlike today in 2022 where there is no hope for a bright future. Thank you for sharing. Watching from Squamish BC ✌️🍻
Welcome to Hastings street......please watch for needles
john smith like my Aunt would always say...Vancouver is like a beautiful women with dirty underwear. I now know what she meant.
@@littleone3007 and there are alot of beautiful women with dirty underwear too. Some likely for sale.
Main & Hastings would be not so beautiful woman on meth & crack
lol west hastings st are full of junkers and Lunatics. Police are standing by anytime.
West Hasting Street. Not Hasting Street in Burnaby.
This film made me time sick..I wish I could go back to those days..
Yeah it was before my time but I felt the same...wish I could go back to that!!!!! Everything looks so beautiful...and there seems to be a genuine sense of community.
@Chelsea O yes agreed.
@Chelsea O Vancouver already had a sizable chinese population 20 years before the city officially named Vancouver from Granville in 1886. Hongcouver is a century later arrival in escape of Chinese Communism. Now the Communists arrived in millions laundering everybody's money including the many Hongcouver , oldtimer chinese since 1870 , you and me.
@Chelsea O Chinese from Hong Kong arrived in Vancouver 20 years before the official founding of The City of Vancouver in 1886 !
Great Scott!!... To the DeLorean!!!
I was one year old in Vancouver when this came out. How awesome. So much nostalgia from my childhood.
Back when Vancouver was a fun city
So much better than it is now.
Absolutely love this video!! Has a really fun vaporwave-y vibe, and the synths at the beginning are admittedly a little cheesy but still great!
In my opinion, Vancouver has changed since the 70s. 70s where a differnt time, much peaceful, and the people where more friendly.
Yeh., the way of most places....I'm from Richmond, but live overseas...come back each year.....it's completely different place now, Richmond and Vancouver.
I'm also from Richmond. Where in Richmond are you. Im on garden city and francis
I'm from 3 Rd between Francis and Blundell - I went to McRoberts Junior High, then Richmond High
Your close by where I am
Not quite though.The 70's has their problem too. The hippies and the outlaws.
20:58
"A city with it's own distinct identity and own sense of being."
Not anymore.
it used to be a great city, expo 86 was the turning point
To be honest it is sad to see how wonderful it used to be. Vancouverites easily forget where they came from and what made Vancouver, almost ashamed of it. Now it just looks like any other big city.
@@CamAteUrKFC So what did make Vancouver such a great city? My parents immigrated to Vancouver during that decade and I was only born a decade later.
@@LambertTran it was a city of workers. Loggers, fisherman, and miners. Logging, which helped catapult Vancouver's economy in the earlier times, is a dirty word there now. Its lost it's spark and sold it's soul. It used to be a working mans city. Now It just feels like I'm visiting the states and leaving Canada when I have to go down there.
@@CamAteUrKFC Vancouver became a victim of it's own success. It's a city that's in a wonderful location, combine that with globalization and you get a place that everybody wants to live in. (Hence why it's so expensive now)
It's kind of a shame, I remember it was a much nicer place back in the day.
It was affordable back then to go to but not now days.
monarch1957 just to go??? You must not live in North America
Wow the place and year I was born! This is wonderful!
I have 2 daughters that were born here and I saved the Vancouver Sun newspaper for them as a time capsule. I hope they like it when they see it!
That’s really sweet! It sounds like you’re a wonderful parent :)
Shut the fuck up
@@ElectricBikeReview Thanks! That means a lot!
Luna Belle What year is your edition of the Vancouver Sun from? My grandfather worked for the Sun during the 60’s as a City Hall Reporter and Journalist. George Peloquin was his name. If you had any editions from the 60’s that’d be fascinating to me!
@@kylenordio6891 Oh I'm sorry...I don't have anything that early. I would've loved to see those too!
I miss the steam locomotives and the sounds of the horns echoing throughout the lower mainland's valleys....
I also miss the fewer cars on the roads highways and freeways...
