If you had a time machine, what part of Edmonton would you go back and visit?

While time travel may be the stuff of sci-fi novels, YouTube serves as a decent substitute, letting billions of us view footage from the moment video recording became a thing.

In 1966, one wise Edmontonian thought to film out the car window while driving through the city’s downtown core, and we’re sure glad they did because it’s fascinating to see how the landscape has changed over the nearly 60 years since.

Uploaded to YouTube by user C. Geissler, the video begins with a clip of people swimming in an outdoor pool, believed to be the former pool at The Derrick Golf and Winter Club.

The next clip leads us down 109th Street and onto the High Level Bridge (back when the bridge allowed two-way traffic), where w

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