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  • Опубликовано: 4 сен 2012
  • City of Hamilton: Talk about a Great Place. Originally produced in 1983 on 16mm film by Hill's Video Productions. Why would you want to live anyplace else? Some Hamilton Businesses that participated in this 16mm film were: Westinghouse, Dofasco, Greening Donald Ltd., International Harvester, Stelco, ED Smith, Suzanne Shoe, Fellfab, Firestone, McMaster University and a very young bright conductor Boris Brott.
    The Regional Chairman at the time of this film was Anne Jones.
    Hill's Video Productions
    2440 Industrial St., Burlington, ON
    905 335-1146
    hillsvideo.com

Комментарии • 153

  • @danielthoman7324
    @danielthoman7324 Год назад +3

    I lived in Hamilton a long time ago. Worked at Westinghouse on Aberdeen Street, worked at national steel car, worked at dofasco and stelco. I like stelco best. I heard that Hamilton got rid of the trolleybuses. That was one of my favorite things about Hamilton. I'd like to go back and see the place, especially the places where I lived. I do miss it though.

  • @trish8664
    @trish8664 6 лет назад +15

    I've lived in Hamilton for 49 year's. .worked In both steel company's , also worked for a few sub contractors that did work there also. There all gone now. it's sad!

  • @hamiltonhippie7085
    @hamiltonhippie7085 7 лет назад +9

    Amazing! Can't believe how much this city has changed

  • @quarant1353
    @quarant1353 9 лет назад +33

    Look at the manufacturing we have lost !!!

    • @aliemad8222
      @aliemad8222 7 лет назад +3

      thanks to globalization and outsourcing

    • @seanwebb605
      @seanwebb605 7 лет назад

      Automation, development of industrial sector in other jurisdictions etc.

    • @mbogucki1
      @mbogucki1 5 лет назад

      Good riddance. It has left the waterfront a toxic waste dump. Time for Hamilton to move on.

    • @AlexFlockhart
      @AlexFlockhart 4 года назад +2

      Dofasco is still there. Now Arcellor-Mittal, but it's still the largest employer in Hamilton. I work right next to it at National Steelcar.

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 3 года назад

      China is the producer of steel now no labor unions will get in there

  • @quarant1353
    @quarant1353 9 лет назад +14

    My God, the losses.

  • @TowardsUnity
    @TowardsUnity 5 лет назад +1

    This is incredible.

  • @jamesbensch6
    @jamesbensch6 5 лет назад +4

    4:57 nice

  • @sankara5958
    @sankara5958 10 лет назад +5

    Love hamilton; God gifted landscape to multiculturalism. A small NY of Canada. Hamilton forever..........

  • @itsonlymyopinionok8115
    @itsonlymyopinionok8115 7 лет назад +3

    lol. they make it look so glamour back then. it's nothing like this anymore.

    • @lloydmckay3241
      @lloydmckay3241 9 месяцев назад

      It wasn't like that back then either.

  • @daver36
    @daver36 7 лет назад

    my home town need to back and visit soon

  • @Cromwell564
    @Cromwell564 9 лет назад +5

    I think I was playing Asteroids on the Atari when this was shot.

    • @flashy5150
      @flashy5150 9 лет назад

      Jim Gordon PAC-MAN for me, or maybe Space Invaders.

    • @k.s.333
      @k.s.333 4 года назад

      I think this is the year we got our Vectrex...

  • @JoeyArmstrong2800
    @JoeyArmstrong2800 7 лет назад +2

    Look at all the people working!!!!

  • @Venx84
    @Venx84 9 лет назад +1

    wow now i feel as old as copps coliseum. i was born in 1984 so was a shocker to see it and the sheraton still being built in this video.

    • @CanningPetto
      @CanningPetto 9 лет назад

      I worked at the Mill for a bit. It was awesome seeing it here.

    • @flashy5150
      @flashy5150 9 лет назад +1

      Christopher Strachan I used to walk through that area before it was even there. I remember going to the old Robinson's store at King and James, beside the CIBC building, where the empty parking lot is now. I shook Terry Fox's hand on the York Blvd. bridge when he was running through Hamilton in 1980 -- what an honor !!!

