It's amazing seeing much of the stuff that's still relatively intact after 30 years. 😲

@goldenhourkodak

Жыл бұрын

You'd hope a building or a bridge would last at least 30 years. The real shame is the lack of improvement over our poor infrastructure and urban design.

@agems56

Ай бұрын

Except the major Main Water Pipe north of 16th Avenue North of Shouldice Park at the Bowness Safeway parking lot to expire and leak in June 2024 which was installed in 1975 with 5 more trouble spots to be repaired leaving Calgary in a precarious water shortage situation, with the 6 foot plus diameter main pipe lasting one year short of 50 years of dependable service!

I just want to take a moment to thank the cameraman for spending all his money on the video camera, which seems to be a very high quality unit, rather than spending it on the very noisy rattling and squeaking Volvo they are in. But all jokes aside, thanks for the ride down memory lane. I met my future wife in the same year. I really do miss Calgary being more simplistic. At least I was able to hug the tower before they built all those buildings around the base of it.

@ReelLifeCanada

Жыл бұрын

Kevin, thank you for the kind words. Yes, my Volvo wagon was squeaky and rattled, but it served me well, my camera, now long forgotten did it's job. I'm delighted to you enjoy the footage. I have plenty more raw footage of Calgary waiting to be digitized and uploaded. Calgary continues to evolve and grow, one day, the Calgary Tower will likely be hemmed in with views reduced to looking at office and condo towers. Enjoy the memories.

This is just incredible

I first started coming to Calgary in 94, before I finally escaped Edmonton, and landed in 95, been here ever since. Great place to live. Friendly people. Multicultural.

The family came to Alberta in 1906 and mostly resided in Calgary, I left for the Okanagan in 1980 and I have often thought what it would be like to be in Calgary hell, had I not left!

@agems56

Ай бұрын

Calgary's hell started after the 1988 Winter Olympics when the flood gates opened up and detrimental population explosion happened with cookie cutter box house districts popped up all over the place, and character designed houses and bungalows disappeared! I witnessed all of this, being born here and raised for over 65 years! The golden sixties were the best with 250000 people, and today were at a bursting 1.7 Million with infrastructure lagging behind, especially with road capacity and public transit woefully inadequate!

From 1982 until 1999 i was a bike courier in Calgary brings back many memories from that time.

I remember that boarded up office building. When the city went into recession in the early eighties, the builder just walked away with it only partly built. It sat that way for years. There were also cases where the hole was dug, and then the builders walked away. There was one one Eighth ave mall that was left like that for ages. I worked in two of the buildings you showed downtown, one no longer there, other one different owner.

At 10:45 you see the words "El Salvador Vencera!" which means "El Salvador Will Win!". This is likely referencing the El Salvadoran civil war from 1979-1992. This stood out to me because my parents in 1990 were in El Salvador, and they actually moved here to Calgary in 1991 fearing that we would not get a good chance at life over there. I was born a month after we landed.

@rosita061

9 ай бұрын

We came in 1985, and these streets have also been my home, but that moment in the video also was meaningful to me. Filmed two years before the war ended. That feels deep.

@rw3256

5 ай бұрын

​@@rosita061I'm glad we are safe and sound

Thank you so much for sharing it! It's like a drive through my childhood. I appreciate the explanations too.

13:00, you can still see the sign of the old VIA station in the basement of the Calgary Tower.

Wow, I was born in 1991, got my driver's licence at 14, and have been driving for almost 16 years and I know this city so well my wife calls me a human GPS 😂. It's amazing how the roads are exactly the same as they were 30 years ago. Only things that have changed are the buildings. I should drive this same route.

Thanks for posting... completely forgot the Robin Hood mill.

Thank you for the trip down memory lane!!

Im only now just discovering these. Curious, where is all this footage coming from?? Its hard to imagine someone with a big camera filming randomly. Thanks! Absolutely loving these😁✌️

As the video goes past Shouldice Park, the day I type this (June 10 / 2024), a massive water main break occurred flooding the park and causing 1 million residents to conserve water. Hopefully the problem will be resolved before Stampede time (just like the 2013 Flood).

What a great year 1990 summer of that year is the year we moved to ontario from Fort McMurray Alberta good video and good times watch were you go... and remember where you've been

Wow, no traffic the good old days

Love this!

Wow, what a blast from the past

Cool thanks for sharing

Calgary of the 90s looked better than the present. Makes me sad.

I remember that trailer park beside 16th and the BOW River. Friend's family had a house just past there, along the river, with a little over an acre of land. Hard to watch with the camera movement.

Yes, The Old Spaghetti Factory...railcar inside...great eating.

Makes you wonder how amazing it will be to dive back in time to lets say 2021 from 2081 and view it all in 4k video, with walking, driving, drone footage, thats if we make it as a humanity that is and not nuke ourselves by then.

So jealous of essentially no traffic. I work downtown and all those roads are the same but there are many times more cars.

That KFC near home road is still there lol

Awesome video. Do you have something similar for Edmonton please?

@agems56

Ай бұрын

Why? The best thing coming out of Edmonton is the highway! Lol!

Hasn't changed a bit

wow that kfc in bowness was there 31 years ago? lmao its still there

@agems56

Ай бұрын

And two pieces of chicken today for the price of that bucket full back then!