I recently came across a YouTube video which shows the drive from the US border all the way up to the city of Vernon here in Canada as it was back in 1966.
About halfway through the video, I got to see my hometown, and man was it a strange experience seeing it as it was back then. Most of the landmarks have changed so drastically over the decades that were it not for the shape of the hills and the curve of the roads, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize any of it at all. Whereas now my hometown’s a fairly developed suburban region – with too many shopping centres for my liking – back then it was rural, with plenty of orchards and just a few shops and gas stations.
I wish there were similar videos of the region as it was during the '70s & '80s – just so I could see how it evolved between the '60s & '90s – but there’s nothing.