North Vancouver in 1974. Original Footage Credit to youtube user hanssipma

[@CanadianCowgirl1955]

In 1960 I lived on the chicken farm across the road from the Coach House Motor Inn. That’s where my horseback riding career started and to this day I still own horses and ride. Best childhood ever. ❤️ I moved to 2nd Street and then 3rd Street. Went to North Van Sec then Cardin Graham. Loved North Van.

[@CanadianCowgirl1955]

Carson Graham **

[@ArthurStraw]

I have ridden that route hundreds of times! Thank you for letting me ride it again!

[@heatherwilson9568]

Loved this video! Still live in N Van, and the memories sure took me back!

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

You won't believe it, but I live in Orange County, and we also have a resident in our complex named Heather Wilson--same first and last name for ours! Maybe you should meet our own Heather someday and straighten out the confusion. Ours will have a 50th birthday next week. I was in Vancouver first back in 1974!

[@FossilFishy]

My god, I can't imagine that there's any nostalgia left for anyone else in the world. I used it all up watching that. I haven't lived in North Van since 1988 and that is exactly how I picture it in my head. Thanks for this, and I hope someone had stored it off KZbin for when it gets yanked for music copyright violations.

[@speedfreakjive8843]

@FossilFishy Do you have memories of Westview Plaza?

[@pcn42069]

best place in the world

[@davidtosh7200]

There are several of the vintage 1950s Mercury Vapor Lamps as street lights, and they are: Westinghouse Type OV-20, General Electric Form 400, and Line Materials Ovalites, and they are all over for not only in the United States, but also in Canada. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦. There are also modern General Electric M-400A1, split door street light fixtures dated from 1968 through early 1980s.

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

48 years ago today I was in North Vancouver--at the Best Western Motel! I still remember that 1974 visit!

[@mulus2008]

From 4:20 to 5:08 is Mission Indian rez where I grew up from 1964 and still live here. and this is a great video that took my heart. Thank you to the person who put this up :)

[@rjsartworks8693]

Brought back memories for me too. Haven't smiled for a while. Thank you

[@kendesjarlais7577]

im 56 now and it sure is interesting to see landmarks along that street-- mcdonalds-- just a newer bldg

[@Tokewhichu]

Me too,I grew up on 5th street.

[@craigx1433]

Thank you so much for this...I moved to North Vancouver in 1974.Just finished high school and found a job at the Lynwood Marina,right below the second narrows bridge ,where your video starts.Then I lucked into a job with Canada Post as a mailman...and my first route was at 1st and Lonsdale ,North Vancouver!!! Wow,I actually was a letter carrier on the street's you filmed and delivered mail door to door on the Indian reserve which you filmed also.I moved to Ontario and bought a farm outside Ottawa.I'm old now but 18 againg when I look at this .Thank you very much.

[@derekheuring4646]

Craig X: Do you know Helen Brown or Carol Illingsworth?

[@craigx1433]

@@derekheuring4646 Hello Derek...just saw this,Yes I knew them both.I worked with Carol at depot 2,behind Capilano Mall,had a huge crush on her.

[@craigx1433]

I knew Helen also...she used to date another carrier named Proudlove I believe...are they still in the area?

[@moknows4996]

The A&W drive-in is sorely missed and Beaver Lumber... I noticed nearly no "high rises" whatsoever and when you get to the International Plaza near the end, it looks like its still under construction. (i believe it opened 1975) And is the only tall building in the video! Very cool, as some commenters said, so many gas stations come and gone, like Texaco, Gulf or Pacific 66!! And lets not forget Wosk's, lol... And all those fantastic old cars...Anyone remember they used to have a man stationed in a little hut above traffic on the middle of Lions Gate Bridge..? Think he used to change the center lane traffic lights back then....Lots of snow on the Cut... Man this takes me back! Cheers for posting

[@xboxrules8472]

I had just moved there from Kerrisdale in 1971

[@jenhall2923]

Oh, God, this takes me back. I was a lot younger then, as were we all. And some people were alive then, who are no longer. Maybe the world wasn't simpler, but North Van was, that's for sure. In my opinion, North Van has been overdeveloped, and I don't like that.

[@michaelkennedy4444]

I was 19 when this video was made. Vancouver has changed so much since then. Notice how little traffic there was on the roads then.

[@Rob-ee2lm]

It's so cool seeing the stuff I saw growing up there at that time and picking out some of the buildings that are still there. Doubt you'll ever see that route that quiet again.

[@RonLubensky]

'74 was my high school grad year, this looks about February, probably a Sunday as the businesses are shut. I rode this bridge-to-bridge route many times on my 10 speed. My mother's knitting shop was along Main street near Venice Bakery. After grad, I worked at the coal dock at Neptune Terminal. Not the Asbestos Wharf! Massive cars with only a few small Japanese that didn't last long at that time. Riding over the bridges was always interesting. Thanks for taking me back there.

[@elvicare35]

Keep your eyes on the road, and your hands up on the wheel.......

