1976 Vancouver Tourism Promotion Film

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  • Опубликовано: 19 апр 2014
  • Where does one even start? This film was an award winner but it is really, really dated. The synthesizer music used is cheezy!
    It is interesting how Vancouver was trying to present itself to the world. I have to wonder where this film was intended to be shown and who might have seen it in 1976 when it came out.
    Film is a promotional film for the city of Vancouver. The film won several awards at film festivals including: Chris Plaque - Best Travel Film, at Columbus International Film Festival; a Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Canuck Award - 2nd Place Best Canadian Travel Film, Canadian Travel Association; a Bronze Award at the Film and Television Festival of New York; and a Certificate of Merit - Recreation at the Chicago International Film Festival.
    Producer and director of photography: Robert S. Rodvik
    Director and supervising editor: Michael J. Collier
    Original music composed and arranged by Ralph Dyck
    Narrator: Art Hives
    Narration script: Keith Cutler
    Sponsored by Greater Vancouver Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Комментарии • 708

  • @CamAteUrKFC
    @CamAteUrKFC 4 года назад +30

    It's sad how Vancouver has turned out.

  • @brucemcintyre6088
    @brucemcintyre6088 4 года назад +88

    Nearly 22 minutes and not a drop of rain visible.

  • @bilobath6093
    @bilobath6093 11 месяцев назад +7

    4 years before i came to Canada as a 13 year old.
    I honestly think that time was the best

  • @missinglink9973
    @missinglink9973 4 года назад +357

    Ah the good ole days when you could buy a house in Van for 50 k

    • @hananalhaddad3182
      @hananalhaddad3182 4 года назад +5

      Now the same house is probably close to 20 x

    • @FAKE-NAME
      @FAKE-NAME 4 года назад +17

      @@hananalhaddad3182 it's only been 3 hrs since ur comment and it's probably gone up yet again lol

    • @hananalhaddad3182
      @hananalhaddad3182 4 года назад

      @@FAKE-NAME 😂 you bet that right

    • @hananalhaddad3182
      @hananalhaddad3182 4 года назад +1

      @@ComedyTVWeb you are right even Chilliwack expensive too .

    • @billhammock4178
      @billhammock4178 4 года назад +2

      at 20% interest.

  • @ScottOctober
    @ScottOctober 4 года назад +37

    And now it's a crime ridden, over expensive, broken city.

    • @ketandeswal4336
      @ketandeswal4336 4 года назад +1

      Scott October with Fake, racist, rude, and loud people.

    • @courtneychristofferson100
      @courtneychristofferson100 3 года назад

      @@ketandeswal4336 I take it you're a Vancouver resident then?

    • @courtneychristofferson100
      @courtneychristofferson100 3 года назад +1

      Truth!

    • @EskimoCanadian44
      @EskimoCanadian44 2 года назад +1

      It's more fucked up now than ever before, the vast majority of people are too far gone at this point. Most of the time it's easier to strike up a conversation with a bum on the street, and talk about the reality of shit going on, than trying to talk to the "normal" people who are basically mindless drones at this point. What is normal anyway? Don't even know anymore. Call BC Backwards Canada these days because everything is opposite. Right is wrong, up is down, forwards is backwards. It's a god damn circus and any semblance of identity that once made Vancouver so unique is rapidly fading. Some would argue the city already lost its identity years ago. In my opinion things really started going downhill after the 2010 winter Olympics.

    • @VinylToVideo
      @VinylToVideo Год назад +2

      @@EskimoCanadian44 Damn that's spot on. Most people a generation or two older though point to Expo 86 as the turning point.

  • @TheBigCheeese85
    @TheBigCheeese85 4 года назад +171

    The Boomers never had it so good

    • @christopherdunn317
      @christopherdunn317 4 года назад +4

      Wrong !

    • @admirpurac9767
      @admirpurac9767 4 года назад +15

      @@christopherdunn317 OK Boomer!

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 4 года назад +4

      Oh that must have really sucked... having to buy a mid 70s muscle car. Probably all the smog equipment removed and and aftermarket carb, cam, and pistons and maybe 3.73s or 4:10s and it was as good as anything out of the 60s.
      Now crappy Chevy Novas are worth $40k.
      Cry me a river, boomer. I had to be well into adulthood to own something with 8 cylinders, and I already don’t drive it.

    • @antiprogpragmatist859
      @antiprogpragmatist859 4 года назад +6

      Bartonovich52 ...Omg you millennials and zoomers are whiny bitches. Every generation can look back and say the previous one had something better than them.....the generations following you will likely bitch about the entitled, self centered brats of your generation.

    • @jamesharris1452
      @jamesharris1452 4 года назад +5

      @@christopherdunn317 ok boomer

  • @marvinm.messier1120
    @marvinm.messier1120 3 года назад +16

    What a perfect encapsulation of a period of time. I dig the fashion, plus the film's production values, editing style, synth music, narration - everything. I was born at the wrong time!

    • @Adevine369
      @Adevine369 7 месяцев назад

      I feel that 😢

  • @monarch1957
    @monarch1957 7 лет назад +227

    Vancouver was a much better city back in 76 not so much drugs or as expensive to live in back then.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +3

      Not to mention maruguana.It was totally illegal in those days.

    • @travisyelland42
      @travisyelland42 4 года назад +5

      An n those days u could be drunk as f$#k n still drive n the polic would let u continue if u were "close to home"

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +8

      I hate how whenever I go back to my hometown, Vancouver, that it stinks of marijuana. Grow up, children. Do something productive.

