This is even better than the original below: a slower version, labelled, with freeze frames intercut with contemporary shots from 2011 – and a radio soundtrack from CKLG and CFUN, with an extraordinarily familiar newscast from ‘NW, c. ’75. And of course the VW Beetle count.
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Awesome, but it might be CFUN…
I’m not sure what year the radio clip is from, but there’s an interesting bit 4:59 when the news comes and they mention former NDP MLA Norm Levi arguing against the removal of rent control.
…which would place the radio broadcast sometime after December ’75 Finance Minister Donald Macdonald, so before Sept 77. Revelstoke Dam.. audio is as much a time capsule as the video (thankfully slowed down, earlier clip was too fast to pick out much imo.
Interesting to see the proud sign on one of the North Van piers: “Asbestos Wharf”.
I’d forgotten the vertiginous squeeze of riding the Lions Gate Bridge sidewalk back in the day.
Much easier on the eyes…thanks!
That’s the first time I’ve seen the old flea market building at the bottom of Lonsdale in a long time. That whole neighbourhood looks completely desolate. But what surprised me most was even in East Van, where much of the area’s housing stocks remains, the streets look barren due to the lack of trees. It’s amazing how much of my mental image of the city is of trees, and how seeing the city without those trees is completely jarring.
It’s interesting how the 1974 film shows how drastically different some areas were, yet the 2011 images seem to draw out how much has stayed the same.