West End 66 (excerpts), B&W, 1966

West End 66 was produced for the CBUT ( CBC Vancouver) program Camera West. This visual tour (with a jazzy score) of Vancouver's West End notes the recent growth and popularity of the area and examines the lifestyles in its inhabitants. The contrast between the modern glass and concrete structures and the remaining family homes is a striking one. But the contrast in architecture is matched equally by the contrast in the people who inhabit the West End, which according to the narrator, is "the natural habitat of the new mid century hybrid... the swinger". The original program is 28 min.

[@davidmarshall718]

Great stuff ! Vancouver just as it was starting to bloom into a "happening" city as the 1960's/1970's/1980's era was just starting to take off, the rest is history, and unfortunately Vancouver's best years are now also history, in my opinion.

[@Modernjazz1]

@ 1:05 - Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Brilliant soundtrack, possibly Don Thompson on piano? Post-war Modernism with Modern Jazz, a wonderful combination.

[@ShaneHill69]

For "The Swinger" !!

[@toddfuller3765]

my hood
Thurlow and Davie

[@wroughtironmgtow9558]

Boy Vancouver,BC was sure town full of hepcats.

[@AI-xs4fp]

Home of the "Swinger"... Nice slice of the past.

[@kevindalemckeown]

"A hundred thousand people live here." Wow. today, in 2017, there are just shy of 50,000 people "here". Either we've experienced a devastating plunge in population, or CBC was as sloppy in its reportage in 1966 as it is today.

[@johnmackie9178]

I think it's tongue in cheek, a deadpan sendup of the swinging West End.

[@smallstudiodesign]

It’s meant to be a kind of visual sketchbook with more poetic/ prose script of the city’s metamorphosis at the time, rather than a statistically accurate documentary.

[@aaronchapman5094]

You find some other population projections around that time also being off it seems. So I think the cause may have been some statistician that everybody reported on, who made some incorrect projections in original calculations. Don't quote me on it, as I think Gordon Price did a blog posting on West End population that goes into the numbers that are worth reading, which also comments on West End density, but population today for the west end is only slightly higher than it was then--which suggests the neighbourhood maintains basically the same numbers it did then.

[@user-ic2rf3lh6c]

5:11

[@jimm6095]

What BS!

[@aaronchapman5094]

How so?

[@vanjimbo]

I can't now remember why I thought so!