1977 - Calgary - Alberta - Canada - City - 8mm - 1970s - North America - Super 8

[@saraha5070]

This is amazing, Calgary has 4x the population now! The Calgary tower is now surrounded by taller buildings. I didn’t know the “tall people” statues were that old, thanks!

[@rozinant1237]

The “tall people” are actually from 1967! They were commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal. They were moved to Calgary after the fair.

[@cristoferchanimak]

Yes it is amazing! I hope Calgary's population continues to grow. Would love to see it turn into a global big city with 4-40 million people!

[@mayloo2137]

Tall people also known as the Family of Man. Part of the British exhibit at Expo 67 in Montreal. Bought by a rich Montrealer after Expo, then donated to the City of Calgary. And I think they were anatomically correct. 😉

[@DavidBale-vn4op]

Montreal also in exchange received the Calgary brewery aquarium. The statues were I believe sold by the school board when they relocated to 8 street building.

[@johnwang9914]

The statues were reassembled in the wrong order as no one bothered to note what the original artists's configuration was at the Expo 67 in Montreal. That Obelisk by the Board of Education building was covered with little clay tiles that they had us students make in Arts and Crafts, I made mine to look like a fossilized dinosaur foot print, the teachers were not impressed as it was just three fingers and a thumb pressed down into the clay tile.

[@BillS-q2j]

Love it ! Born and raised ,62 years now ,

[@thegavinbarry]

respect

[@trudeauisacommie5413]

Born and raised 57

[@Junokaii]

Very cool. As a Calgarian, thank you.

[@visualhistoryaustria]

You're welcome 😊👍

[@nathaliep8512]

Wow. So cool to see this video of my home town. We moved there in 1978, and I left in 2005 to Medicine Hat. I loved Calgary back then, up until I left, and always thought of it as the big city with the small town feel. So many great memories. Cool to see the original City Hall and YMCA. The CBE building and it's iconic statues. As kids, going downtown to see all that was such a magical event. I have not been back in about 10 years. I know I'd likely be shocked.

[@pistolpat19]

I moved to Calgary in summer of 1977 to start my career in the oil and gas industry. Loved the old footage. Calgary was a lot smaller then and easier to get around. You could still drive a car in 7the Ave SW

[@MrZics]

My parents moved to Calgary from Quebec back in 1976 so this is how it looked when they moved here.

[@robchapman7638]

Really nice! I live there and would have been about 11 years old at the time. The bus shapes are very familiar and I recognize most of the buildings.

[@sherlynn7211]

gosh,, this is amazing, so many memories

[@visualhistoryaustria]

Thank you 😊

[@gerryyee2638]

Terrific video of 1970s Calgary. I was living there at the time.

[@michaeljaques77]

Back when the Calgary tower used to actually "tower" over the city.

[@mr2_mike]

Back when the Calgary Tower was called the Husky Tower.

[@OldDogNewTrick]

Looks familiar. I was working in downtown Calgary during this time.

[@alpacatwoniner2370]

No footage of YYC is complete without a shot of the York Hotel. 😅

[@ARGBlackCloud]

I kept looking for my car !! Lmao

[@benvolman4976]

1:42 Mopar or no car that's a roadrunner.

[@ignorthepain]

Better days. Born then at the holycross hospital.

[@mr2_mike]

No homeless, drug users or people loitering sitting on the sidewalk. The bums in the 80s that I recall were all just alcoholics, asking for another few pennies for a beer. But kind and few and far between.

[@jakhamar55]

I remember driving past the "slave market" on 17 ave on my way to work. They had their lunch buckets and hard hats and were hoping someone would pick them up for a days work.

[@drauglurdarkambient]

dystopian and dark maybe its just me but this is soothingly unsettling

[@visualhistoryaustria]

many shots against the sunlight

[@ChristopherCampbell]

Get rid of the of the office towers, and it could pass for modern day Lethbridge....

[@pancakesyo]

Not at all.

[@DavidBale-vn4op]

It looked more like Regina in 1965. Elveden House was just finishing its third tower. Briefly the tallest building until Sundial apartment tower.

[@goldenhourkodak]

Super 8 and 8mm are not the same thing by the way

[@gordwestdorp7187]

What's with the terrible Hee Haw music?

[@BinaryReplicant]

This is fantastic!! I’ve always been curious with how the base of the tower looked in the early days and it’s captured here beautifully. Love seeing people living their lives, moving around the city back then and how everything looked, the vehicles of the time, etc.. So wonderfully nostalgic. :)

[@visualhistoryaustria]

Thank you so much! You are very welcome!

[@kongshvalmagyar4984]

No blacks or Indians or nothing like that 😊

[@theotherguy1013]

no useless central european immigrants too man. no czechoslovaks, no romanians, and especially no hungarians. good ole days bro me and you

[@abprairiegurl]

Disgusting comment.