    • @nvanguy6868
      @nvanguy6868 4 года назад +22

      Every douchebag in the world had to move here and ruin it

    • @Fyyt
      @Fyyt 4 года назад

      So what does that tell you about ppl

  • @EliahHoliday
    @EliahHoliday 4 года назад +85

    1970's Vancouver might as well be another planet. People think we've progressed and evolved from that time, we have, for the most part not for the better.

    • @nitrospice1222
      @nitrospice1222 4 года назад +3

      Eliah Holiday Vancouver has its flaws and in many ways is still in its infancy, but Vancouver, the city, has greatly improved. It was practically empty when this film was made.

    • @joopajoo4152
      @joopajoo4152 4 года назад +3

      @@nitrospice1222 Now Vancouver is filled by scum.

    • @svc6550
      @svc6550 2 года назад +2

      @@nitrospice1222 overly populated doesn’t mean better

    • @AlCatSplat
      @AlCatSplat Год назад +1

      @@svc6550 Vancouver is far from being overly populated.

    • @svc6550
      @svc6550 Год назад

      @@AlCatSplat take it up with the person I was replying to

  • @Lalfy
    @Lalfy 10 лет назад +106

    "The synthesizer music used is cheezy!"
    Frankly, I love it.

    • @Modernjazz1
      @Modernjazz1 10 лет назад +11

      Yes, its amazing to listen to, the chord progressions are so much more sophisticated than anything you'd hear in contemporary popular music. Plus give it points for the use of the Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.

    • @MrGoldenwaffler
      @MrGoldenwaffler 8 лет назад +4

      gotta love that warm Moog sound. i like it and film is peaceful

    • @bandcouver
      @bandcouver 5 лет назад +5

      Yep. Vancouver has changed a lot since then and not necessarily for the better. Who can afford a home now? Corporate and developer greed has taken over far too much now. And yes, Contemporary Pop music has been crap for a long time. I listen online for new music. There is good music now. It just doesn''t get commercial airplay. Vancouver stations have been compromised just like any other major city radio station has. That's why we have a station like Co-op Radio, which came into existence a year before this film.

    • @firthbythesea
      @firthbythesea 5 лет назад

      Anyone have any idea what the music is at the top?

    • @travisyelland42
      @travisyelland42 4 года назад +1

      Great Vancouver most expensive place to like in the world for 17years in a row!

  • @gonstotwriter
    @gonstotwriter 8 лет назад +116

    I moved to Vanc'r in 1975. The city has changed more than I would have predicted (and not necessarily for the better).

    • @onyxescence
      @onyxescence 5 лет назад +9

      I came in March, 1973....totally loved it. I can't believe this is the same city today.

    • @doctronfour9060
      @doctronfour9060 4 года назад +4

      Are y’all Canadian? Where’d you guys move from

    • @goldennightingale5791
      @goldennightingale5791 4 года назад

      I wanna visit van from toronto went on family vacation in the early 2000

    • @Booliocious
      @Booliocious 4 года назад +2

      @Billy Conforto unfortunately for you, i dont like gay people.

    • @andreassen6197
      @andreassen6197 4 года назад +1

      @@Booliocious you never said you weren't gay though

  • @onyxescence
    @onyxescence 5 лет назад +34

    Back when it was a city for people.....anyone with a job could afford a decent place to live and you could find an apt in a day. No housing issues. And it was friendly and it was very easy to make real friends; and even just going out walking wherever people found reasons to chitchat. It had a very community laid back mellow spirit. The hippy spirit and any spirit at all here is long gone. And maybe the music for this video is cheezy but 1976 was the year of David Bowie's Thin White Duke tour, which started in Vancouver Feb 2, 1976. That wasn't too cheezy.

    • @DarkOfTheMist
      @DarkOfTheMist Год назад +2

      Yeah but you people will never recognize the real problem of why that went away. Real lack of community when you don't even speak the same language as your neighbor.

  • @danteowens7260
    @danteowens7260 4 года назад +16

    Back when Vancouver was a fun city

  • @steveoatway7001
    @steveoatway7001 10 месяцев назад +5

    I know some of the Grouse Mountain Staff they show and at 7:05 they show the BC Lions playing and this is a rare and historic shot that also proves this is 1976. The Quarterback is not one of the QB's in 1976 but their new Kicker who also played QB at Simon Fraser University, along with kicking and receiving. He is the highest scoring Kicker and the player who played more games in CFL history, Vancouver's Hero, Lui Passaglia. Lui wore #5 all through his career except at the beginning when he occasionally played QB.

  • @yourselfdotcom
    @yourselfdotcom 4 года назад +115

    Welcome to Hastings street......please watch for needles

    • @littleone3007
      @littleone3007 4 года назад +11

      john smith like my Aunt would always say...Vancouver is like a beautiful women with dirty underwear. I now know what she meant.

    • @yourselfdotcom
      @yourselfdotcom 4 года назад +2

      @@littleone3007 and there are alot of beautiful women with dirty underwear too. Some likely for sale.

    • @jmcassonetto
      @jmcassonetto 4 года назад +5

      Main & Hastings would be not so beautiful woman on meth & crack

    • @wan-lichuang9211
      @wan-lichuang9211 4 года назад

      lol west hastings st are full of junkers and Lunatics. Police are standing by anytime.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 3 года назад

      West Hasting Street. Not Hasting Street in Burnaby.

  • @HalfLifeAMD
    @HalfLifeAMD 4 года назад +40

    This film made me time sick..I wish I could go back to those days..

