1969, Vancouver by day and by night, Vancouver, BC

1969, Vancouver by day and by night, Vancouver, BC
error corrected, 1969 not 1970
7 min 04 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan Kodachrome
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[@cmonkey63]

Very nice. Had to pause several times to take it in. I had my 23rd birthday dinner in the Seven Seas floating restaurant, cold buffet of 40 items, hot buffet of 20 items. A dinner to remember.

[@cpeterson8997]

Early 20's and just moved to North Vancouver and worked downtown Vancouver, remember the 7 Seas Restaurant and the one in New Westminster. Seeing those old cars, remind me of my new 1968 Fairlane 500 was pretty proud of the first car!

[@TheWolfsnack]

Ahhh.....I remember that Vancouver.....growing up on the North slope of Burnaby in the 50's and 60's....back pre Expo...when Vancouver was still liveable and affordable.

[@jacobrocks7]

So was every other major city in the developed world

[@heronimousbrapson863]

I was in high school in North Vancouver in 1969. It was a wonderful time.

[@andygill6051]

holy, are you like 90 years old now?

[@samuelserjohn2732]

@@andygill6051 he’s 69 or 70

[@swilhelm3180]

@@samuelserjohn2732 And if Andy had paid attention in math class he would have known that!

[@JohnInDaHouse2015]

I was Building Operator at The Vancouver Block, and i found it interesting, seeing in the video, the Gulf Oil Sign on the top of Clock Tower roof, where i have stood.

[@aaronstantonisto7175]

Very nice. At that time I was 9, living near the PNE grounds. Great childhood growing up in Vancouver. Fond memories!

[@humblewoodcutter2754]

Sounds like you're an " indigenous" native Vancouverite like me.

[@norarocha2402]

I noticed Seven Seas restaurant. Which was a popular seafood place in which it was at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. In North Vancouver, BC. Now by Lonsdale Quay. There is a Spinng Big Q. 😊

The neon lights in Vancouver were more numerous in the 1960s than Las Vegas until the eternal brain trust at city hall deemed them an eyesore and determined that brutalist dark concrete bare structures were the way to go 😢

[@andygill6051]

that little kid fishing is in his 60's now .. wow

[@mavrosyvannah]

Hated that green shirt.

[@japojo1958]

1969 started with a very warm spring by Miles for Millions day May 23 and that summer was the hottest summer in Vancouver in my memory. We've not had a warmer summer since then. We didn't realize how good we had it then.

[@jefftaylor844]

Look at all that vehicle traffic on the Granville street strip !

[@southwest3671]

It was the place to be on the weekend.

[@iamlaws1232]

Before they made it buses only north of Smythe Street.

[@Anthony-qg3qo]

the year i was born sweet. VGH has torn the building i was born in. man the video is all over the place, starts in vancouver quick shots of victoria then back to vancouver. So cool to see the neon lights on granville

[@tjlee9901]

i was born in VGH too , 1957

[@swilhelm3180]

Yeah, very disjointed!

[@TheWolfsnack]

@@tjlee9901 ......St Vincents for me...1951

[@iamlaws1232]

@@TheWolfsnack Me too in 1955. It's the RC Diocese Office now.

[@wilfru1]

thats the city i loved growing up in , i had to read all the comments and read the people names just in case I knew any of them,

[@vickyjensen2590]

I was born in Vancouver 1969 in the old Grace Hospital that I heard is torn down! Grew up in Richmond beside the airport until I was 7 and moved away! I have fond memories of going to Sea Island school elementry!

[@user-ru6ln9er4g]

Did you live in Burkeville? My brother bought his first house there and it was under $80K in the 1980s. I lived in Richmond and remember Lansdowne Mall a great place to shop and to get something to eat at Picnic in the Park.

[@jackmedcalf6254]

Thanks for the memories!! Wow!

[@ianmaclean122]

What great city Vancouver was.

[@reccesixty6322]

Back when Vancouver was a GREAT city. The world did not know we existed. 1950s & 1960 were 2 great decades to grow up in Vancouver. Now (2022) just an overcrowded place full of ill-mannered boors.

[@shanespence7461]

I really think that Expo was the start of people coming to Vancouver in droves

[@canman5060]

The roads seems to be a lot wider in those days.

[@t.c.494]

It was incomparably beautiful. A paradise, but it had to be plowed over and erased. We will never again see these types of environments because they have been permanently erased. The thousands of generations to come have been robbed. I am sick inside, and enraged when I watch this.

[@mikevanderwolf8575]

Bamberton! Literally shocked I’m not somewhere in this video, given how many places in this were places I had photos taken of me as a child that year.

[@lornemcclenaghan5428]

Vancouver looks so inviting in all these vintage van videos on youtube! I think I know one reason why: it never rains!! ha ha

[@ll7868]

They took a trip to Vancouver Island, there's a shot of the South side of Bowen Island on the ferry to Nanaimo, a shot of the ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay as well as couple shots in Victoria, they look out of order.

