We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
Back in the early 50's it was a privilege for me when I was 6 or 7 to go on a shopping trip to Vancouver with my mother. We lived in South Burnaby and we'd catch the interurban tram to the depot at Carrall and Hastings. No problem for a woman to walk along Hastings Street with her little boy to go shopping at Woodwards and Spencers.
@@user-yr3oj7jt9j Yes, I almost forgot about Mom & I shopping at the Army & Navy. There was an Army & Navy in New Westminster as well. Used to be bargains of war surplus merchandise. I remember my older brother would buy cans of dry army rations to take on hunting expeditions.
In the 1960s i was a young lad. It was fine to bike there are walk. My dad was a bank manager at Hastings and Columbia. Awful thing to see the area now
I noticed that Hastings Street was starting to go downhill in the 1960s compared to the 1950s. I found it wasn't worthwhile doing any shopping east of Woodwards by then. There were a few bums but it still felt safe to walk all the way to Main Street. Yes, I remember there were still banks in that area. The old interurban depot at Carrall St. was a bank branch then(I'm not sure but I think it may have been a TD bank in the 60s). Oh yes, I remember there was a White Lunch cafeteria there.
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
@@Adam-en4zm You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function... the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight! nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism.... i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
1950 Vancouver. Just a little before my time but not by much. Thinking that I could go back to 1950 and be able to blend right in but the same couldn't be said for someone from 1950 to suddenly find themselves in 2024. Talk about a culture shock.
I thank god that my parents who were of the earlier more civilized, respectful generation aren’t still here to either observe or have to live through what goes on today.
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
Just to think my late grandparents and great grandparents were working and building their houses around the time while this individual was making this film. My parents were born a few years later. I recognize a lot of those buildings from the last time I was there. As I watch this i can't help wondering if they were driving by or walking by.🤔 Amazing how big a city it was still even in 1950..😮👍
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
The need for safe injection sites and homeless encampments is desperately needed as you can see from this film. This excludes the backbone of Vancouver
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction. This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
WOW !! RETRO VANCOUVER Love IT !! IN Colour & comes with Sound Too BIG Thnx for The Time Machine Footage !! Let's See More Do you have any of Beach Ave during that Time ?
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
Okay I went back in time and I found the guy. He was a war veteran and had both of his legs amputated. He was about 120 lb and the camera was 180 lb. I told him that someone was watching this video on their phone and asked for a smoother picture but I don't think he heard me because his ears were missing I think he lost his hearing from artillery shells
This is when Vancouver was still considered to be one of the top manufacturing and industrial capacity sites of the British Empire or Canada you could say.
1:06 - Thats the corner of Main and Hastings. Owl drugs the pharmacy is still around, I believe. Walk on that corner today and its all junkies, methheads, drunk natives and dealers selling dope. Crazy how times change for better or worse. Most of those buildings are still there btw
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.
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Seems far nicer than today actually.
Is definitely nicer than today.
We were not under a marxist/Socialist government like we have been for the most of the last 50 years. their policies and light on crime stance have ruined us
It's so insanely overpopulated now :'c
Not too many high rises so light got in.
The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”
Maybe you should look after your own house, and be more critical about the billionaire owned media and their stakes in the world we lived in. It might be eye opening.
My parents ( father was a vet ) always housed vets with ptsd from the time I was born until I was 16.
Back in the early 50's it was a privilege for me when I was 6 or 7 to go on a shopping trip to Vancouver with my mother. We lived in South Burnaby and we'd catch the interurban tram to the depot at Carrall and Hastings. No problem for a woman to walk along Hastings Street with her little boy to go shopping at Woodwards and Spencers.
And I saw the old army and navy. Not sure if it’s still there but it like
Y outlived most of the originals
@@user-yr3oj7jt9j Yes, I almost forgot about Mom & I shopping at the Army & Navy. There was an Army & Navy in New Westminster as well. Used to be bargains of war surplus merchandise. I remember my older brother would buy cans of dry army rations to take on hunting expeditions.