    • @VlogsbyZara
      @VlogsbyZara 4 года назад +1

      Yeah it was before my time but I felt the same...wish I could go back to that!!!!! Everything looks so beautiful...and there seems to be a genuine sense of community.

    • @HalfLifeAMD
      @HalfLifeAMD 4 года назад

      @Chelsea O yes agreed.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 3 года назад +1

      @Chelsea O Vancouver already had a sizable chinese population 20 years before the city officially named Vancouver from Granville in 1886. Hongcouver is a century later arrival in escape of Chinese Communism. Now the Communists arrived in millions laundering everybody's money including the many Hongcouver , oldtimer chinese since 1870 , you and me.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 3 года назад

      @Chelsea O Chinese from Hong Kong arrived in Vancouver 20 years before the official founding of The City of Vancouver in 1886 !

    • @SilverBullet93GT
      @SilverBullet93GT 3 года назад

      Great Scott!!... To the DeLorean!!!

  • @sortedtales
    @sortedtales 6 лет назад +185

    "Interfacings of land and sea, known as beaches" - Wow, was this narration written for Martians?

    • @forexdragon
      @forexdragon 4 года назад +1

      Haha

    • @mattfrankman
      @mattfrankman 4 года назад +6

      For Canadians

    • @khunopie9159
      @khunopie9159 4 года назад +5

      For mainland Chinese

    • @steveleslie2170
      @steveleslie2170 4 года назад +1

      @@mattfrankman You should change your "The Who" logo to "The Guess Who" when you comment on Canadian videos.

    • @greenbrain8725
      @greenbrain8725 4 года назад +2

      He was trying to be witty.

  • @fnub
    @fnub 2 года назад +4

    A time when there was hope and prosperity, unlike today in 2022 where there is no hope for a bright future. Thank you for sharing. Watching from Squamish BC ✌️🍻

  • @masterartist8288
    @masterartist8288 4 года назад +8

    So much better than it is now.

  • @rubenarellano3959
    @rubenarellano3959 4 года назад +10

    I was one year old in Vancouver when this came out. How awesome. So much nostalgia from my childhood.

  • @jason75
    @jason75 8 лет назад +91

    In my opinion, Vancouver has changed since the 70s. 70s where a differnt time, much peaceful, and the people where more friendly.

    • @LoganLavery
      @LoganLavery 7 лет назад +9

      Yeh., the way of most places....I'm from Richmond, but live overseas...come back each year.....it's completely different place now, Richmond and Vancouver.

    • @jason75
      @jason75 7 лет назад +1

      I'm also from Richmond. Where in Richmond are you. Im on garden city and francis

    • @LoganLavery
      @LoganLavery 7 лет назад +3

      I'm from 3 Rd between Francis and Blundell - I went to McRoberts Junior High, then Richmond High

    • @jason75
      @jason75 7 лет назад

      Your close by where I am

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +2

      Not quite though.The 70's has their problem too. The hippies and the outlaws.

  • @MrDaguard
    @MrDaguard 10 лет назад +42

    Ah yes, the Seafest, back when Vancouver was Fun City.

    • @travisyelland42
      @travisyelland42 4 года назад +4

      No fun city now

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +1

      They don't do it anymore?

    • @eazy_bread5587
      @eazy_bread5587 4 года назад

      To me it’s still a super fun city.. beauty is in the eye of the beholder 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @vancity2010gold
      @vancity2010gold 4 года назад

      I dont think that's the reason, our city just caters to anyone that complains about anything, usually events. It's sad

  • @shukkingwong2637
    @shukkingwong2637 4 года назад +12

    I love this vancouver more than 2019

    • @markwilkie7633
      @markwilkie7633 4 года назад +1

      Because today’s is filled with lgbt propaganda and liberalism

    • @davidmarshall718
      @davidmarshall718 4 года назад +4

      Back then it had a brighter and fresher attitude, outlook and culture. And almost no violence, crime or gangs.

    • @ericaespinosa4030
      @ericaespinosa4030 3 года назад

      @@markwilkie7633 No. Its because of spoiled, plastic, lazy brats who would rather be fake than real. In the 70's there were lots of gays and transexuals out and about. That's around the time they began to feel free to start being themselves even though it was hard for them still

    • @peatrude4872
      @peatrude4872 2 года назад

      you literally would’ve been hatecrimed during this period, judging by your username

    • @VinylToVideo
      @VinylToVideo Год назад

      @@peatrude4872 Oh, and you were there to see it were you? My grandpa was born in Vancouver in the 30s and once a year they took the trolley to Chinatown to have a pair of pants made. Really the actions of people prone to "hatecrimed" someone! 🙄

  • @monarch1957
    @monarch1957 9 лет назад +61

    It was affordable back then to go to but not now days.

    • @eazy_bread5587
      @eazy_bread5587 4 года назад

      monarch1957 just to go??? You must not live in North America

  • @maxpain917
    @maxpain917 3 года назад +3

    Thanks for letting me time travel.

  • @MissHellithRaiser
    @MissHellithRaiser 6 лет назад +5

    That was awesome, even the narrator was amazing!!

  • @jerryleroy9187
    @jerryleroy9187 4 года назад +6

    I gotta say, I really loved the old theatre sound with my headphones on. Brought me back to childhood.

  • @minnymm2719
    @minnymm2719 4 года назад +15

    Wow... I like this Vancouver more than now.

