SkyTrain historical video: Rapid Transit, Rapid Transition, a 1984 promotional video
SkyTrain historical video: Rapid Transit, Rapid Transition, a 1984 promotional video
Repost: Written by Jhenifer Pabillano and originally published February 17, 2011 in celebration of 25 years of SkyTrain!
The SkyTrain 25th anniversary celebration continues: here’s another fantastic SkyTrain promotional video from 1984, again shot by local video company JEM Productions!
This one stares into the future with a bit more seriousness than the past few videos, but this time with a killer synth soundtrack. (Seriously: I’ve got to make some ringtones.)
It traces the new SkyTrain route, gives us a glimpse of the SkyTrain attendants’ fabulous uniforms, and has a fairly exhaustive list of all the economic benefits and regional growth that Vancouver can expect.
And of course you can check out some awesome aerial shots of historic 1980s Vancouver!
If you’d like to see more, I’ve posted two other SkyTrain videos in the past, plus scans of photos and memorabilia. Check out the entire Transit History category for all of those and even more history tidbits. Happy 25th, SkyTrain!
Author: Laura Tennant
Skytrain is about to be 30 not 25. I feel like a bigger deal was made about the smaller milestone
Hi Mischa, you’re right the SkyTrain is older than 25! This 2011 post has been reposted in celebration of 125 years of transit in the region. Thanks!
You missed the part about how this is a reprint from 2011.
Hey Sheba, if you look right under the photo it reads “Repost: Written by Jhenifer Pabillano and originally published February 17, 2011 in celebration of 25 years of SkyTrain!”. Thanks!