No jaywalker was harmed in the making of this video.
@johnmclaren70594 ай бұрын
Iam in my 35th year as a transit operator and watching this makes me smile, times were different then and people payed the fare!
@UnShredded4 ай бұрын
The fare gates are a joke for drugggiess and the increasingly larger invasive species, those who like to enter when someone else pays.
@DAMfoxygrampa3 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service! Bus drivers are super important, I actually wanted to be one a long time ago
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
🎉😂❤😅😊. You're ✅️. Our bus drivers,stay safe & healthy.😊
@johnmclaren70593 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍it’s been a great ride all these years!
@johnmclaren70593 ай бұрын
@@mancunianmartin558that’s me alright!👍
@cmonkey634 ай бұрын
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
@jeil56764 ай бұрын
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
@kenneth70274 ай бұрын
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
@r.crompton22864 ай бұрын
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
@lemerdtool3 ай бұрын
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
@mjk75054 ай бұрын
Was born there in 1949. Everything seems so much more civilized back then when compared to the city today.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
You sure got that right
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
@NicoleVanderwyst3 ай бұрын
Ok boomer
@adrianl71473 ай бұрын
@@NicoleVanderwyst Devastating! Good for you, internet troll
@jayjaychadoy92263 ай бұрын
It was more like a small town (but bigger).
@RGC1983 ай бұрын
Wow!! Excellent video. Vancouver had a great tram system in its day. Thanks for sharing.
@jayjaychadoy92263 ай бұрын
My MIL was a nurse and road to work on the trolley bus.
@denniswoycheshenАй бұрын
You could take rail transit from waterfront all the way to Chilliwack.
@ml.27704 ай бұрын
Seems far nicer than today actually.
@DrTofutybeast4 ай бұрын
Is definitely nicer than today.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
@chang.stanley3 ай бұрын
It's so insanely overpopulated now :'c
@jayjaychadoy92263 ай бұрын
Not too many high rises so light got in.
@SilentZyko3 ай бұрын
I like the trams and stuff, but I will say Vancouvers glass skyline today is actually very beautiful and is what made it stand out as a city. Way better then alot of the rundown skyscrapers they have south of us.
@tomcervenka78834 ай бұрын
How did people back then survive without a safe supply of meth and crack?
@Sandra-mw3yp3 ай бұрын
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
It a great question. Lot's of road cracks.😮
@jcmurr26693 ай бұрын
They had lots of drugs.. Amphetamine was prescribed to so many people. Every second housewife was a speed freak.
@jayjaychadoy92263 ай бұрын
@@jcmurr2669 The Purple Pill
@NicoleVanderwyst2 ай бұрын
Alcohol
@MrLukealbanese8 ай бұрын
That's amazing footage!!
@Test-vl1ib4 ай бұрын
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
@Libertyjack13 ай бұрын
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
@123456789814413 ай бұрын
My parents ( father was a vet ) always housed vets with ptsd from the time I was born until I was 16.
@Test-vl1ibАй бұрын
@@Libertyjack1 I should be? Do you know anything about me?
@patty109109Ай бұрын
@@Test-vl1ibI could be wrong but your comment sounds like something a boomer says while mid rant about how everyone is lazy today.
@Test-vl1ibАй бұрын
@@patty109109 You could indeed be.
@rdmatheson89954 ай бұрын
Probably considered quite mundane at the time of its making. This film now is priceless and fascinating.
@Stone_Horse4 ай бұрын
1950 Vancouver. Just a little before my time but not by much. Thinking that I could go back to 1950 and be able to blend right in but the same couldn't be said for someone from 1950 to suddenly find themselves in 2024. Talk about a culture shock.
@squangan4 ай бұрын
I thank god that my parents who were of the earlier more civilized, respectful generation aren’t still here to either observe or have to live through what goes on today.
@wintermutt90903 ай бұрын
@@squangan Thank the real estate and development 'industries'.
@jackpontiac524 ай бұрын
Just spotted 3 1950 Plymouths just like mine. Light Green 4 doors !
