Rick DeBanks91Ƶ video of a wild Surrey-area house party he attended almost 30 years ago has been viewed more than 12,000 times since he posted it to Youtube just one week ago.
The 33-minute clip shows a house full of rocking teens and young adults ringing in the new year at a residence in Newton, near 144th Street and Highway 10.
91ƵIt91Ƶs a time capsule, for sure,91Ƶ said DeBanks, who added the video to his on July 3.
91ƵI have a whole bunch of videos that I91Ƶm in the process of converting to MP4s, and I remember that video in particular 91Ƶ and I hadn91Ƶt watched it in 20 years or more,91Ƶ DeBanks said when reached on Wednesday.
91ƵI knew it would be an interesting video for people to see, because it91Ƶs shot POV style 91Ƶ point of view 91Ƶ and if you watch it, it91Ƶs almost like you91Ƶre there, with all the people everywhere. There are some bad spots in the video but it91Ƶs not too shaky or anything. It just gives the viewer a sense of being at the party.91Ƶ
DeBanks says he used a camcorder to shoot the video with the help of a friend 91Ƶ in an era before cellphone cameras were commonplace, of course.
The clip starts with eerie music for the first minute, then settles in a haze of smoke and booze as party-goers hoot and holler for the camera, to a soundtrack of Led Zeppelin, Tone Loc, AC/DC, Madonna, Poison and, in a group sing-along, John Mellencamp91Ƶs 91ƵJack and Diane.91Ƶ
The video is posted with the description of 91Ƶa house party on the last day of the 8091Ƶs in the Blue Collar town of Newton in Surrey, British Columbia,91Ƶ but DeBanks now acknowledges it was actually filmed on the final night of 1990, not 1989. One clue is that Warrant91Ƶs 91ƵCherry Pie91Ƶ can be heard in the video, and the song wasn91Ƶt released until the fall of 1990.
Another clue: the lines of cocaine cut into a 91Ƶ9191Ƶ shape on a table.
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DeBanks said the video features a lot of Princess Margaret high school students and grads.
91ƵA guy named Wayne lived in the house,91Ƶ DeBanks noted. 91ƵHis parents were obviously gone for the weekend or something,91Ƶ he added with a laugh.
91ƵIt was just a real fun night. I almost got into a fight before I even got in, out in the driveway, and it kind of boiled over, but it was OK.91Ƶ
DeBanks, who lives in South Surrey, now runs and makes videos about the company91Ƶs sports-nutrition products. In the mid-1990s, after broadcasting school, he co-hosted an 91ƵInside Surrey91Ƶ news program on community TV, and has posted one of those episodes 91Ƶ focusing on the Melanie Carpenter homicide in 1995 91Ƶ on his Rick Richards account.
91ƵI was a wrestler for awhile, as Rick Richards,91Ƶ explained DeBanks, who said he was known as Rick Brown in high school.
On Youtube, he91Ƶs also planning to post video of his days as a football player with the Surrey Rams.
As for the Surrey party video, DeBanks said he91Ƶs not entirely surprised by the reaction to it on social media.
91ƵI knew it91Ƶd be fairly popular as a retro throwback for those who lived in that era, in that area,91Ƶ he said. 91ƵWhat I have been surprised by is the amount of people watching it who didn91Ƶt grow up in that era. There91Ƶs a fascination factor, a curiosity about it.
91ƵIt91Ƶs funny because the video now has more views than any I91Ƶve ever posted for my company.91Ƶ
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