A drive through Vancouver in 1950

Born in Vancouver in 1947. Can remember the excitement when the trolleys were replaced by "rubber". A big mistake!

Back in the early 50's it was a privilege for me when I was 6 or 7 to go on a shopping trip to Vancouver with my mother. We lived in South Burnaby and we'd catch the interurban tram to the depot at Carrall and Hastings. No problem for a woman to walk along Hastings Street with her little boy to go shopping at Woodwards and Spencers.

The era before zombies and excuses. Probably a lot of men with PTSD from the war but they sucked it up as best they could. I guess they really were “The Greatest Generation.”

Iam in my 35th year as a transit operator and watching this makes me smile, times were different then and people payed the fare!

Seems far nicer than today actually.

Those cream coloured electric buses were built well. They were still in use in the early 1980s when I was a uni student. Never realised how old they were.

Love the way folks just saunter across the street. And what traffic there is, just cruising by nice and slow. Folks come out on the road to get picked up, and the driver just stops for them. Would be madness to try this today.

West on Hastings, before it totally became the Downtown Eastside. I remember shopping there as a kid.

Did you notice everyone was working.

I was born in the 70's and I remember the old buse not the trolleys but the grey Wrigley colored buses and my dad would wait at the bus stops with me and when the bus came to our stop he'd helpe on to the bus and he givee my dime and I'd put it in the coin shute and the bus driver would give me a transfer and we'd go and sit down in our seats and the seats were dark green I'll never forget that that memory will stick with me for the rest of my life!!! I guess after awhile the city. Started paving over the old rails in the streets to cover over the old stuff to make way for new stuff to be built or made in order to make Vancouver what it is trying to be today !!!!! THANKYOU for bringing them to see from what they looked like then till what they look like now it's so incredibly amazing THANKYOU!!!!!🍁🇨🇦🍁💔👍🌹

What is truly amazing is how many of the buildings in this are still standing, still occupied and by the same business.

Wow, this looks like a city I would actually want to live in, unlike Vancouver today, especially Hastings. That place is the Walking Dead in real life.

No jaywalker was harmed in the making of this video.

Was born there in 1949. Everything seems so much more civilized back then when compared to the city today.

Wow!! Excellent video. Vancouver had a great tram system in its day. Thanks for sharing.

All the people out going about their business on east Hastings, uncivil behaviour wasn’t tolerated, what a contrast to today.

How did people back then survive without a safe supply of meth and crack?

Some of the captions aren't accurate. A lot of the "Going South on Granville" section is actually Broadway.

That's amazing footage!!

The city has the same bones, but much more new, one of the most beautiful city's in the world.