@drumitar4 ай бұрын
no encampments or drug addict losers, what a time to be alive !
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
Yeah it was nirvana. Raging alcoholics with PTSD from the war, who beat their wives every night. What a time to be alive!
@freeplayfrank7736Ай бұрын
Amazing footage. Back when Vancouver was a working class town, people were happy and respectful, and not a cop in sight. Love all the old trucks, wish I could find some to work on now. Thanks
@kakoiijing3 ай бұрын
Feels like time travelling
@alexinnewwest18609 ай бұрын
Nice find!
@Brassy49er4 ай бұрын
The cars were all so big back in those days. The trolley/tram things were before my time but the rounded Brill buses I loved to ride
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
Big cars, with next to nothing brakes.
@mariozamprogno16544 ай бұрын
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
@coldeadhands3 ай бұрын
Now you would swear you walked onto the set of a zombie movie
@yvr2002rtw4 ай бұрын
Make Vancouver Great Again!
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
You have to make the people great again first.
@glenw-xm5zf3 ай бұрын
Impossible, unless God does it
@glenw-xm5zf3 ай бұрын
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
@AbdulAlhazred-l2l3 ай бұрын
@@westerlywinds5684 People are replaced by Indians now.
@SilentZyko3 ай бұрын
I think Vancouver is already great in terms of design. We just need to find a way to get addicts off the street using good programs. As well as densifying our suburbs to make more supply for housing so that hardworking young people can have a future! More skytrain and bringing back the trams in this video would also be great
@whisy0123 ай бұрын
Shows you how little this city has evolved since the 1950s. The difference you notice is the trams and homelessness situation.
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
Seems less rain too back then.
@Since1970Canucks4 ай бұрын
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
Actually the water in False Creek was dirty as a cow's bowels. Today not so
@MrSlopyPurrАй бұрын
i was in my 60s back then. now im in my 70s! good times...
@christalball93_4 ай бұрын
Vancouver before junkies
@wintermutt90903 ай бұрын
Vancouver, being a port city, had heroin addicts back then. But many of the junkies had jobs, and no fentanyl.
@christalball93_3 ай бұрын
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
@christalball93_Ай бұрын
@@wintermutt9090 opium dens > fent heads
@user-cc5od3zk4p3 ай бұрын
So sad. We’ve deteriorated so much thanks to bad government policies.
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
Deliberate downfalls. 😮???!!!
@JerryGryz3 ай бұрын
Very interesting how vibrant and busy was Hastings, Main, Cambie. Seems like good times in Vancouver. Unfortunately everything has changed in that area. Just poverty, drugs, homeless people. It’s very sad what happened to downtown Vancouver 😢
@roybreznik68110 ай бұрын
last few minutes is going east on broadway right up to main
@canadagood4 ай бұрын
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
@analogueandy8x103 ай бұрын
We had street cars in Saskatoon. They disappeared around the same time as Vancouver's. Sad.
@alainarchambault23314 ай бұрын
Hmm, I remember the Brill buses, but I was born after the streetcars.
@lorneyoung62984 ай бұрын
Interesting, lack of overhead traffic lights. Old Granville street Bridge is similar to the old Cambie street Bridge
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
If I remember right, that was the old Oak street Bridge. The Ganville Bridge was opened in 1954
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
Both bridges were ugly and horrible
@IronChefPeter4 ай бұрын
Before the fentanyl zombies took over
@m.necatisepetcioglu43913 ай бұрын
my Dad bought his first investment property bac in 1972 in west vancouver for $135K, sold it a year ago for $14 mil. He was keep saying he should have bought that property 1965 when it was 100K and put his 35K on another one in surrey. in fast he was able to get 2x 20,000sqf houses there. i will send him this video , thank you
@rambojambone45864 ай бұрын
Where’s the tents and dope addicts?
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
Original.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
65 years in the future
@peteranserin37083 ай бұрын
What a glorious time. Wise guys were all over the place!
