'CHUM Country': A Tribute to Toronto circa 1965 (or Thereabouts)

A little T.O. montage I put together. I love the music, the jingles, the ads and the radio!
CHUM's own Brian Skinner is at the mic. Radio sure was groovy back in the day.
This is meant to capture the essence of an ever growing and changing Canadian city circa about 1965, give or take a couple years.
Pictures: From blogto.com and other Toronto historical blogs.
End picture from rockradioscrapbook.ca.
Music: Fragments from a CHUM Aircheck from 1965. (rockradioscrapbook.ca)
(3:04)

[@robmil2012]

I miss those days when Toronto was Toronto 😊

[@dougreimer2912]

I recall a dj named jungle jay nelson at chum when am was king. We grew up on chum

[@Lasher500]

Think he had the morning show

[@coldlakealta4043]

Jungle Jay Nelson in the mornings! Believe it or not, he had a TV show for kids in Buffalo where he dressed up in safari shorts and hats. He was so cool 1050 enticed him across the border to DJ. He used to make anonymous calls with a disguised voice to places. It was hilarious.

[@dougreimer2912]

@@coldlakealta4043 Fascinating..I grew up in St. Catharines in the mid 60's and Buffalo was 30 minutes away and like a second home, had no idea JJN was recruited from there. At that time there was parity with the US $.

[@Richard_Lush]

Hahaha that brings back memories. I was a teen there in the 70s. Chum was king on AM. Thank goodness FM came in to play🤣

[@robertgraziano]

He introduced The Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens and I was there.(Jungle Jay Nelson)

[@georgerenton965]

I came to Canada in Dec 65 from Scotland. I was 12, we lived in Port Credit. Cool kids had pocket transistor radios. The tallest building in the Toronto skyline was the Royal York Hotel. At the liquor store, the booze was kept behind a wall out of site. They had counters with backboards, that listed every product they carried. You took a ticket, like a golf score card, and in pencil provided wrote the LCBO code number in the blanc spaces, took it to the cashier, paid, your coin change came down into a cup. You walked down the long counter where there was a panel in the wall. The panel opened and the booze was slid out to you in a non descriptive brown paper bag. The Dixie Outlet Mall was the first purpose built shopping mall in Canada. The clover leaf at the QEW and Hwy 10 ( since re designed at least three times ) was the first of its kind in North America. There where at least 2 traffic roundabouts on the QEW Niagara section, and both the Burlington Skyway, and the Garden City Skyway where toll bridges. The milk man still did home delivery. Things that are still the same as 65 ? It’s still bloody cold in winter.

[@KP-cc5mv]

My Mother came from Glasgow & moved to Hamilton in 66 small world aye?

[@KP-cc5mv]

Now I know why she listens to that bloody radio so much haha cheers mate

[@imisstoronto3121]

I remember when the LCBO was like that. It was so basic it was dull as dishwater. Not like the LCBO of today which I much prefer.

[@cinthia9602]

CHUM was awesome in the 70's!

[@stewartgillis4851]

I was 16 and have all the same great recollections.

[@TomBarradas]

What a time -- all lost today sadly. Toronto used to be SO COOL and SO GREAT.

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Yes, a different world it seemed, for sure! ✌️

[@coldlakealta4043]

Remember when Yorkville Ave was where us kids used to go and hang out on summer evenings and weekends? Now it's the national centre for Lamborghinis and entitled people who won't wear the same thing twice.

[@cacampbell3654]

@@coldlakealta4043 I remember hearing Phil Ochs in some basement dive in yorkvilke, and Joni Mitchell taking my breath away in the little Riverboat coffeehouse.

[@pwilliams5724]

@@cacampbell3654 wow you must be really old eh? lol

[@briana01]

I remember my 8 year old self sitting on our garage roof in the summer of 1966 in Parkdale watching the air show and listening to 1050 CHUM on a solid state radio I got for Christmas. Sigh.

[@pwilliams5724]

who remembers the "chum charts" that we used to get at the record store in Cloverdale Mall.different colour each week

[@bobramage6029]

I had a large collection of them from prior to 1960. Moved to Huntsville and somehow the collection was lost. Seemed like a tragedy in my 12 year old mind. Moved to B.C. in late 1967. Still think fondly back to the CHUM Charts.