[@CoffeeTroll]

5:18 Too bad the route didn’t include a quick detour ( right! ) to the Stardust Roller rink. Good times…good times!!

[@yhalsall2641]

Omg I used to go there when I was a kid. I bet we saw each other there! 😃

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

I was in Vancouver with my parents in 1974, and the first show I saw on TV in the motel room (we stayed at the Best Western in North Vancouver) was Jeopardy! It was about to be the end of the first run of a show that would later be popular with Alex hosting it! That evening I visited the PNE Fair and I am still searching for my second visit to it. For so many years I had a book about the Olympic Games (now in progress) but last summer gave it away after scanning the book on another website.

[@CanadianCowgirl1955]

I spent many a Friday and Saturday night at the Stardust. Such fun!!

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

So much fun. Roller skating was really big in the 80s

[@XxPaperClipsxX]

Thats so cool. I grew up in northvan. 20 years after this was made. Cool to see how it looked back in the day.

[@kkakdugiman]

This is incredible!! I don't know when is the last time I have seen North Vancouver like this before all the changes made. Thank you very much for the upload!!

[@MrGoodford]

Great video and when I see Ritchie rent a car brings back memory's as that was one of my first jobs detailing cars and campers noticed how everyone was driving back then because of all the gas stations that are no longer around and how empty the sidewalks are

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

A lot hasn’t changed. I can’t believe they didn’t go up Lonsdale! I remember so much of this as a kid. They passed by Sears, but didn’t show it much. It had a huge ramp that came down the side. And I believe it was Wolco’s next to it. Where Cap mall is now! It’s all so nice! I can’t believe the car driving onto Lions Gate Bridge, with no traffic. The good old days.

[@jf9096]

Wow! what a trip!! I was 5 back then and living in East Van!! Thanks for that!

[@raybbj]

Great Video. Memories of going to Venice Bakery on Main St. with my mother

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

You could always smell the fresh bread going by there.

[@FirstLastOne]

No traffic light at Main and Brooksbank and only single lane either direction from Mountain Hwy to just before the Lynn Creek Bridge. 18.9c a litre for regular gasoline. A lot has changed and few stations left now.

[@lisapowers4802]

I was about 6-7 years old when this was done ......WOW .....!!!!!! Im now 48 . still here in North Vancouver.....I cant believe the difference...

[@jf9096]

Holy smokes, that Midas and A&W is still there on Marine Drive!

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

The Pizza Hut building is also

[@johncarlsen9482]

Grade eight born and raised in North van the best childhood ever the only place God finished I had the province paper route for three years are Aderly st. Calverhall st. Cloverly and Shavington one dollar a house 62 papers I wish my kids could have grown up in this era🐶😎✌💞

[@iamcanadian7926]

Some of the buldings are still standing today.

[@rfruss]

At 2:13 if you look on the right at all the vines on the hill there was a walkway between the vines and the hill and could go undetected from say that car to the grain elevator. We use to play in the grain elevator at night and slide down the grain shoot. When we were chased we could hide behind the vines.

[@GOJOMEDIA1]

Born here and still live here. Great vid! One question: at about 2:21 I noticed the 2nd grain elevator building on the left is missing. I believe it was lost in an explosion in October of 1975. That's why I was wondering if this was filmed in '76 perhaps. Still great viewing though! 👍

[@AgeCobra]

What great Video of North Van.It was fun place to grow up to bad we got older.

[@derekheuring4646]

The first house I bought was 1507 Bond street, two blocks north of Marine Drive just off Mountain highway. You can just about see my house.

[@gonstotwriter]

I moved to Vancouver (from S.F. Bay Area) in 1975. The whole Lower Mainland has changed remarkably since then, just as a Seattleite would look at 1974 footage of King County and say, "Wow! Those were the days!"

[@naja306]

Love my hometown....

[@markrosenstand4796]

Venice bakery ,now the Canada tire mall at 00.36 ,a culinary lunch stop..cheap eats ,best brats ever! Bought 50 x #1 fir 26'x 2x12 's from the Demo Guy back in 1995?

[@RKham-m1g]

Pemberton heights, Capilano elementary, Hamilton secondary , Carson graham. the stories

[@WestCoastRails]

Many thanks for the many memories. :)

[@GagoMagnus]

Nothing changed from then same old village style laid back strrets, same as today, only the cars become newer and more traffic

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

I remember seeing a Pacific 66 gas station in Canada in 1974! And the cost of gas was only 70 cents way back when!

[@Pacific2007]

+Martin Felsenfeld Wow 70 cents a Liter you mean? thats insane , I remember 33 cents in the 90's...

[@almcalduff7955]

I'm pretty sure that was the price per gallon.

[@mycoincollection5786]

Wow, Marine Drive, not much has been changed since 1974 era to 2021, gas was 70 cents per liter, haha, my good old days, thanks for the memory shared.

[@Rosilee11]

I believe the price was 70 cents a gallon not litres back then.