@timberwolfdtproductions38903 ай бұрын
That was great! We should have kept those streetcar lines.
@darrentylor5473Ай бұрын
Proof that Vancouver was a pain to navigate in a vehicle from the beginning... Although it has definitely gotten worse
@jeffreybodean73004 ай бұрын
You should see it now,total dystopia.
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
Oh please. I live in Vancouver but have travelled all over the world. This is one of the safest, cleanest, most civil places on the planet.
@Picklemedia3 ай бұрын
@@adrianl7147West Coast is a zombie apocalypse and Vancouver is the epicenter.
@althunder42697 ай бұрын
0:48 that guy working on the overhead live wires...
@Vlad65WFPReviews3 ай бұрын
with both trolleys and many buses there was much more mass transit with only about 1/4 today's population
@billhill35264 ай бұрын
Electric vehicles didn't catch fire back then and had unlimited range.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
Sales tax was 5 percent, none on food. and that was the only tax we paid, besides income tax. How did we ever manage??
@randolfo12653 ай бұрын
Colour Film.. . . . Sweet!
@gregoryroscow584614 күн бұрын
All the trams and trolleybuses running on electricity... until the oil companies got rid of them.
@philipf27054 ай бұрын
Traffic was great back then lol!
@thevanman44987 ай бұрын
Some of the footage make pedestrians look like they have a death wish getting close to inter urban buses.
@JayKarpwick5 ай бұрын
A lot of those bus-like vehicles seem to be trackless trolleys, with rubber tires but two overhead poles for power.
@jaquigreenlees5 ай бұрын
@@JayKarpwick the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@JayKarpwick5 ай бұрын
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
@canadagood4 ай бұрын
@@JayKarpwick Vancouver still has plenty of electric trolley buses; mainly on the primary city routes where the trams were removed in the 1950s.
@canadagood4 ай бұрын
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
@f.mazz.4593 ай бұрын
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction. This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
@MrUranium2383 ай бұрын
everyone driving classics 😀
@jeffmill66833 ай бұрын
I wasn't born until the late 50 but I do remember some of this from the early 60s. Do you see any homeless on the streets cause I sure don't.
@davechattoe914429 күн бұрын
This comment section is going be a blast to read. 😆
@slhs19922 ай бұрын
So there was nowhere to park back then either, eh?
@mikespark724 ай бұрын
Pain and Wastings wasn’t so painful back then eh!
@jeffrenman41464 ай бұрын
To me it seems the world was better back then. Now urban decay and complete degradation and homelessness has filled the streets with trash and just absolute horror. When I was growing up it was the old days that you see here you would never see Any of that kind of stuff… The world keeps getting worse every single day it would seem
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
When a nation turns from God, this is what always happens. (sorry if I sound like one of those WBC clowns) but it's true
@squangan4 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf You are right, People stop standing for what is right and the resulting mess we have in the 21st century occurs.
@jeffrenman41464 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf Agree. There's not much time left we will destroy everything.
@adanactnomew70854 ай бұрын
Watch the "To Build A Better City" video on Vancouver's urban blight in the 60s. People look at the past with rose-coloured lenses.
@doonhamer2524 ай бұрын
Not much different than in early 70s when I first got back after leaving in 1960 .. Then permanently moved here in 1981..was just starting to change..
@Nicklan19613 ай бұрын
This is when Vancouver was still considered to be one of the top manufacturing and industrial capacity sites of the British Empire or Canada you could say.
@petesnik12823 ай бұрын
When cars looked cool
@unknownninja44304 ай бұрын
Now we have skibidi toilet
@NicoleVanderwyst3 ай бұрын
Huh?
@monoho82043 ай бұрын
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.
@luckluc86273 ай бұрын
Wow normal people
@InVinoVeratas2 ай бұрын
Where are the Japanese Concentratio- I mean the Prisoners of War Camps?
