SCENES OF EDMONTON 1978

[@chronocross7174]

It is strange when I watch videos like this to see people happy and enjoying life, the trees, the cloud, everyone out and about doing what they do and you sit there thinking...I wasn't even born yet, where was I in this grand scheme of things.

[@cassidypresley7154]

Chrono Cross..........Absolutely in 78, would've been in my late teens......just graduated at the age of 18 and living in this very city of Edmonton, as a child growing up in the eastern part of this city. life was more enjoyable and not the fear and the doom of the destruction that we have today...........especially of a ĺooming lll world war moving in. In happier thoughts, the 70s were surely the best years of my life........and will always be 😊

[@robertmcdermott279]

@@cassidypresley7154 I wasn't born yet not till '93 but just miss the times there wasn't phones in everyones faces, A more simpler time where everyone was out enjoying life and not always in a rush. You would go hang out with friends not just talk online like now days, Also the human interaction when you go shopping but now all people wanna use is the Self checkout. I wish i was alive in the 70s

[@UncoolNegated]

Kind of neat how mucking around with a camera becomes something valuable to see.

[@tonyw973]

Great video. I love seeing Edmonton the way I remember it. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@KK-----]

it looks so peaceful. i never got to see it this way although i still like the city.. specifically the middle part of it

[@connorbrennan501]

Amazing. I always wondered what this city was like as my dad was growing up here a young man

[@1996slamster]

I was in grade 8 in 78. I went to school down town at McKay Ave Junior High.

[@cory4682]

I came here in 1964,I am still here,seen many changes in 50 yrs.

[@TMGMedia73]

I was 5 at the time this video was recorded. My favourite memories of Edmonton were back in the 70's and 80's. A lot has changed since then.

[@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 change.

[@davidpelletier7654]

A lot of great memories thanks Brian

[@raymorley8241]

I had just graduated a year earlier from Eastglen.

[@gp7910]

Love the cars, the shorts, and the pants! Thanks Brian!

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Wow... just came back from college that summer. Discovered Barb and Ernie's Restaraunt on 99th St and 72 Ave that June. They used to have the all you could eat breakfast on the weekends.

[@EdmontonRails]

That was it. That was the future. Beautiful video.

[@austinmurphy3232]

I was born in 2003 I'm from Edmonton it's cool seeing my city from before i was around

[@christopherj8089]

Same

[@BillFahey]

I remember Beaver Hills Park. Good times :) Too bad they had to mow it down....

[@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 change.

[@brianadoherty7674]

Groovy. Love seeing the fashion and hair styles. Look at those bell bottom jeans!

[@elmoredneal5382]

I love it! 💚 I just wish there was more 🙏 I was only 4 years old when this was filmed 👶🏻 But somehow it seems like "coming back home" 🤗 Amazing to see all those things I remember from back in the day. The city has changed so much since then. But it's also kind of shocking how much I don't notice those changes on a day to day basis... Until I see something like this! 😮 Then it all comes flooding back (Wow! When was the last time I saw one of those orange Ed Tel phone booths? 🤔 Or even a phone booth in general? And when was the last time I've seen some of those old cars on the road? 🤔 They used to be everywhere!) Funny how people don't really notice how certain, once common things just slowly disappear... Until one day you (maybe) realize they are gone 😕

[@hardyboy1959]

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[@sheenaoconnor432]

Thank you for this!!

[@dunweyweydum]

Kudos to the director - lots of vintage downtown captured

[@dannythedon82]

Just smart what did. These videos with the dates and details are really like a video diary. You were ahead the game and ahead of your time. I wish I was thinking like that.

[@douglascorlett7890]

Nice video : )

[@skanthavelu]

7 months before I was born! 😊😊

[@mpaulm]

Stadium was brand new back then.

[@Levelupdigital]

The pants Rocked back then !

[@DetroitLives313]

Very nice video.

[@Steggy0121]

Wow. I was born at the General Hospital on Jasper Ave. the year this was shot.

[@carriefox1146]

Wow, so much has changed.

