1958 A drive in Calgary, Frank Slide, Blairmore and Crowsnest highway

1958 A drive in Calgary, Frank Slide, Blairmore and Crowsnest highway
Heading south on Macleod Trail past the Stampede grounds old Palisade entrance the #2 fire hall, the CTS Trolley car barns and more. I look forward to your feedback.
4 min 28 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan
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episode 104
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[@bobsmith962]

Calgary was so cool even back then! Best city in Canada.

[@xbaggypants]

Damn, I wanted to see more of Mac Trail!

[@heatherzeith2005]

I was born in 1968 in the Crowsnest Pass and it's great to see how things changed in just 10 years from when this footage is from....

[@dirtlump]

Nice footgage of Hwy 3 beginning westbound from Tunnel west of Fernie and through the rock cuts to ElKO BC

[@palco22]

Gotta love that bug screen ! Fantastic video!

[@davidk2906]

Nice Video ! I am a real 1940-60's kind of guy. I was hoping to see Blairmore's Sleepy Teepee Motel at the west end of main drag but the film ended.

[@tomrauser4720]

Thanks so much for sharing these , I looked on google earth at 20 street in Blairmore , its amazing how many of the building are still there

[@OldDogNewTrick]

Good one. I drove down Macleod Trail often back in '58 travelling between Calgary and our farm near Lethbridge. Also did a lot of driving to/from Crowsnest Pass in late 70s for business.

[@eddie-xi6ls]

Two small towns just a few miles into B.C. (Natal and Michel) no longer exist.

[@blizzy6392]

I see that the new '58 Lincoln picked up a new bug/stone screen during its travels...

[@2ndhandSue]

Deja vu. This was a trip we made many times when I was growing up in Lethbridge late 50's, 60's 70's.

[@545i44]

I wish I lived back then!

[@WheelNut]

Very nice, thanks for that. I appreciate the stabilization also!

[@monarch1957]

I was only 8 years old back then and remember the old stampede entrance; it was taken down to put the lt in there.

[@ctvediting]

I travelled this route in the summer of 1958. No Trans-Canada through the Rockies, it was under construction. Amazing to think someone would mount a camera on their dash and just let it roll. 16mm at that! Must have been rich to afford the colour stock or a professional film maker.

[@ReelLifeCanada]

Well said. The idea of a dash mounted 16mm camera I found intriguing as well. The Kodachrome film sure looks good. I found this reel in Los Angeles a few years ago. All it said was "Canada".

[@LaszloTimar]

The last 2 minutes are past Fernie just outside of Elko I believe

[@TheJustonemore]

That lot that had the gas station also had the Crowsnest sanitarium that became the turtle mountain hotel that as you can see in the video had a pool.across the hi-way is a surfer spring that some say could cure you. Of what? Seems we have lost that.

[@timcat1004]

I did not know the train tracks crossed 20th in Blairmore. The tracks run between 19th ave and 20th ave all the way through town now. I wonder when the changed that?

[@SinisterSports]

You're right about the old gas station in Frank, which is between Bellevue and Blairmore. It's gone and the land is vacant but it is still called "the old Shell lot" (Shell took it over from Texaco I believe). The land is owned by Alberta Transportation. Interesting seeing the old buildings here. Would have loved to see a trip on the old highway in Bellevue.

[@crystalmaechandler]

that texaco gas station was owned by our friends - the krywalts. both alberta and ron were fine musicians with albert becoming a major opera coach in toronto.

[@eddie-xi6ls]

In case anyone wonders the "thing" on the front grill is a bug guard.

[@grantkruse1812]

From the days prior to climate change and global warming which has caused the "bug apocalypse". Hardly any bug splatter these days.

[@rdsieben]

I am a farroarcheologist. Any videos of now abandoned rail lines in use in the past? The CN yard by the old CN building used as a ballet center. How about the interior of the railway station? How about that CN overpass you missed on MacLeod Trail? Lots of history there.

[@ReelLifeCanada]

Not on this reel I'm afraid, however there's always new/old material showing up. Will post when it happens. Cheers!

[@BubbaSmurft]

Any shots of the Lincoln takin' the video?

[@ReelLifeCanada]

I'm afraid not.

[@chrisblester37]

No horses I was told it was very backwards there and I to the 60 they still used horses for daily travel

[@JoshuaRMedak]

This is so cool but the hair in the gate is killing me !! 😂

[@ReelLifeCanada]

I know... I wish he had cleaned the gate once in a while.