Most of all I miss the era without the computers and cellphones.
I gotta say, I really loved the old theatre sound with my headphones on. Brought me back to childhood.
Much more fun city than now.........I miss it!
Ah yes, the Seafest, back when Vancouver was Fun City.
No fun city now
They don't do it anymore?
To me it’s still a super fun city.. beauty is in the eye of the beholder 🤷🏻♂️
I dont think that's the reason, our city just caters to anyone that complains about anything, usually events. It's sad
I love this vancouver more than 2019
Because today’s is filled with lgbt propaganda and liberalism
Back then it had a brighter and fresher attitude, outlook and culture. And almost no violence, crime or gangs.
@@markwilkie7633 No. Its because of spoiled, plastic, lazy brats who would rather be fake than real. In the 70's there were lots of gays and transexuals out and about. That's around the time they began to feel free to start being themselves even though it was hard for them still
you literally would’ve been hatecrimed during this period, judging by your username
@@peatrude4872 Oh, and you were there to see it were you? My grandpa was born in Vancouver in the 30s and once a year they took the trolley to Chinatown to have a pair of pants made. Really the actions of people prone to "hatecrimed" someone! 🙄
Wow... I like this Vancouver more than now.
The video edited out all the major issues no duh you like this vancouver more; it's the idealized 60s Vancouver
@@andreassen6197 --only problems in the city back then were a lack of Native Rights, drugs/booze in a few enclaves, and a lack of Women's Rights but that was a problem all over the Western World and that problem was much WORSE (and still is) in the Middle East and South Asia and if you know of more problems, state them here.
Thanks for letting me time travel.
Lol at the quote at 15:32 : - "Then there is that sedentary and completely chauvinist past time of Girl Watching. Vancouver has appropriate areas set aside for this endeavor. Interfacings of land and sea known as beaches."
The whole approach of the film I find humourously outdated. There are two other tourism ones you might want to see
1960 Vancouver Honeymoon
ua-cam.com/video/5SYdpvk7B2U/v-deo.html
1938 Victoria and Vancouver Gateways to Canada
ua-cam.com/video/ZKittvT2wdg/v-deo.html
Dave Jackson
i lol when he said that
Interesting that one of the two blondes on the beach is my ex wife of 30 years.
Haha. The good ol 70s
Looks nice. Is there a way that I can go back to 1976?
as a young person born in van, i can see why so many people are reminiscing about van’s good old days, and yet i still think it’s a beautiful, great city despite the shitty housing crisis.
it’s still seems largely the same, and you can still do all the cool shit this video shows off. false creek and Granville island are beautiful areas of the city, and there’s a lot of job/education opportunities. overall i’d still argue it’s still the same fantastic city it was back then
I was born 1980 in Vancouver and have lived here all my life, this city went from being amazing to amazingly pathetic. The people are rude, you cant afford a house unless you've got 2 million. Taxes are insanely high. Way to go Vancouver, you're a gold digger. Hate it here.
Cameron Ryan you don’t know how lucky you are man I’m from Germany and went there for 1 year for my exchange and it’s one of my Favorit city’s of the world okay there are a lot of drug addicts but beside this there is not a lot of bad things (in Germany you have to pay 50% taxes) and the people in other big city’s or, Germany are much more rude
Bye Felicia
@ptr bassi learn to spell then tell me I'm unsuccessful jackass
@bizkitgto expo happened
@phil meyer Did you even read his comment you nazi ?
Having been born in Vancouver in the 60s and spending my teens there in the 70s this brings back many memories.
man, I loved the '70s. moved to metro van in '79 and things had already changed quite a bit since '76. It was busy preparing itself for the Eighties!
love the moog synth sound and the peaceful nature of this film.
That was awesome, even the narrator was amazing!!
I miss the Vancouver from back then.
