Vancouver Impressions: The Early 1960s (Trailer), B&W

[@KentLindsay]

Nostalgic vignette. Thanks for posting. People seemed so unassuming humble and sweet in those days 😌

[@freesoul127]

Music of folk group and beloved Kell is so so so exquisite...RIP Kell....You will be missed.

[@cmonkey63]

In economic terms, that period was a sort of sweet spot. The post-war boom had improved the lives of most people in Canada, and by the early 60s people had a comfortable enough life, but still remembered the austerity of the early 1950s and were grateful for what they had.

[@mine2394]

Vancouver has always been a great 😊 city 🏙️ Thank you 🙏 for posting these historic treasures.

[@lolahunter8851]

Vancouver WAS a great city. Interview the same people today and they would have a very different narrative.

[@susanm3285]

The best part of this clip is seeing the CBC Radio- Canada map at the end. ❤🇨🇦❤

[@BruceyWoosey]

Thanks to videos like this, (and Expo 86,),millions of people moved here to eradicate the beauty that Vancouver once was. Progress!

[@EinSofQuester]

Bullshit. Vancouver is more beautiful than ever. We have beautiful neighborhoods that we didn't have in those days. Neighborhoods like Coal Harbour, Yaletown, Olympic Village, the River district etc.. And we have much better public transportation infrastructure and better entertainment infrastructure like BC Place and Rogers Arena etc..

[@susanm3285]

Vancouver changed significantly after Expo. Housing prices skyrocketed and because of David Lam, there was huge numbers of Hong Kong residents moving to Canada. Vancouver in particular.

@@EinSofQuester take a walk on the downtown east side with those rose colored glasses

[@EinSofQuester]

Every major city has a slum. Metro Vancouver is gorgeous. You don't know good you have it

@@EinSofQuester there wasn't a white person walking the streets new years eve and maybe 15 Chinese's at most and it was packed , don't sit here and tell me we have it good like some lib gas lighter

[@BonyFingers1969]

back in the '60s as kids and the Beatles movies were coming out, we would go down to theater row on Grandville and wait for a movie to end and all the people coming out the exit That's when we made our move and pushed our way in and up steam and getting into the theatre and quickly sitting down ...of course, it was only 25 cents to get n anyway ...lol...I miss them wonderful days of youth ...

[@mr.blackhawk142]

L0L I learned that trick in Hawaii for free movies. I saw Love Story, and Vanishing Point, 'on the house'!

[@reccesixty6322]

Saw a Triumph TR3, maybe an "A" in this vid. Had one during this time. Did not take " few years" to get from side of the city to the other.

[@brutonbill]

Loved the smoking of cigarettes in coffee shop haha miss those days 😊

[@universityofnowhere]

Oh ya...we used to go into most type of cheaper style restaurants and it was fine to say, "just for coffee thanks" and smoke and chat for an hour

[@jeffross5424]

OMG!!...a postman actually walking delivering mail!! :0o

[@lolahunter8851]

...and a bus driver handling money without getting stabbed!!

[@mr.blackhawk142]

@1:59 I think that is Bill Goode Sr. whom my dad knew from work. I met him and Jr. in 1970.

[@feifeijay]

People were friendlier I guess

[@michaelb9529]

At 00:28 the Castle Hotel (Gay Bar)is in the back ground. When we were young (underage) we would sneak in and suck up to some old guys. They would buy us drinks and what ever other substances we wanted. Then at closing time head off home.

[@EinSofQuester]

wtf?

[@michaelb9529]

@@EinSofQuester WTF is right and it worked

[@feifeijay]

Cool!

[@Anthony-qg3qo]

:35 i believe some guy did a stunt by staying up on top of bowmac sign, he came down in the middle of night and murdered his wife and went back up, he did get caught.

[@mr.blackhawk142]

That was CKNW radio personality Rene Castillano! I just read that story a few days ago! (Murder By Milkshake)

[@DayTripper102]

Then along came Expo 86 to sell Vancouver to the Highest Bidder Leaving it what you see today.

[@georgelee1906]

Before drugs permeated society .

[@erics9754]

Before the Asian invasion

[@BonyFingers1969]

Are you on glue ??? Vancouver was and always has been the drug capital of Canada Back in the 60's when LSD and many many more drugs were rapid in our city ( I was born here in 54') We had 4th ave, chemical row, the free store,,, And the Easter Be-In's In Stanly Park which was far out man ....There used to be a big Hippy encampment at the entrance to Stanly Park in 71 we had the Gas town riot where the riot act was read against mainly kids on August 7, 1971. Following weeks of arrests by undercover drug squad members in Vancouver as part of a special police operation directed by Mayor Tom Campbell, police attacked a peaceful protest smoke-in in the Gastown neighbourhood.

[@jeffmorrison5695]

Yea, like alcohol. The worst drug of them all. Drugs have always been around. You just didn't see it.

[@reccesixty6322]

No, but there was a consequence for unlawful acts, not like the so called Justice system of today.

[@eshaanreza832]

​@@jeffmorrison5695 hell, LSD was actually used in the 1950s

[@t.c.494]

Like living in a garbage flow?

[@sqdtu]

Not ..so

[@creegal]

It was racist, especially towards natives.

[@mr.blackhawk142]

Your POINT is???

[@l.5832]

Were you even born then? Don't make comments about things of which you know nothing.

[@EinSofQuester]

@@mr.blackhawk142 that it was racist

[@lolahunter8851]

@@EinSofQuester and your point is what?

[@EinSofQuester]

@@lolahunter8851 I don't have a point. I'm saying what her point is.