    • @andreassen6197
      @andreassen6197 4 года назад +1

      The video edited out all the major issues no duh you like this vancouver more; it's the idealized 60s Vancouver

    • @davidmarshall718
      @davidmarshall718 4 года назад

      @@andreassen6197 --only problems in the city back then were a lack of Native Rights, drugs/booze in a few enclaves, and a lack of Women's Rights but that was a problem all over the Western World and that problem was much WORSE (and still is) in the Middle East and South Asia and if you know of more problems, state them here.

  • @jacobwillow050
    @jacobwillow050 4 года назад +11

    I miss the steam locomotives and the sounds of the horns echoing throughout the lower mainland's valleys....
    I also miss the fewer cars on the roads highways and freeways...
    Most of all I miss the era without the computers and cellphones.

  • @MrGoldenwaffler
    @MrGoldenwaffler 8 лет назад +5

    love the moog synth sound and the peaceful nature of this film.

  • @NirvanaConcerts
    @NirvanaConcerts 4 года назад +73

    20:58
    "A city with it's own distinct identity and own sense of being."
    Not anymore.

    • @number-ft3fy
      @number-ft3fy 4 года назад +8

      it used to be a great city, expo 86 was the turning point

    • @CamAteUrKFC
      @CamAteUrKFC 4 года назад +6

      To be honest it is sad to see how wonderful it used to be. Vancouverites easily forget where they came from and what made Vancouver, almost ashamed of it. Now it just looks like any other big city.

    • @LambertTran
      @LambertTran 4 года назад +1

      @@CamAteUrKFC So what did make Vancouver such a great city? My parents immigrated to Vancouver during that decade and I was only born a decade later.

    • @CamAteUrKFC
      @CamAteUrKFC 4 года назад +8

      @@LambertTran it was a city of workers. Loggers, fisherman, and miners. Logging, which helped catapult Vancouver's economy in the earlier times, is a dirty word there now. Its lost it's spark and sold it's soul. It used to be a working mans city. Now It just feels like I'm visiting the states and leaving Canada when I have to go down there.

    • @NirvanaConcerts
      @NirvanaConcerts 4 года назад +6

      @@CamAteUrKFC Vancouver became a victim of it's own success. It's a city that's in a wonderful location, combine that with globalization and you get a place that everybody wants to live in. (Hence why it's so expensive now)
      It's kind of a shame, I remember it was a much nicer place back in the day.

  • @cheemsmuncher3366
    @cheemsmuncher3366 3 года назад +4

    Absolutely love this video!! Has a really fun vaporwave-y vibe, and the synths at the beginning are admittedly a little cheesy but still great!

  • @aquaman199
    @aquaman199 7 лет назад +2

    Cool video from the 70s.thanks for sharing

  • @glennadamsmusic
    @glennadamsmusic 4 года назад +2

    Having been born in Vancouver in the 60s and spending my teens there in the 70s this brings back many memories.

  • @stefspin3057
    @stefspin3057 4 года назад +3

    I dont think ive ever watched a more relaxing video on utube... love our city! Great upload👌

  • @personincognito3989
    @personincognito3989 3 года назад +3

    I miss the Vancouver from back then.

  • @CameronInVancouver
    @CameronInVancouver 4 года назад +42

    I was born 1980 in Vancouver and have lived here all my life, this city went from being amazing to amazingly pathetic. The people are rude, you cant afford a house unless you've got 2 million. Taxes are insanely high. Way to go Vancouver, you're a gold digger. Hate it here.

    • @philmeyer4425
      @philmeyer4425 4 года назад +6

      Cameron Ryan you don’t know how lucky you are man I’m from Germany and went there for 1 year for my exchange and it’s one of my Favorit city’s of the world okay there are a lot of drug addicts but beside this there is not a lot of bad things (in Germany you have to pay 50% taxes) and the people in other big city’s or, Germany are much more rude

    • @chilly_one
      @chilly_one 4 года назад +1

      Bye Felicia

    • @CameronInVancouver
      @CameronInVancouver 4 года назад +1

      @ptr bassi learn to spell then tell me I'm unsuccessful jackass

    • @CameronInVancouver
      @CameronInVancouver 4 года назад

      @bizkitgto expo happened

    • @it3897
      @it3897 4 года назад

      @phil meyer Did you even read his comment you nazi ?

  • @kottmeier
    @kottmeier 3 года назад +4

    Much more fun city than now.........I miss it!

  • @fastfootedone
    @fastfootedone 4 года назад +6

    We should have kept it quiet..........

  • @johanntergesen51
    @johanntergesen51 5 лет назад +3

    Love the nostalgic feel of this video... like it was originally released on vinyl or something.

  • @DaveJackson_ohmyprintsolutions
    @DaveJackson_ohmyprintsolutions 10 лет назад +72

    Lol at the quote at 15:32 : - "Then there is that sedentary and completely chauvinist past time of Girl Watching. Vancouver has appropriate areas set aside for this endeavor. Interfacings of land and sea known as beaches."

    • @BCHistory
      @BCHistory  10 лет назад +5

      The whole approach of the film I find humourously outdated. There are two other tourism ones you might want to see
      1960 Vancouver Honeymoon
      ruclips.net/video/5SYdpvk7B2U/видео.html
      1938 Victoria and Vancouver Gateways to Canada
      ruclips.net/video/ZKittvT2wdg/видео.html

    • @2011Mraym
      @2011Mraym 7 лет назад

      Dave Jackson

    • @markjoe1928
      @markjoe1928 7 лет назад +1

      i lol when he said that

    • @hilexcomputers
      @hilexcomputers 6 лет назад +10

      Interesting that one of the two blondes on the beach is my ex wife of 30 years.