[@TomHenry-g9s]

Came here in May 77. Still here. Was 23, just turned 69. 78 was the Commonwealth Games, new tadium, new LRT, Edmonton was BOOMING! Edmonton Centre was bustling, great shops, across from Eaton's. Across from Zeller's & their great hot dogs on a butter grilled bun. So close to walk to the 5 floor Bay. Lot's of stores on Jasper Ave. Woodward's! Army & Navy.g. Hey, FLASHBACK! Yeah, TE ROOST TOO. C. I. NORTH, C.I. SOUTH, THE REX! OH, THE REX!!! SO MANY MORE, MAN. THUNDERDOME. THE COMMERCIAL, PEOPLES ON WHYTE, THE KING EDDIE, OMG!! STONEY PL. RD. & 156 STR. TONS MORE. Look what you just brought back. No West Ed. Yet. 1987, Edmonton's Tornado, Man, THE OILERS, THE ESKS, & Right up to COVID. WERE STILL FUCKING HERE, BUT THEN SO MANY AREN'T , DON'T FORGET WHAT AIDS DID TO THE WORLD, TO EDMONTONIONS. EXCUSE ME, HELLO STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS, I'LL LEAVE IT THERE!!

[@pandabmw]

Awesome!

[@BBINGHAM032352]

I was 26 years old in 1978!

[@tinotse2007]

Was 10Y/O

[@rum8121]

The old phone booths, my mom worked at ED TELL until Telus took them over

[@chrissmith513]

Nice to see 1978 The year of The Commonwealth Games in Edmonton 😊😊😊

[@Ecksterphono]

That's amazing

[@rubblejohnstone4460]

I was in Edmonton in 78 on family hols. Rumbled round with my uncle in his old Mustang we would sneak off for burgers or ice cream or any other nonsense he could think off.

[@成功郑-v1t]

Thanks

[@sabrinamiller3671]

Today's rose-tinted glasses just ain't the same as yesterday's rose-tinted glasses.

[@briankerr4674]

Just an FYI , that gas price $0.77,9 per Gallon when it went Metric it started at 14,9 liter.

[@GordoGambler]

I don't think so, for Edmonton anyway. 14.9 x 4.5 = 67.05. I have kept a record of every gas fill since I started in 1974. It was 72.9 and 74.9 for a while. The lowest metric for me was 20.7/ L = 93.15 per gal, started in 1979. I had a few fills at 62c in California in 1976.

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

5 years before I was hatched!!!😊😊 LOL

[@jimedge8301]

Could buy pot at one time at Beaver hills park,then it turned into a place to get ripped off. Worked at 105st and 103 ave in 78 good times

[@gkeddie5938]

People were more friendly and happy

[@wilsonw8513]

To the OP, do you have more TTC or subway/bus videos from the olden days? Plsssssss

[@gkeddie5938]

Better times back then

[@connorcolquhou5845]

Little did they know of the amount of meth and fentynal to hit the Down town streets of the current age.

[@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 change.

[@timothythomson719]

Hot babes and Trans Ams near the end. Totally worth it! 😄😁

[@TheTraktergirl]

We had moved to the city in 1976

[@jeninegrasc8414]

I was a teen in this city

[@reesepacker7983]

78....the beginning of the "City Of Champions" era 5 for Eskies 78 to 82 (adding another in 87) and 5 for the Oilers 84 ,85 , 87 ,88 90 ..spanning 78 to 90 dont think any other Canadian city was a dominant in two pro sports during that 13 yr period

[@sentientglitch]

I cannot remember any of this I was born in 2008

[@hardyboy1959]

You should go out and shoot some Edmonton scenes so you can put them on KZbin when you're 60 years old! Edmonton changes so much!

[@michaelclarke8282]

Tea and coffee in Barbados

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

It's come to my attention that the Telus Towers have never had a facelift on the outside lol

[@mattysouth1640]

My uncle knows the person who recorded this but he died in 1983 of a heroin overdose Rest In Peace uncle troy

[@hardyboy1959]

Sorry for your loss Matty but I don't remember anyone named Troy.

[@gwalkmangr3648]

Хороший видос.

[@hardyboy1959]

Спасибо товарищ! :)

[@gwalkmangr3648]

Пожалуйста товарищ!!!

[@christopherj8089]

привет друг русский, ну мой папа научил меня русскому, хотя я канадец

[@skre1170]

Basically the same

[@TMGMedia73]

Not even close to being the same. Maybe the north side is similar because that's where the scum live, but the south end is completely different. Class.

[@kierenfarrell4574]

What's the song name

[@carlhvs9437]

Wow before it was a giant crack den

[@tyscam]

Everyone was having a nice time here until you showed up.