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

Today's metropolis of Edmonton in Canada is captured in this travel film from 1977. At that time the capital of the province of Alberta had just under 500,000 inhabitants, today it is around a million. In the metropolitan region there are even 1.4 million. This makes Edmonton the second largest city in the province after Calgary and the fifth largest city in Canada.
The Kodak Super 8 images are detailed and smoothly made. Street scenes with the automobiles and buses of the time form an attractive focus. As for the buildings, you can see the Petroleum Plaza, the Holiday Inn, the Air Canada office building, the Mayfair, a church or Primo's Mexican Restaurant. The parliament building is also filmed.
With 683 km² Edmonton is one of the largest cities in North America and therefore has a very low population density. Until the Second World War, the city depended heavily on agriculture. War production and mineral resources brought the city an industrial boom despite the inhospitable climate. The most important industry today are services. The largest employer besides the government is the University of Alberta.
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Die heutige Millionenmetropole Edmonton in Kanada ist in diesem Reisefilm aus dem Jahr 1977 eingefangen. Damals hatte die Hauptstadt der Provinz Alberta knapp unter 500.000 Einwohner, heute sind es rund eine Million. In der Metropolregion sind es sogar 1,4 Millionen. Damit ist Edmonton nach Calgary die zweitgrößte Stadt der Provinz und die fünftgrößte Stadt in Kanada.
Die Kodak Super 8 Aufnahmen sind detailliert und ruhig gemacht. Straßenszenen mit den damaligen Automobilen und Bussen bilden einen reizvollen Schwerpunkt. Was die Gebäude betrifft, sind das Petroleum Plaza, das Holiday Inn, das Air Canada Bürogebäude, das Mayfair, eine Kirche oder Primo's Mexican Restaurant zu sehen. Gefilmt ist auch das Parlamentsgebäude.
Mit 683 km² ist Edmonton eine der flächengrößten Städte Nordamerikas und hat daher eine sehr niedrige Bevölkerungsdichte. Bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg hing die Stadt stark von der Landwirtschaft ab. Kriegsproduktion und Bodenschätze brachten der Stadt trotz des unwirtlichen Klimas industriellen Aufschwung. Der bedeutendsten Wirtschaftszweig sind heute Dienstleistungen. Größter Arbeitgeber neben der Regierung ist die University of Alberta.
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[@cassidypresley7154]

I remember going to the.........Ember's steak house and peelers joint.........105 st and Jasper ave in the early 80s. I also worked there.......in the lounge, working as as a busboy and use to frequent The Toy Box Disco dance night club. Also remember that Hotel Ambassador Inn which was across the st.......opposite The Ember's. These were lovely memories of my late to teens to early 20s........working in pretty decent jobs in those days meeting some pretty decent people.😊.

[@cassidypresley7154]

I surely remember going Walterdale road and taking transit, back in the early 70s........and going by the Rossdale Walterdale Treatment Plant. From home and to school. Loved the river valley and the beautiful trees and buildings.😊

[@yurilytviak9066]

Very good. Lovely music also…

[@keneckert]

This is really impressive restoration work-- the clearest Super 8 footage I've ever seen of Edmonton.

[@visualhistoryaustria]

Thank you Ken!

[@PerAllwin1963]

Edmonton was at its best in the early 1960s to mid-60s. I was a typical businessman wearing nice dark suits, well-shined shoes, and narrow ties back then. In 1976, I switched gears and became a social worker for children at the Youth Development Centre (YDC) in northeast Edmonton. Times had changed for the worst. More divorce, more juvenile delinquency. At the YDC, I dealt with many unruly kids. One boy, who was only 12 years-old, kicked me in the privates really hard when I tried to restrain him, injuring me to the point where I couldn’t walk for two days. The pain of getting kicked in the testicles by an emotionally unstable child was awful. From a well-suited shiny-shoed businessman in the early 1960s to dealing with misfit children in the 1970s and 80s in Edmonton. What a time.

[@yurilytviak9066]

Hats off to ya..

[@PerAllwin1963]

@@yurilytviak9066 Thank you.