    • @forexdragon
      @forexdragon 4 года назад +1

      Haha. The good ol 70s

  • @lunabelle9226
    @lunabelle9226 4 года назад +9

    Wow the place and year I was born! This is wonderful!
    I have 2 daughters that were born here and I saved the Vancouver Sun newspaper for them as a time capsule. I hope they like it when they see it!

    • @ElectricBikeReview
      @ElectricBikeReview 4 года назад +2

      That’s really sweet! It sounds like you’re a wonderful parent :)

    • @nickrooney1257
      @nickrooney1257 4 года назад

      Shut the fuck up

    • @lunabelle9226
      @lunabelle9226 4 года назад

      @@ElectricBikeReview Thanks! That means a lot!

    • @kylenordio6891
      @kylenordio6891 4 года назад

      Luna Belle What year is your edition of the Vancouver Sun from? My grandfather worked for the Sun during the 60’s as a City Hall Reporter and Journalist. George Peloquin was his name. If you had any editions from the 60’s that’d be fascinating to me!

    • @lunabelle9226
      @lunabelle9226 4 года назад

      @@kylenordio6891 Oh I'm sorry...I don't have anything that early. I would've loved to see those too!

  • @namelessfodder
    @namelessfodder 10 лет назад +3

    Awesome to see Vancouver 5 years before I was born

  • @weigefans
    @weigefans 3 года назад +1

    just watching it on Dec 2020, amazing !!!!

  • @S0NOSMANLl
    @S0NOSMANLl 4 года назад +25

    My dad got his house in West Van for $22K at 1970.

  • @DaTripper
    @DaTripper 10 месяцев назад +2

    and now it's completely sold

  • @bweebi
    @bweebi 4 года назад +8

    as a young person born in van, i can see why so many people are reminiscing about van’s good old days, and yet i still think it’s a beautiful, great city despite the shitty housing crisis.
    it’s still seems largely the same, and you can still do all the cool shit this video shows off. false creek and Granville island are beautiful areas of the city, and there’s a lot of job/education opportunities. overall i’d still argue it’s still the same fantastic city it was back then

  • @ianrobbins
    @ianrobbins 7 лет назад +2

    Ralph Dyck was a brilliant musician and inventor who lived in Vancouver, but did groundbreaking product development for the Roland Corp. I met him in 1978; he sold me a Roland SH-5 he wasn't using; picked it up at his apartment in Kitsilano. Nice guy, too.

    • @synth4ever
      @synth4ever 4 года назад

      Do you still have your SH-5?

  • @johnspooner1403
    @johnspooner1403 4 года назад +1

    Wow. 17 years old. Saw Queen at the Pacific Coliseum that year in December.

  • @puppycat65481
    @puppycat65481 4 года назад +21

    Back when Vancouver was Vancouver. There was actually open spaces. I was 18 then.

  • @user-ru6ln9er4g
    @user-ru6ln9er4g 10 месяцев назад +1

    man, I loved the '70s. moved to metro van in '79 and things had already changed quite a bit since '76. It was busy preparing itself for the Eighties!

  • @appl6047
    @appl6047 4 года назад +1

    Feels good to live in Vancouver

  • @veetour
    @veetour 4 года назад +15

    It must have been hard to live back then when everything was in Standard Definition and the colors were faded.

    • @jmcassonetto
      @jmcassonetto 4 года назад +1

      vee tour - imagine watching B&W with aspect ratio 4:3

    • @Big_Garf
      @Big_Garf 4 года назад +1

      @Top Pay Position ok boomer

    • @urgyenshelling2436
      @urgyenshelling2436 4 года назад

      Top Pay Position
      Racist boomer

    • @SilverBullet93GT
      @SilverBullet93GT 3 года назад

      reality was 8K though :)

  • @IanForsythWestCoast
    @IanForsythWestCoast 4 года назад +25

    This is pretty awesome. Such a relaxed pace, the opposite of modern hype. The City still feels very familiar even though it’s 43 years old, and there have been a few changes. But so much of this I remember, having graduated in 1973, at UBC in 1975, this is when we went to the beach a lot, I started skiing, went often to Queen Elizabeth Park, Stanley Park, and those things haven’t really changed. Loved the clothes, and the narrator rocks, he’s so calm, but got a little thrilled when he got to talk about that famous Vancouver past time, girl watching.
    And of course looking down at the comments, typical for anything that shows old Vancouver. Blah blah blah, was great then, shithole now.....so expensive....so crowded.....so (scratch the veneer slightly) Asian. I really get tired of it....a city is a living thing, it grows, changes, some things better, some not, irrelevant because it is what it is, and haters will hate.

    • @vavilon7109
      @vavilon7109 4 года назад +2

      Thanks Ian! I'm surprised by the amount of hate in the comments.

    • @darrenporter1850
      @darrenporter1850 4 года назад +10

      I have to disagree with you. I don't think people make negative comments because they are 'haters'. I moved here as an immigrant and used to love the city. Now? The most rude people ever met, as in, incapable of any kind of conversation, it is going to force me away from a City I really love. Add to this the prices, which are out of control downtown and the massive issue (and growing) with homeless and druggies, I think the comments are fair. I think if the average (800sft Apartment) is over 1 million dollars then people are correct to expect slightly more from the city.

    • @GasPipeJimmy
      @GasPipeJimmy 2 года назад

      Maybe we just hate what people like you did to the place?

