The Household Finance sign reminds me of when one could get a quick loan. Their riddle was "Never Borrow Much Needlessly but when you must ......HFC." Beneficial Finance and Crescent Finance were also big in those days and they appreciated your business. Wonder what happened to them.
My mom told me dad used HFC to get a loan for the Chevy they bought probably shortly after arriving in Canada. She also commented on the high % rate. Hey, but Canada is built around cars and I still remember those camping trip through the Rockies and all the construction on the Trans Canada.
Love seeing videos from older decades... as my dad was born in 38' and Being 91' myself I always loved hearing him compare then golden age from the present.. id love to see more videoe like this. Rip Dad
I grew up in Chilliwack age 6 to 13 in 1956 to 1964. Great place to grow up, Safe, clean and always outside enjoying the countryside. In England since then and have a bucket list that includes seeing the town again. From the comments I've read maybe I would be a bit disappointed
I was very interesred, I read some of the comments on here and a lot of them did not have their real names which is a shame, I was raised in Chilliwack in the 1950's I was 17 years old in 1955 and had so much fun with the dances at Cultus lake every Saturday night and the Roller Skating in the roller rink every Friday night, we (a group of teens) alway gathered for cokes at the Brite Spot Restaurant almost daily and also bought our goodies at the Fashion Bakery, I miss those good old days where there was no drugs and very little Alcohol, we were more interested in driving around in dad's car (some dad) than thinking about drinking. I wanted to find out if we could have a reunion for us oldies just for the people that are left that were between 16 & 18 in the 54-56 in Chilliwack, just want to know if any one knows how to find a list of people.
@@JasonECI A fenced off community garden. Less a park and more a viewing spectacle because if not for the fences, homeless would make it their downtown campground
The opening scene where the lady is going up the stairs is the old post office on Yale Road. The Peaks Restaurant is now Homer Restaurant is still operates in that same building.
Chilliwack has the potential to revitalize again. The citizens in the surrounding area need to band together with a positive affirmative urban plan and make it happen. Stop waiting for politicians to be the saviours. Save your streets and your cities yourselves people. Stop complaining. Be the change. If you care, then dare to do something.
My uncle and aunt lived in Chilliwack for a brief time in the early 80s. I remember visiting them as a kid. They lived in a red brick apartment building from a different age, maybe it's even in this film. It was an odd feeling spending time there. Nice old buildings from a different era, but very quiet.
Ther ruin of Chilliwack was when they started the methadone program in the middle 1990's. It became a draw fro ll of the junkies in Surrey etal, because it was cheaper to live and they could get their methadone. I was a Mountie there then and witnessed it unfold.
Looks calm, happy and peaceful. What a miserable, toxic, dysfunctional, unsafe, crime, gangster loving, hard druggie place it’s turned into. A real Shame.
As someone who immigrated from Costa Rica, I wonder if had to immigrate during that time so any Canadian made at least small talks to me bc so far it is just ridiculous and looks like a zombie zone right now
Back when there was maybe 2 homeless that everybody knew and even helped out. Now its become the ass end of the constant homeless funneling from the big city. So sad to see a place I grew up in falling into such disgusting and irreparable damage.
Fascinating to see the Chilliwack as it was (the Paramount was a nice standout) as well as Sumas in the 1950s. Some of those buildings are still there, although not in use.
