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Originally Posted by EastVanMark
I was speaking to the attitudes of the era, not the era itself. Back then Vancouver punched well above its weight in a whole bunch of categories. Today it seems to have too much tunnel vision and is still way too involved in overegulation of just about everything.
Also, I wasn't speaking to just the movie real in the thread but rather the large amounts of both picture & video evidence that illustrates a different city that was more open to opportunity for everyone. (not just some as we do now). I don't need to have lived through WW2 to know that it wasn't exactly the best time in world history. Same thing applies here. Again, for a region that has more than quadrupled in population since that era, the city hasn't exactly lit it up when it comes to the development of "fun" things to do and in recent history has even lost some.
Finally, it is possible to bring up points without needing to stoop down to the level of using personal attacks.
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happen vancouver of the 60s was more inclusive...i don't know. The fact is that you have suggested that vancouver in that era was somehow better and offered more to its citizens. I believe, that Vancouver today offers more to do. you have also fallen into drinking the cool aid and believing that vancouver is a no fun city. I feel sorry for you if you think Vancouver is some sort of no fun void. Sleepy night life aside. I really don't get the suggestion that the city is completely lacking, while, granted it certainly is some areas.
Vancouver has been good to me and I appreciate the many great things it offers. And yes, since the video was made Vancouver has evolved. I was suggesting that we have lost some things but gained more than we have lost and many things in the video are still here today.
Take a look around you, great restaurants, live music venues, bars and lounges (not what defines the place, but they are there if you want them), the sea wall, stanley park, coal harbour (i was referring to the sea wall walk not bars...), Canada Place, the convention centre, a revived gas town, yaletown, an astonishing range of restaurants for a mid sized city. Granville island, Kits, west broadway, commercial drive, denman...then there is the amazing access to the outdoors....kayaking, skiing, golf....sailing, diving....hiking, maybe we are too outdoors centric, but it creates a wonderfully balanced city in my mind. Spending my early years here after I moved from Miami in the west end were a wonderful time and gave me an everlasting regard for the city.
The seawall, beaches etc have given me two decades of pleasure, and are more inclined to capture my interest time and time again than the museams of London when I lived there, or the history of Edinbrugh when I also lived there....are there things I would change...yes, are there things I believe we have lost...yes...but i guess it depends if you are a glass half full or a half empty kind of a guy....I think i know which one you are
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