  • @user-jr3bb6qr3y
    @user-jr3bb6qr3y 4 года назад +2

    wow, so wonderful 70s and 80s, not like today.

  • @Koops2245
    @Koops2245 3 года назад +1

    _Did you know??_
    There are at least 3 versions of this video on the Vancouver archives site, one for the years:
    76’, ‘85, and ‘94.
    ‘85 adds an Expo ‘86 promo.
    ‘94 adds an anniversary montage.

  • @Modernjazz1
    @Modernjazz1 10 лет назад +4

    @10:26- waving at the crowd from the car, Art Phillips, Mayor of Vancouver, 1972 - 1977

  • @lnsaneMagnum
    @lnsaneMagnum Год назад +6

    Look what they took from us 😔

  • @pacevedo9
    @pacevedo9 4 года назад +9

    Gotta love how they sht their knees skiing back then

  • @Maxislithium
    @Maxislithium Год назад +2

    That sure was some 70's.

  • @michaelkennedy4444
    @michaelkennedy4444 7 лет назад +31

    I was a young man in 1976. Vancouver was kind of a sleepy peaceful place back then and not as cosmopolitan as it is now, but with that comes ethnic issues, traffic congestion and over crowding along with outrageous housing costs.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +7

      Ethnic issues wasn't the issues in the old days because racial discrimination is a politically unacceptable phrase by the dominate white.

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +1

      Ethnic issues? They were actually worse in the past.

    • @julies570
      @julies570 4 года назад +7

      @Raza Khan you are full of crap and don't have a clue! What nastiness! I few up in Vancouver and we welcomed people from other parts of the world. But negative types like you sound very racist against Canadians who were born here! Please be most welcome to leave...it will be better without you here!

    • @julies570
      @julies570 4 года назад +7

      .and to label Europeans as stealing land...do u think a native person in Canada would love to go back to life without metal tools rifles and now electricity etc? No I assure you !
      But you want to spread hate and no one in this country wants that...but your type!

    • @andreassen6197
      @andreassen6197 4 года назад

      @@julies570 I bet I would love toknow what my culture but i guess that was the cost of being able to live through the 6th great extinction:((

  • @joe-bang8501
    @joe-bang8501 4 года назад

    Ski in the morning, sail in the afternoon and play a round of golf before it gets dark...I agree with Basil, sounds exhausting

  • @kolbeycam1328
    @kolbeycam1328 4 года назад +1

    I love Vancouver

  • @rickydargence5948
    @rickydargence5948 4 года назад +1

    The music makes me feel like I'm in a visual novel for the PC Engine.

  • @scottw550
    @scottw550 4 года назад +5

    I flew hang-gliders from 1976-2006 in Vancouver, Fraser Valley, the US and Brazil.

    • @jacobwillow050
      @jacobwillow050 4 года назад +1

      ..and you're still alive?

    • @surreygeorge11
      @surreygeorge11 3 года назад +1

      I was a fixed wing instructor when I was young. Thanks to air cadets for all the training. Always wanted to try hang glider but never had the opp'y

  • @pancakezy4169
    @pancakezy4169 4 года назад +1

    Damn those cinematic vibes tho

  • @uioned
    @uioned 2 года назад +1

    Bring back this Vancouver I mis it. Don't recognize the city I was born and raised in anymore.😐

  • @canada2kids684
    @canada2kids684 4 года назад +1

    Vancouver still nice. I love it here. Why is not a single rain drop on the video? And who ever is not happy of vanocuver now a days. You can go .. no one is stopping you. Plus this video is showing just the good .. residential school? .. vancouver is beautiful! Now! Who cares how was in 1970 that time is gone . lol..so love the city or leave..

  • @WikiMartino
    @WikiMartino 6 месяцев назад

    Very interesting film. I couldn't help noticing that almost NONE of the events and festivals shown in this film exist today. (Abby Air Show being the exception). Gone are the Sea Festival, Folk Festival and so many others.

  • @DavidWing
    @DavidWing 3 года назад +1

    Oh man...the Ho Inn in Chinatown...brings back memories

  • @seansteede
    @seansteede Год назад +1

    Watchers must remember how ignorant the world around us was at the time. For example, when I visited Chicago in 1979 obsoletely nobody I met knew Vancouver existed or where it might be. After the summer down there living with relatives and working as a golf caddy at the Barrington Hills Country Club (Caddyshack is in fact a documentary about my experience there!!!) and returning to Vancouver, it was only then how I realized how special our city was and is to this day - I knew then that the world would be coming to our doorstep soon enough.

  • @gregdavis7047
    @gregdavis7047 4 года назад

    Does anyone know where the auto racing shown in the film was held, this was before the Molson Indy in the city.

  • @thim0
    @thim0 4 года назад +9

    15:30 the chauvinist past time of girl-watching. Damn don't try that in 2020.

  • @LaneHadway127
    @LaneHadway127 2 года назад +2

    The good old days when we had freedom and prosperity.

  • @baldwinslab
    @baldwinslab 4 года назад +21

    So Canada used to be a real country! Shocking compared to the mess it is now!

    • @UserName-tv1sy
      @UserName-tv1sy 4 года назад +1

      baldwinslab I know it’s so terrible to have to carry water to my clay house while trying not to die because of cartel or isis or fucking lions

    • @rileylyons1374
      @rileylyons1374 4 года назад +4

      Ok boomer

    • @maxwellcharlton8871
      @maxwellcharlton8871 4 года назад

      Do you like feeling triggered on events that don't happen?