This is pretty awesome. Such a relaxed pace, the opposite of modern hype. The City still feels very familiar even though it’s 43 years old, and there have been a few changes. But so much of this I remember, having graduated in 1973, at UBC in 1975, this is when we went to the beach a lot, I started skiing, went often to Queen Elizabeth Park, Stanley Park, and those things haven’t really changed. Loved the clothes, and the narrator rocks, he’s so calm, but got a little thrilled when he got to talk about that famous Vancouver past time, girl watching.
And of course looking down at the comments, typical for anything that shows old Vancouver. Blah blah blah, was great then, shithole now.....so expensive....so crowded.....so (scratch the veneer slightly) Asian. I really get tired of it....a city is a living thing, it grows, changes, some things better, some not, irrelevant because it is what it is, and haters will hate.
Thanks Ian! I'm surprised by the amount of hate in the comments.
I have to disagree with you. I don't think people make negative comments because they are 'haters'. I moved here as an immigrant and used to love the city. Now? The most rude people ever met, as in, incapable of any kind of conversation, it is going to force me away from a City I really love. Add to this the prices, which are out of control downtown and the massive issue (and growing) with homeless and druggies, I think the comments are fair. I think if the average (800sft Apartment) is over 1 million dollars then people are correct to expect slightly more from the city.
Maybe we just hate what people like you did to the place?
Look what they took from us 😔
Who are "they"?
@@davider3568 I'm guessing they may be referring to the globalists/NGOs promoting open borders.
_Did you know??_
There are at least 3 versions of this video on the Vancouver archives site, one for the years:
76’, ‘85, and ‘94.
‘85 adds an Expo ‘86 promo.
‘94 adds an anniversary montage.
It must have been hard to live back then when everything was in Standard Definition and the colors were faded.
vee tour - imagine watching B&W with aspect ratio 4:3
@Top Pay Position ok boomer
Top Pay Position
Racist boomer
reality was 8K though :)
Back when Vancouver was Vancouver. There was actually open spaces. I was 18 then.
puppy cat ok boomer
15:30 the chauvinist past time of girl-watching. Damn don't try that in 2020.
That sure was some 70's.
Back then it was a clean and comfortable place to live. Unlike today, the city is expensive, neighourhoods showing signs of blight, segregated ethnic communities and unapproachable people. The Canadian Charter - introduced by Trudeau - significantly changed the social climate of Canada giving a far too much libertarian idealism in immigration and a 'backseat' approach of recognizing our established Canadian culture.
You are right. All of the Western democracies are being flooded with immigrants.
svobodnik Now you now what the First Nations peoples felt when Europeans started taking over this Great land...the cycle of life...
And junior is doing a good job of continuing that travesty
Have you checked Canada's population growth and where it comes from? Without immigrants we would be shrinking on population
@@carlosa9298 -----I wonder what the First Nations Peoples think now-a-days about the REST of the world NOW taking over their Great Land, maybe you should ask THEM..........
Ralph Dyck was a brilliant musician and inventor who lived in Vancouver, but did groundbreaking product development for the Roland Corp. I met him in 1978; he sold me a Roland SH-5 he wasn't using; picked it up at his apartment in Kitsilano. Nice guy, too.
Do you still have your SH-5?
I was a young man in 1976. Vancouver was kind of a sleepy peaceful place back then and not as cosmopolitan as it is now, but with that comes ethnic issues, traffic congestion and over crowding along with outrageous housing costs.
Ethnic issues wasn't the issues in the old days because racial discrimination is a politically unacceptable phrase by the dominate white.
Ethnic issues? They were actually worse in the past.
@Raza Khan you are full of crap and don't have a clue! What nastiness! I few up in Vancouver and we welcomed people from other parts of the world. But negative types like you sound very racist against Canadians who were born here! Please be most welcome to leave...it will be better without you here!
.and to label Europeans as stealing land...do u think a native person in Canada would love to go back to life without metal tools rifles and now electricity etc? No I assure you !
But you want to spread hate and no one in this country wants that...but your type!
@@julies570 I bet I would love toknow what my culture but i guess that was the cost of being able to live through the 6th great extinction:((
Wow. 17 years old. Saw Queen at the Pacific Coliseum that year in December.