old postoffice is on yale road west of paramount theatre - the ebcon center was built there. the building that now houses a chinese restaurant was the progress paper building. where the clock tower is was the hart building which included cunningham drugs. It became a 'flophouse' and burned down. it was to be replaced with a replica but became a parking lot instead. there were 3 drugstores at five corners -hipwells on south east side and barber on northeast where montreal bank was built royal bank was where 'triple play' is now. south of cunningham drugs- that building was at one time super valu grocery store and at another time 'fields department store , now the location of chilliwack court house. the chilibowl bowling alley was eatons department store and the vinyard was bettervalue furniture . the corner building at five corners was bank of commerce next to the peaks which is now the homer restaurant. in the '70s'? the 'bright spot' restaurant was moved from east yale road and renamed the homer [my wedding reception was at the bright spot sept 1966 ] it was owned by bill gemalis [spelling?]who rented a room at our place. i spent a lot of time in the peaks as from october 1963 to december 1966 i worked for george langbroek public accountant in the building next door that is now being renovated. where the bank of commerce and the liquor store are was the location of brett's chev/olds dealership. where save-on-foods delivery [on corner of spadina] was a car dealership with a used car lot beside it called reed buchanan motors it became mertins. the block where the progress office now is was chilliwack lumber now is was chilliwack lumber . later that corner was a service station. my dad [samuel perry dickinson] was the 'parking meter inspector' for 23 years and his office was in city hall [now museum]. when he retired in 1976 the city removed the meters and replaced him with 2 girls to chalk tires. main street church bought the building from liquidation world but before that it was woolco which was a name change from woolworths department store. my uncle told me there was a service station on the land known as the old safeway store. before safeway moved there they were in the brick building on the corner of mill street and victoria ave. doc mc caffreys house was on the other [west] corner in the 5o's. where the park is was where the house [before being added onto]that i live in - now 45855 victoria- . it was moved in october 1958. before that we lived in what they now call 'the rose house' which was moved to nowell street after safeway bought the land for a parking lot. the chilliwack senior recreation center accross from hendersons funeral home[ the building was the liquor store in the 50s ] was started in 'the rose house' by the soroptomist club and my mother in 1956 called 'the chat-a-way club. the scrapbook etc. etc. is [to my knowledge] in the office of the senior recreation center. the city court house moved from young and victoria to college and victoria to present day at 5 corners. the present day restaurant northeast corner of young and victoria was 'harp owen sheet metal' and brick building on southwest corner was #1 firehall. when hendersons funeral home built there present building [1963 ?] my dad bought some of the old lumber and added onto our 1908 house. i moved into the apartment on 2nd story of addition in december of 1965. we watched our neighbors houses on cook street be replaced by apartments. i have family movies my dad took until he had strokes in 1984 but i dont remember how much scenery etc. there is. the archives have his diaries and the pages i made from them but i still have the films. i was 14 years old and my sister [deceased 1974] was four months old when we moved into this house. i had my own house on coote street from 1973 - 2001 when i moved back here lynne
@@1112223333111 thanks very much for that history - would love to see the other footage you mention - did you happen to know Henry Maurice - my great uncle - he had a garage on yale - has a street in chilliwack named after him (maurice st.) as well as a park dedicated to him (3rd Av. park)
Good job on the history. Not too many of us left that remember this much. I must say anything pre 80's I had to learn from my grandfather who after WW2 was a letter carrier after as they called themselves back then. I just went through some of the old photos he took from the 30's to the 80's and think i may donate them to the museum.
glad we moved into Sardis chilliwack isnt much of anything anymore used too be a really nice place when i was a kid and used to come and visit the grandparent
Watching this.....I wish I could step right back into the 50s, just to relive those days. Going to the corner drug store for a REAL COKE or a Chocolate shake. Those things real things are made of.
@@iamthenoiseopera People stopped living a Christian lifestyle, were everyone was mindful of one another. You worked hard, set life goals for oneself, brought up children. The internet has ruined a lot and social media is anything but social.
FIRST and FOREMOST to negative replies ....name a city that is not w/o it's troubled citizens ...the cesspool one of you refers to is ignorant . Today's downtown core is established from complacency of others ,an inability to deal with today's drugs on the markets, higher volumes of populations w/o city planning and ability to meet basic Maslow Hieracy needs, ridiculous cost of living factors, overburdened health care systems, stressed citizens and increased mental health challenges, high volunteer needs not being filled. Need I go on?! Breaks my heart to see downtown Chilliwack the way it is but more so that another human being is living the way some are. Emphasis on some ...93,000 population and how many homeless leave it a small percentage. Surely to God something can be done about it ..oh wait a minute there are things being done about it ...what's that saying? Rome wasn't built in a day. May patience and not patients prevail. Yes I experienced Chilliwack in the mid 50's onward and if you remove the buildings and people ...it's still the same majestic place to me (insert heart imoji here)
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Great to see how Chilliwack was in the past … we moved here in 1989
That is the 'Past' 😅
Near 40yrs 😊
Awe it would've been cool to see Chilliwack Central Elementary
Looks like the second half of the video is showing the Sumas border crossing if I'm not mistaken.
Yes.
The Household Finance sign reminds me of when one could get a quick loan. Their riddle was "Never Borrow Much Needlessly but when you must ......HFC." Beneficial Finance and
Crescent Finance were also big in those days and they appreciated your business. Wonder what happened to them.
Still going & still crooks @ higher %s 🤨
My mom told me dad used HFC to get a loan for the Chevy they bought probably shortly after arriving in Canada. She also commented on the high % rate. Hey, but Canada is built around cars and I still remember those camping trip through the Rockies and all the construction on the Trans Canada.
