Thanks so much for uploading this video. I've passed the Sullivan Station at 64th Ave and 152nd St in Surrey for decades, and always wondered if the trams ever got to ride the rails anymore. Now I have my answer. Much appreciated.

This was before the 1950s, the last of the streetcars were out of service by 1950.

Where is this footage from?

Was this filmed by Harold Hill? I heard he did 2 films when he visited Vancouver.

The modern fake audio that doesn't even line up with the jump cuts in the video is pretty off-putting and ruins the experience

Fascinating video.

Lol. We need those trams again

Wife and I just drove this stretch last week (9/2024) and now I find this! Very cool!

5:08 "say fellas!, let's film the only color slide in a random forest!"

All the trams and trolleybuses running on electricity... until the oil companies got rid of them.

Imagine if Vancouver kept all those trolleys!

This comment section is going be a blast to read. 😆

Assassin Mayor Ken Sim is quickly ruining the Vancouver skyline. He doesnt care if he is re-elected his rich friends will take care of him. Rebecca Bligh is the true mayor, Sim the puppet.

Música hermosa 😊😊😊

Omg, I didn't know that Main and Hastings looked like a normal corner! No junkies shooting up, and no tents! WTF HAPPENED!

Proof that Vancouver was a pain to navigate in a vehicle from the beginning... Although it has definitely gotten worse

i was in my 60s back then. now im in my 70s! good times...

0:12 so there was a time when construction workers were actually working in road repair.

Amazing footage. Back when Vancouver was a working class town, people were happy and respectful, and not a cop in sight. Love all the old trucks, wish I could find some to work on now. Thanks

Remarkable footage for 1959

4:24 loved stopping at the Peter Pan for early early breakfast with Mom and Dad before driving out to Horseshoe Bay to fish for salmon. Thanks for the wonderful memories.

There is a bunch of good single track in between DeLaura Beach and the South Jetty at Ft. Stevens if you know where to look! Been riding it for 30+ yrs...

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i love how white everyone is :)

I liked how the south tower was in downtown 💀

Where are the Japanese Concentratio- I mean the Prisoners of War Camps?

i like how this comment section is like 85% universally agreeable sentiments about how & why the city has gotten worse over time and then 15% old people being flagrantly racist for no reason

Hi Reece, I was wondering where you got this film from? Apparently Harold filmed 2 films when he visited Vancouver, would you happen to have, or know where the second film is? If it even still exists?

So there was nowhere to park back then either, eh?

We had street cars in Saskatoon. They disappeared around the same time as Vancouver's. Sad.

my Dad bought his first investment property bac in 1972 in west vancouver for $135K, sold it a year ago for $14 mil. He was keep saying he should have bought that property 1965 when it was 100K and put his 35K on another one in surrey. in fast he was able to get 2x 20,000sqf houses there. i will send him this video , thank you

This was when life was simpler and definitely nicer. For sure they had problems, but it seemed like better times. My mum was born in 1953. She said it was amazing growing up in Vancouver in the 50s and 60s. They lived near Victoria and Marine. They were pretty poor growing up from what she said. But so was everyone else. I was born in 1976 and grew up in Richmond in the 80s and 90s. And those were amazing times too. My mum said up until the late 90s it was great living in Vancouver and Richmond. Its definitely not the same. Its a dump now. Thanks for posting this video.

Mamma mia, there were no junkies on East Hastings! What a nice city😊

with both trolleys and many buses there was much more mass transit with only about 1/4 today's population

Like Seattle in that time frame, folks had purpose, God, Family and Country was very much a common bond regardless of age, gender, ethnicity. Now its none of that thus why the declines in many of these "once" beautiful and exciting cities

This footage was shot only a couple of years after I was born. I rode those streetcars, though I was too young to remember. There have been a lot of changes since then, but what's remarkable is how many featutes of that entire route I can easily recognize. I've walked a lot of that right of way, many times. I bought an apartment beside the track in Kerrisdale. It's deeply part of my lived experience. CP Rail used to run a grain car about once a day on it, down to the brewery on 12th Avenue, just to maintain their right of way. Thst was until about 2010. Then they tried to sell it to the City of Vancouver for some extortionate rate. It languished in the courts for years. The city bylaws wouldn't let the railway operate it, so they were motivated to sell, but they didn't want to admit it. They put together some kind of astroturfing "neighborhood" campaign to try to get us citizens up in arms. It didn't work. Eventually the city acquired the land, tore up the tracks, made a nice linear park and pedestrian/bicycle path of it. But I had rather hoped they would bring back the electric trolleys as part of a quaint commuter service to downtown Vancouver. An espresso machine on board. Those nice wooden sash windows. Civilized.

Very interesting how vibrant and busy was Hastings, Main, Cambie. Seems like good times in Vancouver. Unfortunately everything has changed in that area. Just poverty, drugs, homeless people. It’s very sad what happened to downtown Vancouver 😢

I find this all poignantly charming. These excursions - and many others of course, on both sides of the border, some by sea and some on land - were a kind of exposition of technological achievement set within the natural landscape. Ordinary people could venture deep into these beautiful pristine places and be touched by their magnificence. At the same time, they could feel the scaffolding of technology around them, holding them more or less safe and providing more or less reliable service. I don't say this to disparage machinery but to report what it feels like to live a bit on the edge, as workers do in these industries. To be a member of the general public and able to go to the edge of these same achievements is thrilling, to be sure. I think it's totally cool that somebody got the idea of arranging excursions of this kind. It wouldn't be all tea and crumpets, that's for sure. There would be many discomforts and probably a few risks not mentioned in the brochure. But wouldn't it be a total blast?

Colour Film.. . . . Sweet!

Back when there was common sense and people worked hard and followed the rule of law. Not no more.

The trolleys were great ...pre socialist party in BC...China ruined the whole city

A stark reminder of what bad leadership can do to a place. Vancouver is an absolute garbage of a city now.

Way more developed than I thought it would be.

Wow normal people

if they only knew china was going to own there city in the future. truth sucks.

A leftist gov't (provincial and/or federal) always results in drug and crime anarchy like today.

I grew up in the early 80's in Richmond, by the curve in the line as it turned into the railway section....which eventually became the municipal works yard. great video. How it's changed, amazing.

growing up in Vancouver, this is amazing footage to see the major transformation along Granville Street South. Incredible. wow.

I left L.A. in 2015 after living there for 25 years. I would sell my soul to be able to go back and live there in these times.

They have hand signals in those days. No indicator lights.