by "gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
Published 02/08/2017 at 17:32
by "gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
Published 02/08/2017 at 17:32
Tags: 1970s
STARS: 2
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I can’t put any of them in this post I don’t think, they all say all rights reserved, and I can’t drag or link them. Anyways, there’s lots of old car content. Even some soviet cars, and a couple I can’t identify.
"Matt Nichelson" (whoismatt)
02/08/2017 at 17:48, STARS: 1
That is one helluva photo collection. I always enjoy looking at photos from a time go by. Even if it is just of normal day to day life, the pictures speak volumes.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 18:04, STARS: 1
He has more albums, too. This guy has taken a ton of pictures around Vancouver. Yeah me too, the normal every day ones fascinate me. It makes me think I should take more pictures of mundane things for the future.
"fintail" (fintail)
02/08/2017 at 18:07, STARS: 1
Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing. Standouts to me: MB W108, W116, lower line W111 or W110 fintail, a couple W114/115s, Morris Minor, Citroen, Fiats, Scirocco, Ladas (!), all of the now unicorn Japanese cars, McDonalds that looks like an Arthur Erickson design, new “Vancouver special” houses, malaisey domestic cars, wonderful Mazda sign. I initially recognize just one location, the IGA at Kingsway and Willingdon, which I think looked like that for some time. The house with the cement wall in front of it seems very familiar too, it has to be on a main street. A lot of this is before my time. A lot of the houses are probably nearly identical today, but the commercial stuff is of course long gone.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 18:15, STARS: 0
That Mazda sign is fantastic. Cool to see the Dave Buck Ford billboard, since almost every old Ford I see for sale has a Dave Buck badge on the back. So many Vancouver specials, I’m glad there aren’t quite so many now. There’s a surprising number of old houses in there that I definitely recognize, even if I can’t quite place them, but lots are still around. Almost everything commercial is different now, with a few exceptions. Rogers Sugar is still in the same old building from 1903, there’s still at least one Super-Valu, one of the old Dairy Queens is still in the same buildings, the Oasis car wash is still there, with the same sign even. The lack of skyscrapers downtown is especially jarring, it looks completely different.
This guy has more albums too, I’ll try and find the links
"fintail" (fintail)
02/08/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 0
Some of it might be able to be linked out of the flickr album.
Vancouver was a bit different before Expo 86 build-up and hype, and the boom that came in the 90s. The lack of skyscrapers, as you mention, makes it alien - there was a time when a 10 story condo was a big deal. A lot of areas really gentrified, but like you mention, pockets remain. I don’t even want to think about what some of these houses cost 40 years ago. It’s hard for me to imagine the Vancouver specials being new houses, they’ve always looked old and usually a little neglected to me.
"kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
02/08/2017 at 18:41, STARS: 1
The Phoenix Foundation’s HQ! It does appear in other pictures as well.
MacGyver wasn’t yet working there in 70's.
Awesome pictures. I wish I had a time machine.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 18:47, STARS: 0
Oh man, my grandma sold her house near 41st and Fraser in 1962 or so for no more than $40,000, I can’t remember exactly how much. I’m curious to find old pictures from my area in Burnaby, apparently most of the roads weren’t even paved until the 80s or early 90s. Yeah, it’s funny to see the new ones and they look cheap and crappy even then. Some good exterior renovations are being done with lots of them now, at least. Still not beautiful, but easier on the eyes.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
02/08/2017 at 19:31, STARS: 1
Just gotta know how to work around the sharing permission.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 0
Screen selection capture?
"E90M3" (e90m3)
02/08/2017 at 19:36, STARS: 0
Nah, in flickr you can either parse through the source code or you can use a third party ad on to do that for you. Here is the URL for that pic.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 19:45, STARS: 0
Ooh cool, thanks!
"fintail" (fintail)
02/08/2017 at 21:08, STARS: 1
I bet in 62, it was closer to 25-30K. Even in the 80s you could pick stuff up for 100K, I think. Today, wages have doubled or maybe tripled, and houses are 10x+ more. Nice. It’s not as bad in Seattle, but not far off. Houses that were 100K 30 years ago can be 800K today.
That remodel is actually decent, mostly I think due to the window at top floor left, and the modern railing. For better or worse, they are a hallmark of Vancouver and the cities that touch it.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/08/2017 at 21:40, STARS: 0
Yeah, it’s rather crazy. The amount of perfectly good old houses being bought for the land for 1 million plus, and then being torn down is maddening as well. Property taxes are so high that people who bought their houses years ago can’t afford to maintain them anymore. I don’t know where I’ll end up buying a house, but it won’t be here unless something changes drastically.
Yeah, there are quite a few going for variations on that, I like it.
"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars)
02/09/2017 at 06:37, STARS: 1
These are really cool. Thanks for sharing.
