This should be shown to high school students across Metro Vancouver so they feel proud for what their parents and grandparents have accomplished. Excellent documentary. (Music from 1:50 is pure bliss. 🥰)
I lived at Commercial and Broadway back in Summer of 1983 before they made the Broadway station and just about the time of Expo 86 open my restaurant at 941 Davie street...does anyone remember 'A taste of Jamaica'?
I used to spend a lot of time in the West End from the early 80s through to about 2000. I think your restaurant was where I had my first jerk chicken and first plantain, I think I had plantain there
I lived on Gladstone Street across from Gladstone high school about 2 blocks South from the elevated track when the Skytrain was being built between Broadway and Nanaimo. My friends and I would jump the fence into Nanaimo Station at night and walk along the tracks until they met up with Broadway. Security was almost non-existent but we were caught a couple times and brought home by cops. In the fall of '85 they started giving free rides between Broadway and Main Stations. In the fall of 1985 my Gr. 9 Home Room/Comp-Sci teacher Mrs. Cunningham, who was a Science Engineer, like a female version of Bill Nye The Science Guy, was so exited that the Skytrain was all engineered by computers that she took all her classes on field trips that week so she could ride it back and forth every day. You would think she wrote the operating programs and designed the system herself, she was like a giddy kid who just got THIS TALL enough to ride the wooden coaster at Playland for the first time. Imagine Steve Irwin but going on about the state of the art computer system and engineering design of the tracks. I liked Mrs. Cunningham.
Mrs. Cunningham also took the Home Room class to Expo '86 that year. My dad worked on the SkyRide gondolas so he got us free passes to opening ceremonies, we saw Chuck & Di come in from the McBarge. I went to Expo 86' another time and spent 6 hours in line to spend 6 minutes riding the Scream Machine 3 times. 1985/86 was a good year, my high school metal band Broken Coccyx got 6th place in the high school talent show, biggest crowd we ever performed in front of.
Sorry, free rides between Broadway and Main were in '83 when only that section of track was completed. The field trips were when it first started operating from Waterfront to New West Stations in 1985, we went the whole way and back again with Mrs. Cunningham.
1985, the Oilers won their 2nd Stanley Cup beating the Flyers in 5 games and the BC Lions beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Grey Cup. I watched both of those games with my grandpa who was a huge fan of both teams, my dad was a Jets and Bombers fan. I was a Lions, Bombers, Canucks, Jets, Oilers, and Habs fan, between them I went to a lot of sporting events growing up in Winnipeg and moving to Vancouver in the summer 1983. I kinda miss the marshmallow BC Place dome. It looked like a lot of fun to get up there and bounce on.
I think when they refurbish the mk1 cars they should take 4 of them (for a complete "set") and instead of the new grey-blue-black paint and interior scheme give them the original style paint scheme complete with the old BC logo and possibly adding something expo related. Maybe cars 001-004 would be suitable as I think they haven't been refurbished yet. Just as an expo anniversary thing (writing this in 2016)
Amazing video. I am 55 years old. We were so lucky to live before 1986 so we can remember how amazing and affordable BC was to anyone. Makes me sad because after Expo we got invaded by foreigners who have millions of dollars and priced us out of our own country. No being racist! Just stating facts. Now I know how the First Natons felt when the Caucasians invaded them.
I think the first 114 cars (so the ones ordered for the original Waterfront to New West build) were painted to the current Translink paint scheme in conjunction to the refurbishment project in 2013. Any car 115 to 156 were from the later expansions and were not part of the refurbishment project.
garricksl .. it was ok, nothing has changed much.. it was free rides opening day. We took it from the first station in new Westminster if you went over bridge today into Vancouver, main st and terminal i believe was last station, then back again. I think that was last station, I don't think the bridge was built yet. I grew up in surrey, as far as I'm concerned the skytrain killed Surrey, it brought the homeless and crime. Surrey use to be a great place.. not anymore
Hi I am Millennium line Zhang. I went to the train museum in squamish BC when I was 5 years old in August 2007 with my 3 year old little brother Max. My favorite part is to see the old steam engine in the museum
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This should be shown to high school students across Metro Vancouver so they feel proud for what their parents and grandparents have accomplished. Excellent documentary. (Music from 1:50 is pure bliss. 🥰)
Came for the history, stayed for the 80s soap opera music
I love SkyTrain, especially expo line!
I lived at Commercial and Broadway back in Summer of 1983 before they made the Broadway station and just about the time of Expo 86 open my restaurant at 941 Davie street...does anyone remember 'A taste of Jamaica'?
I used to spend a lot of time in the West End from the early 80s through to about 2000. I think your restaurant was where I had my first jerk chicken and first plantain, I think I had plantain there
I lived on Gladstone Street across from Gladstone high school about 2 blocks South from the elevated track when the Skytrain was being built between Broadway and Nanaimo. My friends and I would jump the fence into Nanaimo Station at night and walk along the tracks until they met up with Broadway. Security was almost non-existent but we were caught a couple times and brought home by cops. In the fall of '85 they started giving free rides between Broadway and Main Stations.
