this was time when canada was canada , now it is place of world for criminals and undocumented immigrants and refugees.
@Sgt_Glory4 ай бұрын
I was 5 years old. My favourite places to go for many years were the science centre, the CN tower, Centre Island riding the monorail at the zoo, and the Scarborough RT. Of those, two still exist.
@spanishsupafly4 ай бұрын
I can't recall if we had a golf course or a driving range right in the middle of downtown. Toronto seems like it was a more interesting place back then before we starting knocking everything down and building condos in their place. Toronto is a fun place to visit, but not very interesting in terms of sightseeing. Maybe we can put some thought into implementing attractions within the city that gives tourists incentive to visit and witness for themselves.
@ntcrawford7224 ай бұрын
Right that was when Toronto was better
@redDL894 ай бұрын
The haze in the video--is that just fog, or smog? I have never been to Toronto in te 80's but I have heard from older folks that there was much more heavy industry & manufacturing in the GTA and Hamilton area back then than now, and was wondering if it's true that air pollution back then was worse than now.
@smudent20104 ай бұрын
I miss when that's what Canadians sounded like
@bobdoug84 ай бұрын
I've been looking for any media of the science centre when it was great before they ruined it. Thank you so so much for sharing!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@paulmcdougall96535 ай бұрын
I wish I could dive through the screen and go visit the Record Peddler.
@ClintScottFischer5 ай бұрын
I've been living in Toronto for the majority of my 50 years now. The way in which local governments have ruined this city is atrocious.
@edwardbliss89315 ай бұрын
I hate 2024. I want to go back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there
@Dedicated2WendyWilliams5 ай бұрын
so this is where the old scarborough town center got its idea for gas balloons in the mall
@cgimovieman5 ай бұрын
Wild. I was a kid in 1987 and my family visited Toronto. We went to this same museum, which I think was called the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) and we also have a bunch of camcorder video of it inside. We very well could have been at the museum on this same day. I grew up in Michigan, and at the time it was my first experience being in another country. Even though Ontario has a lot of the same feel overall as places in the midwestern U.S. like Michigan.
@Universal.G5 ай бұрын
WOW look at the smog back then....
@David_prod-eNGee5 ай бұрын
And now it's fucked. :)
@Kostie1005 ай бұрын
Gone to trash now...
@TwiceBakedDeep5 ай бұрын
Wow 40 years later I live on the waterfront and it looks NOTHING like that! I was toddler when this was filmed 😂
@shahid85455 ай бұрын
I was born in 1978 in Brantford and I remember going to Toronto as a child and it was always fun. Now I utterly loathe the idea of going there. I guess nothing lasts forever. Toronto is unrecognizable to me now.
@Unfall_XO5 ай бұрын
Well yea you were younger back 50 years ago the city is for young people and suburbs are for the elderly that’s why there’s no outside entertainment in Branford, it’s a quiet old people town
@ank3375 ай бұрын
Wow ! Toronto looks so good , less traffic less people , less ugly condos , probably less rent less crime etc I came to the party too late 😝 it’s a cold not wold class city
@Unfall_XO5 ай бұрын
It looked grey and ugly back then just a bunch of cars, roads and cancer filled smoke in the air, Windsor was a much better city back then
@Time7825 ай бұрын
Great archive video!
@Born2DoubleUp5 ай бұрын
man I would kill to go back to this time. no cell phones, no internet, no social media. you knew all the kids who lived in your area. there was so much stuff to do for free or for next to nothing. you could get into a fight with someone, dust each other off, and go about your day without worrying about dying. nobody was car jacking or stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. 😅
@sigma_curry5 ай бұрын
What is gone will never come back.
@MustangMach1696.05 ай бұрын
That's when you still had a country.😂
@chickenburgerfan886 ай бұрын
Notice how it doesn't look like the third world. This country is severely broken
@sparker.245 ай бұрын
have you been to a 3rd world country? canada looks nothing like it. quit your yappin
@TorontoPopulistConservative6 ай бұрын
Does anyone else miss the orange glow of those sodium vapour street lamps at night? I wasn't alive in 1987 but we have lost so much of the warmth of this city between the first decade of the 2000's and today.
@tokertalk96484 ай бұрын
LOL nope. I get that spectrum all the time with my HPS grow lights 😁
@TorontoPopulistConservative3 ай бұрын
@@tokertalk9648 Your grow lights sound nice but surely you miss them when you go out. That garish blue-heavy light cast by the LED's installed on street poles and in parks and other outdoor grounds is a poor replacement for the sensuous and warming orange glow that once reassured and reinvigorated us as we spent nocturnal time in all of these locations.
@ColleenBerry-k3g6 ай бұрын
I'm on this stretch of road in the back of my mind at this time in history all the time
@dgabit6 ай бұрын
So different, but at the same time, so many things the same.
@captainkaboom23846 ай бұрын
Before Trudeau diversity turned it into a complete dump
@WildDisease726 ай бұрын
Good old days... long gone now
@butwhytharum6 ай бұрын
wow a year before i was born in the city i now live in. what the difference. and WOW THAT SCIENCE CENTER.... why cant it be like that now... oh yeah politics
@chuckroyal6 ай бұрын
I was two years old living around Jane street and Weston road at that time.
@A_M_Bobb6 ай бұрын
Smoggy. Concrete. Grey. Much prefer how it is today.
@randaldavid76856 ай бұрын
We were there at the end of March 1987 for our honeymoon
@dutchcanuck75506 ай бұрын
The Science Centre in its heyday, before the government slashed its funding. I had a lot of fun there as a kid. Brings a tear to my eye.