In the 1960s i was a young lad. It was fine to bike there are walk. My dad was a bank manager at Hastings and Columbia. Awful thing to see the area now
I noticed that Hastings Street was starting to go downhill in the 1960s compared to the 1950s. I found it wasn't worthwhile doing any shopping east of Woodwards by then. There were a few bums but it still felt safe to walk all the way to Main Street. Yes, I remember there were still banks in that area. The old interurban depot at Carrall St. was a bank branch then(I'm not sure but I think it may have been a TD bank in the 60s). Oh yes, I remember there was a White Lunch cafeteria there.
Now it is a problem.
Iam in my 35th year as a transit operator and watching this makes me smile, times were different then and people payed the fare!
The fare gates are a joke for drugggiess and the increasingly larger invasive species, those who like to enter when someone else pays.
Thank you for your service! Bus drivers are super important, I actually wanted to be one a long time ago
I think I know you John
Best impersonation of Sean Connery, I've ever seen!
🎉😂❤😅😊.
You're ✅️. Our bus drivers,stay safe & healthy.😊
Thank you 👍it’s been a great ride all these years!
Did you notice everyone was working.
Born in Vancouver in 1947. Can remember the excitement when the trolleys were replaced by "rubber". A big mistake!
Why a mistake? -Born in '45, in Vancouver
@@glenw-xm5zf The rail car system was efficient and consistent. Auto traffic knew it's direction, etc, modern buses move in and out of traffic. Cities like Toronto and San Francisco have retained them. Fewer employees required. There was also an inter-urban rail system to outlying areas. Has actually returned as Skytrain.
The "Rails to Rubber" campaign was heavily lobbied by General Motors who held a fair monopoly on bus production at the time. Vancouver took the bait. Imagine those same images with modern streetcars and like you say, the orderly like traffic flow.
@@kenneth7027 Vancouver Burnaby New West was also like 500,000 people. Huge diff for traffic
@@kenneth7027they didn’t remove them on a whim. Ridership wasn’t sustainable and declined as a proportion of population growth. The arbutus greenway tram lost critical mass in the 90s and the rail line was completely abandoned in 2000 by corporations.
Was born there in 1949. Everything seems so much more civilized back then when compared to the city today.
You sure got that right
Oh really? Women being told they couldn't do anything "because they were women". Blatant racism towards Chinese residents. Oh yeah....the good old days.....
Ok boomer
@@NicoleVanderwyst Devastating! Good for you, internet troll
It was more like a small town (but bigger).
No jaywalker was harmed in the making of this video.
Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.
My mom has an aluminum recliner in her backyard and she recently told me she remembers laying on it in 1956 and it was not new then. They sure dont make things like they used to.
When I came back to Vancouver in 1975 those old buses CONSTANLTY broke down on my short trips on Robson. The first replacements were also unreliable. And when the poles detached- watch out!
As of the summer of '23 there were about 12 to 14 of these de-commissioned Brill coaches at Sandon, BC in different stages of of restoration. The Brills were first introduced to Vancouver in 1947 with variations over the next dozen years. The replacement trolley buses that arrived in the mid '70's were far less reliable.
Winnipeg had both electric trams and those electric trolley buses at one time. In my childhood 1960-70 only a few electric buses remained and indeed I remember them breaking down. The last one I ever rode broke down in freezing cold weather - it was about minus 30 and we walked home about three miles in the dark.
All the people out going about their business on east Hastings, uncivil behaviour wasn’t tolerated, what a contrast to today.
It wasn't so much that unruly behavior wasn't tolerated. It was a rare person who thought to engage in it, or was of sufficient unsound mind to do so. We've come so far since then.
What is truly amazing is how many of the buildings in this are still standing, still occupied and by the same business.
Old Royal Bank Building .. McDermid Miller McDermid. and the bank. Still there (Mow Mcd mid St. Lawrence. Brain Aun I think is partner with John Wheeler. Haven't seen John in like 38 years
@@glenw-xm5zf
Now is the time ⏲️ 🙌 😊.
West on Hastings, before it totally became the Downtown Eastside. I remember shopping there as a kid.
West Hastings is sill pretty darn nice.
Army and Navy, and the Whitecap cafe'.
@@glenw-xm5zf I remember a neon-lit butcher sign that featured a pig. Also, the old Woodwards Department Store.
Would be nice in a week. Just have to crack down like the Chinese Emperor is visiting.
