BC Road Trip Time Machine: Duncan to Parksville circa 1966
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Does the busy modern world have you wishing you could step back in time? We’re happy to say your wish has been granted with this trip down memory lane (or highway)! Climb aboard our BC Road Trip Time Machine and travel Vancouver Island Highways 1 and 19 (between Duncan and Kelsey Bay) as they were in the spring of 1966.
Island motorists young and old are sure to notice countless changes in these videos, along with some things that never seem to change (Dairy Queen in Parksville anyone?)
It's a long drive, so we have broken the video up into three sections for you: Duncan to Parksville, Parksville to Campbell River and Campbell River to Kelsey Bay.
Here’s a list of some of the changes Highway 1 and 19 have experienced over the past 50 years:
Countless side road intersections have been improved with traffic lights and turning lanes, as well as acceleration and deceleration lanes, to keep travellers safe.
Rumble strips and reflectors have been installed along sections of both highways to improve safety.
Roadside clearing or “brushing” have improved sight lines on both highways.
Median and roadside barriers have been placed along both highways. Check out the “Next Generation” of highway barrier located in Nanoose.
Road-level railway crossings have been realigned.
Traffic volumes have increased dramatically in the years since this video was taken!
Old Howe Truss bridges along the route have been replaced to allow larger vehicles to travel the routes.
In 1992, the Vancouver Island Highway Project began, which when completed in 2002, created a new 4 lane divided highway between Nanaimo and Campbell River, now known as Highway 19. The existing Highway 19 was renamed to Highway 19A, the ‘Oceanside Route’, or the ‘Old Island Highway’, depending on who you ask!
Many stretches of BC Highway 1 are now four lanes wide.
The current alignment of Highway 19A though Courtenay bypasses the downtown core and the old 5th Street Bridge (seen here as it existed in 1966).
Kelsey Bay used to be the end of the line for BC Highway 19 in 1966 where BC Ferries originally began its northern route to Prince Rupert. It wouldn’t be until 1978 that Highway 19 travelled from Campbell River to Port Hardy.
The Inland Island Highway (now called BC Highway 19) now travels outside the City of Nanaimo, rather than through it. It connects back up with the original alignment near Lantzville.
There was no Inland Island Highway, therefore no local Inland Island Highway connectors.
If you’ve been riding along with us, you’ll know we’ve toured many other parts of the province in our BC Road Trip Time Machine travels. We recorded these nostalgic videos from 16mm film footage taken in 1966. The original photologs were collected by rigging a camera onto the dash of a car that took still images every 80 feet or so and then running those together as a single film in order to create a visual record of road condition information from across the province. This allowed our engineers to study a stretch of road without having to travel there. Pretty cool stuff, huh? Get the full scoop: www.tranbc.ca/...
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it is still mainly the same route now but widened to 4 lanes
2:06 I love the writing on the highway "Use your ashtray"
I moved to Parksville in 1967 and it looked like that for many years later, except for the many hitchhikers heading from Parksville to Long Beach (Tofino) in the late to early 70's... miss those days.
My parents lived in Parksville in the late 60s and early 70s. Its still home to me
My grandparents built a house and acreage near Chemainus in 1975. Neat to see what that stretch looked like before they moved there. I also love seeing the Castaway sign in Nanaimo! It's still there, just down the street from where I am now!
Thank you for this! Awesome. Strangest thing I notice is how much more dangerous roads were back then. Passing vehicles in really tight spots , logging trucks crossing right in front of you, unmarked accesses. Wow things have changed - for the better.
Bob Sovereign look how much less traffic there is though. Alot less people on the road back then
Regulations are written in blood.
This is the road I remember. So cool to see long vanished buildings/businesses.
"Use your ashtray" painted on the road tells a story. No malls in Nanaimo. Awesome history bite.
Margie Johnson I THOUGHT I saw something about “ashtray”! I see people haven’t gotten any smarter! It should STILL be on the pavement!
Impressive that it only took 9 minutes to go from Duncan to Parksville back in the day.
Are you fuckings stupid? It's a sped uo video 😭
@@Fizzyyoshi You got that low IQ huh? It was very obviously a joke...
Thanks for the great memories.
Wow Duncan too Parkville back in 1966,I was only 5yrs old then & know I'm 57yrs old & watching & enjoying this video,thank you too ever shared this video,made my day....🙃
The year we emigrated to Canada! Wow, thanks for this
This is really amazing! I'm seriously tempted to recreate this with a HD camera and try to speed/location match it.
Gord Bestwick i would love that!
Love this! I wish there was a longer, slower, less jumpy version of this available...
You can adjust the speed in settings, bottom right. But for a less jumpy version we'd have to really go back and time and shoot with a POV dashboard camera rather than the 16 mm film of the 60's. Time machine is not in the current budget :)
We'll have to remember that in the next election and get you some more money! ;) Thanks!!!