I wonder if the vocal group named Chilliwack was named after this place???
Yes, they were. I used to listen to them often. They were from here.
That could be .The world before drugs .
Who else got recommended this because they were binge watching Rob i's security cameras?
You won't be seeing Rob's videos as he sold his house and moved out of town.
Good for him
@@monarch1957 he did?
Love seeing videos from older decades... as my dad was born in 38' and Being 91' myself I always loved hearing him compare then golden age from the present.. id love to see more videoe like this.
Rip Dad
Rest In Peace 😢🫡😪🕊️🕊️
Cool old film.
This place really went downhill...
Nah just the townsfolk is all 😂
That's downtown now
What do you mean?
The good old days when sex was dirty and the air was clean.
Look better than it does now.
Very true
In downtown yea
everything in the world looked better back then, actually
Absolutely
Ya cause there was no meth and crackheads riding around on there bmx bikes
Came here after Rob l's videos, LOL
These people would be rolling around in their graves seeing how it is today hahahahha
Many are still alive
@@tcpr724 they'll be alive long enough to watch government cut off pensions I fear.
@@walperstyle why would the government "cut off pensions?"
I still remember it looked like that, and in my 50’s.
I grew up in Chilliwack age 6 to 13 in 1956 to 1964. Great place to grow up, Safe, clean and always outside enjoying the countryside. In England since then and have a bucket list that includes seeing the town again. From the comments I've read maybe I would be a bit disappointed
I love Chilliwack. It is still a gem in Canada. It is beautiful, surrounded by peaks, fields, and awesome people.
I wasn't even born yet.
Rob i has entered the chat.
Chilliwack was a lot better city back then.
Taxes too 😊
it looks so peaceful… no homeless people screaming at you
Wow this is... bizarre.
Wonder where it all went wrong
Brian Mulroney's Free Trade Agreement 🤝
my hometown.
Look at it now, the result of years of liberalism.
Neo liberalism perhaps
Didn’t recognize without all the drug-dependent, vagrants
I was very interesred, I read some of the comments on here and a lot of them did not have their real names which is a shame, I was raised in Chilliwack in the 1950's I was 17 years old in 1955 and had so much fun with the dances at Cultus lake every Saturday night and the Roller Skating in the roller rink every Friday night, we (a group of teens) alway gathered for cokes at the Brite Spot Restaurant almost daily and also bought our goodies at the Fashion Bakery, I miss those good old days where there was no drugs and very little Alcohol, we were more interested in driving around in dad's car (some dad) than thinking about drinking. I wanted to find out if we could have a reunion for us oldies just for the people that are left that were between 16 & 18 in the 54-56 in Chilliwack, just want to know if any one knows how to find a list of people.
❤
Barely recognisable now.. i miss the old paramount theater..
I stood there watching they tore it down, then turned it into a community garden...
@@JasonECI A fenced off community garden. Less a park and more a viewing spectacle because if not for the fences, homeless would make it their downtown campground
thats what happens when people vote liberal
I hate to think what the downtown will look like in 2050.
like "back to the future 2" in the Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise scene
The opening scene where the lady is going up the stairs is the old post office on Yale Road. The Peaks Restaurant is now Homer Restaurant is still operates in that same building.
I love it there! I go there like once every couple months
I used to work at Homer's Restaurant in the late 70's.
Homer's is now closed, gone for a couple of months already. Also Younie's and The Rendezvous have closed. Such a shame, but they had a long run!
Chilliwack has the potential to revitalize again. The citizens in the surrounding area need to band together with a positive affirmative urban plan and make it happen. Stop waiting for politicians to be the saviours. Save your streets and your cities yourselves people. Stop complaining. Be the change.
If you care, then dare to do something.
@Augusto Pinochet As if the police give a damn.
That is amazing. The town looks so different, it is incredible how time has changed things.
Omfg the church downtown looks so diffrent
......so is your choice of words.
i think chilliwack footage ends at 1:24 - the rest is the border crossing and sumas wa
very nice...way before the crackheads arrived
My uncle and aunt lived in Chilliwack for a brief time in the early 80s. I remember visiting them as a kid. They lived in a red brick apartment building from a different age, maybe it's even in this film. It was an odd feeling spending time there. Nice old buildings from a different era, but very quiet.
A pity whoever filmed this was incapable of holding the camera straight.