    • @Venx84
      @Venx84 9 лет назад

      flashy5150 thanks for making me feel young again xD

    • @flashy5150
      @flashy5150 9 лет назад

      Christopher Strachan Not a problem, I wish I could though. lol

    • @goldencitybrigade6272
      @goldencitybrigade6272 6 лет назад

      And of course, Hamilton did get a great team playing in the Copps too. I have to admit, Hamilton having the largest arena in the OHL is pretty cool.

  • @KWACanada
    @KWACanada 5 лет назад +7

    Almost none of these companies exist anymore.
    Kinda says all you need to know.

    • @ellzedd4113
      @ellzedd4113 3 года назад

      True people have no clue in 40 years most things that were booming are now dead. I see a lot of shiity apartments out of mass condos.

  • @jessejon5891
    @jessejon5891 4 года назад +1

    R.I.P

  • @6286668
    @6286668 10 лет назад +12

    look at all the employers that have vanished!

  • @nmac3718
    @nmac3718 4 года назад

    I left with my father in fall of 85 my dad knew it was changing i came home in 97 saw the last of the bigger companies leave this city keeps reinventing itself not always good not always bad

  • @Radio-Hobbyist
    @Radio-Hobbyist 5 лет назад

    GREAT vid!

  • @tommysoprano1441
    @tommysoprano1441 7 лет назад +7

    I was 19 when they filmed this. Most of those companies are gone now but fortunately new companies have arrived. Hospitals have been built. Condos are going up like crazy. People are finally investing in the city.

    • @CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue
      @CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue 7 лет назад

      I was 7 when this was filmed.

    • @KWACanada
      @KWACanada 5 лет назад

      Easy there, big guy.
      "Finally investing in the city" was what these companies were doing in 1983.
      Heed the warning signs.

    • @lynnmori3282
      @lynnmori3282 3 года назад

      Most of the people buying those condos are from Toronto. It's cheaper to live here.
      But thanks for bringing gun violence with you.
      Keeps me in shape dodging bullets.

  • @qualityman1965
    @qualityman1965 2 месяца назад

    This was 1985. The year copps collisium was being built. Funny haiw almost all the companies have gone.

  • @NormEatsRice
    @NormEatsRice 5 лет назад +1

    this is kinda cool

    • @gersidi
      @gersidi 4 года назад

      NormEatsRice it’s cool but I currently live in Hamilton and it’s nothing like this anymore

  • @seferino
    @seferino 5 лет назад +8

    Ontario was depressing back in the day, it is depressing now.

    • @k.s.333
      @k.s.333 4 года назад +1

      no, it was a good place to live

    • @pingpong3311
      @pingpong3311 2 года назад

      @@k.s.333 and it still is.

  • @kaylewis6671
    @kaylewis6671 4 года назад +13

    Hamilton is a donut...a rich outercrust with a hole in the middle

    • @rowbom
      @rowbom 2 года назад

      I have to agree with that description

  • @maddiem1373
    @maddiem1373 3 года назад

    this is so crazy

  • @jessefaw
    @jessefaw Год назад

    look how much more traffic there now is

  • @joelchils
    @joelchils 7 лет назад +3

    dofasco is still open... for now 🤔

  • @rowbom
    @rowbom 2 года назад

    You can tell how old this video is. The fuzzy orange quality of film, the grainy sound of the commentary and music. Also old time is the male voice and the introductory music.

  • @mbogucki1
    @mbogucki1 Год назад +1

    They didn't see the writing on the wall. Sad really.

  • @mystiquefilm5704
    @mystiquefilm5704 4 года назад

    Hi, I'm working on a documentary set in 1980's Hamilton, and would love to be able to use some of this footage. I tried sending an email to your contact info but have not received a response. Is there a email I could contact about obtaining permission? Thank you.

  • @philstall6262
    @philstall6262 3 года назад

    THIS THE BEST IN MY PLACE OF MINE HAMILTON ONTARIO CANADA 🇨🇦 AND I KNOW ROOFING ALSO DRYWALLING. HOWS THE WORK OUT THERE FOR JOBS.

  • @goldencitybrigade6272
    @goldencitybrigade6272 6 лет назад +6

    4:27 COPPS CONSTRUCTION! GO BULLDOGS!