[@Hilroycleaver]

Crazy how similar it looks given the amount of change in the area

[@craigx1433]

I used to work at Oasis car wash at Keith rd and Marine dr...wonder if it is still there?

[@sigmckone]

Yup

[@craigx1433]

@@sigmckone Thank you Sig...I used to work there ...going to visit it when I am back in North Van this fall...

[@CoffeeTroll]

@@craigx1433 A couple of my high school buddies worked there back in the mid 80s. Still looks the same haha

[@craigx1433]

...I just had my flight cancelled because of covid,but I was going to visit Vancouver and had an airb@b booked in North Van...Capilano rd area...was really looking forward to it and was planning the same drive with a video cam.Will try to get there again in the spring and look here for a current video.Want to visit that oasis car wash where I worked in 1975 and ski Grouse mtn...

[@joepalooka2145]

Wow, this sure brings back memories of a quiet, laid back, beautiful old North Vancouver. God how I wish I could bring it all back today, because North Vancouver today in 2021 is the exact opposite of this wonderful footage. North Vancouver now is a grossly overpopulated, grossly over-developed real estate condo-tower shit-hole, with horrible traffic congestion and getting worse every day. North Vancouver has been ruined and now it SUCKS!!

[@AdamtheGrey02]

My thoughts exactly. They all spoke English at work back then as well and didn't segregate themselves from one another the way they do now.

[@Koops2245]

Good grief, look at all the parking space.

[@michaelspointofview]

All Credit goes to youtube user hanssipma Original title "A Bicycle Ride " Music Credit to REM: Everybody Hurts and Red Hot Chili Peppers:My Friends

[@stubbornbuffalo]

I love the music on the vid ....took a bit to figure out it was the Chili's in the second track ....one question and I think you already know what's coming ....lol...why 90's music on a nostalgic trip through the 70's ....no good music then ? Not complaining about the choice , just curious :)

[@craigx1433]

...anyone remember the Purcolator cafe at 7th and Queensbury...and Tom,the Chinese man and Kay his wife who ran it with his family?

[@D1it4FN]

I remember the cafe and the connected convenience store. I remember his son helping out in the 70's

[@scfp57]

Swivel stools and sesame seed hamburger buns. Strawberry hearts and Mojos....

[@craigx1433]

@@D1it4FN Hello Phil,just saw this,Yes ,his son was Kerry,sorry but I can't remember the name of his other son...such nice people....

[@craigx1433]

@@scfp57 Hello,just saw your reply...I can still taste those cheese burgers,which Tom made on the flat top right in front of me...Wow,what a great memory....

[@crapdice]

Really cool, not a whole ton has changed, just a lot less gas stations and the Vancouver skyline.

[@MildlyAnnoyedAHM]

Interesting point. It must be something like less than half the gas stations now compared to back then, but like TEN times the cars.

[@BADBIKERBENNY]

Wow! Back in the days of Imperial!

303 motel wow that's going back!!!!

[@Mascotal]

Wow, 70 cents per gallon for gas. Speed signs are in M.P.H. and everybody rode a 10 speed.

[@bunnee777]

I like REM, though, how about a tune from 1974 (I was 14) instead?! Such as Craig Ruhnke's "Summer Girl"... or The Hollies' "Air That I Breathe"...

[@robstubeview]

Absolutely. Seasons in the Sun, or Brand New Key?

[@p51bombay]

Weird how similar it looks when you think how many years ago it was - and the "asbestos wharf"..........I wonder who many that worked there are still around.

Love the 40 mph speed limit on low level road

[@jimsmall1127]

Too bad it jumps around so much.

[@craigx1433]

...I would say this is 1974...the international plaza at Marine dr and Capilano opened in 1975...

[@dosjuans1]

I lived there for a year

[@DKDSpider2]

Wimp took the low road instead of riding up 3rd.

[@Tokewhichu]

LOL.Mighta been hard with a 30 pound movie camera.JK.

[@craigx1433]

I know 3 rd...and Fast Eddies disco on the corner of lonsdale.

[@KB-tt9oc]

And he cut through the Indian reserve instead of hoofing it all the way up Forbes lol

[@ImaginetMedia]

Massive over development would have been just a dreamy twinkle in the then teen Mussatto's eyes.

[@missdragonluckychina2449]

best little city in the world.

[@cedarwalk]

home

[@TheRandalldr]

This is not the original....the original had all music from that era on CKLG and goes all the way through Vancouver too.

[@33FIREDAD]

Yes some good drives with gas @ 70-73 cents/Gal

[@elvicare35]

$3.30 to 3.44 in 2016-2017. $1.00 in 1974 would be worth 4.71 in 2016-2017.

I loved biker trash north van way better than Disney north van

[@PaulKubikCoastRange]

As ugly today as it was in '74

[@robstubeview]

I'll tell you what is ugly. Comments like this that are not necessary.

[@michaelkennedy4444]

I was 19 when this video was made. Vancouver has changed so much since then. Notice how little traffic there was on the roads then.