[@pwilliams5724]

@@bobramage6029 they likely would have been worth something today. sorry that probably doesnt make ye feel any better

[@lovesmusic36]

I used to get my chum charts at Sayers record store at Yorkdale. Sometimes, I'd get them at Sam the Record Man or A&A Records when I was downtown. I'd keep them in a shoe box. I wish I still had them. I loved this video, especially the shots of Yorkdale when Smitty's Pancake House was there. Check out the cars in the parking lot!

[@strickly60s78]

Hi P. Williams, Yes...my brother and I used to grab one when we dropped into "Sam The Record Man" on Yonge St. In Toronto. I only have about 1/2 dozen now though. A Fond Memory of that time, say around....1965-68. mostly. One time....I was on the 3rd floor where "Sam" put all the slow mover albums...some had a hole punched in them...near the middle, you could still play them for 99 cents each. Who is at the ticket booth there? No other than Lee Majors....he was buying tickets for his steady (after he ended it with Farrah Facette) Karen Kain the ballet dancer. I also found a few vinyl deals as well. Great memories. Thanks.

[@James_Knott]

@@bobramage6029 I remember them. We used to get them at Peter's Platters record store in Oakville.

[@andrewcharles459]

The thing I absolutely miss the most is the lunch counter at Woolworth's and Kresge's. Best grilled cheese sandwich around.

[@michaelgray5168]

We used to go to the Sam's in the Golden Mile Plaza (Scarborough) to get the Chum chart the day it came out.

[@1dilligaf]

Born in 1960 Birchmount And Eglington.

[@cinthia9602]

I remember listening to CHUM in the 70s. It was the big thing back then.

[@stuartgreen5631]

CHUM AM and later a sea change with CHUM FM. As an adult I came home from work one day and there was a message for me from Duff Roman, head of CHUM. A bit unreal feeling to reconcile the childhood radio world with a real person. However, I recall he was quietly larger than life even in person.

[@cacampbell3654]

Can’t remember which radio station I first heard Dylan sing The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol on. I suddenly realized you could speak/sing about what was true, real, important, urgent!!

[@conniemorris9025]

As a teenager in the late 60's there was only one radio station to listen to and that was CHUM. Parents listened to CFRB . I can still remember the DJ ( Bob Macadorey , not sure of spelling), introducing songs saying two in a row on ten five owe.

[@scarbourgeoisie]

I listen to CHUM and my dad would listen to CFRB. We'd keep changing the radio on each other all they way to my grandparents (Birchmount & St. Clair to Donlands and Mortimer and back)

[@edwardgrantwindebank6442]

Hi it was happy times in the 60 ties listening to Al Baliska

[@johnpat3622]

Then along came CFTR...

[@Denada1350]

@@johnpat3622 top 6 at 6.

[@emjaydark2811]

WKBW

[@daveschmarder-1950]

Around 1962 my family and I took our first trip to Canada. We crossed at Niagara Falls and went to the CNE in Toronto. It was like being in a different country. :) At the CNE they were giving out hand fans with CHUM printed on them. I don't remember much else about the trip, but I've always remembered that. My dad liked trying to hear distant stations on his radio, a hobby he had since he was a kid. (That's what they used to do in the 1920's).

[@MikeM-oo4pr]

Born in 1958 we lived at Dupont & Dovercourt and I remember the cars, the radio (CHUM and CFRB) and the songs. Everyone was fleeing to the suburbs and so were we. I couldn't wait to get back and I did in 1983. I've never left. The 60s. What a decade!

[@AlannahRyane]

Wow. My life was passing before my eyes.

[@coldlakealta4043]

Hey, you think you got problems - I'm 74 in March! I even remember my CHUM Bug Card Number!

[@doughouston4741]

I grew up listening to1050 CHUM . Never thought I'd hear the Radio Jingle again.....wow, brings back heart felt Memories.

[@gorillabff1003]

Haha. I remember Kresge, Woolworth and the five and dime type stores. Born in ‘68 in Toronto lived here all my life will probably one day die here lol. Not a bad place to be. Thanks for the video. Memories ! 🥰

[@thechriscollection9983]

My Grandad could have been driving his new '64 Chev Impala Sport Coupe around then.

[@ClintScottFischer]

I'd give anything to see someone create a TV series set in 1950's/60's/70's Toronto.