@@matzrat5006Yes from Cambie towards west.😊
Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.
The city has the same bones, but much more new, one of the most beautiful city's in the world.
Not now…faceless inhuman highrises
Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.
House on Vancouver West side 1950 = $16,000 (60 foot lot) today same house
$ 5 million
Getting rid of "character" in Vancouver is a simple as abc development...
@@glenw-xm5zf It's certainly worth the $4,984,000 price difference, much safer and cleaner now. Traffic is better too.
@@Adam-en4zm You might not believe this, but the air is cleaner today, even though 5 times the Urban pop. we heated with coal fired furnaces, and also wood. False Creek was a slimy place, and the air was smoke saturated because of the sawmills that used the bee hive hog burners. Also no where close to as save today. Check the per capita crime rate.. WAY lower in 1950 Less than a third
@@glenw-xm5zf I definitely believe the air is cleaner today. Vehicles back then didn't have emissions controls, there was leaded gas, homes heated by wood or coal, etc. But crime wise it looks a hell of a lot better than today. I would probably let my kids roam around 1950's Hasting by themselves, but not today that's for sure.
no encampments or drug addict losers, what a time to be alive !
Yeah it was nirvana. Raging alcoholics with PTSD from the war, who beat their wives every night. What a time to be alive!
Make Vancouver Great Again!
You have to make the people great again first.
Impossible, unless God does it
Well then --- just convince people to stop voting Liberal
@@canadianoddy8504 almost impossible, because their minds are reprobate. some will turn, but most will live and walk in darkness. They love darkness more than light. Love fantasy over truth
@@westerlywinds5684 People are replaced by Indians now.
Wow!! Excellent video. Vancouver had a great tram system in its day. Thanks for sharing.
My MIL was a nurse and road to work on the trolley bus.
I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹
Thank you for sharing! I'm below 30 years old so your memories are really valuable to me since I didn't see Vancouver back then :)
@@DAMfoxygrampa so your younger than 30 years? That would be the proper grammar. I was wondering if you went to school at all; and if you did not, that would explain why. Sorry.
@@Sandra-mw3yp "your" younger? That'd be 'you're' younger. Did you go to school? Sorry?
@@wintermutt9090 Sorry I made a mistake in typing to quickly. Deeply Sorry, my mistake.
@@wintermutt9090 The hero I needed
That's amazing footage!!
How did people back then survive without a safe supply of meth and crack?
Are you addicted? Do you have to shoot up everyday? Do you have tracks up and down your arm? Are you horrified to open up your arm to a healthcare professional to take blood? Or do you have a vein to draw from that isn't mutilated?
It a great question. Lot's of road cracks.😮
They had lots of drugs.. Amphetamine was prescribed to so many people. Every second housewife was a speed freak.
@@jcmurr2669
The Purple Pill
Some of the captions aren't accurate. A lot of the "Going South on Granville" section is actually Broadway.
my dad told me the trams rolled from vancouver to chilliwack when he was a kid
Tracks are still there, from Cloverdale to Chilliwack.
@@matzrat5006 i know i grew up in langley but left BC a couple years ago now
isn't it more or less just a trail with a power line down the middle?
yes they did through langley and abbotsford
growing up in Vancouver, this is amazing footage to see the major transformation along Granville Street South. Incredible. wow.
Probably considered quite mundane at the time of its making. This film now is priceless and fascinating.
Looks like a fine place to live and work. On a side note, none of the numerous pedestrians seem to be afflicted with obesity. Everybody looks trim and healthy.
because they didn't eat ultra processed food that stopped healthy liver function...
the liver the the bloods cleaner so if you have low liver function to will have high body weight!
nobody ever told me this its something i realized about drinking age and the body metabolism....
i am 5'9 and eat healthy so i am only 130lbs and have been that way for the last 17 years of my life
That's because when you went to the movies, you got two cups of popcorn, not two gallons!
People had to save every penny back then, and food was scarce after the war.
@@westerlywinds5684 Food wasn't scarce in Canada. There was plenty to eat. They were the biggest, healthiest people on the planet.
All adults smoked.
Shows you how little this city has evolved since the 1950s. The difference you notice is the trams and homelessness situation.
Seems less rain too back then.