    • @SilverBullet93GT
      @SilverBullet93GT 3 года назад

      hey, just wait for 2021 :)

  • @tianshugu9283
    @tianshugu9283 4 года назад +7

    Looks nice. Is there a way that I can go back to 1976?

  • @joericci4094
    @joericci4094 4 года назад +10

    Before the INV'ASIAN'

    • @ketandeswal4336
      @ketandeswal4336 4 года назад

      Joe Ricci At least Asian people are better than these racist white people.

    • @joericci4094
      @joericci4094 3 года назад +4

      @@ketandeswal4336 Bullsh*t, I've been to Taiwan and Hong Kong, And believe me, Asians can"t stand White people!

  • @JulieDelahooke
    @JulieDelahooke 5 лет назад +3

    I wish I could’ve seen it at this time...

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +2

      @XBOXRULES Are you being sarcastic? What would be good about no seat belts and drinking and driving? Also, there weren't doctor house calls in the 70s.

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +2

      @XBOXRULES Oh, you mean Canada? Sorry, buster. Canada wasn't 1850s Little House on the Prairie in the 70s. You want to start talking Canada? Psh. You're probably an American that moved last year or something. Some fool that ran away, instead of dealing with Donny Trump.

  • @jason75
    @jason75 8 лет назад +8

    I was born in Calgary in 1969, moved to Vancouver in 1970 been here for 45 years

  • @misterfunnybones
    @misterfunnybones 5 месяцев назад

    Yes, back then you could ski, sail, & golf in one day, but now the traffic...OMG. There's a large SUV comparison contest at every school between 0815-0915 & 1430-1530 every weekday.

  • @jieda5308
    @jieda5308 4 года назад +4

    I moved Vancouver 3 years ago, trying to be part of this beautiful city.

    • @Mushymushroom129
      @Mushymushroom129 4 года назад

      Jie Da where is the beauty maybe I’m not looking in the right place cause this city sucks and I hate everyone here

    • @eazy_bread5587
      @eazy_bread5587 4 года назад +2

      Hollie Lynn then please leave ?

    • @eazy_bread5587
      @eazy_bread5587 4 года назад +2

      Jie Da it is a gorgeous city !

    • @gurp1997
      @gurp1997 4 года назад +4

      @@Mushymushroom129 then fuck off

    • @maxwu4145
      @maxwu4145 4 года назад +1

      @@Mushymushroom129 go to usa than buh bye

  • @babybunnies
    @babybunnies 7 лет назад +2

    I was born in Vancouver in the mid 70's. Is there anyone here who lived in Vancouver as a adult when this video was created?
    Does anyone remember a wax/horror museum in Gastown in the 70's or 80's?
    I guess the lumberman jack and tree sawing attraction went downhill after the Claycote Sound protest for tree conservation in the 80's and 90's and McMillan Blodel was bought out. Now forestry has gone down greatly since this video. The fight for conservation has been won.
    1)What happened to the elevator building (there is that yellow elevator) that is seemingly to be located on Burrard Street, beside the Bentall Centres?
    2) The hotel with the outdoor pool looks like it was the old Westin Bayshore Hotel by Stanley park ?
    3) Why did Vancouver get rid of the double decker buses? A major tour company operation until the 2010 Winter Olympics. "Ride A Boye the Traffic" has never been seen in Vancouver. What happened to the company?
    4) Handgliding were never major sports in all my years as a child. What happened to these attractions?
    5) Where was the water fountain with the flags located? I see the Hotel Vancouver in the background.
    6) We had car racing after Expo 86 in Vancouver on the Expo site, but where did the car racing happen in Vancouver in the 70s?
    7) The parade with the yellow double decker bus is going down Beach Avenue it seems?
    8) What happened to the trampoline and kite surfing, boat race sport in English Bay or Spanish Bank area?

    • @williamwinslowhansen
      @williamwinslowhansen 7 лет назад +1

      BB the wax museum was the 70s and it was pretty scary as they had actors mixed in with the wax figures .

    • @williamwinslowhansen
      @williamwinslowhansen 7 лет назад

      BB car racing was on the Westwood track in coquitlam. yes that is the Bayshore hotel . I believe howard Hughes stayed there

  • @EskimoCanadian44
    @EskimoCanadian44 2 года назад

    The soundtrack may be a little corny to listen to now, but I really enjoy the sounds they seem to capture the essence of what this city used to be. Key phrase: used to.

  • @22LIMX
    @22LIMX 5 лет назад +7

    these were the days where you could go out on the town and be safe as well as not spending a lot of money i had a lot of great friends which made it even better

    • @eazy_bread5587
      @eazy_bread5587 4 года назад +1

      22LIMX I walk the streets of Vancouver all night long and still feel safe

  • @net81j
    @net81j 4 года назад +1

    2:42 "Just being here is a Celebration."

  • @durf2753
    @durf2753 5 лет назад +9

    The problem is It just grew a lot from 1976. Now, it's more dense with a lot more high rises. People are not as friendly as it used to be.

  • @oldandeerie
    @oldandeerie 4 года назад +1

    Now the cost of an apartment just doesn't make sense. I left to expensive to care. I now live in the country and love it.

  • @US-Warrior
    @US-Warrior 4 года назад +1

    My home since 85. Originally from Edmonton

  • @RaeZoladawn777
    @RaeZoladawn777 3 года назад

    the sea was as natural an element as dry land for many Vancouverites that's how I grew up here I was like part of the Ocean

  • @-valkyrie-00
    @-valkyrie-00 4 года назад +6

    "The synthesizer music used is cheezy!" ... TO WHO?!

