Great film Tony! Thanks for sharing. I was born, raised, and still live in the City of Vancouver. I grew up in the 80s, and it has changed too much...and not in a good way. All the simple goodness is gone. Just highrise overpriced ugly condos and strip malls. Everything charming has almost all eroded. I think the peak was Expo 86---then it was all downhill from there.
5:05 Empire Pool at UBC next to the War Memorial Gym. 13:40 RCAF Golden Hawks F-86 Sabre jets. A bit cheesy by today's standards but reflective of the typical tourist film production in the 50's and 60's.
vancouver in the mid to late 80's was also a great time, still a slower pace, lots of health food stores, cheap rent, not too much development...all gone now.
Born and raised here and was a child then loved the film and the cheesy musical score. I don't know anybody who thinks the city has improved since then.
Thanks. I don't think of this as "cheesy" - it is a fine production made in the style of its time. It reflects the more laid back feel that the city had when I grew up there in the 70s.
do so enjoy your creative Ramble, Like the old Nash Rambler, oh what a fine mode of transportation Most things were Just more enjoyable back in the 60's.... before computers cell phones never even had barcodes even in the liquor store just had a small little price tag and everything in the store had the same little tag .just different prices Made it very very easy to take advantage of this and swap~out some price tags. Never did get caught at it ..bad bunch that we were. No one worried about the price of gas,,, It was like 40 cents a gallon ... ...I remember putting 2 bucks at a time in, and we had 1 & 2 dollar bills.( Vancouver Canada ) And we used the 1954 dollar bills ..even had pink ones ( 1,000's) ALL the gas stations were full service ... Most people drove big gas guzzling pigs ..they were Awesome .. I miss yelling out " ..... ''Full Left Rudder "" ....haha dem were the daze ... .god I'm getting carried away ...just like the old Rambler Nash ........ Feel free to cut and paste My spew ....It's straight from the heart ....
If this is 1960, Brentwood is now being built, and the original Second Narrow Bridge and Cambie Street Bridge, with the track in the middle should still be there. Also that Empire bike race track, on Broadway, should still be there.
Cheesy yes, but a postcard from the past in the most beautiful way. Maybe cheesy was better, or perhaps in the future what is 'hip' now will be uber-cheesy .. usually what happens. Thanks for posting this .. I can remember that time
I love the advert for Vancouver's vice industry at 1:28 - "And if it's erections you want...anyone would be proud to point the way to the City Center".
whoa - look at the West End ... barely any apartment towers! Mostly 3-to-5 story buildings. Nice Sunbeam. What was gas ...$0.10 cents a gallon. A gallon.
*sigh* The way it was before becoming one big overpopulated traffic jam of rude people. Of course they never mentioned the incessant rain (that seems to have gotten much worse as well).
Notice all the happy white Anglo Saxons who happily sold out to China, But not guys like me who have been here since '47. And I do miss that PNE Parade . If you want to see a parade now, you go to that Gay Pride deal.. What a sick joke.
The 1960's were Canada's golden age. They may not have had the technology of today, but we didn't have to buy cheap Chinese made products and we didn't have to worry about so many Asian immigrants
infinitecanadian I'd say the '50's through to the mid '60's was the golden age.The late '60's ushered in the era of PET who did his best to ruin Canada's heritage and in large measure, succeeded. We're experiencing a revival of that downward trend through his son.
The sentiment is so common as to be almost embarrassing: Vancouver 1946-1986 was cooler, breezier, hipper, more impromptu, oddly more free thinking and ten thousand times less self conscious than it is now - or at least it seemed so. Despite all the fine words and global rave reviews and the liberal social politics, the conservatism and orthodoxy, the restrained manners seem more pronounced than even - precisely because they are more covert. It is a strange place to live: as id cohabitating with a loverwho is at once entirely honest except when she is lying.
Hey! That handsome guy driving around Vancouver happens to be my grandpa!
He never showed me this before. Thank you for sharing.
6:34 is where I learned to drive at age 4 or 5. My aunt took me. The paved course is still there.
Great film Tony! Thanks for sharing. I was born, raised, and still live in the City of Vancouver. I grew up in the 80s, and it has changed too much...and not in a good way. All the simple goodness is gone. Just highrise overpriced ugly condos and strip malls. Everything charming has almost all eroded. I think the peak was Expo 86---then it was all downhill from there.
I would agree. After that, everything changed.
I was born in calgary in 1969, moved to Vancouver in 1970. Been here for 46 years. Lots has changed since then.
5:05 Empire Pool at UBC next to the War Memorial Gym. 13:40 RCAF Golden Hawks F-86 Sabre jets. A bit cheesy by today's standards but reflective of the typical tourist film production in the 50's and 60's.
wonderful footage..