What amazing footage!! I couldn't take my eyes off it. I live in Vancouver and have driven in all those areas for years. Wow - thanks for the upload 👍
The city has changed so much since the time.I visited Vancouver so many times l love this city !
Ave you been to Vancouver recently? It's a pest hole.
Than move to Hastings Street bwn Abbott & Main st dump & stench!!!😊
Feels like time travelling
Biggest mistake was ripping out those rail lines & buying into the rails to rubber idea. It was advertised as a transition from streetcar to bus, but it's become a complete ICE & EV nightmare. Just go to any school zone between 0830-0930 or 1430-1530.
Buses increased greatly the nasty pollutions,not the smokers!!!😂❤😊
So many beautiful cars back than
ROFL yeah like the doors would fly open. We miss the era more than the cars.
I only saw super ugly cars.
@@jcmurr2669 Only decent car in 1950 was the Chevvy, In line OHV six. 105 hp, available with the 2 sp automatic. Not one here. Chryco's were ugly and fat, Fords were reliable as a balsawood crutch.. although the bullet nose 50 2 dr kind a rocked. Flathead v-8 110 hp.. WOW!!!
Wow people get on and off the trolleys in the middle of granville. I'm surprised no one got hit by a car
tiny bit less traffic!
No drivers staring down looking at their cell phones, lol.
I'm sure lots of people got hit by cars. My Mother-inlaw said it was pretty dangerous.
@@Stone_Horse but I remember they stared down at their roadmap while driving.
@@westerlywinds5684 The front passenger is the navigator, eh?
1947 Brill trolleybuses and they tried to replace them with flyer trolleys which only lasted about 15 years
1950 Vancouver. Just a little before my time but not by much. Thinking that I could go back to 1950 and be able to blend right in but the same couldn't be said for someone from 1950 to suddenly find themselves in 2024. Talk about a culture shock.
I thank god that my parents who were of the earlier more civilized, respectful generation aren’t still here to either observe or have to live through what goes on today.
@@squangan Thank the real estate and development 'industries'.
Now you would swear you walked onto the set of a zombie movie
Just spotted 3 1950 Plymouths just like mine. Light Green 4 doors !
I'm a little mystified. I kept looking as the trolley headed west along Hastings for the homeless encampments and drugged-out walkers. Perhaps the videographer deliberated didn't show them. That's understandable. If anyone has any other clue, let me know.
Sorry, those homeless people weren't born yet. 😂
No druggies not even any fairies till the early 70’s . At least not on the street. Only the ocasional drunk that didnt make it home in front army and navy or that triangular park half a block back on hastings !
@@rudihofer7212
I think it's called Pigeon Square or Pigeon Park, there was maybe one or two drunks there when I moved to Vancouver in 1972.
I suppose that next you are going to tell me there were no random drive by or drug gang shootings in Vancouver in the 50’s either. Todays ‘experts’ say things were so backwards in the 50’s and the 21st century is so much better, could it be that is a falsehood and isn’t true?
wow main and broadway;. that building is still there. so cool!
Just to think my late grandparents and great grandparents were working and building their houses around the time while this individual was making this film.
My parents were born a few years later.
I recognize a lot of those buildings from the last time I was there.
As I watch this i can't help wondering if they were driving by or walking by.🤔
Amazing how big a city it was still even in 1950..😮👍
Vancouver before junkies
Vancouver, being a port city, had heroin addicts back then. But many of the junkies had jobs, and no fentanyl.
@@wintermutt9090 this I did not know but google seems to confirm existence of 1950s heroin addicts and implies it started after WW1. I guess it was opium before then being used mostly in the opium dens
Nice find!
aaah the world before drugs
It almost makes me cry. Van had maybe 250 addicts .. most hung around H and Main..
We had lead and alcoholism
The cars were all so big back in those days. The trolley/tram things were before my time but the rounded Brill buses I loved to ride
Big cars, with next to nothing brakes.
Way more developed than I thought it would be.
Whoever shot this is a professional. The operator would get out of the trolly to get cutaway shots of it driving by and then hop back on the next one. It must've taken all afternoon.
It was 1950. Of course its a professional. Not many people with video cameras. Its the opposite today. Not many people don't have a video camera with them at all times.