Love the nostalgic feel of this video... like it was originally released on vinyl or something.
I dont think ive ever watched a more relaxing video on utube... love our city! Great upload👌
just watching it on Dec 2020, amazing !!!!
We should have kept it quiet..........
Awesome to see Vancouver 5 years before I was born
My dad got his house in West Van for $22K at 1970.
Thats 130,000 CAD with inflation
Wow
I wish Vancouver never changed from when it was like in 1964. Now Vancouver is a mess with overpopulation of immigration and high costs of housing and employment issues. Expo 86 and 2010 Winter Olympics should of never happened! Vancouver would of been a hidden gem still and people would of felt the old community feeling, knowing their neighbors. Life was more innocent and simple back in those days. I was born and still live in Vancouver since 1974.
And also you won;t be bother by all these same sex this and that because in 1964 they are all thrown into prisons.The Chinese are still paying $500 head tax before they can come to Canada.High End English Bay is restricted to British Anglo only and color people keep out except Joe Fort !
Simple be highly segregated society in those days.Inter-racial marriage was still consider taboo.Same sex was a punishable offence.
If Vancouver never change since 1964 , you'll never see any color people in high positions in private and public offices and the society continuous to segregate between white anglo Saxon and the allien rest including the Irish and the Jews.
MovieManiac33 Blame the craKKKer hell's angels, white drug addicts, and junkies who flood your shithole east van. There's so many WHITE homeless bums begging for change; I just SPIT in their cracklet faces.
@MovieManiac33 absolutely the best comment ive seen on here u hit the nail right on the head! Great job!!❤❤❤💗
Watchers must remember how ignorant the world around us was at the time. For example, when I visited Chicago in 1979 obsoletely nobody I met knew Vancouver existed or where it might be. After the summer down there living with relatives and working as a golf caddy at the Barrington Hills Country Club (Caddyshack is in fact a documentary about my experience there!!!) and returning to Vancouver, it was only then how I realized how special our city was and is to this day - I knew then that the world would be coming to our doorstep soon enough.
Cool video from the 70s.thanks for sharing
Very interesting film. I couldn't help noticing that almost NONE of the events and festivals shown in this film exist today. (Abby Air Show being the exception). Gone are the Sea Festival, Folk Festival and so many others.
@10:26- waving at the crowd from the car, Art Phillips, Mayor of Vancouver, 1972 - 1977
Gotta love how they sht their knees skiing back then
So Canada used to be a real country! Shocking compared to the mess it is now!
baldwinslab I know it’s so terrible to have to carry water to my clay house while trying not to die because of cartel or isis or fucking lions
Ok boomer
Do you like feeling triggered on events that don't happen?
hey, just wait for 2021 :)
The problem is It just grew a lot from 1976. Now, it's more dense with a lot more high rises. People are not as friendly as it used to be.
Oh man...the Ho Inn in Chinatown...brings back memories
wow, so wonderful 70s and 80s, not like today.
Bring back this Vancouver I mis it. Don't recognize the city I was born and raised in anymore.😐
I flew hang-gliders from 1976-2006 in Vancouver, Fraser Valley, the US and Brazil.
..and you're still alive?
I was a fixed wing instructor when I was young. Thanks to air cadets for all the training. Always wanted to try hang glider but never had the opp'y
Yes, back then you could ski, sail, & golf in one day, but now the traffic...OMG. There's a large SUV comparison contest at every school between 0815-0915 & 1430-1530 every weekday.
True Canadian pride back then. Real Canadians, unlike today.
I am not sure what you mean by that - in 1976 it was very rare to see a Canadian flag and Dominion Day, as it was known at the time, was a much, much smaller affair. It seems to me there is a lot more Canadian pride in 2016 than in 1976
It was in those days because Canada especially British Columbia was very much dominated by the British in culture and social life.
I think so too.But the one should be proud of is the native aboriginal who arrived in BC before the mass intrusion of the white Anglo Saxon who call themselves 'proud' Canadian.
