Commercial Street, Glace Bay - 1988

[@deansam7092]

I've only lived here for 6 1/2 years, but I really like it. What a difference though! I wish I'd been here then, it was so different, a completely different vibe...cooler! Thank you so much for sharing this video, it really is something special, and for people who are from here, it must be priceless.

[@toddbrown1397]

Thanks for the clip. Grew up in #2 and Currie Street…left in 1987, this was shot in ‘88…so this is really how I remember it…Thanks…it brought back a lot of great and sad memories.

[@ColinMacInnis]

Crazy to think how vibrant and busy a community it was. I’m imagining the life my grandfather would’ve lived in Glace Bay before the internet and everything. A neat peek into history - thanks for uploading this

[@jamesrideout123]

The Geasy Spoon lol that was before my time I really miss Mike's Lunch.

[@ElizabethMacDonaldArtist]

My husband was from #11, his sister still lives in the old company house that's been in the family since it was built. Thanks for the memories! My first trip to Glace Bay was in 1976. My husband passed away on Sept 2nd. I will be bringing him home to rest in 2019. Thanks David for this video. I'm going to share it with family here in Windsor, On.

[@bradwatson7713]

OMG, that is so cool, a cruz down Commercial St in 88. I miss CB, thankyou for the old memories.

[@samshearringg]

this is awesome . its really cool to know what glace bay was like before i was born . really interesting hahaha

[@depthwish5586]

What a fun trip down memory lane. "Taking a shot through town," as they say. Nice job!

[@p.l.h.9661]

Watching from California. Played a show in Glace Bay once. Good time!

[@DavidMacVicar]

Nice. Where did you play?

[@p.l.h.9661]

@@DavidMacVicar Can't remeber the name, it was a rec hall/ gym not far from Main st. downtown. All ages show around 1999

[@yugiohcardgod]

this is crazy this was in the 80s and it’s 2021 now the town has changed so much

[@IdiotStinky02]

yeah... for the worse most buildings burned down

[@markcochrane6232]

I miss home so much! I gotta get back to the bay!

[@mvmacneil]

xmacvicar, That is awesome. I remember driving through the bay in the summer on my cruiser. Thanks

[@shaunmcinnis1076]

Now they'd fine for driving/filming that right?if it was you...lol ,They were the good ole days! Beautiful town,despite the problems "that are just new problems now" some of my life's best memories are there. I feel very fortunate to have been raised in this town,most people like myself only appreciate it after they leave,it's been 32 years now and before the cold wind blows I hope to enjoy it one more time,starting this spring I hope.Thanks ,Great post!

[@Olivesandantlers]

thanks so much for the memories....

[@sharonmaclean47]

love your voice sound like my father

[@nateboone5796]

Wow The Econmy Was Was Better Back In The Day

[@nateboone5796]

@Miles Maillet True

[@mrceleb2006]

Commercial Street in Glace Bay, NS has been mostly one-way since the mid-1980s. BTW, this video was shot a month before Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne Freleng in the 'Poltergeist' trilogy) died suddenly from cardiac arrest and intestinal stenosis...she was only 12 years old!

[@caper13t]

great video

[@DavidMacVicar]

Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

[@Niknodder]

This is awesome!

[@jamesrideout123]

Lol the Guildwood and Marcadonis I remember.

[@theDMINking]

my home town...GB

[@mrceleb2006]

1:52 - The Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership (Preferred Motors, then Bay Chev-Olds and Highlands Chev-Olds) no longer exists in Glace Bay...if anyone in Glace Bay wanted to get a new car, they will have to go to Sydney to do that!

[@DavidMacVicar]

Imagine!

[@stalag14]

"Son take a good look around...this is your home town" Spent the best days of my life in the Bay. The drunks and druggies were always there, now its just a new generation thats all. Peace.

[@MickScarborough]

@xmacvicar I am looking at buying some land in the Cape. How is it really? I am looking in the Big Pond / Loch Lomond area.

[@BapeCretonm]

This is great.

[@jamesrideout123]

Yep Toby and Eins the People's mall

[@lazygirl303]

this was glace bay in its time now its got noting but drugs but im proud to live here lol

[@10reilly]

ahahahha yea

[@MickScarborough]

88?? The cars look like this was filmed in 74

[@caper13t]

Cars could have been from 74, in 88. lol

[@jamesrideout123]

There's not much food in Glace Bay but they call it Foodtown, yeah I remember when I was a younger man we had nothing, my mom was on welfare with 4 kids, and it sucked.

[@XxPrankCallerXx101]

Home Town

[@mishkeisha]

wow glace bay wasnt a shit hole at once. side note you can still see my house

[@KnucklesMcOuch]

He was probably hammered !!!

[@Dervanism]

Shot a lot of snooker down in the rat hole best hotdogs in town 🇨🇦✌🏻🇨🇦

[@DavidMacVicar]

Question - were they called steamies? or just Hot Dogs?

[@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074]

Too cold yet for the Chip Wagon B’ye.

[@DavidMacVicar]

Yes sir!

[@KnucklesMcOuch]

Who is narrating ?? Lol.