Awesome footage I grew up in East Van in the 50s Ware Street on Campbell Avenue still had cobblestones and trolly tracks fantastic place to grow up as a child an absolute melting pot of people
The need for safe injection sites and homeless encampments is desperately needed as you can see from this film. This excludes the backbone of Vancouver
So sad. We’ve deteriorated so much thanks to bad government policies.
Deliberate downfalls. 😮???!!!
Very nice to see. Notice very little paper on the roads, clear air, shiny cars, not damaged or listen just how quiet it is, no horn honking, tires screeching, and well-dressed people. Boy, if they knew how bad Canada including Vancouver can get, people then would be furious, and sad.
They have hand signals in those days. No indicator lights.
No stop lights I miss that
Looks like there were?
Interesting, lack of overhead traffic lights. Old Granville street Bridge is similar to the old Cambie street Bridge
If I remember right, that was the old Oak street Bridge. The Ganville Bridge was opened in 1954
It makes me yearn for the days of yesteryear … I know there was problems back then as well, but everything was cleaner . The air, the water , society …. Everything !
The air was way dirtier than now. Beehives belching and industry , such as oil refineries , most of the city then, heated their homes with coal., people just throwing used oil and old cars into the rivers and creeks. It's dream of yesteryear. if youre a boomer, thats our parent's lives we are watching on the screen. Thats what really makes that film so special, to me.
Actually the water in False Creek was dirty as a cow's bowels. Today not so
That was great! We should have kept those streetcar lines.
Before all the troubles in this area.
Wow, so cool!
Hmm, I remember the Brill buses, but I was born after the streetcars.
Look, no tents or druggies. What a socialist paradise we've built over the last fifty years.
YEP. The slide started in 1972. We elected a social worker as Pemier. Almost as bad as electing a teacher
last few minutes is going east on broadway right up to main
Yes. Last few minutes seem to be all on Broadway east of Granville. At 07:00 the camera is on Broadway watching trams turn off Granville. At 09:06 there is a good view looking east across Cambie Street all the way to the seven-story Lee Building at the corner of Main and Broadway. The final shot at 09:58 shows that same building as the camera crosses Quebec Street.
I would love to have a time mashine and really walk in those times.
Wow, jaywalkers galore. Making me nervous 😅
Some things never change.
Those are pedestrians not jaywalkers. The cars are what's out of place
Where’s the tents and dope addicts?
Original.
65 years in the future
It's interesting how many cars were made in England, Austins and Morrises etc. My toys and clothes were all made in England, US and Canada too. May the sun never set on the Empire! We used to sing god save the Queen and Oh Canada before class, sometimes the lords prayer too. Lots of things have changed for better and for worse, thats why we're called a progressive society right? Notice all the cigarette ads? Not many tall buildings.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, Vancouver's downtown eastside (DTES) was Vancouver's political, cultural and retail centre. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards, and the DTES became a poor neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors, including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction.
This is DTES today. One of the worst neighborhoods for drug addiction, mental illness and crime in North America...not just Canada.
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Vancouver is a diverse over populated expensive hole now where the English language is as tough to spot as a Sasquatch sighting.
It’s great. Better restaurants and bakeries now thanks to immigration, and make new friends from far away places. I like. 😅
@@westerlywinds5684 Yes, unaffordable homes and ethnic enclaves is so much better than a more unified city with closer ties to the culture. Either you're an immigrant, you're quite wealthy to not have to work with them or live near them or you're subsidized by big daddy government. One thing for sure is you're not the average struggling Canadian or that 1 in 10 who are going to foodbanks just to feed their families.
Sad but true 😢. Lived there for over 20 years and moved away 4 years ago. It was nice while it lasted. But things became more difficult to stay there.
@@AdamtheGrey02 I’m all you mentioned. European immigrant, married to an Asian. I too work hard for the money but I claim the Trudeau government for everything, not the hard working immigrant.
Before the fentanyl zombies took over
everyone driving classics 😀
No oe little Micro-plastics pollution back then, but it was just starting to take hold.
WOW !! RETRO VANCOUVER Love IT !! IN Colour & comes with Sound Too
BIG Thnx for The Time Machine Footage !!