In the fall of 1985 my Gr. 9 Home Room/Comp-Sci teacher Mrs. Cunningham, who was a Science Engineer, like a female version of Bill Nye The Science Guy, was so exited that the Skytrain was all engineered by computers that she took all her classes on field trips that week so she could ride it back and forth every day. You would think she wrote the operating programs and designed the system herself, she was like a giddy kid who just got THIS TALL enough to ride the wooden coaster at Playland for the first time. Imagine Steve Irwin but going on about the state of the art computer system and engineering design of the tracks. I liked Mrs. Cunningham.
Mrs. Cunningham also took the Home Room class to Expo '86 that year. My dad worked on the SkyRide gondolas so he got us free passes to opening ceremonies, we saw Chuck & Di come in from the McBarge. I went to Expo 86' another time and spent 6 hours in line to spend 6 minutes riding the Scream Machine 3 times. 1985/86 was a good year, my high school metal band Broken Coccyx got 6th place in the high school talent show, biggest crowd we ever performed in front of.
Sorry, free rides between Broadway and Main were in '83 when only that section of track was completed. The field trips were when it first started operating from Waterfront to New West Stations in 1985, we went the whole way and back again with Mrs. Cunningham.
look how well-dressed people were back then compared to today
yeah 38 years later im still getting on board those same multi color red and blue trains
1985, the Oilers won their 2nd Stanley Cup beating the Flyers in 5 games and the BC Lions beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Grey Cup. I watched both of those games with my grandpa who was a huge fan of both teams, my dad was a Jets and Bombers fan. I was a Lions, Bombers, Canucks, Jets, Oilers, and Habs fan, between them I went to a lot of sporting events growing up in Winnipeg and moving to Vancouver in the summer 1983. I kinda miss the marshmallow BC Place dome. It looked like a lot of fun to get up there and bounce on.
I keep coming back to this video just for the music, long live the mark 1 skytrains!
"The purpose of the city is to make people happy and safe"
really wish they ran things that way still
when Vancouver was a nice place
Amazing documentary! Thanks for sharing!!
06:10 "Beyond the tunnel, a run down industrial area." Where now thousands of people pay thousands every month to live.
It will be a sad day when the Mk I cars are decommissioned.
Yes it will be a sad day
They refurbished some so I think they will retire in 2024
We are coming closer and closer to that day 😔
TTC’S srt is being decommissioned this year
@@EpicGamer2000-w1s pretty sure it got a permanent shut down yesterday
My dad was at EXPO 86
I was there in grade 1. How old was your dad
My dad was 17 years old.
I was at Expo 86....I had a pass that let you go in and out as many times during the whole fair😊
I think when they refurbish the mk1 cars they should take 4 of them (for a complete "set") and instead of the new grey-blue-black paint and interior scheme give them the original style paint scheme complete with the old BC logo and possibly adding something expo related. Maybe cars 001-004 would be suitable as I think they haven't been refurbished yet. Just as an expo anniversary thing (writing this in 2016)
17:46 It starts off before the doors are shut!
e f f i c i e n t
very val
That's because they were beta testing.
Amazing video. I am 55 years old. We were so lucky to live before 1986 so we can remember how amazing and affordable BC was to anyone. Makes me sad because after Expo we got invaded by foreigners who have millions of dollars and priced us out of our own country. No being racist! Just stating facts. Now I know how the First Natons felt when the Caucasians invaded them.
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I did not expect the employees at the Skytrain operations to be in formal clothing 😮
Very few of those old cars have the original paint on them I know 132 still does have the original paint on it
I think the first 114 cars (so the ones ordered for the original Waterfront to New West build) were painted to the current Translink paint scheme in conjunction to the refurbishment project in 2013. Any car 115 to 156 were from the later expansions and were not part of the refurbishment project.
131 also has the original paint, also 122 on on side I think
I rode it on opening day
How was it?
garricksl .. it was ok, nothing has changed much.. it was free rides opening day. We took it from the first station in new Westminster if you went over bridge today into Vancouver, main st and terminal i believe was last station, then back again. I think that was last station, I don't think the bridge was built yet. I grew up in surrey, as far as I'm concerned the skytrain killed Surrey, it brought the homeless and crime. Surrey use to be a great place.. not anymore
Were the Trains quiet as they ran?
@@nikomiguel6835 yes.. everything the same except today newer train cars.. interior of the first cars looked like you were in a McDonald's
@@dwcoop5390 my mom also rode the TTC SRT on opening day March 22 1985
Hi I am Millennium line Zhang. I went to the train museum in squamish BC when I was 5 years old in August 2007 with my 3 year old little brother Max. My favorite part is to see the old steam engine in the museum
What building is that implodes at 4:55?
Devonshire Hotel - Sunday July 5th 1981
Beautiful white vancouver
Ok! Time changed.
garricksl oh really i didnt notice
@@aliciaann978 yes
There's Asians and black people in the video u good?
It was built for Expo 86
9:30 is she checking for tickets?
Or taking drinks orders?
Yes they are tickets, sometimes employees would check for tickets
Does anyone know where I can find this music?
From this to chinese police stations in Vancouver great job ottawa
4:55
80's cars confirmed lol.
Look at all the Gasite Vancouverites
why do the trains sound loud as fuck
Canada line is very quiet. The expo and mellenium are just old
7:06
8:53
Gay mustache alert at 2:51😂!