[@franceyneireland1633]

True I recognize a lot of shots of Victoria, .

[@user-bm1uw9kq4h]

Yep agreed

[@GulfIslandRock]

I was 5 back then and moved away from Vancouver in late 1968 to Lulu Island . My parents bought a hobby farm

[@jeffmorrison5695]

Some great shots of "VICTORIA"!!!! Was this the same camera guy who did The Blair Witch Project?

[@ReelLifeCanada]

Yes, there is Victoria footage as well and Gulf Islands too.

[@russallert]

3:41 to 4:39 Victoria. 4:40 to 4:52 Swartz Bay ferry terminal, north of Victoria.

[@ReelLifeCanada]

You right, I neglected to include Victoria in the title, thank you.

[@tomp1612]

@@ReelLifeCanada Looks like it may be Gibsons around 2.30-2.54 then the Bamberton cement plant at 3.21. Then after the theaters along Granville St it goes to North Van. These are very nice to see,

[@reccesixty6322]

No Swartz Bay ferry in 1969. Notice big ship...CPR ferry. That's how you got to the island. Ship is most likely the Princess Marguerite or Princess Patricia. CPR car ferries. .

[@russallert]

@@reccesixty6322 Swartz Bay ferry terminal was opened June 15 1960.

[@franceyneireland1633]

​@@reccesixty6322 I was born and raised in Victoria, the Swartz Bay terminal opened in 1960 as did the Tsawwassen ferry terminal. , I took many trips to Vancouver back in the 1960's and 1970's. The Princess Marguerite II, the service was restricted to the Victoria to Seattle route after the new BC Ferry Corporation began providing service between Greater Victoria and Vancouver in 1960.

[@agems56]

Notice how people were more civilized without the internet influence! No garbage lying around or graffiti everywhere! So clean, and disciplined children! Great times for sure and glad I grew up in those times!

[@leefer1955]

Internet?! Internet you say? Don't make me 😂...How about a an ORGANIZED civilizational "take down" of the West. And why?. To build back a sparkling authoritarian utopia. This is not organic decay. Its planned poisening by pernicious public policy.

[@mycoincollection5786]

Absolutely beautiful city I'm living in~ I was so curious how lifestyle was back in 60" and 70'~ Yes, I am very proud and thankful to be a Canadian~ (^__^)7

[@canadagood]

Interesting summer 1969 Vancouver and Vancouver Island Travelogue. There are a couple more Super-Valu and Safeway stores than I remember but I can pick out most of the locations: 00:32 Coal Harbour from Stanley Park looking across Georgia St to the West End. 01:00 Stanley Park Zoo. 01:16 view across Burrard inlet to North Shore. Including CP Ferry to Nanaimo and Lions Gate Bridge. 01:38 Totem poles in Stanley Park. 01:50 Best guess is Burrard Street heading north from about 6th Ave. (Correction: I just saw that Super-Valu store in another video on Cambie Street about 8th Ave. So lets make this Cambie heading north). 01:58 Lower Lonsdale Street in North Vancouver. 02:14 More North Vancouver. 02:28 Ferry to Nanaimo and Gulf Islands. 02:56 views from Malahat Highway including Ocean Cement plant at Bamberton. 03:33 Gulf Island stop of interest sign. 03:42 City of Victoria. including harbour, Empress Hotel and Legislature. 04:22 Old Black Ball ferry as seen from Victoria. 04:38 Ferry lineup. Probably Swartz Bay. 04:58 Vancouver at night on Granville Street. At 05:25 heading north we see Cecil and Austin Hotels south of Davie Street. 05:46 The Vogue Theatre is featuring "Canadian Premiere of Filmed in Vancouver / Cold Day in the Park". That movie premiered in June 1969. 06:01 Homes in North Vancouver. 06:33 Street in North Van. Might be Mount Royal westbound to Capilano Road. (I delivered the morning paper there in 1967). 06:45 Cleveland Dam. Which is very close to the previous shot.

[@t.c.494]

Increasing the contrast eliminates all shadow detail, it doesn't improve the picture, it just makes it blotchy.

[@joepalooka2145]

The good old days, I remember them well. It was a beautiful city. Half as many people, half as much traffic, a really great night life with lots of live music clubs and bars, a small number of drunks and homeless people in the East End. Working people could afford to buy a home. Not any more! Now Vancouver has been totally ruined as a liveable city. It's vastly over-crowded, has horrible traffic, outrageously expensive real estate, almost zero live music venues left anymore at all, and thousands of drug addicts and homeless people turning the East End into the disgrace of the city and of Canada.

[@edt8343]

Who would you blame it on?

[@kimchipig]

Get off my lawn!

[@XD-te6vj]

@@edt8343 sad to have to say, but since Hong Kong went back to China, they just kept buying regardless of price and it skyrocketed from there.