Let's See More Do you have any of Beach Ave during that Time ?
0:48 that guy working on the overhead live wires...
Electric vehicles didn't catch fire back then and had unlimited range.
Sales tax was 5 percent, none on food. and that was the only tax we paid, besides income tax. How did we ever manage??
A believe this video has a big mistake! When streetcar reach Granville & Broadway Southbound from the Granville Bridge it turns Eastbound to Broadway. You see it heading towards the Lee Building at Main Street where it loops North back to Hastings to Downtown. It doesn't head south on Granville because it doesn't stop in front of the Aristocratic!
Traffic was great back then lol!
I wasn't born until the late 50 but I do remember some of this from the early 60s. Do you see any homeless on the streets cause I sure don't.
Sad Hastings and all of west side closed from tent city.
0:23 cars turning left onto the old Georgia Viaduct.
Pain and Wastings wasn’t so painful back then eh!
So sad to see what’s become of the downtown core around Hastings. It’s disturbing our government allows this.
Its crazy too see Vancouver without all the tin foil dope smoking goofs!
Way better city back then than now today it is all greed being the most expensive city to live now.
When cars looked cool
This could use some video stabilization.
Not much different than in early 70s when I first got back after leaving in 1960 .. Then permanently moved here in 1981..was just starting to change..
Now most of these places are all zombie lands.
Some of the footage make pedestrians look like they have a death wish getting close to inter urban buses.
A lot of those bus-like vehicles seem to be trackless trolleys, with rubber tires but two overhead poles for power.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p the old BC Hydro electric buses, they were in service until in 1980s even though the street car service and tracks were removed in the 1960s. I remember the buses well catching the 10 at Kootenay Loop and heading downtown and it was one of them.
@@jaquigreenlees Thank you! I’ve lived in both Ohio and PA; Dayton and Philly still have electric buses. They’re variously called “trolleybuses” and “trackless trolleys”.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p Vancouver still has plenty of electric trolley buses; mainly on the primary city routes where the trams were removed in the 1950s.
I was born in Vancouver just late enough to have never taken a tram there. I can complain about the loss of the trams with the best of the lamenters. But the pedestrian accident rate must have been horrendous as people crossed through automobile traffic to climb up stairs into the high-level trams. Imagine doing that in the rain at night. Stepping from the curb into a bus is far easier.
.....sure don't miss the leaded gas back then.
at a time when Vancouver was representative of a 1st world country, not anymore.
That's what immigration does. Where are you from?
Nobody heard of Vancouver then. let alone a 1st world country.
You should see it now,total dystopia.
Oh please. I live in Vancouver but have travelled all over the world. This is one of the safest, cleanest, most civil places on the planet.
@@adrianl7147West Coast is a zombie apocalypse and Vancouver is the epicenter.
Ha, imagine pedestrians standing and waiting in the middle of traffic unprotected nowadays; the nickname for it would be the "killing zone".
Wow normal people
Can anyone here go back to 1950 and warn whoever filmed it that the image is shaking a lot? 😊
A.i post production can fix it lol
yea I don't think steadycam existed then lol.
Okay I went back in time and I found the guy. He was a war veteran and had both of his legs amputated. He was about 120 lb and the camera was 180 lb.
I told him that someone was watching this video on their phone and asked for a smoother picture but I don't think he heard me because his ears were missing I think he lost his hearing from artillery shells
This is when Vancouver was still considered to be one of the top manufacturing and industrial capacity sites of the British Empire or Canada you could say.
1:06 - Thats the corner of Main and Hastings. Owl drugs the pharmacy is still around, I believe. Walk on that corner today and its all junkies, methheads, drunk natives and dealers selling dope. Crazy how times change for better or worse. Most of those buildings are still there btw
no needles no junkies ...prob was nice
hmm
What a glorious time. Wise guys were all over the place!
I was born in 98 and have always lived in Greater Vancouver. The only thing in this video that looks familiar to me are the mountains in the background. Everything else looks so different.
Now its overrun by foreigners
nearly everyone there is a foreigner unless first nations
And us old timers are racist lol ( they love playing that card )
@@YS-fr6nu ikr lol
@@YS-fr6nu Yep. Lol
@@andiman45 lolololololollllllooooo