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
they never existed
@f.mazz.4593 ай бұрын
1:06 - Thats the corner of Main and Hastings. Owl drugs the pharmacy is still around, I believe. Walk on that corner today and its all junkies, methheads, drunk natives and dealers selling dope. Crazy how times change for better or worse. Most of those buildings are still there btw
@andiman454 ай бұрын
nice to know loud smelly old diesel buses are a thing of the past. Just came back from Europe and all buses and trolleys of course were electric.
@Canucks9883 ай бұрын
Now most of these places are all zombie lands.
@amj4 ай бұрын
Can anyone here go back to 1950 and warn whoever filmed it that the image is shaking a lot? 😊
@Jack-2day4 ай бұрын
A.i post production can fix it lol
@donwald34364 ай бұрын
yea I don't think steadycam existed then lol.
@Picklemedia3 ай бұрын
Okay I went back in time and I found the guy. He was a war veteran and had both of his legs amputated. He was about 120 lb and the camera was 180 lb. I told him that someone was watching this video on their phone and asked for a smoother picture but I don't think he heard me because his ears were missing I think he lost his hearing from artillery shells
@liztowers20583 ай бұрын
wow, so many white people ...and not on drugs.
@jujube80673 ай бұрын
Bring back the street cars.
@wintermutt90903 ай бұрын
That train already left. We could have put in 200 km of streetcars for the price of the Broadway subway. Most of the old right-of-ways still exist. Everyone in the entire city could have lived within a 10 minute walk of a streetcar stop. Incredibly bad (corrupt) planning at the City government level.
@jujube80673 ай бұрын
@@wintermutt9090 It’s sad. I believe they went out to the valley.
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
Hey folks....before you start typing negative stuff about druggies.....about 100 people have beaten you to it and they're all thinking they're hilarious.
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
Well amigo, i sure aren't going to post positive stuff about them. They make me sick
@robertmiles1603Ай бұрын
i love how white everyone is :)
@rottweiler95353 ай бұрын
better public trasit then now, wtf?
@AbdulAlhazred-l2l3 ай бұрын
No Indians. Very nice. Good old time.🤭
@KHKH-os6kt4 ай бұрын
Did you notice everyone was working.
@rs76563 ай бұрын
That was right after the biggest war mankind has ever seen, there was a lot of work to do. Also wages were much fairer, all the money didn't go to the bosses. A mill worker earned enough to buy a house.
@ournturn75122 ай бұрын
i noticed another thing people had in common too
@enigmalfidelityАй бұрын
I didn't see the part where this entered people's homes to find this out. 😂😂😂
@jamesblair96144 ай бұрын
All the people out going about their business on east Hastings, uncivil behaviour wasn’t tolerated, what a contrast to today.
@briandriscoll14804 ай бұрын
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
@canadianroot3 ай бұрын
Before the planned destruction of the West by the people who we are not allowed to criticize.
@enigmalfidelityАй бұрын
@briandriscoll1480 no, it wasn't tolerated. This is why they spiked people's brains, and used electro shock therapy on the temples. It was rampant. You just didn't have the same media devices we have today that makes people more aware.
@alainarchambault23314 ай бұрын
West on Hastings, before it totally became the Downtown Eastside. I remember shopping there as a kid.
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
West Hastings is sill pretty darn nice.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
Army and Navy, and the Whitecap cafe'.
@alainarchambault23314 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf I remember a neon-lit butcher sign that featured a pig. Also, the old Woodwards Department Store.
@PonkyKong3 ай бұрын
Would be nice in a week. Just have to crack down like the Chinese Emperor is visiting.
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
@@matzrat5006Yes from Cambie towards west.😊
@ant-13824 ай бұрын
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
@jaquigreenlees5 ай бұрын
What is truly amazing is how many of the buildings in this are still standing, still occupied and by the same business.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf Now is the time ⏲️ 🙌 😊.
@laraby784 ай бұрын
Some of the captions aren't accurate. A lot of the "Going South on Granville" section is actually Broadway.
