In 1916 there were no cell 'phones, no Internet, no TV, radio was in it's infancy, the population of (metropolitan) Vancouver was 135,000 - those were the "salad days" in Vancouver.
But, we are world class now, we weren't then.
Burrard St. Bridge 1932
Note the lack of development on English Bay.
Burrard St. Bridge now.
bridge historical images linkIt looks like a real traffic jam here (1932)... those were the days.
Stanley Park duck pond (around 1916)
Robson Street 1916Timms photo collection
Robson St. nowadays link
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wow.
wow.
those are awesome pics solipsist, thanks for posting.
Great pics.
Note that by the 1930's radio was in its golden age, and TV was in its infancy.
Also all the big vaudeville stars came to the Orpheum, and Vancouver had a more extensive rapid transit system than today. How's that for world class?
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. They paved paradise, put up a parking lot".
Those are great pictures.. It's nice to see how it all started.. and you can see such a huge difference today..
Thanks for commenting all. It seems that I am not the only nostalgiac one.
vineland - indeed winters used to be more winter-like. I have come across quite a few pic's that illustrate the same kind of snow that we had in November '06. I have come across anecdotes of lots of snow as recently as the early 1970's.
As far as reverting back to a simpler time, I have a couple of ideas about that - just the photoshopping to do.
patriotz - I wondered if anyone would catch that about radio. I figured that freako or you would. I was alluding to 1916 with that comment (I had the earlier pic's first). I have edited the post in an attempt to clarify that.
Well, the kids were actually kids in the 1970's in Vancouver and yes, we used to get snow and lots of it. We used to build snow forts and snow men and have snow ball fights. I'm sure the snow lasted too, weeks at a time, maybe even a month. That was back when much of Delta was still farm land. I picked blackberries by the ice cream bucket full and they weren't grey from car exhaust or pollution either.
That wasn't so long ago...
oh, yah, the blackberries part... that was summer nostalgia. hard to pick blackberries when its snowing...
Thanks for your anectdotes mk-kids.
The word "progress", as applied to our society, has often rankled me. More and more is not progress. I have a Sunbeam toaster that is almost 50 years old, and still works perfectly. It is a work of art in chrome. I have had various plastic toasters over the years as well, and they only last 5 or 6 years. Just look at the shoddy, spiritless construction too. It doesn't hold a candle to all the beautiful Victorian, and early 20th century construction. Even workers' houses had some character and quality until the 1960's or so.
Thanks for commenting fun and mental.
I posted the clickable link for that here.
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