WINNIPEG — A vintage tourism video of Winnipeg is popping up online , showing what the city looked and felt like more than half a century ago.
City of Rivers was created in 1964 by the Manitoba Department of Industry and Commerce. The old school video shoes the culture, restaurants and tourism attractions of Winnipeg during the Swinging Sixties.
Throughout the video, the tour guide takes a spin across the city in his vintage Ford Mercury. The guide talks about the beauty of the legislative building, the history of Lower Fort Garry, and the hustle and bustle at Winnipeg’s then prime shopping destination, Portage Avenue.
The viewer also gets a glimpse of the old Winnipeg Airport, which was built the same year the video was producer. Although the structure is now torn down, the tour guide refers to the airport as the “Taj Mahal of the Canadian Prairies.”
The tour guide then takes the viewer outside city limits to Falcon Lake and Grand beach, showing people sun tanning, water skiing and boating.
The video even shows footage of a Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football game.
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