  • @uioned
    @uioned 4 года назад +18

    Been here all my life born and raised. These were the days when people were happy and smiling and happy, you actually got good happy customer service, drivers were curteous rush hour was short etc. After Expo86 starting 2-3years after it started growing more know it's a big crowded cold mess. Angry poeple on the roads nobody is smiling anymore. Mis the old friendly happy uncrowded Vancouver, don't recognize this place anymore.😦😦

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +7

      Lots of angry SJWs in Vancouver. All you have to do is breathe and someone will protest it, tell you you're a sexist capitalistic bigot.

    • @MagicRoosterBluesBand
      @MagicRoosterBluesBand 4 года назад +2

      Amen.

    • @lionelhutz5137
      @lionelhutz5137 4 года назад +5

      Don't forget the neurotic feminists, try opening a door or saying hi to one and you'll be met with a scolding "I don't need your help or charity"

    • @uioned
      @uioned 4 года назад +3

      @@lionelhutz5137 Ya your right about that.

    • @chocomanger6873
      @chocomanger6873 4 года назад +5

      @@lionelhutz5137 I'm such a rebel that I hold doors for people anyway. Vancouver is full of neurotics. It's kind of sad. I wonder if it's due to it raining for half the year.

  • @pescitheman
    @pescitheman 7 лет назад +41

    Back then it was a clean and comfortable place to live. Unlike today, the city is expensive, neighourhoods showing signs of blight, segregated ethnic communities and unapproachable people. The Canadian Charter - introduced by Trudeau - significantly changed the social climate of Canada giving a far too much libertarian idealism in immigration and a 'backseat' approach of recognizing our established Canadian culture.

    • @svobodnik
      @svobodnik 5 лет назад +7

      You are right. All of the Western democracies are being flooded with immigrants.

    • @carlosa9298
      @carlosa9298 5 лет назад +6

      svobodnik Now you now what the First Nations peoples felt when Europeans started taking over this Great land...the cycle of life...

    • @lionelhutz5137
      @lionelhutz5137 4 года назад +1

      And junior is doing a good job of continuing that travesty

    • @maxwellcharlton8871
      @maxwellcharlton8871 4 года назад

      Have you checked Canada's population growth and where it comes from? Without immigrants we would be shrinking on population

    • @soyouthinkyouaresmart754
      @soyouthinkyouaresmart754 4 года назад

      @@carlosa9298 -----I wonder what the First Nations Peoples think now-a-days about the REST of the world NOW taking over their Great Land, maybe you should ask THEM..........

  • @catherine7837
    @catherine7837 4 года назад +4

    The good old days, back when Vancouver was peaceful and everyone was friends and smiling, east Hastings was just another street, things have changed for the worst. Rip the golden Vancouver.

  • @williamm9238
    @williamm9238 4 года назад +1

    Why is this video getting traction now after so long

  • @NasMah
    @NasMah 2 года назад +2

    Can someone tell em what happend to the water races, yearly festivals in gas town, immigration festivals yearly celebration, Stanly park flamingos, the Aquarium, the airshows, the grand prix, etc. Where did all the fun go???

    • @chrissmith1521
      @chrissmith1521 8 дней назад

      Sea fest and the bathtub race was cancelled due to the drunken shenanigans complaints. The immigration festival was no longer funded by the Govt. The Stanley Park flamingos were killed in 1992 with a broom handle by some hooligans who broke into the pen one night. One was caught and got 8 months in prison. Skanna the killer whale at the aquarium died of boredom. Vancouver earned it's no fun label.

  • @Adevine369
    @Adevine369 7 месяцев назад

    Wow seems like a great time to be alive and living in Vancouver .. after the 80s it changed … it’s not the same anymore it’s so sad

  • @jason75
    @jason75 8 лет назад +23

    True Canadian pride back then. Real Canadians, unlike today.

    • @BCHistory
      @BCHistory  8 лет назад +9

      I am not sure what you mean by that - in 1976 it was very rare to see a Canadian flag and Dominion Day, as it was known at the time, was a much, much smaller affair. It seems to me there is a lot more Canadian pride in 2016 than in 1976

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +1

      It was in those days because Canada especially British Columbia was very much dominated by the British in culture and social life.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +1

      I think so too.But the one should be proud of is the native aboriginal who arrived in BC before the mass intrusion of the white Anglo Saxon who call themselves 'proud' Canadian.

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 7 лет назад +2

      Real Canadians are aboriginal people.These people in the film are intruders also.

    • @theguy6082
      @theguy6082 6 лет назад +4

      jason75 Bullshit. If you're just saying that cuz of all the Asian people living here then you are a moron. I know many Asian people who are proud to be Canadian and would never choose to live anywhere else.
      My ethnicity may be Asian but I grew up here, and have Canadian citizenship. This is my home and for that, I am a proud Canadian.

  • @fortyseventen
    @fortyseventen 4 года назад +5

    Those were the days!

    • @surreygeorge11
      @surreygeorge11 3 года назад +1

      And you knew who you were then
      Girls were girls and men were men

  • @LoganLavery
    @LoganLavery 8 дней назад

    The 70s were good here. There are some places that look familiar today, but a totally different ‘vibe’

  • @aftermathstudioproductions2230
    @aftermathstudioproductions2230 4 года назад

    Jazz fairy flute, and a 727 jumping around like a honeymoon bed. Yeah!