Beautiful Life of Canada in the Late 1950s Through Amazing Kodachrome Slides

Here below is a set of amazing Kodachrome slides from James Tworow taken by his father that shows beautiful life of people in Canada in the late 1950s. These photos were taken mostly in cities of Alberta and British Columbia.

“My dad came to Canada from Russia via Austria in 1948. He settled in Calgary about 1957. Up to 1961 he spent much of his time doing intinerant preaching between jobs in Calgary, travelling among Doukhobor (Russian) communities of western Canada and also spent some time at Berean Bible College here in Calgary, he took some fantastic pictures during that time, and then when he married my mom in 1961, the photography got far more sporadic... He passed away in 2004 at which point I discovered all these old slides for the first time (Kodachrome!)”

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Fascinating Snaps Captured People Walking on Vancouver's Streets in the 1950s

“When I started back in 1934,” Foncie Pulice recalled in that interview, “there were six companies in Vancouver, but when we really started to go was during the war. The public couldn’t get film, you see, so the street photographers were all they had. Servicemen would come home on leave, they’d have pictures taken. Families would get together, we’d take their picture. At one time, I was taking 4,000 to 5,000 pictures every day.”

On September 27, 1979, street photographer Foncie Pulice took his last picture. He and his Electric-Photo camera had been a familiar sight on city streets for a jaw-dropping 45 years. He’d begun as a 20-year-old away back in 1934 as an assistant to street photographer Joe Iaci, and had taken millions of photographs since. (It is possible Foncie Pulice photographed more people than anyone who ever lived.) “I said I’d retire at 65, and I kept my word,” Foncie said in a November 21, 1979 interview in the Province.

Foncie Pulice was the last of the street photographers. He died January 20, 2003 at age 88, but his work lives on . . . everywhere.

These fascinating snapshots are part of his work that Foncie captured people walking on streets in Vancouver from the 1950s.

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40 Fascinating Pics Capture Street Scenes of Vancouver From Between the 1930s and '50s

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, as the most populous city in the province and the fifth-most densely populated city in North America, behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City.

Street scenes of Vancouver from between the 1930s and '50s

Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada. It is consistently named as one of the top five worldwide cities for livability and quality of life.

Port Metro Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry.

Take a look at these fascinating black and white pics from Vancouver Public Library Historical Photographs to see street scenes of Vancouver from between the 1930s and 1950s.

Beacon Theatre in old Pantages Theatre location, 20 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, 1932

Capitol Theatre, 820 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, 1934

Granville Street looking South from Dunsmuir, Vancouver, BC, 1936

Globe Theatre 800 block of Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, 1937

Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, 1937

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Rare Photographs of the Construction of Habitat 67, the Most Recognizable and Spectacular Building in Montreal, Canada

The pilot project of Moshe Safdie’s mission to reinvent apartment living became mired in controversy – yet it remains a functioning icon of 1960s utopianism, and one of that period’s most important buildings.

Habitat 67, or simply Habitat, is a model community and housing complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. It was originally conceived as his master’s thesis in architecture at McGill University and then built as a pavilion for Expo 67, the World’s Fair held from April to October 1967. It is located at 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy on the Marc-Drouin Quay next to the Saint Lawrence River. Habitat 67 is widely considered an architectural landmark and one of the most recognizable and spectacular buildings in both Montreal and Canada.

Habitat 67 comprises 354 identical, prefabricated concrete forms arranged in various combinations, reaching up to 12 stories in height. Together these units create 146 residences of varying sizes and configurations, each formed from one to eight linked concrete units. The complex originally contained 158 apartments, but several apartments have since been joined to create larger units, reducing the total number. Each unit is connected to at least one private terrace, which can range from approximately 20 to 90 square metres (225 to 1,000 sq ft) in size.

Architect Moshe Safdie with the model for Habitat 67.

Moshe Safdie working on a model of Habitat 67.

Moshe Safdie with Edouard Fiset, chief architect of Expo, 1965.

Moshe Safdie on site during the construction of Habitat 67, 1966.

The development was designed to integrate the benefits of suburban homes—namely gardens, fresh air, privacy, and multileveled environments—with the economics and density of a modern urban apartment building. It was believed to illustrate the new lifestyle people would live in increasingly crowded cities around the world. Safdie’s goal for the project to be affordable housing largely failed: demand for the building's units has made them more expensive than originally envisioned. In addition, the existing structure was originally meant to only be the first phase of a much larger complex, but the high per-unit cost of approximately C$140,000 (C$22,120,000 for all 158) prevented that possibility.