@Adam-en4zm4 ай бұрын
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
House on Vancouver West side 1950 = $16,000 (60 foot lot) today same house $ 5 million
@coinneachmaclellan31213 ай бұрын
Getting rid of "character" in Vancouver is a simple as abc development...
@Adam-en4zm3 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf It's certainly worth the $4,984,000 price difference, much safer and cleaner now. Traffic is better too.
@glenw-xm5zf3 ай бұрын
@@Adam-en4zm You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@Adam-en4zm3 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
@kenneth70274 ай бұрын
Born in Vancouver in 1947. Can remember the excitement when the trolleys were replaced by "rubber". A big mistake!
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
Why a mistake? -Born in '45, in Vancouver
@kenneth70274 ай бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
@1928ModelA19314 ай бұрын
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
@@kenneth7027 Vancouver Burnaby New West was also like 500,000 people. Huge diff for traffic
@andrewjensen81893 ай бұрын
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
@420greatestqueen4 ай бұрын
Wow people get on and off the trolleys in the middle of granville. I'm surprised no one got hit by a car
@noyfb47694 ай бұрын
tiny bit less traffic!
@Stone_Horse4 ай бұрын
No drivers staring down looking at their cell phones, lol.
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
I'm sure lots of people got hit by cars. My Mother-inlaw said it was pretty dangerous.
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
@@Stone_Horse but I remember they stared down at their roadmap while driving.
@Stone_Horse3 ай бұрын
@@westerlywinds5684 The front passenger is the navigator, eh?
@misterfunnybones4 ай бұрын
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
Buses increased greatly the nasty pollutions,not the smokers!!!😂❤😊
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
i don't think you have ever driven on a main road that still has the tracks in it. and the rough brickwork that makes driving oh so much fun.
@misterfunnybones12 сағат бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf driven? You just admitted the problem.
@glenw-xm5zfСағат бұрын
@@misterfunnybones You weren't here in the fifties, were you??
@AdamtheGrey023 ай бұрын
Vancouver is a diverse over populated expensive hole now where the English language is as tough to spot as a Sasquatch sighting.
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
It’s great. Better restaurants and bakeries now thanks to immigration, and make new friends from far away places. I like. 😅
@AdamtheGrey023 ай бұрын
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
@azavy3 ай бұрын
Sad but true 😢. Lived there for over 20 years and moved away 4 years ago. It was nice while it lasted. But things became more difficult to stay there.
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
@freakyfarooq3 ай бұрын
@AdamtheGrey02 cry more lmao! If you don't like it, get the fuck out! Maybe Germany? Mind you Hitler is no longer in power though. Just FYI! 😂
@vestibulate4 ай бұрын
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
@10percent4DaBigGuy4 ай бұрын
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function... the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight! nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism.... i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
@adrianl71474 ай бұрын
That's because when you went to the movies, you got two cups of popcorn, not two gallons!
@westerlywinds56843 ай бұрын
People had to save every penny back then, and food was scarce after the war.
@vestibulate3 ай бұрын
@@westerlywinds5684 Food wasn't scarce in Canada. There was plenty to eat. They were the biggest, healthiest people on the planet.
@marsgal423 ай бұрын
All adults smoked.
@10percent4DaBigGuy4 ай бұрын
my dad told me the trams rolled from vancouver to chilliwack when he was a kid
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
Tracks are still there, from Cloverdale to Chilliwack.
@10percent4DaBigGuy4 ай бұрын
@@matzrat5006 i know i grew up in langley but left BC a couple years ago now isn't it more or less just a trail with a power line down the middle?
@rudihofer72124 ай бұрын
yes they did through langley and abbotsford
4 ай бұрын
1947 Brill trolleybuses and they tried to replace them with flyer trolleys which only lasted about 15 years
@louisemckinney10213 ай бұрын
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
@DAMfoxygrampa3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing! I'm below 30 years old so your memories are really valuable to me since I didn't see Vancouver back then :)
@Sandra-mw3yp3 ай бұрын
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
@wintermutt90903 ай бұрын
@@Sandra-mw3yp "your" younger? That'd be 'you're' younger. Did you go to school? Sorry?