I was born and raised in Vancouver. Left there when I married. Visited for years. It has changed too much. I get lost there now.
vancouver in the mid to late 80's was also a great time, still a slower pace, lots of health food stores, cheap rent, not too much development...all gone now.
Memories indeed. I also have great ones from that time...
Great short film looking into Vancouvers' past, just like the films teachers showed us in school all those years ago.
Born and raised here and was a child then loved the film and the cheesy musical score. I don't know anybody who thinks the city has improved since then.
You got THAT right :(
I don't think many American's saw this back in the day...Most of them thought Canada was just a sheet of ice with igloos.
Thanks. I don't think of this as "cheesy" - it is a fine production made in the style of its time. It reflects the more laid back feel that the city had when I grew up there in the 70s.
do so enjoy your creative Ramble, Like the old Nash Rambler, oh what a fine mode of transportation
Most things were Just more enjoyable back in the 60's....
before computers cell phones never even had barcodes even in the liquor store just had a small little price tag and everything in the store had the same little tag .just different prices
Made it very very easy to take advantage of this and swap~out some price tags.
Never did get caught at it ..bad bunch that we were.
No one worried about the price of gas,,, It was like 40 cents a gallon ... ...I remember putting 2 bucks at a time in, and we had 1 & 2 dollar bills.( Vancouver Canada )
And we used the 1954 dollar bills ..even had pink ones ( 1,000's)
ALL the gas stations were full service ...
Most people drove big gas guzzling pigs ..they were Awesome ..
I miss yelling out " ..... ''Full Left Rudder "" ....haha dem were the daze ...
.god I'm getting carried away ...just like the old Rambler Nash ........
Feel free to cut and paste My spew ....It's straight from the heart ....
I agree. I'm glad I was there then. I visited in April this year and it was a very different, and worse city.
If this is 1960, Brentwood is now being built, and the original Second Narrow Bridge and Cambie Street Bridge, with the track in the middle should still be there. Also that Empire bike race track, on Broadway, should still be there.
Cheesy yes, but a postcard from the past in the most beautiful way. Maybe cheesy was better, or perhaps in the future what is 'hip' now will be uber-cheesy .. usually what happens. Thanks for posting this .. I can remember that time
Thanks. I agree about Vancouver.
@2shutG Cos that's all I had. Where is the Global BC version?
I love the advert for Vancouver's vice industry at 1:28 - "And if it's erections you want...anyone would be proud to point the way to the City Center".
06:49 "playground traffic school" Half the drivers in the city should attend this.
whoa - look at the West End ... barely any apartment towers! Mostly 3-to-5 story buildings. Nice Sunbeam. What was gas ...$0.10 cents a gallon. A gallon.
*sigh* The way it was before becoming one big overpopulated traffic jam of rude people. Of course they never mentioned the incessant rain (that seems to have gotten much worse as well).
Cos that's all I had. Where is the Global BC version?
Back then RCMP, where respect. not so much today
Oh - he said 'directions'. My mistake.
OOOOHHHHYES
Notice all the happy white Anglo Saxons who happily sold out to China, But not guys like me who have been here since '47. And I do miss that PNE Parade . If you want to see a parade now, you go to that Gay Pride deal.. What a sick joke.
Why black and white?
Global BC has colored version.
The 1960's were Canada's golden age. They may not have had the technology of today, but we didn't have to buy cheap Chinese made products and we didn't have to worry about so many Asian immigrants
infinitecanadian I'd say the '50's through to the mid '60's was the golden age.The late '60's ushered in the era of PET who did his best to ruin Canada's heritage and in large measure, succeeded. We're experiencing a revival of that downward trend through his son.
Released in 1961, a short-subject travelogue film produced in the old style of the 1930s-50s.
Man buns,dirty nose rings, and tacky tattoos,that's cheesy! Miss those days in the 70s when life was reasonable much more affordable.
Too bad it,s not the same now,it,s all greed now ; the most expensive city in Canada now to live in.
A short documentary about Vancouver and not one scene with rain? Misleading.
It may be cheesy, but it is such a gas to watch. lol
BUT WE ALL LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE -DRIVING THOSE BUMBER CARS AT THE PNE AND THE CNE -IN THE 50S AND 60S
I also took that same early driver education. Maybe all cars in Vancouver should be pedal-cars.
is she like 12?
The sentiment is so common as to be almost embarrassing: Vancouver 1946-1986 was cooler, breezier, hipper, more impromptu, oddly more free thinking and ten thousand times less self conscious than it is now - or at least it seemed so. Despite all the fine words and global rave reviews and the liberal social politics, the conservatism and orthodoxy, the restrained manners seem more pronounced than even - precisely because they are more covert. It is a strange place to live: as id cohabitating with a loverwho is at once entirely honest except when she is lying.