The theme of Expo 67 was “Man and his World”, taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s memoir Terre des hommes (literally “land of men”, though it was published under the title Wind, Sand and Stars). Housing was also one of the main themes of Expo 67. Habitat 67 then became a thematic pavilion visited by thousands of visitors who came from around the world, and during the expo also served as the temporary residence of the many dignitaries visiting Montreal.

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A Beautiful Found Photo Collection of Montreal Expo 1967

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67 was a general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day.

Expo 67 was Canada's main celebration during its centennial year. The fair had been intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the Russian Revolution's 50th anniversary; however, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in late 1962.

After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1984.

Today, the islands that hosted the world exhibition are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use, with only a few remaining structures from Expo 67 to show that the event was held there.

Take a look at these amazing photos from Austin Hall to see what the Montreal Expo 1967 looked like.

“These photos were found on the street in Cambridge, MA. They were originally glued onto scrapbook sheets like this. I've attempted to arrange them in a sensible order based on page numbering and picture content, but this is the best I could do. 

Most of the photos were "tagged" with a labelmaker and I have placed these labels in the "Description" field. Some of the labels have been adjusted for the sake of clarity. 

To the best of my knowledge, these photos were taken by Lillian Seymour.”

Holland

Hovercraft

Indians of Canada

Israel

Japan pavilion

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Rarely Seen Photographs of ‘Injured’ Marilyn Monroe on Crutches in Canada in the Summer of 1953

Marilyn Monroe filmed River of No Return in the Canadian Rockies at Alberta’s Bow Valley. It was her first western and during filming she twisted her ankle during a scene in the river, bringing Joe DiMaggio to her side as she hobbled around on crutches. Some say the injury was Marilyn’s way of getting back at director Otto Preminger, with whom Marilyn didn’t get along.

The photos were shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine in Alberta, Canada, where Monroe was filming River of No Return with Robert Mitchum. An injured ankle prevented Monroe from filming, allowing Vachon to have several days to shoot the Hollywood icon.

Vachon’s lens captured her in a variety of contexts and countenances. Here is Marilyn the way we want to remember her: luminous, sexually charismatic, smiling radiantly — even on crutches. This extraordinary portfolio of revealing images ranges from her mugging poolside to riding high on a ski lift to nuzzling with her then-husband-to-be, the legendary Joe DiMaggio — the only time that the two posed formally together for a photographer.

These are the pictures of Miss Monroe that were taken for LOOK magazine in 1953, but only three from the album made it into the final edition. The remaining negatives have been hidden away - until 2011.

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Beautiful Found Snaps of a Toronto Photo Show in 1961

Here is a set of beautiful found snaps from pjs_deceased that captured an amateur photo show in Toronto in 1961.

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55 Impressive Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Vancouver in the Late 1970s

These impressive photographs were taken by Canadian photographer POP SNAP that shows street scenes of Vancouver from 1977 to 1979. Take a look to see how it has changed for over 40 years.

Vancouver, July 1977

195 W. 23rd Ave., Vancouver, 1977

 E.Hastings at Vernon, Vancouver, December 1977

Eye Scream/N.E.Thing, Vancouver, July 1977

 Firebird at Spanish Banks, Vancouver, 1977

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This Bizarre Photograph From 1917 Depicts a Time Traveler?

A photograph of 1917, made in Canada and published in Lester Ray Peterson’s 1974 book The Great History of Cape Scott, seems quite ordinary. However, among a group of people on a hill, dressed according to the fashion of the time, a young man in a T-shirt and shorts, and even a modern hairdo, stands out clearly.

Looking closer, it seems that the people sitting next to them are surprised by the presence of the traveler in time, and they look at him with bewilderment. As if he suddenly appeared during the shooting.

According to Daily Express, one person commenting on the book on GoodReads.com, referenced a Post Gazette article, saying: “In the comments to the article, someone mentioned that T-shirts were around then and that they made it into the common lexicon soon after that date – it appeared in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in the 1920s.”

“Considering that other guys in the picture are also wearing shorts, I’m going to say that he’s not a time traveler. Other than Bill and Ted, what time travelers would think that a T-shirt and shorts would be the best thing to wear when time-traveling into the past anyway?”

In either scenario, physicists all agree that it is impossible to travel back in time by our current understanding of the universe and its laws.

Has a mysterious traveler proved the impossible and journey through time? What do you think?