[@andrewmah2962]

I missed out. I was born in 1986

[@AlexT-ke2gq]

Grew up in Edmonton really brings back the memories. Thanks for posting

[@visualhistoryaustria]

Great! Our pleasure!!

[@cassidypresley7154]

@AlexT-Ke2gq..........remember this city well, use too work at The Ember's steak house and strip hall. Worked there whenI was in my early 20s......doing bussing tables and cleaning. The man that owned it was Val linzer.......was my boss.....😊 Sure miss those good old days.......when I was growing up in Edmonton....60s and 70s and early 80s.😊

[@TwistedCantQuickscope]

@@cassidypresley7154Same. I grew up in Edmonton!

[@UncleLarrysVault]

The first two seconds looking westbound is Edson, AB. and I lived there in 1977 when this was shot. The Husky used to be a Union 76 just before and my paternal grandparents lived across the road from this spot. The station is long gone and nothing to replace it in 40 years. One year later the highway would become a one-way going west.

[@EdmontonRails]

Beautiful, I wish Edmonton still looked this good.

[@stickynorth]

It's not that bad, believe me... Just needs less downtown surface parking lots and way more affordable dense housing...

[@EdmontonRails]

@@stickynorth Housing affordability and density are mutually exclusive. The cheapest housing this city ever has, and ever will, see is 1950s/60s urban sprawl. Homes in beautiful urban forest neighborhoods for the inflation-adjusted price of $150,000. 10+ years of densification infill policy has only increased housing prices in Edmonton. Demolish a single $400,000 home and replace it with two $900,000 homes. Can't afford this? The city has an even better idea, laneway homes! Now you can pay $1500 a month to rent someone's glorified garage as a "living space"! The entire densification free-for-all (there is no coherent plan to be found) is going to be the end of Edmonton. Twice the cost of living for 1/3rd the quality of life. Neighborhoods deforested to build "homes" that can only be described as architectural tumors. There is no recovery from this level of universal brain damage that the city is currently experiencing.

[@James-vj5hz]

​@@EdmontonRailsYou are incorrect, but I'm grateful you're most likely old.

[@EdmontonRails]

@@James-vj5hz I'm in my early 20s and depressed that I will never be able to afford a modest home in a beautiful, low-density urban forest neighborhood.

[@danjohnston3422]

Hey! The first two seconds is Edson, Alberta, westbound on 4th avenue at 48th street. The Summit Motel is, astonishingly, still there. But the Husky, the Peppermill Inn, and that sweet Chrysler Imperial are long, long gone.

[@mystere485]

This brought back lots of memories. Did not change much from when it was filmed to the late 80’s when I remember it most. Spent a lot of time on jasper ave as my uncle had an apartment beside the church on the west side of jasper ave. One block away from the bubble window town houses! Times and Edmonton were better then!

[@TwistedCantQuickscope]

I moved to Edmonton back in 2009 from Toronto and yet the city is so amazing. What I heard about is a lot of people from Ontario would move to Alberta for better house prices or something. Born in Toronto and raised in Edmonton.

[@mystere485]

@@TwistedCantQuickscope same with people from lower mainland BC

[@status101-danielho6]

You seem like the only one with an image of the Seven Seas Chinese Restaurant on Jasper Avenue and either 105th or 106 St. We went there for dim sum often, along with the second floor My Lai Garden Restaurant on what's now Canada Place.

[@kingkrimson8771]

Recently saw the Seven Seas in another old video of Edmonton on the Tube

[@status101-danielho6]

@@kingkrimson8771 I found that video from the 1960's. I vaguely remember the restaurant looking like a bordello by the 70's, not at all mid-century modern. lol

[@PerAllwin1963]

@@status101-danielho6 I remember My Lai Garden Restaurant. It was on the second floor right? You had to walk up a long flight of stairs to get up to the restaurant. I

[@KK-----]

great video!

[@casarabat211]

I was around Edmonton back then, nice vid

[@marvinm.messier1120]

I was a newborn baby somewhere in that place around then. haha

[@ArtLady-xh5zp]

This shot of that LTD station wagon looked exactly like the one we drove here from Oakville Ontario. Your work is fabulous Austria fellow!

