Love all that modernist architecture especially when its fresh. My mom worked after high school as a mail clerk at Palliser Square and the Calgary Tower and I was kind of jealous that she got to go up the tower every day for free...
i was born in 1986 in Edmonton moved to Calgary in late 1993 when i was 7 years old since then seeing downtown from a far with a good view spot is good
I was 16 at that time and it was a fun city. Now, not so much. Each shot that I recognize takes me right back to where I can actually remember what I was doing. Can’t remember what I had for breakfast but, there ya go.
I moved here in early 78, as a 17 yr old. I remember riding my 10 speed bike just to sit above DT, and look at the "Skyscrapers" You cant even see them now. Calgary back then for not always good reasons, seemed more like a big city. Maybe a little bit of the wild west remained? 16th ave was nothing but massage parlours, and almost every ave was lined with prostitutes and full of drug dealers at night. Not saying this was good, but it lent a certain energy to downtown. Even the bums were classic. Does anyone who lived or worked downtown remember the lady with bright red hair and a sort of Santa claus suit all held together by duct tape? Or the guy you could hear all over downtown, give a long drawn out YEEEEEEIIIIP!!! All the hot muscle cars gathered in a parking lot on 6th Ave, and would race off the lights. Police never bothered them much...I guess they at least knew where they were? All of this, contrasted by crowded streets in the daytime, full of couriers on bikes, businessmen, and secretaries sunning themselves on 8th Ave Mall. I remember a time with no C-train on 7th Ave, no Saddledome. All the old Hotels, like the Calgarian, and the York, and the Queens. All the pawn shops. The Boodlum. I remember when 36 St NE met McKnight Blvd, and it was a dirt road. We used to party around a bonfire, where Saddleridge is now. Pineridge was the last community and all the trees were tiny sticks in the ground. Man Im OLD. For better or worse, I loved the old Calgary. People were so friendly then. It was almost an insult if someone passed you on a sidewalk without a "good Morning" or didnt talk to you while pouring a coffee at 7-11. Sigh.
At the time the Tower was tallest object in the city. I moved to Alberta in 1977 to Edmonton, came to Calgary in November of 1980. I was was an 11 year old kid then. So 44 years ago. The 2 tone blue CT buses were great. Now they're red and white and some grey.
If you zoom in at 2:50, you can see the entrance to Calgary’s old VIA Rail station was revealed as you can see a sign in the background that says “CP Rail Station”, this would have been back before VIA Rail was formed and when CP and CN were the ones operating long distance passenger rail across Canada, VIA Rail would have also probably replaced the “CP Rail Station” logo with their logo when taking over passenger rail operations from CP and CN in the late 70s and would kept it that way until 1990 when the budget cuts to the Southern Canadian Pacific tracks were made
As I am thinking about this and what age I was back in that day was quite funny when the commentator said he was about 10 years old, that’s funny. I was 10 years old back in that day to. I’m 61. I still live in Calgary.
Stephen Avenue now smells so bad of dried piss you can not even walk along it anymore and Memorial Drive is now a massive tent City. It is amazing how far we have come.
The commentary is fantastic!
I was born 20 years later and I can't imagine a time before the museum or the devonian gardens.
What a time to be in Calgary! Wish I could go back.... life was so much simpler back then.
Yeah true!
Me and some friends snuck into that John Mayal concert, Thanks for the posting
Love all that modernist architecture especially when its fresh. My mom worked after high school as a mail clerk at Palliser Square and the Calgary Tower and I was kind of jealous that she got to go up the tower every day for free...
Thanks for showing off the pretty girls
I was just thinking the same thing lol
That was awesome!
Great quality film for '73!
I was 4 years old at the time.
my dad was 10 at the time it's always incredible to see what my home city looked like so long ago.
i was born in 1986 in Edmonton moved to Calgary in late 1993 when i was 7 years old since then seeing downtown from a far with a good view spot is good
I was 16 at that time and it was a fun city. Now, not so much. Each shot that I recognize takes me right back to where I can actually remember what I was doing. Can’t remember what I had for breakfast but, there ya go.
