Calgary Transit then and now – Elbow Drive part 3
This post has been updated and is found here: Calgary Transit Elbow Drive 40 Years Apart.
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Date of adventure: 1974 and May, 2014.
Location: Calgary, AB.
I wonder if it could be my grandpa driving that trolley… he did that route! Very cool photo… thanks!
You are most welcome – interesting to think if it’s him. You never know!
That’s so neat!!! Even the route number is still the same on the busses. Great photos. Love our city.
Yes, the same route! Loved that part in particular. Calgary is a great place.
What a great post! Before moving here in 1985, we would drive from Hinton to visit Grandma in Calgary. There was always great celebration when we came over the rise and saw the Husky Tower! It was the tallest structure by far. How things change.
The tower was the first thing everyone saw on getting close to Calgary back then. Now it’s lost in the clutter.
That is a great picture. It almost has an optical illusion quality to it when you look at the Bow Valley Square Tower in the dead centre. How tall it looks and then to see it dwarfed in the second photo.
All the old buildings have appeared to shrink. Told you, wash them in cold water!
Great shot! Well done in getting the right composition.
It’s close, but we’ve done much better. Search our many then and nows.
OMG, I actually remember the trolley buses.
You’re dating yourself!
Rode that route, and probably that trolley, every day to work in those years. Great pic!
Heard from many who used to take the same route. So cool!
God I remember riding the Elbow Drive trolley! Turned around just past 82ave (heritage drive now)! I can hear those electric motors even now! Such power! Um, that was in 1960! I I Used to go down to the old Tivoli theater on Saturdays from Fairview! Can you hear the distinct thunk of the “I wanna get off bell”?
By the time I could go to the Tivoli it had morphed into that adult theatre it was at the end. Saturday matinees were whole different thing!
What a fascinating comparison. I keep going back to it.
Be sure to check out others on the website too. Lots of bus then and nows, and others of many varied themes. Search away!
Share this picture with yur grandkids and show them how the buses used to be.
And make sure to tell them, yur is spelled your. Sorry, the more I write the more grammar and spelling police I get. Haha. Thanks for commenting!
How times have changed before our eyes without us really noticing!
I know. Sometimes it takes a then and now series like this to remind us how much the city has changed.
This is one of the coolest Calgary anything I have seen in a while. Thanks for sharing!
You are most welcome. And please, come back often!
I don’t remember much of 74 seeing as I was going through my “being born” phase, but it sure looks good.
Love it! Thanks for commenting.
Nice job on the pics. lots of memories there …..I used to live on this bus line not far from that bridge.
Thanks, glad you like our work. Since this post appeared on the news the number of comments coming in has exploded.
Remember those days well… lived in the city, and love it… thanks for sharing these, wow ! what a difference and look at the Calgary tower in ’74 compared to 2014… my aunt and uncle lived on Belair Drive, just up and around the corner from where these photos were taken… lots of GREAT memories…. love how you lined these up…
They lined up pretty good. Not our best, but it is from a few years ago when we were not as good as we are today.
Love Chris’s work. This is like porn to me!!
Bus porn! Thanks, this means a lot. More than you’ll ever know.
Nice pics! Love it, sure miss CGY, thanks for the nostalgia!
Thanks, happy we could help in a way.
Just can’t beat the landscape when there is a trolley in the scene..
Amen! Trolleys were darn interesting.
Great photos as always Chris.
I remember the Calgary Tower been so high when it was first built ,
Seems to have shrunk with age;)
The Trolley looks great,if you google calgary transit system bus 455 you will fine some other photos of it.
I agree, back then the tower looked so much taller.
I used to ride the bus past this spot! From 1969-71 I went to Western Canada High and rode the 3 in. Thanks for the memories.
Awesome, we love it when our posts bring back memories like that!
Well, it has been FORTY years, cowpoke.
Of course, it’d be weird if the skyline did not change. What I meant to get across is that downtown Calgary is quite young for the most part.
AGAIN!!!!!! I ENVY YOU Chris Doering!!! LOL!
We sometimes don’t realize just how fun our lives are…