That's really cool, Since I live in Chilliwack.
I used to live in chilliwack, I was born there
Dt or Sardis or garrison area or cultus are I live in the Sardis area
Ther ruin of Chilliwack was when they started the methadone program in the middle 1990's. It became a draw fro ll of the junkies in Surrey etal, because it was cheaper to live and they could get their methadone. I was a Mountie there then and witnessed it unfold.
Than came the 2010 Olympics ...
Wow, wtf happened to Chilliwack today?
I'm astonished that no one is driving backwards and that the junkies are quietly indoors.
At 40 seconds you're looking west down Wellington Ave from Five Corners. Right on the corner is the Royal Bank, which is now the Triple Play Pub.
thanks for that
Hey are you the Darryl Heinrich that lived near the Vedder Bridge in the late 1970? I think my family lived across the street from you.
Looks calm, happy and peaceful.
What a miserable, toxic, dysfunctional, unsafe, crime, gangster loving, hard druggie place it’s turned into.
A real Shame.
As someone who immigrated from Costa Rica, I wonder if had to immigrate during that time so any Canadian made at least small talks to me bc so far it is just ridiculous and looks like a zombie zone right now
The people who allowed you to immigrate here are the same people whos policies destroyed the high trust society we built.
Back when there was maybe 2 homeless that everybody knew and even helped out.
Now its become the ass end of the constant homeless funneling from the big city.
So sad to see a place I grew up in falling into such disgusting and irreparable damage.
Only in the downtown area. Sardis side/Rosedale is still a beautiful area.
It’s a global problem. It’s called multinational companies who outsource .. and continue to automate and make people unemployed
any tax payer helps street people live a good life.i pay for there food . there rent and phone.
I agree! Do you remember that one homeless guy that would always be at the gas station near staples? I wonder what happened to him
Fascinating to see the Chilliwack as it was (the Paramount was a nice standout) as well as Sumas in the 1950s. Some of those buildings are still there, although not in use.
Where did all that class go? 😭
To a cemetery near you.
For all it's lack of all things technological, it was a much better time. I think we have begun the long march downward societally.
old postoffice is on yale road west of paramount theatre - the ebcon center was built there. the building that now houses
a chinese restaurant was the progress paper building. where the clock tower is was the hart building which included cunningham drugs.
It became a 'flophouse' and burned down. it was to be replaced with a replica but became a parking lot instead.
there were 3 drugstores at five corners -hipwells on south east side and barber on northeast where montreal bank was built
royal bank was where 'triple play' is now. south of cunningham drugs- that building was at one time super valu grocery
store and at another time 'fields department store , now the location of chilliwack court house. the chilibowl bowling alley was eatons department store
and the vinyard was bettervalue furniture . the corner building at five corners was bank of commerce next to the peaks
which is now the homer restaurant. in the '70s'? the 'bright spot' restaurant was moved from east yale road and renamed
the homer [my wedding reception was at the bright spot sept 1966 ] it was owned by bill gemalis [spelling?]who rented a
room at our place. i spent a lot of time in the peaks as from october 1963 to december 1966 i worked for george langbroek
public accountant in the building next door that is now being renovated. where the bank of commerce and the liquor store
are was the location of brett's chev/olds dealership. where save-on-foods delivery [on corner of spadina] was a car
dealership with a used car lot beside it called reed buchanan motors it became mertins. the block where the progress office now is was chilliwack lumber
now is was chilliwack lumber . later that corner was a service station. my dad [samuel perry dickinson] was the 'parking meter inspector' for 23 years and his office was in city hall [now museum]. when he retired in 1976 the city removed
the meters and replaced him with 2 girls to chalk tires. main street church bought the building from liquidation
world but before that it was woolco which was a name change from woolworths department store. my uncle told me there
was a service station on the land known as the old safeway store. before safeway moved there they were in the brick
building on the corner of mill street and victoria ave. doc mc caffreys house was on the other [west] corner in the 5o's.
where the park is was where the house [before being added onto]that i live in - now 45855 victoria- . it was moved in october
1958. before that we lived in what they now call 'the rose house' which was moved to nowell street after safeway bought
the land for a parking lot. the chilliwack senior recreation center accross from hendersons funeral home[ the building
was the liquor store in the 50s ] was started in 'the rose house' by the soroptomist club and my mother in 1956 called 'the chat-a-way club. the scrapbook etc. etc. is [to my knowledge] in the office of the senior recreation center. the city
court house moved from young and victoria to college and victoria to present day at 5 corners. the present day restaurant
northeast corner of young and victoria was 'harp owen sheet metal' and brick building on southwest corner was #1 firehall.