@@MinistryofTranBC You can adjust the speed settings? I don't see this. Would love to know if the film is available raw? Thanks
The actual reels of 16mm film are currently in house for processing. Once we have digitized them we will be sending it to BC archives. Try looking for the settings button (gear symbol) on the bottom right hand side of the RUclips screen to slow the film down. Hope that this helps @@lauralucas5220
@@MinistryofTranBC Yes that does work. Thanks.
I got chills. Nash Hardware, Lindsays, I wish they had diverted up the Main Street (Commercial). I would love to have seen that. I was hoping for a better shot of the Civic Arena but just saw the upper facade. I was disappointed that the whole Terminal park was completely washed out I saw Safeway, but prior to that I should have seen Dairy Queen with their cool neon ice cream sign and the Putt Putt gold but I just saw a bunch of washed out yellow signs.
Foo boy! I came in 1968 to live and it was just like that ,all except you would rarely get a sunny day like that-does that make me feel old!
I like to learn about highways this video is awesome
I remember the water spring and "Garbage Goblin" at Ivy Green ( on the right at Min 3;26). As a kid my dad had to top up the radiator there. I think it happened more than once .
Sorry , on the video ,the stop is on the "Left" hand side of the screen
I just can't get over how much of this trip is now oozing suburbia.
Love it! I remember when ! That DQ is still there in Parksvegas!
No Lights on the highway, who was the genius that decided to put them in
And then by the ‘80’s -onwards they ramped up the paved paradise with strip malls and parking lots ...
Travelled it many times as a 8 year old in '66. Nice if the video was slowed down about 100 mph so you could actually see things. Wish it was still like that.
Hi Russ. Sounds like the video brought back memories. :) You can control the speed of the video by clicking the settings icon at bottom right.
@@MinistryofTranBC Cool. Thanks. R
In the days when the centre line was white, before we copied the Americans, as usual. Quite a few small English cars still on the road. 1966-ish was the beginning of the end for them. Japanese cars dominated the market very quickly.
this was mid 80s the centre line were yellow
Goes right by a place I used to live and My Dad had a Vet Hospital (9:09) white two story on the right just before the gas station (N Nanaimo / Wellington) Corner of Bowen and highway) - tho it was a few years later than this , 1969
Wow,you can see my grand parents house and shop briefly on the right at 4:47,its all gone now.
Interesting film, but I'd appreciate more data on how and why it was created, and whether the 1996 project extended to all the major BC highways, for example, Highway #1 between Port Mann and Hastings and Cassiar. The various devices at the bottom of the frame don't measure elapsed time, so far as I can tell, so there's no way to calculate frame rate - though it looks like under 5 frames per second. As well, a rig like that would be relatively pointless at 8mm, so my guess is that the original was shot in 16mm at least. Given that, the low quality is surprising, unless this is a video copy transferred from film in the 1980s. It would be better to go back to the original film, even the original negative (if it was shot that way) to create these interesting little RUclips moments. Not a criticism, but if one wants to preserve such archive material, the best way is to scan at 2K (for 16mm; 4K for 35mm) clean up the file to remove scratches etc., and rebalance the colour and contrast, then render the file out to film (one strip for each colour) for archival storage. Film is ultimately a more stable storage medium because, if it is properly preserved, you can always go back to it when digital file formats change. Just sayin;
Dept of Highways filmed many of them throughout BC ,,, road analysis & where to spend more of Flying Phil Galardi's money he was the minister of highways my Dad worked for him
Here's a list of our blogs created to tell the story of these videos. It was captured on 16mm film and slowed down considerably from the original run time of the film. A single image was captured approx. every 80 feet and brought together as a film. We had to find a working projector (and then more bulbs) to view and capture this digitally. Once we have finished capturing the footage digitally (and on our budget) the film will go to BC archives for storage. www.tranbc.ca/tag/bc-road-trip-time-machine/
Hope that this helps!
Hey MOT, Please upgrade the 4 lanes going through Duncan. They've been the same 4 lanes for over 50 years @ 0:05 .
I grew up in sayward
Nice
It's too bad they didn't mount the camera backwards - then the footage could have been used for driving scenes in period films...
Fair enough, KB. The intent of the project was about engineers monitoring road surfaces taking one photo at a time then stitched together... So probably wasn't a consideration.
Look at the date & time.....that was my 14th birthday!!!
the speed limit was 80 mph, I wonder if there were comparable the same or more accidents as now
The speed limit was 60 mph, never 80 mph.
More accidents now, just at higher speeds and much more costly in terms of $$ and lives!
Can anyone tell me what river or creek is crossed by the bridge at 4:06 ?
Im trying to match the bridges to Google Earth and this one stumps me.
Nanaimo River bridge , at Cassidy, just north of the airport
Is this original film available through an archive? thank you
This is so cool! Is there one that goes through Qualicum Beach?
www.tranbc.ca/2016/06/23/bc-road-trip-time-machine-duncan-to-kelsey-bay-circa-1966/