[@wilfru1]

@@XD-te6vj bloody communists, hey,,

[@1001nancymcmillan]

Our government!! They dictate the course..more often than nought... despite we the people and how we want it. They have their agenda it does include anyone outside their bubble..... Uhhhh... kind of obvious. Covid PLANdemic NO ONEwants or agrees with "their" aggressive Push to demand we abide by their fear mongering tactics. Soo... yea... I blame Big Government. Things are gonna get a whole lot worse before long. A NATION of SHEEP BEGETS a GOVERNMENT of WOLVES . WAKE UP

[@jacobrocks7]

Looking to the North shore and along seawall towards lions gate bridge looks similar except the condos in lonsdale and W van. The major change is the south side especially the coal harbour and downtown area ...

[@aquaman199]

Wow how times change

[@xboxrules8472]

A guy jumped into that polar bear pit and was killed.

[@user-bm1uw9kq4h]

The polar bears were miserable in that swimming pool.

[@xboxrules8472]

@@user-bm1uw9kq4h Not as miserable as the guy who jumped in.

[@rays2877]

We would as teenagers drive from Delta to Stanley Park for something to do . There were parking spots. We moved back 20 years later. I took my family tp Stanley Park, once.

[@Dan-nt2yb]

We moved from Vancouver to Toronto in late 1969 when I was 7. Even at that young age I knew what a drag it was. Now living in Victoria….the best spot on earth.😊👍🏾

[@larryjohnstone6260]

That happened to me as well, couldn't stand the sickening,humid summers in Ontario. I loved Coquitlam back then. We now live in sunny Alberta.

[@GulfIslandRock]

🌴🌴🌴🌴🏝👍🇨🇦

[@GulfIslandRock]

@@larryjohnstone6260 we live on the Sunny Southern Gulf Islands 🇨🇦🏝🌴🌴🌴🌴🤙🏼

[@frederickma2193]

Vancouver is very different today then back in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I was a kid. I remember our Saturday drives from West Point Grey to go shop in Chinatown. Passing by all those houses in Kits where Hippies squatted! The White Lunch diner that only served White folks but all the kitchen staff were Chinese - it when broke in 1971! Part of it shows Victoria and the Swartz Bay ferry terminal.

[@user-eq1ml3gq1u]

Seems to me you've got more of Victoria in there than Vancouver... the legislature and Empress Hotel are in Victoria, not Vancouver.

[@samuelserjohn2732]

I was born 2004.. wow

[@deonal]

Neon @ 5:21 has such an excitement and character attached to it but heck flourescent is cheaper and butt ugly!

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

These days it's welcome to the cOMMODity of Vancouver...

[@bobbydavis2299]

Must have taken a loooooong time to film this, had to wait for the few nice days a year with no rain...

[@ReelLifeCanada]

LOL!

[@GulfIslandRock]

I think it is hilarious how so many people think it rains every day non stop in Vancouver 😂 here on the Southern Gulf Islands we get far less rainfall because of the rain shadow . Islands here covered in native Garry Oak , Arbutus and Manzanita trees . Not to mention native Opuntia cactus and succulents . We even have lizards . Commercial Olive 🫒 farm on our island with a few thousand trees used to produce Olive oil right here on our island . Rainfall on our outer islands is far less than Toronto 🌴

[@jaydoubleu3419]

the year i was born 1969 in Vancouver B.C. Canada

[@hemayatsadi1795]

second 3:48 is actually Victoria not Vancouver

[@ReelLifeCanada]

Yes, you're right, I should get to updating that this winter, I'll do a little housecleaning. Thank you!

[@swilhelm3180]

Man, Vancouver is one dreary city with its dark clouds. The nighttime shots actually look more cheerful.

[@mavrosyvannah]

Twitter called they need you back over there.

[@southwest3671]

Both, the super rich and the homeless have moved in, but forcing the working class out of town.

[@swilhelm3180]

Maybe some of the previous working class are now homeless.

[@jgp7414]

In reality the homeless are mostly the children and grandchildren of those working class.

Shout out to the hipsters who ruined a beautiful city😢

[@steakman9113]

Worst thing YVR ever did was move the Zoo. Pretty much destroyed Stanley Park...IMO. Grew up there, left in '76 to Calgary, ZERO Desire to go or move back. Today..?? Far Far too much Left Wing Progressive WOKE insanity for my liking. You all can have it, I prefer 200+ days of Sunshine..!!

[@canman5060]

1969 is the year when Louis Tong founded London Drug.

[@rickyjang833]

Tong Louie (not Louis Tong) of HY Louie did not found London Drugs. London Drugs was around since 1945. The first store was on East Georgia where the Georgia Viaduct is now. I remember visiting London Drugs to get film developed in the 1960's. Tong Louie bought London Drugs in 1976.

[@canman5060]

@@rickyjang833 Thank you for correction.

[@canadagood]

@@rickyjang833 I bought my first razor and blades at an old London Drugs on Georgia Street west of Granville. About 1968.

[@outonthetiles]

What a time to be a kid.

[@pinpointism]

i live in vancouver. that was really lame