    • @ITSHlM
      @ITSHlM 5 лет назад +1

      Chadwicked B they had an NHL team long ago 🤦🏽‍♂️ it was called Hamilton Tigers

    • @twelvefortytwo4730
      @twelvefortytwo4730 4 года назад +1

      Oskee wee wee

  • @cinmanmoo
    @cinmanmoo 3 месяца назад

    How many of these companies left Hamilton by the end of the 90's thanks to the late Brian Mulroney?? Hamilton was a growing thriving city and now, well it's a city anyway.

  • @RAWRxx13
    @RAWRxx13 10 лет назад +2

    Hahaha, this is great.

  • @RL.Govang
    @RL.Govang Год назад

    Hamilton is the home of Raymond the writer

  • @clownnut1925
    @clownnut1925 3 года назад +1

    I guess you haven't been downwind of the factories!

    • @lynnmori3282
      @lynnmori3282 3 года назад +2

      Remember the peanut oil plant by Eastwood Park?
      When the wind blew from the west the stink was incredible.
      But we grew used to it and went on playing street hockey.

  • @odsonic4727
    @odsonic4727 5 лет назад +7

    is this the same Hamilton ????? wth happened got hit in the back of the head with an iron rod

  • @BigB0582
    @BigB0582 10 лет назад +2

    I wonder what Barton St. looked like back then...

    • @airaero5473
      @airaero5473 5 лет назад

      East, West, or both?

    • @bathos22
      @bathos22 5 лет назад

      @@airaero5473 East

    • @highenergyog
      @highenergyog 5 лет назад

      It looked exactly the same back then as it does today , the only difference is the amount of druggies/hookers and homeless, is that theres a few more out there than there was in the 1980s .

    • @KWACanada
      @KWACanada 5 лет назад

      Looks exactly the same, but the buildings are 35 years more decrepit.

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 3 года назад

      @@highenergyog 2020 barton st is dead totally day snd night properties are worthless as is time to expropiate with a bulldozer

  • @airaero5473
    @airaero5473 5 лет назад

    Can somebody please tell what that building was across the city hall before it was demolished

    • @Kidmarine2
      @Kidmarine2 5 лет назад +1

      Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, I believe.

  • @johnseabiscuit
    @johnseabiscuit 4 года назад +3

    Housing no longer affordable. Unrecognizable demographic, horrible municipal government, industry gone, vacant shops all along the downtown core. The old downtown is basically a ghetto. Still a great place to live though.

  • @danieldangelo7937
    @danieldangelo7937 5 лет назад

    Its Poindexter at 2:12

  • @chrisharten853
    @chrisharten853 3 года назад +1

    Showing all the good parts. Lol

  • @emilymcgregor580
    @emilymcgregor580 10 лет назад

    ouuu is that waterfall at 6:30 even in Hamilton? and if so does it exist anymore? I'd love to visit

    • @BuddyLIM
      @BuddyLIM 10 лет назад +1

      Yep it is. that looks like albion falls. one of hundreds of waterfalls in hamilton #waterfallcapitcaloftheworld

    • @emilymcgregor580
      @emilymcgregor580 10 лет назад

      BuddyLIM thought so! Thanks

    • @thomasfindlay9218
      @thomasfindlay9218 10 лет назад

      Could be Webster's Falls in Dundas, Albion falls is more "stepped" I believe.

    • @Venx84
      @Venx84 9 лет назад

      looks like webster to me too. but that is one of many beautiful natural waterfalls still going around this great city.

    • @KWACanada
      @KWACanada 5 лет назад

      @@BuddyLIM except you can't visit Albion Falls anymore. #ClosedToThePublic

  • @ColtraneTaylor
    @ColtraneTaylor 3 года назад +1

    Jim Carrey saw Hamilton as a hellhole and was lucky to escape from it.

  • @hollypietrzak5214
    @hollypietrzak5214 8 лет назад

    Things sure looked different in that day

    • @odsonic4727
      @odsonic4727 5 лет назад +1

      is why they coined the term..back in the day lol

  • @jmcclelland85
    @jmcclelland85 9 лет назад

    Is Hamilton Ontario Still a great place to live? 32 years after this video was made?