Real Canadians are aboriginal people.These people in the film are intruders also.
jason75 Bullshit. If you're just saying that cuz of all the Asian people living here then you are a moron. I know many Asian people who are proud to be Canadian and would never choose to live anywhere else.
My ethnicity may be Asian but I grew up here, and have Canadian citizenship. This is my home and for that, I am a proud Canadian.
Been here all my life born and raised. These were the days when people were happy and smiling and happy, you actually got good happy customer service, drivers were curteous rush hour was short etc. After Expo86 starting 2-3years after it started growing more know it's a big crowded cold mess. Angry poeple on the roads nobody is smiling anymore. Mis the old friendly happy uncrowded Vancouver, don't recognize this place anymore.😦😦
Lots of angry SJWs in Vancouver. All you have to do is breathe and someone will protest it, tell you you're a sexist capitalistic bigot.
Amen.
Don't forget the neurotic feminists, try opening a door or saying hi to one and you'll be met with a scolding "I don't need your help or charity"
@@lionelhutz5137 Ya your right about that.
@@lionelhutz5137 I'm such a rebel that I hold doors for people anyway. Vancouver is full of neurotics. It's kind of sad. I wonder if it's due to it raining for half the year.
these were the days where you could go out on the town and be safe as well as not spending a lot of money i had a lot of great friends which made it even better
22LIMX I walk the streets of Vancouver all night long and still feel safe
I moved Vancouver 3 years ago, trying to be part of this beautiful city.
Jie Da where is the beauty maybe I’m not looking in the right place cause this city sucks and I hate everyone here
Hollie Lynn then please leave ?
Jie Da it is a gorgeous city !
@@Mushymushroom129 then fuck off
@@Mushymushroom129 go to usa than buh bye
Vancouver still nice. I love it here. Why is not a single rain drop on the video? And who ever is not happy of vanocuver now a days. You can go .. no one is stopping you. Plus this video is showing just the good .. residential school? .. vancouver is beautiful! Now! Who cares how was in 1970 that time is gone . lol..so love the city or leave..
I was born in Vancouver in the mid 70's. Is there anyone here who lived in Vancouver as a adult when this video was created?
Does anyone remember a wax/horror museum in Gastown in the 70's or 80's?
I guess the lumberman jack and tree sawing attraction went downhill after the Claycote Sound protest for tree conservation in the 80's and 90's and McMillan Blodel was bought out. Now forestry has gone down greatly since this video. The fight for conservation has been won.
1)What happened to the elevator building (there is that yellow elevator) that is seemingly to be located on Burrard Street, beside the Bentall Centres?
2) The hotel with the outdoor pool looks like it was the old Westin Bayshore Hotel by Stanley park ?
3) Why did Vancouver get rid of the double decker buses? A major tour company operation until the 2010 Winter Olympics. "Ride A Boye the Traffic" has never been seen in Vancouver. What happened to the company?
4) Handgliding were never major sports in all my years as a child. What happened to these attractions?
5) Where was the water fountain with the flags located? I see the Hotel Vancouver in the background.
6) We had car racing after Expo 86 in Vancouver on the Expo site, but where did the car racing happen in Vancouver in the 70s?
7) The parade with the yellow double decker bus is going down Beach Avenue it seems?
8) What happened to the trampoline and kite surfing, boat race sport in English Bay or Spanish Bank area?
BB the wax museum was the 70s and it was pretty scary as they had actors mixed in with the wax figures .
BB car racing was on the Westwood track in coquitlam. yes that is the Bayshore hotel . I believe howard Hughes stayed there
Ski in the morning, sail in the afternoon and play a round of golf before it gets dark...I agree with Basil, sounds exhausting
Was that footage of Westwood race track in Coquitlam?
Why is this video getting traction now after so long
The good old days, back when Vancouver was peaceful and everyone was friends and smiling, east Hastings was just another street, things have changed for the worst. Rip the golden Vancouver.