@Sandra-mw3yp3 ай бұрын
@@wintermutt9090 Sorry I made a mistake in typing to quickly. Deeply Sorry, my mistake.
@DAMfoxygrampa3 ай бұрын
@@wintermutt9090 The hero I needed
@brucew.steele5474 ай бұрын
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
@BOBK-jf4qxАй бұрын
Have you read the news since 1950? The Empire is dead and, soon, its child empire will die too. I'm glad you enjoyed those times but I think it's time to move on. No more Jimmy Saville, Prince Andrew pedohphilia... and Harry's narcissistic family....no thanks, by the way of Dodo they shall go.
@coryharry73004 ай бұрын
What amazing footage!! I couldn't take my eyes off it. I live in Vancouver and have driven in all those areas for years. Wow - thanks for the upload 👍
@johngidman45744 ай бұрын
Look, no tents or druggies. What a socialist paradise we've built over the last fifty years.
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
YEP. The slide started in 1972. We elected a social worker as Premier. Almost as bad as electing a teacher for P.M.
@YS-fr6nu4 ай бұрын
So many beautiful cars back than
@glenw-xm5zf4 ай бұрын
ROFL yeah like the doors would fly open. We miss the era more than the cars.
@jcmurr26693 ай бұрын
I only saw super ugly cars.
@glenw-xm5zf3 ай бұрын
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
LOL. Door that pop open when you turn a sharp corner. No thank you.
@frederickma21933 ай бұрын
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
@searaydrivingguy4 ай бұрын
The city has the same bones, but much more new, one of the most beautiful city's in the world.
@lecaprice25724 ай бұрын
Not now…faceless inhuman highrises
@kyungshim64834 ай бұрын
at a time when Vancouver was representative of a 1st world country, not anymore.
@kathleenogrady84594 ай бұрын
That's what immigration does. Where are you from?
@matzrat50064 ай бұрын
Nobody heard of Vancouver then. let alone a 1st world country.
@danielj16424 ай бұрын
wow main and broadway;. that building is still there. so cool!
@briandriscoll14804 ай бұрын
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
@Anonymous------4 ай бұрын
Sorry, those homeless people weren't born yet. 😂
@rudihofer72124 ай бұрын
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
@Anonymous------4 ай бұрын
@@rudihofer7212 I think it's called Pigeon Square or Pigeon Park, there was maybe one or two drunks there when I moved to Vancouver in 1972.
@squangan4 ай бұрын
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
@littleramproductions4 ай бұрын
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
@jcmurr26693 ай бұрын
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
@heartborne123Ай бұрын
0:12 so there was a time when construction workers were actually working in road repair.
@fortindenis65694 ай бұрын
The city has changed so much since the time.I visited Vancouver so many times l love this city !
@FranksPlace-jk7pj4 ай бұрын
Ave you been to Vancouver recently? It's a pest hole.
@rexluminus98673 ай бұрын
Than move to Hastings Street bwn Abbott & Main st dump & stench!!!😊
@micklepickle82003 ай бұрын
growing up in Vancouver, this is amazing footage to see the major transformation along Granville Street South. Incredible. wow.
@MTEGamingYT2 ай бұрын
I liked how the south tower was in downtown 💀
@youngkappakhan2 ай бұрын
i like how this comment section is like 85% universally agreeable sentiments about how & why the city has gotten worse over time and then 15% old people being flagrantly racist for no reason
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
show me the racist comments. none there
@youngkappakhan2 күн бұрын
@@glenw-xm5zf you probably can't see all comments, sort by newest
@glenw-xm5zf2 күн бұрын
@@youngkappakhan I forgot about that. Tk's
@MHB70004 ай бұрын
No stop lights I miss that
@geoffletkemann6533 ай бұрын
Looks like there were?
@everettumphrey3 ай бұрын
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.