when hendersons funeral home built there present building [1963 ?] my dad bought some of the old lumber and added onto
our 1908 house. i moved into the apartment on 2nd story of addition in december of 1965. we watched our neighbors houses
on cook street be replaced by apartments. i have family movies my dad took until he had strokes in 1984 but i dont
remember how much scenery etc. there is. the archives have his diaries and the pages i made from them but i still have the
films. i was 14 years old and my sister [deceased 1974] was four months old when we moved into this house. i had my own
house on coote street from 1973 - 2001 when i moved back here lynne
Thank you very much for all this detail!
My landlord wanted to know if you wanted more footage she has some from 62 up
@@1112223333111 thanks very much for that history - would love to see the other footage you mention - did you happen to know Henry Maurice - my great uncle - he had a garage on yale - has a street in chilliwack named after him (maurice st.) as well as a park dedicated to him (3rd Av. park)
Good job on the history. Not too many of us left that remember this much. I must say anything pre 80's I had to learn from my grandfather who after WW2 was a letter carrier after as they called themselves back then. I just went through some of the old photos he took from the 30's to the 80's and think i may donate them to the museum.
@@iansimson1159 Thank Vicki's mom, she made me post that lol
damn sad how much better it looks
My hometown. What a beautiful small town back in the 1950's. Reminds me of Mayberry!
Looks clean.
Not anymore.
@@jakeallan1678 Isn't downtown, Sardis side is good
Home sweet home.
when our grandparents built us a great nation. For us to come, we make it my darling
glad we moved into Sardis chilliwack isnt much of anything anymore used too be a really nice place when i was a kid and used to come and visit the grandparent
chilliwack was and is a beautiful town - great historical footage - thanks for posting
chilliwack is a turd now lol
The last bit there is Sumas and the Canadian/US border.
who remembers Angela Oschefski ?
Before all the Meth
Only downtown
Watching this.....I wish I could step right back into the 50s, just to relive those days. Going to the corner drug store for a REAL COKE or a Chocolate shake. Those things real things are made of.
wow years of great times in here
haha they days before people thought meth was fun
I remember the Peaks restaurant very well from 61!
I wish I could go back in time to see what my town looked like in the 50s
It lasted all the way to about 1985 like that. Then 👎🏻
Wow look at all the parking!
Not sure we ever had a US border crossing...could be wrong, but that may be Sumas?
Yes, this is the Sumas crossing
I know that Columbia valley used to have one
Yes I remember that crossing.
Sumas that is
Empress Hotel at :54 secs. The border crossing at Sumas, Abbotsford at 1:30 secs.
Before chilliwack was just the WACK!
what a downgrade it is now
Well, only downtown is a downgrade, Sardis/cultas is nice af
Wow I wish that would come back now it just Hella drugs around and dumb people
No values today
Sure it is! Capitalism takes no prisoners 😅
hi
Buckerfields on Cheam Ave?
@@iamthenoiseopera
People stopped living a Christian lifestyle, were everyone was mindful of one another. You worked hard, set life goals for oneself, brought up children. The internet has ruined a lot and social media is anything but social.
@@westerlywinds5684 True
Reeee
FIRST and FOREMOST to negative replies ....name a city that is not w/o it's troubled citizens ...the cesspool one of you refers to is ignorant . Today's downtown core is established from complacency of others ,an inability to deal with today's drugs on the markets, higher volumes of populations w/o city planning and ability to meet basic Maslow Hieracy needs, ridiculous cost of living factors, overburdened health care systems, stressed citizens and increased mental health challenges, high volunteer needs not being filled. Need I go on?! Breaks my heart to see downtown Chilliwack the way it is but more so that another human being is living the way some are. Emphasis on some ...93,000 population and how many homeless leave it a small percentage. Surely to God something can be done about it ..oh wait a minute there are things being done about it ...what's that saying? Rome wasn't built in a day. May patience and not patients prevail. Yes I experienced Chilliwack in the mid 50's onward and if you remove the buildings and people ...it's still the same majestic place to me (insert heart imoji here)
Beautifull before multiculturalism
alexander bose yeah because Chilliwack is so multicultural now....
you mean before drugs?
Looks like Mississippi in the 1950s if u ask me
Looks civilized...