Yes, I've watched this and would like to go back please.
I moved here in early 78, as a 17 yr old. I remember riding my 10 speed bike just to sit above DT, and look at the "Skyscrapers" You cant even see them now. Calgary back then for not always good reasons, seemed more like a big city. Maybe a little bit of the wild west remained? 16th ave was nothing but massage parlours, and almost every ave was lined with prostitutes and full of drug dealers at night. Not saying this was good, but it lent a certain energy to downtown. Even the bums were classic. Does anyone who lived or worked downtown remember the lady with bright red hair and a sort of Santa claus suit all held together by duct tape? Or the guy you could hear all over downtown, give a long drawn out YEEEEEEIIIIP!!!
All the hot muscle cars gathered in a parking lot on 6th Ave, and would race off the lights. Police never bothered them much...I guess they at least knew where they were?
All of this, contrasted by crowded streets in the daytime, full of couriers on bikes, businessmen, and secretaries sunning themselves on 8th Ave Mall. I remember a time with no C-train on 7th Ave, no Saddledome. All the old Hotels, like the Calgarian, and the York, and the Queens. All the pawn shops. The Boodlum. I remember when 36 St NE met McKnight Blvd, and it was a dirt road. We used to party around a bonfire, where Saddleridge is now. Pineridge was the last community and all the trees were tiny sticks in the ground.
Man Im OLD.
For better or worse, I loved the old Calgary. People were so friendly then. It was almost an insult if someone passed you on a sidewalk without a "good Morning" or didnt talk to you while pouring a coffee at 7-11.
Sigh.
Love to see all the fashions that have returned. Checked and striped pants, lots of London fashion. Life was a lot less complicated.
At the time the Tower was tallest object in the city. I moved to Alberta in 1977 to Edmonton, came to Calgary in November of 1980. I was was an 11 year old kid then. So 44 years ago. The 2 tone blue CT buses were great. Now they're red and white and some grey.
Thanks for the memories. I think Calgary and Canada was a better place back then.
Cameraman caught a lot of good looking women. love it. 😉👍
If you zoom in at 2:50, you can see the entrance to Calgary’s old VIA Rail station was revealed as you can see a sign in the background that says “CP Rail Station”, this would have been back before VIA Rail was formed and when CP and CN were the ones operating long distance passenger rail across Canada, VIA Rail would have also probably replaced the “CP Rail Station” logo with their logo when taking over passenger rail operations from CP and CN in the late 70s and would kept it that way until 1990 when the budget cuts to the Southern Canadian Pacific tracks were made
good Narration. do you have ever 1 ST SE Esso footage?
As I am thinking about this and what age I was back in that day was quite funny when the commentator said he was about 10 years old, that’s funny. I was 10 years old back in that day to. I’m 61. I still live in Calgary.
Summer of ‘73… I was conceived during that summer. Hahaha.
The cinematographer seems to have a preference for a certain subject matter.
when style'd been valued
No tattoos ...awesome.
I think the kids in black t-shirts jogging were from St Mary’s high school.
Not a cell phone in sight and people actually sitting on the grass talking to each other
I grew up in the late fifties and early sixties and I find this horrifying
Why??
I'm so proud that Calgary women were so sexy 50 years ago too! WOW!! I thought it was just a recent leap!
Stephen Avenue now smells so bad of dried piss you can not even walk along it anymore and Memorial Drive is now a massive tent City. It is amazing how far we have come.
This is false. You are lying or have not been to these areas.
Those tall apartment buildings were pretty horrendous and still are... They should have never been part of downtown core.
No homeless.
I think you'd find those folks in Inglewood in those days.
@@Blendeture or Montgomery
I was homeless in Calgary in 1984. Calgary was probably still in a Boom year in 1973. The early 80s were a time of struggles. No Fentanyl in 1973.
There were but there was also lots more SRO units available so almost everyone could afford a roof over their head of some sort. Now? Not so much...
no passport holders