This is stunning footage! This should be featured in a documentary. So many times I've tried to find home movies from Canada from the 60s, but I always get American results. Been to Victoria many a time, so watching these, I feel like I know where they are. Thanks a million for uploading this!
It really IS stunning footage, simply because it presents, so candidly through its often deliberate, playful staging, how most young people lived in (urban) Canada in the mid- to late-60s. The 60s are too often remembered (and depicted) as being flooded with colour. Life was never so consistently psychedelic. On the whole, even members of the counter culture led, day to day, dingy, dumpy lives, improvised moment to moment...as we today live our dingy lives, moment to moment, yearning to believe they exist in 4K resolution.
I saw the old City of Victoria steel/tin garbage cans that were available to residents for curb side service, then in the 90's they were considered too big by volume.
Whats crazy to me is how much of the city didnt change until recently. Still had that old charm until the olympics came to van and the divide between rich and poor wasnt so stark yet. Now its alot of really ugly ass modern buildings blocking the once sacred skyline, and social destitution, and it didnt take long to get like that...
I'm age-76, and gotta say this video doesn't reflect much of daily life in the '60s, although Kids then did rough-house more seriously, perhaps because our Fathers 'n Grampas were products of Great Depression, First 'n Second World Wars, and The Korean War. Kids were definitely tougher and more self-sufficient back then.
This is stunning footage! This should be featured in a documentary. So many times I've tried to find home movies from Canada from the 60s, but I always get American results. Been to Victoria many a time, so watching these, I feel like I know where they are. Thanks a million for uploading this!
Today these guys would be RUclipsrs with their creativity!
Most certainly Tillicum and Burnside plaza at the old tastee freeze. Also earlier on the highway you see colquitz in background
Great eye!
This one is my favourite so far 😊
The end of the video looks like they were at Burnside Plaza and Tillicum rd
I think you are right. Nice catch. Thank you.
It really IS stunning footage, simply because it presents, so candidly through its often deliberate, playful staging, how most young people lived in (urban) Canada in the mid- to late-60s. The 60s are too often remembered (and depicted) as being flooded with colour. Life was never so consistently psychedelic. On the whole, even members of the counter culture led, day to day, dingy, dumpy lives, improvised moment to moment...as we today live our dingy lives, moment to moment, yearning to believe they exist in 4K resolution.
And 9 months later someone was born lol
It might have been me!
Too cool
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I saw the old City of Victoria steel/tin garbage cans that were available to residents for curb side service, then in the 90's they were considered too big by volume.
Whats crazy to me is how much of the city didnt change until recently. Still had that old charm until the olympics came to van and the divide between rich and poor wasnt so stark yet. Now its alot of really ugly ass modern buildings blocking the once sacred skyline, and social destitution, and it didnt take long to get like that...
Beacon hill park at the start
Nice eye. Thank you.
I'm age-76, and gotta say this video doesn't reflect much of daily life in the '60s, although Kids then did rough-house more seriously, perhaps because our Fathers 'n Grampas were products of Great Depression, First 'n Second World Wars, and The Korean War. Kids were definitely tougher and more self-sufficient back then.
I would think late '60s rather than '70s..
After confirming some details, you are correct it sounds like this video was taken summer of 68/69
This so fake. I was a teen in the 60's in Victoria and I didn't know any kids liike this.
yeah turns out a bunch of kids with an 8mm camera in 1968 might stage some scenes for fun. not everything is fake these days, diane