Vancouver skyline through the ages

[Sportsdude]

Through the 20th Century


1912, Cambie Bridge, False Creek



1938



1947



1953- From UBC in the air. Look at all the trees east of downtown



1956- West End and Downtown


1958- Looking down Georgia Street.



1964 West End


1970


1976- Georgia Street


1981- False Creek










 

[Sportsdude]

I wouldn't mind 1930s looking Vancouver, all those trees!
Speaking of which I saw a picture of Nanaimo from the 50s. Wow, talk about small town, *cries* all those trees that are gone.

 

[Van]

awesome!

My mom cries when she goes back to Vancouver to visit. She has been gone for 10 years now or so.

  Her and my dad said Vancouver in the 60s was the best place in the universe.

[P.C.]

SD....you should check out UBC on Google Earth.  You wanna see trees in the city ?

[Van]

what about 86? You could see Expo from space.

[Michel]

     

[Van]

My mom always says Vancouver was more laid back than the interior in those days. lol, maybe a little exagerating, but funny.

I imagine Nelson today isn't much different from 1968. Only more tourists around.

[Sportsdude]

lol P.C. I know about the Endowment Lands, but I'd still like the 1938 Vancouver, the city looks like it was planted in the wild.    

[Vancouver Noir]

This is a great collection and I'd like to repost a couple on our blog: Vancouver Noir.  A couple of pieces of info for you:  the 1953 shot ... those aren't trees in the east end, they're dark houses with dark roofs.  The 1912 skyline shows the old Central School neighbourhood (aka: Ward Two).  It was zoned out of existence by City Hall starting in the late 1920s.  Now, it's chi-chi Yaletown.

[P.C.]

What makes you think that, Noir ?

[Vancouver Noir]

Which bit?  The rooftops in the East End?  Because that's where I live and the trees here are too young.  The city neglected the neighbourhood badly for decades because (a) it was mostly non-white and that's what happened to non-white neighbourhoods in the mid-20thC, and (b) the more it was neglected, the sooner it could be condemned for being rundown (and the blame passed on to the residents) and then bulldozed to make way for freeways.  It didn't unfold like that in the end, although some blocks were lost to mega-projects.  What's left is now much more leafy, thanks mostly to campaigns by lefty civic politicians and officials in the 1960s and '70s.