Historical Old PNE Photos 1927 to 1980 (Pacific National Exhibition)

1927: Women in bathing suits posing with a prize bull


1936: Salt and Pepper ride


1940: Loopo plane ride in midway carnival


1940: B.C. Telephone Co. exhibit on how to use the dial telephone


1940: Acrobatic performance in midway carnival sideshow


1942: Japanese Canadians living at Hastings Park before being transported to internment camps in BC's interior


1948: Amusement rides


1952: Children on the coaster


1952: Clown with ducks


1953: Man and woman eating foot-long hotdogs from P.N.E. Gayway concession stand


1955 Ferris wheels


1959: Miss PNE and a clown


1960s


1961: PNE rides at night

 

1963: PNE crowds near the BC Building


1964: PNE Prize Home


1965: Oddball oasis: Camel with lion-shaped fiberglass water fountain on P.N.E. grounds


1965. Married on the Happyland ferris wheel


1969: Phyllis Diller with Buzz Aldrin mannequin


1969


1969


1970: Opening day parade


1970: Sky Glider chair lift on PNE grounds


1971: Billingsgate Seafood Bar concession


1971: Women on Sky Glider chair lift


1971: Crowd watching All-Terrain Vehicles Show, with Sky Glider chair lift overhead


1972: Main entrance gates


1972: The Frying Dutchman concession


1970s: View of the PNE


1974


1975: PNE crowds, East Vancouver houses in the background


1977: The Dog’s Ear souvenirs


1979


1979


1980

 

Wow brings back a lot of memories of the "good old days"!!! I can still remember riding that "Sky Glider" chair-lift ride!!!!

 

Marriend on Happyland Ferris Wheel attributed to 1965. Happyland was torn down at end of 1958 and replaced by Playland. Happyland used to be roughly located where the Coliseum and Agrodome are now.