Immigrated to Canada in 1956 and settled in Edmonton. It was a great time growing up as a kid in Edmonton. Thank you God Bless You

@lorimiller4301

4 жыл бұрын

It truly was ☺

Always wished I could go back to the 50's.

@rohullahahmadi9114

4 жыл бұрын

You need a time machine

@Hanger18inotoomuch

3 жыл бұрын

If the elite would tell us how we could

I was 6 in 1955, now I'm 72, man has the city changed

i was born in 1955, wow spot on!

@TheSteveRobinson

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! U of A Hospital.

So sad they tore down all those old buildings downtown. It's a sterile concrete jungle now. Downtown was great when I was a kid.

Amazing throwback video series you have of Edmonton! Thanks for taking the time to upload and share these! Incredible!

Thanks!

Wow that area has changed. Even though i was born in the early 80s i absolutely love them cars. Classy and stylish. Lmao both my parents didnt even exist at this point in time

Thank you for posting this!! Enjoyed it very much.

Another fantastic job. Great footage from the era. Keep up the good work.

I love that the house from 0:38 is still standing and largely unchanged on 102nd Ave. I love driving past it every day.

@lorimiller4301

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, very recognizable!

@christiandonovan23

3 жыл бұрын

Where on 102 Ave?

@StopDropandLOL

3 жыл бұрын

@@christiandonovan23 It’s unfortunately not there anymore. It got knocked down in 2017 by our city Architect and he built a giant house with a giant blank white wall facing 102 ave. You can’t miss it, just west of the bridge.

@k364k364

3 жыл бұрын

@@christiandonovan23 NW corner 130st and 102ave. Google Street View will show it if you select previous years photos

@bunnymon633

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and the top part changed from green to a reddish brown color

Cool video, thank you!

This is so cool! Love the music and love the cars! Great post!

Where in gods name are the trees along the river valley!!!!!!

More than a blast from the past , I wasn't even born yet !

Wow. Thank you.

Awesome stuff! I can almost hear Hizzoner Mayor Hawrelak at that podium on opening day!

Christmas Nativity scene in City Hall fountain basin. Some live critters

Retro beautiful

Jasper Ave was 8 lanes wide, 3 in each direction, plus parking. The city has completely screwed that up the last few years with it's Vision Zero NONSENSE

Houses of the type shown at around the 40-second mark are the kind that Eyesore Iveson is tearing down and replacing with ugly Iron Curtain boxes.

@bunnymon633

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that green one at 0:41 got torn down and in its place is a grey cube with a massive, blank white wall

@darrellinyvr, Edmonton never had trees in the river valley, nor did places like Banff. Alberta is a prairie province for the reason that we remained prairies. Natural prairie grass fires prevented significant trees from growing on the plains. The City of Edmonton maintained the natural look of the city by cutting grass and clearing the valley. It was only since the middle of Bill Smith's time as mayor that the city decided it was too costly to maintain the look. We have inadvertently caused invasive species to enter our ecosystem by allowing the forests to grow, and the native species have been forced to move out of the city. I still remember as late as 1992 when I was a kid, the Connors/James Mac/Scona interchange & McDougall Hill was tree-less. You'll also notice all the Laurence Decore lookout points blocked by trees now. I find it quite alarming that when someone cuts a tree in the river valley, they are fined for ruining natural habitat when the tree was never supposed to be there to begin with. Same with environmentalists fighting logging in Alberta when removing the trees is in fact restoring the natural habitat. As I mentioned, if you look at archive photos of Banff National Park, the mountains were also void of trees until after it became a national park and was protected. We have forced animals like the grizzly bear our of their natural prairie grass habitat into the wooded forests of the mountains. It's really alarming how in several generations, what we see as 'natural' is actually a result of human presence. I would love to see Edmonton restored to its prairie-like setting, but even in one generation, it is so easily forgotten as to what is natural versus what is valued as natural through the eyes of man.

@darrellinyvr

9 жыл бұрын

Lincoln Ho | YEGventures.ca I was born in Edmonton in 1962 and it had trees in the river valley when I was a kid those along the slopes of Victoria Park Hiil did not just "appear" during Bill Smiths time as mayor perhaps the grasses increased but those trees were planted either in the later 50's or the very early 60's.....

@judgegixxer

6 жыл бұрын

1. There are old growth stands of spruce all over banff. 2. So they planted white spruce and and jackpine outside city limits along the river past fort saskatchewan, Vinca bridge and along victoria trail? The river valley white spruce where i grew up (east of redwater) had 120 growth rings in the early 80's putting those trees germinating in the 1860's. That's 90 years before this video.

@mkp1214

5 жыл бұрын

That is completely wrong. There's still trees in the valley that are older than canada, we cut a lot of them down to built buildings and etc. And they have naturally regrown

@jasons2562

5 жыл бұрын

www.edmontonrivervalley.org/big-island-woodbend-2/

@billdang3953

2 жыл бұрын

Also, don't forget the lack of rainfall and snow accumulation is the main reason for the lack of trees and bushes in the Prairies. This is mostly due to the rain shadow effect caused by the mountains to the west.

Sharp looking back then. What happened?

@pukalo

5 жыл бұрын

The degenerate leftist baby boomers of the 1960s happened.

What a great time , when men were men and sheep were nervous.

At 1:55, it ends at today.

God, cars have gotten ugly! Those classic cars have an unmatched look… beautiful!

Always strikes me in historical pictures of the river valley how they didn't leave a single GD tree standing. So ugly!

I was 4 years old in 1955 . the only thing I remember about 1955 is my adult cousin committing numerous sex acts on me and getting away with it Why did he get away with it ??? ..because he was the pillar of the community, a man of God .. when in fact he was a sick pervert.

They took this from you.

That's William Hawrelak. Evil!!!

who cares about deadmonton

@EdmontonRails

3 жыл бұрын

In 2021 it's dead, but decades ago it was great. The future was 40 years ago.

@billdang3953

2 жыл бұрын

@@EdmontonRails You got that right, Edmonton along with the rest of Alberta is heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry for its prosperity, oil and gas is down for the count and is likely to never come back given the move away from fossil fuel and how it has become politically incorrect.