This is the Vancouver I miss the most life was so simple back then.

@poodtang2104

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@brennansawyer391

27 күн бұрын

I was touched in the summer of 92😭

I had a great run living in Vancouver from '94 to '21. Enjoyed it immensely and I wish that city only the best. Nowadays I'm happily back home in Halifax.

Yes , Robson was much more lively and vibrant back in the 90s to early 2000s. I remember there were street artists that did drawings/pencil portraits of tourists for a few bucks. Gave the street more atmosphere.

Seeing the old bus. Remember those tear off transfers? lol.

Nostalgic....Back in the late '90s I lived on Broughton right of of Robson....GOOD MEMORIES!!!

Used to be a number of bookstores along Robson Street but now they are all gone !

@poodtang2104

2 жыл бұрын

Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

I loved to go shopping on robson in the 90s

I miss eating at Fresco's on Davie late at night...hammered! Lol!

@ogopogo1397

2 жыл бұрын

2 peice fried chicken meal was 5.45 I think and a staple for me

Looked pretty safe back in the day.

@poodtang2104

2 жыл бұрын

That was before most of the gang bangers from the suburbs showed up.

@stefincanada

2 жыл бұрын

I was never worried

@ogopogo1397

2 жыл бұрын

Was, completely. Even Gastown and pigeon park were completely different. Stetchy yes but nothing like what it is now

When I was 14 years old in Vancouver!!! Downtown in gas town district it was completely safe to wander around for kids. That was in the mid 1970’s. Now with league drugs it’s a hellacious place

I remember the Pastels corner. Wow its different. Vancouver was fun back then. It became worse and worse until all the character was just gone.

@poodtang2104

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

@automatic5579

2 жыл бұрын

La Brocca was opposite Pastels,and two Starbucks.

@peterk3227

2 ай бұрын

A result of the smothering affects from woke-ism and the invasion of immigrants forced upon the citizens of this once quiet Canadian paradise .

`Its unbelievable how badly this country is screwed up now....

No Asians...weird.

@schwags1969

Ай бұрын

Mostly white people in this clip, Canada has become multiculturally diverse though.

Did everyone forget their cellphones at home?

Hey, not sure if you or anyone reading this would remember, or know of. Haha, but I've always remembered and loved this one gift shop on Robson Street. I have no idea when they shut down. Back when I was a kid, I use to love going to this shop, it was full of like holographic everything. Mirrors. Toys. Everything. Stickers. Gifts. Cards. All that stuff. Not Spencer's. Pretty sure it wasn't Spenser's. That was in Metrotown. I believe. But this one store on Robson, was a good reminisce.Sweet video.

@retrovancouver

3 жыл бұрын

I don't remember the name of it, but it was on Robson next to the Starbucks that's now an Aritzia. That might narrow down finding out what it was called. We used to go in there to look at all the holograms, it was a very 90s kind of place.

@poodtang2104

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember Spencer's in Metrotown. Got my first Lava Lamp there.

@Josh01815

2 жыл бұрын

@@retrovancouver yes!!! My favorite store as a kid growing up in Vancouver. I love the little things. Those kinds of memories. The store. It was definitely my vibe to this day! Lol I think you may be correct too, on that, I was too little to remember, what the surrounding area look like, and what was beside it I don't remember. But you may be talking about the exact store I'm thinking about. Anytime you tell anyone about this store nobody knows. 😆✌🏼 That's cool thank you.

@Josh01815

2 жыл бұрын

@@poodtang2104 the other store talking about on Robson was not Spencer's, but yes I believe there's still a Spencer's in some mall far from Vancouver, I can't remember what mall Spencer's is in now, I just know it's not near dt Central Grandville area anywhere. Lol that's a pretty cool store though. Spencer's.

@orionsentry

Жыл бұрын

@@Josh01815 There's a Spencer's in Coquitlam Centre. Hot Topic also sells similar stuff.

Was nicer when it wasn't crowded with international students and immigrants now they're all over and way more crime came with. We also have a housing crisis and lack of jobs, dead end traffic. I remember life was simpler even in the early to late 2000s now it's hectic can't do anything about it but pray all these people go back home or move give Vancouverites their city back.

@Neethan3247

10 ай бұрын

There is nothing wrong with having immigrants and international students.

@althunder4269

5 ай бұрын

@@Neethan3247 Then read his comment again because it says what the problem is.

This is just yesterday to me . 😎

People used to walk in a straight line. My Nigerians friends walk in a mob. They bump into everything including people, cars and mailboxes.

Starbucks Trivia: what intersection has two Starbucks juxtaosed to each other?? Thurlow and Robson.

Some very weird comments on this so I should add that, statistically, crime has dropped since this time. What's changed is the population of the entire world has exponentially grown. There are way way more people in Vancouver then there was then.

@schwags1969

Ай бұрын

Statistically yes, numbers wise WAY up. I figure it is a lack of general respect, and maybe multiculturalism did not help, we are losing our identity as a country. Food for thought.

Back just before the Leaseholds became some of the most expensive in N. America. REmember Minoya?? A really cheap nutritious Japanese style lunch to go, and you're gone.

Vancouver was fun, interesting and quirky then, now it's totally gentrified and rather boring.

now everyone's hot and fit! Lol!

@hirsch4155

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah back then the hot and fit people hung out other places lol, shopping on Robson wasn’t really a thing because it wasn’t the place really to be seen and the stores weren’t that fashionable.

@ogopogo1397

2 жыл бұрын

Joking?

From 1992

The Golden Age of Vancouver. Too bad it’s been destroyed.

Things sure looked different before the invasion

@Maximillion666

3 жыл бұрын

Invasion ?

@way2kool100

3 жыл бұрын

IAN m Hongcouver buddy and facts don’t care about your feelings.

@canman5060

3 жыл бұрын

@@way2kool100 This is what Fox News always said.

@canman5060

3 жыл бұрын

Invasion of what ? Chinese ? They were there long before the City was incorporated in 1886. I am chinese and Queen Victoria is my biological great great great aunt !

@MD-kh4cf

3 жыл бұрын

@@way2kool100 this is a cringey comment

WOW has Vancouver ever gone to hell since this was filmed.

now alot of asians on robson street. alot of korean restaurants too

@althunder4269

5 ай бұрын

too many.

@schwags1969

Ай бұрын

Great food. Now it is harder to find the best one, however I moved out of Vancouver a long time ago.