[@visualhistoryaustria]

Thank you 😊

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

Nice to see the Roads Drivable, not cluttered with Bike Lanes and other Traffic Gridlocking Items that Infest Edmonton today

[@TheDEM1995]

Having a population of 400k will do that. I actually was struck by how annoying it was to get around without a car

[@成功郑-v1t]

Thank you for sharing

[@PeterBranco]

Thank you

[@noguano]

I live here now, cool vid! Feels similar today, some of these views

[@Pissrust69]

Only difference is today its a rundown shithole with crack addicts running around everywhere

[@elmoredneal5382]

Love it! 💚

[@puffnpluky76]

Don't forget that today is the 1977 of the future

[@DavidBale-vn4op]

A cold winter esks crushed

[@Dee12327]

I cant believe how nice it looked back then.. its a giant 💩hole now 😂.. great video! Wish i was around in those days.

[@StonedTriker]

I was there... somewhere.

[@phoenix0110]

Clean Morden and Beautiful

[@gp7910]

I remember going downtown when i was 11 in 77 and seeing star wars. Incompetent councils wrecked downtown just like they're wrecking Edmoneon now. If people could have experienced downtown back then what we have now is sad and tragic.

[@GordoGambler]

Maybe the same show as me. LOL. We always liked about 8/10 rows from the front center. I remember Mary Poppins in Dec. 1964. With my friends we went to a movie almost every Saturday for 26 years, then he died. We still went to the Eaton's center plex lots. But I haven't been to a movie since 2006 I think. Saw the Johnny Cash bio, Titanic and the Howard Hughes epic. I haven't missed a thing. The subway wrecked DT actually. Parking sucked. My first job was at the BMO building, gone 5 years ago.

[@gp7910]

@@GordoGambler Good times! I miss how busy Jasper Ave was. I don't think the subway wrecked downtown I think city managers from the outer cities taking development bribes as well as incompetent city planning .

[@slicedbacon2861]

What do you think of the new ice district? I don't live in Edmonton. I basically live in the bush in NW Alberta.

[@TwistedCantQuickscope]

@@GordoGamblerBefore West Edmonton Mall and Scotiabank Theatre existed there were movies theatres in Downtown Edmonton. I saw Barbie and Oppenheimer this year in Edmonton and yet it was a good time. Old school times in Edmonton were pretty different 4 years before WEM and Scotiabank theatre was built.

[@stickynorth]

Greedy mega developers promising Edmonton the moon and delivering nothing but dust is Edmonton's problem. And we never learn. Even the ICE district is only a pale imitation of that was once proposed. Hopefully the new Valley LRT line that opened over the weekend will help draw people downtown again...

[@soulabics]

Air Canada building is Telus

[@Scotford_Maconochie]

Gas for 89.9 cents /gallon at Husky before it was sold by the liter in 1979

[@cassidypresley7154]

.........Should have kept the way it was for selling gas in gallons back then, now it's all corruption of big oil and gas corporations of...........$$$$$$$$$ GREED and DESPAIR 😩

[@paulietteburnett7270]

Terrica Williams

[@kenlam4978]

Deadmonton didn't change that much after 45 years

[@kingkrimson8771]

"Deadmonton" haha I work with a guy who calls it that, he's a loser as well

[@stickynorth]

Nope. Still just the youngest and fastest growing major city in Canada... Again... Yup, a real dead place... Has the tallest skyscraper outside of Toronto but yeah... Just DEAD... lol...

[@gp7910]

​@@stickynorthSaying Edmonton hasn't changed in 45 years is beyond dumb 😅

[@kenlam4978]

@@kingkrimson8771 go try their road this year, it's going to hurt your spline. It's still a dead place and full of potholes.

[@kenlam4978]

@@stickynorth sorry that title has been with Calgary for almost a decade now

[@manomyth11]

Too many Polar Bears in Canada

[@kingkrimson8771]

What a baby, we hunt them on foot and eat them for breakfast!

[@cassidypresley7154]

@@kingkrimson8771 ........along with tasty........seal meat.

[@grantsenio3923]

the only thing different about Edmonton now is everyone is fat and the cars are new

[@Cellmate412162]

And the rise in homelessness. There’s too many encampments.

[@carlhvs9437]

Ok this is actually some nice footage