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 Жыл бұрын
Very good. Lovely music also…
@AlexT-ke2gq3 жыл бұрын
Grew up in Edmonton really brings back the memories. Thanks for posting
@visualhistoryaustria3 жыл бұрын
Great! Our pleasure!!
@cassidypresley7154 Жыл бұрын
@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 Жыл бұрын
@@cassidypresley7154Same. I grew up in Edmonton!
@keneckert3 жыл бұрын
This is really impressive restoration work-- the clearest Super 8 footage I've ever seen of Edmonton.
@visualhistoryaustria3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ken!
@o.jfrancis92213 ай бұрын
Lived in this wonderful City from 75 to 89. Attended College and U of A. Things were so simple and stress-free back then. Wow!
@cassidypresley7154 Жыл бұрын
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.😊.
@jimshannononsoundsАй бұрын
I was visiting the Hobbit shop early 80s so often above the Embers I almost forgot the Embers was there.
@PerAllwin1963 Жыл бұрын
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.
@yurilytviak90669 ай бұрын
Hats off to ya..
@PerAllwin19639 ай бұрын
@@yurilytviak9066 Thank you.
@andrewmah29624 ай бұрын
I missed out. I was born in 1986
@UncleLarrysVault Жыл бұрын
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.
@Daniel_Ho_Status_101 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Recently saw the Seven Seas in another old video of Edmonton on the Tube
@Daniel_Ho_Status_101 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@Daniel_Ho_Status_101 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
@EdmontonRails2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, I wish Edmonton still looked this good.
@stickynorth Жыл бұрын
It's not that bad, believe me... Just needs less downtown surface parking lots and way more affordable dense housing...
@EdmontonRails Жыл бұрын
@@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-vj5hz5 ай бұрын
@@EdmontonRailsYou are incorrect, but I'm grateful you're most likely old.
@EdmontonRails5 ай бұрын
@@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.
@KK----- Жыл бұрын
great video!
@ArtLady-xh5zp3 жыл бұрын
This shot of that LTD station wagon looked exactly like the one we drove here from Oakville Ontario. Your work is fabulous Austria fellow!
@visualhistoryaustria3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@mystere4856 ай бұрын
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!
@TwistedCantQuickscope5 ай бұрын
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.
@mystere4855 ай бұрын
@@TwistedCantQuickscope same with people from lower mainland BC
@danjohnston34226 ай бұрын
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.
@casarabat2114 ай бұрын
I was around Edmonton back then, nice vid
@成功郑-v1t Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@noguano3 жыл бұрын
I live here now, cool vid! Feels similar today, some of these views
@Pissrust692 жыл бұрын
Only difference is today its a rundown shithole with crack addicts running around everywhere
@PeterBranco7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@pjimmbojimmbo1990 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see the Roads Drivable, not cluttered with Bike Lanes and other Traffic Gridlocking Items that Infest Edmonton today
@TheDEM19955 ай бұрын
Having a population of 400k will do that. I actually was struck by how annoying it was to get around without a car
@elmoredneal5382 Жыл бұрын
Love it! 💚
@marvinm.messier1120 Жыл бұрын
I was a newborn baby somewhere in that place around then. haha
@wc19572 ай бұрын
My mother lived in the house at 01:10.
@puffnpluky766 ай бұрын
Don't forget that today is the 1977 of the future
@DavidBale-vn4op8 ай бұрын
A cold winter esks crushed
@soulabics9 ай бұрын
Air Canada building is Telus
@ronofthenorth93022 ай бұрын
I remember getting pulled over by those yellow cars with white doors
@StonedTriker4 ай бұрын
I was there... somewhere.
@gp79102 жыл бұрын
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.
@GordoGambler2 жыл бұрын
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.
@gp79102 жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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...
@phoenix0110 Жыл бұрын
Clean Morden and Beautiful
@Whyismytacoblue666 Жыл бұрын
I cant believe how nice it looked back then.. its a giant 💩hole now 😂.. great video! Wish i was around in those days.
@Ashley_van_Schooneveld2 жыл бұрын
Gas for 89.9 cents /gallon at Husky before it was sold by the liter in 1979
@cassidypresley71544 ай бұрын
.........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 😩
@paulietteburnett72707 ай бұрын
Terrica Williams
@ronofthenorth93022 ай бұрын
Back when Edmonton could afford to mow the grass
@manomyth112 жыл бұрын
Too many Polar Bears in Canada
@kingkrimson8771 Жыл бұрын
What a baby, we hunt them on foot and eat them for breakfast!
@cassidypresley71544 ай бұрын
@@kingkrimson8771 ........along with tasty........seal meat.
@kenlam49782 жыл бұрын
Deadmonton didn't change that much after 45 years
@kingkrimson8771 Жыл бұрын
"Deadmonton" haha I work with a guy who calls it that, he's a loser as well
@stickynorth Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@stickynorthSaying Edmonton hasn't changed in 45 years is beyond dumb 😅
@kenlam49788 ай бұрын
@@kingkrimson8771 go try their road this year, it's going to hurt your spline. It's still a dead place and full of potholes.
@kenlam49788 ай бұрын
@@stickynorth sorry that title has been with Calgary for almost a decade now
@carlhvs94376 ай бұрын
Ok this is actually some nice footage
@grantsenio39232 жыл бұрын
the only thing different about Edmonton now is everyone is fat and the cars are new
@Cellmate41216211 ай бұрын
And the rise in homelessness. There’s too many encampments.
@jimshannononsounds2 ай бұрын
@@Cellmate412162 Ukrainians are welcome here. Too many new commers compromise our infrustructure. I've lived in Edmonton since 1978. I've never seen it this bad before in just the last 3 years. Good luck finding a family Doctor here. Tansit system is sub par. Rents are like Vancouver.