I wish I could’ve seen it at this time...
@XBOXRULES Are you being sarcastic? What would be good about no seat belts and drinking and driving? Also, there weren't doctor house calls in the 70s.
@XBOXRULES Oh, you mean Canada? Sorry, buster. Canada wasn't 1850s Little House on the Prairie in the 70s. You want to start talking Canada? Psh. You're probably an American that moved last year or something. Some fool that ran away, instead of dealing with Donny Trump.
Now the cost of an apartment just doesn't make sense. I left to expensive to care. I now live in the country and love it.
Does anyone know where the auto racing shown in the film was held, this was before the Molson Indy in the city.
The junkies were relegated to mainly 1 manageable area from what I'm told, now they're everywhere lol
do you happen to know where and what the building is at 2:44? it looks really cool
+Michael Cook - The Bentall Centre complex on Burrard Street, 3 out the four towers are seen in the film. A fourth tower was completed in 1981 or thereabouts.
I had no idea that the Hyatt Regency once had an elevator on the exterior, just like Harbour Centre still has, until watching this dated video.
Amazing how awesome Vancouver looked when it was still mostly white europeans. Well I guess I'll go back to learning mandarin so I can understand the manager of the bank I've been with for 37 years.....
Do it before you are denounced!
Feels good to live in Vancouver
I was born in Calgary in 1969, moved to Vancouver in 1970 been here for 45 years
Congrats on escaping Alberta!
Oh.. can tell by your accent eh!
The good old days when we had freedom and prosperity.
Before the INV'ASIAN'
Joe Ricci At least Asian people are better than these racist white people.
@@ketandeswal4336 Bullsh*t, I've been to Taiwan and Hong Kong, And believe me, Asians can"t stand White people!
When you ask living witnesses, it always seems to come up that there are really two Vancouvers (naturally, there are MANY, both in time and perspective, but I am speaking here of residents addressing a sense of character): Vancouver prior to 1986 (say, 1950 - 86) and Vancouver after (1987- present) - two roughly thirty year periods. This gem of a film appears as an apotheosis of that 'first' Vancouver: a fun, carefree, unselfconscious, open minded but provincial town, rife with the improvisational gestures that characterized the 70s. A kind of Klondike by way of Big Sur. Now, these last 30 years, the city seems more akin to some latter day Edwardian capital: sensible, proud of its 'good ideas' and 'right thinking', restrained in emotional spontaneity, cautious, mastering the art of the bargain and the better offer, pragmatic but within a limited range, profoundly divided by a covert nouveau riche class system, speculative, a system of views cannily branded as 'neighbourhoods'. A strange and beautiful place, but seemingly ever in rehearsal for a part it has no intention of playing.
Vancouver was ruined by Liberal news-media "essay writers" like you, who think they know everything but in reality know nothing, except you got the dates right.
I love Vancouver
"The synthesizer music used is cheezy!" ... TO WHO?!
The soundtrack may be a little corny to listen to now, but I really enjoy the sounds they seem to capture the essence of what this city used to be. Key phrase: used to.
Now it's New Hong Kong.
See!
Absolute proof that there was more freedom, more culture, community living when the population was at moderate levels.
I need someone to comment about all the benefits since then. Tell me about this economic (population) growth. Tell me about how economic growth is infinite. Never having an end?
Everything changed after Expo 86’ when China moved in and bought everything in sight..our government sold us out. I’ve lived in many high rises and they are all empty. Taxes skyrocket. Independent retailers can’t afford the rents with$150,000 property taxes a year. So sad...
Truth!
Yup the original trudeau then expo ruined it. No more born and raised
Corruption kills
Wow seems like a great time to be alive and living in Vancouver .. after the 80s it changed … it’s not the same anymore it’s so sad
The music makes me feel like I'm in a visual novel for the PC Engine.
2:42 "Just being here is a Celebration."
Even after 43 years some things never change: Centered around construction and buildings, promoted to the wealthy.