@TheIronDuke96 ай бұрын
That was the year rollings and swarmings really started happening. If you were a teenager wearing Doc Martins or other valuable gear and you were alone on the subway or in a mall etc there was a good chance you would be jumped and robbed - lots of times you wouldn't even be hurt, they just rip what they wanted from you and split, but sometimes you get beat up as well. The media really picked up on it by 89 and then by the early 90's it had died down and teenage swarmings weren't a thing much after that
The Ontario Science Center exhibit is cool. I went to see it with my high school sweet heart
@nicholashylton68576 ай бұрын
I practically grew up in the Science Centre. It makes me so freaking angry that Ford wants to tear it down for condos. 🤬
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
What do you expect today's politicians are in the pockets of greedy corporate interests.
@r.pres.41215 ай бұрын
How many more goddamned condos do they need? The science Centre is a major educational and cultural attraction.
@nicholashylton68575 ай бұрын
@@r.pres.4121 I agree. And moving it down by the lake? The traffic is terrible downtown! It's not like condos would make housing in Toronto more affordable anyway.
@lsxbigblock65245 ай бұрын
stop immigration then
@frenchheaven39425 ай бұрын
Bro...Ford is car company right?...could you please elaborate why they would be interested in condos construction?...please reply
@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin6 ай бұрын
The smell of hops when we got past Spadina on the Gardiner…
@aliciamack93236 ай бұрын
I was 3 years old in 1987 but I never been up their to Toronto CA.
@dannibarber57934 ай бұрын
Who cares
@modern_memory6 ай бұрын
Younge Street looked much better back then
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
Yeah it didn't look like you're in another country.
@nicholashylton68576 ай бұрын
No, not really. It's infinitely more upscale and cleaner today than back then.
@kooldudeno-lastname5 ай бұрын
@@nicholashylton6857 while it may be more upscale and "cleaner" (whatever you mean by that), It lost 100% of its character and now it just looks like a shitty street of condos & congestion
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
Yup i also visited Toronto in 1987. Wow what a nice functional city and clean it was back then. You wouldn't even be hearing english nowadays up there. Who could have thought... some normal looking people back then. No tattooed multi hair colored freakazoids, people actually laughed not the moody uptight *** they've become. And for 1987 Toronto was pretty modern and functional. I'd go back in a heartbeat compared to now.
@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin6 ай бұрын
1987??? We were there. You weren’t in the right places. I was just starting law school. Gay “T-Dances” on Sunday afternoons were amazing. You clearly never hit the ‘Church Street Beach’. 🏳️🌈 And yes, everybody speaks English these days. Omg. You’re the ones we were glad left. Good times indeed.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin You must be one of the multihaired freakshows then. Your opinion is meaningless freakshow.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin whatever you say freakshow.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin don't worry Toronto will return to 1987 glory sometime.
@Sucker_MC6 ай бұрын
There's a rainbow in Toronto where the Maritimers are bold. They always get a potfull-but they never get a pot of gold. 🎶
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
Maritimers are good people. Nice Canadians in contrast with Ontarioans.
@trevorgwelch74126 ай бұрын
In 2024 more people more buildings more crime but far better hospitals
@alexanderolena7 ай бұрын
9:25 lol. I am at Westin Harbour Castle at this moment looking at Waterpark place. So much changed.
@valentinaamigo36217 ай бұрын
Hello Gary, Amazing video and quality! We would like to use part of this video for a student documentary at Humber College if you agree. I would like you to know that we will give you credits with the name of your preference. And share with you the final result if you would like. Please let me know if it's okay with you. Have a great week!😃
@garykuiper59366 ай бұрын
Sure np Credit Gert Bakker please!
@D33Lux7 ай бұрын
This is an amazing video, hardly no cars on the Gardiner Expressway, few people on the streets and no condo's all around.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
Ugh those condos ruined the skyline of Toronto. Way way too much urbanization.
@JohnDoe-yj5ng6 ай бұрын
Um, no, they were on the 401 heading east around 427 area.
@InADarkTavern6 ай бұрын
@@gregcosta6965 Because the zoning laws do not allow density outside certain places, it must be very tall to accommodate demand. I think people would be more mad if you tore up homes in their neighborhood to build medium density than to have high density on major arterioles where there is abundant food, fun and transit.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
@@InADarkTavern *** zoning by laws. Canada has tons of space. Toronto ain't Hong Kong where space is limited so you have to build upward. No this is an act of greed. The mayors and city officials are in the backpockets of the corporations( in this case builders of condos and other real estate moguls). What is being done is an urban travesty. Shame on the mayor, the premier and the PM of Canada for allowing the destruction of a once promising city.
@gregcosta69656 ай бұрын
@@InADarkTavern Toronto ain't Hong Kong. There is no need to build skyward and fill up the whole city with these ugly monstrosities.
@fantasyguru268 ай бұрын
Look how great Yonge Street looked with all the lights. It doesn't have that same vibe at all today.
@davidkreick14738 ай бұрын
This brings me back! Thank you for sharing your footage. I was born and raised in the GTA from 1976-1996. I remember going to the Ontario Science Centre several times. Love that place.
@mr.t85629 ай бұрын
Be fascinating to see the pan shots from the CN tower today. The City is all condos.
@schichter9 ай бұрын
I’m directing a documentary about a radio station in Toronto in the 80s called CFNY and came across your footage. I’d love to use 6 seconds of it in the film. Would that be possible?
@garykuiper59368 ай бұрын
It’s actually a relative of mine that shot it but I’ll see if I can get their blessing on that. Cfny back in Brampton or Queen west? Or both? I remember being in there (Queen st)watching an oasis interview
@garykuiper59368 ай бұрын
All good buddy. Credit Gert Bakker if you can please
@schichter8 ай бұрын
@@garykuiper5936 Thank you so much! CFNY in Brampton 1977-1990. I can definitely credit Gert Bakker. Thank you!