  • @jafo766
    @jafo766 4 года назад +1

    ALL THO$E CUNTPANY'$ LONG GONE , HAMILTOON A GOOD PLACE 4 GORDON $TUCKLE$$ & GTA GANG BANGER$ NOW

  • @rayn1ful
    @rayn1ful 2 года назад +1

    the best part about this city , is we are still better then Toronto . lol

    • @lloydmckay3241
      @lloydmckay3241 9 месяцев назад

      Sure that's why so many people leave Hamilton and move to TO.

  • @sandrarobinson7430
    @sandrarobinson7430 3 года назад

    wow ... take a camera to King and James now ...those employers we lost ... lifetime jobs with good pay ... right now there is nowhere to go but up .. i remember those days ... seems classy now

  • @thevultrantransituniverse1487
    @thevultrantransituniverse1487 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hamilton looked great back then. Right now it’s a shithole due to homelessness, crime, and drugs.

  • @killuminati63
    @killuminati63 5 лет назад

    Now it's GM..

  • @nicsicilia7336
    @nicsicilia7336 4 года назад

    0:28 are you sure about that

  • @vulqo1884
    @vulqo1884 4 года назад +2

    lmao these comments

  • @ARIES9327
    @ARIES9327 10 лет назад +6

    and then the China came about all the industry gone to hell.

  • @jamesipad204
    @jamesipad204 4 года назад

    I hope no one listened to this video back then.

  • @knowpassword
    @knowpassword 4 года назад +1

    “The armpit of North America”

  • @johncrofeather3430
    @johncrofeather3430 3 года назад +1

    Then NAFTA happened and bye-bye most of Hamilton's industries.

  • @filipbinek5757
    @filipbinek5757 4 года назад

    Back when Canada was a real country! MCGA!

    • @lloydmckay3241
      @lloydmckay3241 9 месяцев назад

      It still is a real and great country.

  • @CIBEATZVIDEOS
    @CIBEATZVIDEOS 9 лет назад +1

    omg, hamilton still look exactly the same

  • @Denji2006
    @Denji2006 10 лет назад +17

    Hamilton has gone to shit. Poverty, higher property tax rates and playing cat n' mouse with druggies for decades doesn't really help, not to mention industry literally leaving like they practically have every other city. Nothing was hit harder than downtown. Some things have come a long way since the dark periods of the mid 90's, but it'll never be close to this again.

    • @Denji2006
      @Denji2006 10 лет назад +2

      Steel City Dude Forever! 420
      34 as well, born and raised in Hamilton. Don't get all butthurt with the facts and you obviously haven't read the post in it's entirety. All you saw was "Hamilton has gone to shit". Go back to smoking your drugs.

    • @Denji2006
      @Denji2006 10 лет назад +2

      Steel City Dude Forever! 420
      Shouldn't you be more calmer than this because of your drugs? Or is it because you're just a complete degenerate?

    • @emilymcgregor580
      @emilymcgregor580 10 лет назад +2

      just cleaning up the mess the money-hungry generations before us made. not sure if that includes you, but judging by the way you speak you aren`t even aware of the difference that can be made if you actually shut your mouth and contribute.

    • @Denji2006
      @Denji2006 10 лет назад +1

      em mcg
      Right, don't criticize what the city became and point out the issue. Got'cha.

    • @emilymcgregor580
      @emilymcgregor580 10 лет назад +2

      Listen, I'm 18 years old and I've known about the many issues Hamilton faces for A LONG TIME. I'm very educated for my age because I've chosen to follow the work of a lot of people who are trying to help Hamilton. I don't waste my time saying "Hamilton has gone to shit", because it makes people think that it's a lost cause. I spend my time trying to improve my town rather than complaining about it. You are what they call a "bystander." Just continue waiting for other people to help your neighbours, and in the process of it, keep complaining! It's REALLY helpful!

  • @sergeyc5528
    @sergeyc5528 5 лет назад

    Say thanks to China...

  • @kingofcomments4832
    @kingofcomments4832 3 года назад

    Trump's fault.

  • @UnimpressedGoose
    @UnimpressedGoose 5 лет назад +1

    Hamilton has gone to shit since this video

  • @sankara5958
    @sankara5958 10 лет назад

    Love hamilton; God gifted landscape to multiculturalism. A small NY of Canada. Hamilton forever..........