[@imisstoronto3121]

@@joeydepalmer4457 king of Kensington

[@railfandepotproductions]

That's what's I'm doing

[@patricadacre5968]

Omg! Look at the old streetcars.. back then you bought your tickets from the driver...the Gerrard car was the way downtown..I miss those days..Pape dances were the best and Cabbagetown..my Auntie Babe lived on Seaton and who remembers Riverdale zoo? 👍♥️ You can take the girl out if the east end but you can't take the east end out of the girl 🤣

[@patriciamalloy9922]

Oh my gosh! Patricia Malloy here. I lived on Jones Avenue and spent hours fantasizing about the day l'd be old enough and cool enough for the Pape Dance! Grew up playing in Mosquito Park, swimming and skating at Greenwood Park.

[@andrewcharles459]

I loved the Riverdale Zoo.

[@eve-marie6751]

I liked the Riverdale Zoo too, what kid didn't in those days? and the price was right unlike today's very expensive zoo tickets which only millionaires can afford. I didn't like the monkey cage though, too much like people:- sitting on different levels and pooping down on the monkeys below:- they had their own "pooping order", just like humans!

[@andrewcharles459]

@@eve-marie6751 LOL. I was going to mention how bad that cage smelled. I'm having an olfactory flashback now...

[@dmitripogosian5084]

​@@patriciamalloy9922 Ah, I spent my 7 years in Toronto in the 90-s on just north of Jones and Danforth

[@user-wn5th8nt9f]

When I was a kid in the 70's and 80's. my dad would take us for a drive down the 401 to the QEW, To DIXIE Road, Port Credit, Long Branch.....we would end up on Lake Shore Blvd..and you could see The Royal York for miles. Today, you can't see The Royal York unless you are directly beside it.I remember listening to 1050 CHUM , CHUM FM, and Toronto had a awesome country music station. Thanks for the memories.

[@user-ik4kh9lt6d]

I would do anything to go to this time.

[@northlander4370]

i was there...cant ever forget what a wonderful time the sixties were

[@Moxy770]

@@joeydepalmer4457 I dont blame-ya Joey!!!

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

I was just a kid in that time period and it was pretty cool era I gotta admit. I remember goin to my local Towers Department Store twice a week to secure my ever so sacred CHUM chart.

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Nice! A buddy of mine has a chart still from our local radio station from 1968!

[@mikec886]

I listen to Chum

[@glen6945]

and just think the leafs won the stanley cup in 1967

[@GordoGambler]

With a bunch of OLD guys. LOL.

[@bikerheart]

@2:43 Mar 1-2, 1965. . .the Leafs were the defending Stanley Cup champs (for the 3rd year in a row)

[@stevieG.]

Lovely slice of nostalgia here even if I'm from London and never been there - what's really great though is that we're still listening to the same song's.!!

[@mikec886]

Yorkdale mall

[@aloha_27]

Yep. 1965. "Get off of my Cloud" was #2 in Sept. '65 per the clip. It subsequently went to #1.

[@marktilley7222]

38 degrees F is awful cold for September!

[@jango1970]

I remember listening to CHUM in the 70's. I think that is Yorkdale Mall at 1:25 and 1:43 . Thanks for posting.

[@brian13105]

Born in Toronto in 1951 at Women's College Hospital and still live here in 2023 and no video has taken me back the way the soundtrack on this one did . Boy that was magic .

[@andreevaillancourt2177]

Wow, does this ever take me back! Boy do I miss the radio! Particularly 1050 CHUM Toronto. Listened every morning and after school. Always had to get the latest number one hit on the CHUM Chart after school on Fridays' at Cedarbrae Plaza/Mall's Sam The Record Man record store. Me and my girlfriends from school used to save our babysitting money and our allowance, so we never missed a Friday after noon getting the latest hit. Then we'd all go over and play them on Sandys' record player in her basement at her house. Man those were the days!

[@k_DAN]

And did you get your jeans from Simpsons or the Jean Machine ?

[@andreevaillancourt2177]

@@k_DAN Jean Machine of course. It was a brand new store, only squares and old women bought their bell bottoms from Simpsons. 😊🤷🏽🧓🏽✌🏽 So sad when Jean Machine went out of business. End of an era.

[@derekhilton8859]

Look at those beautiful cars!

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

I know, eh! Big boats! 👌

[@speakfreeley4473]

Yes! Proper cars!

[@coldlakealta4043]

There were even, God forbid, some Corvairs - and they weren't even upside-down!

[@eve-marie6751]

​@@le__graveuronyoutube I remember as a 20-something trying to drive a 1968 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a 455-cube engine (ie:- 7.5 litres!) with 200 hp:- it was like steering an ocean-liner and when I took it out on the 401 first time and accidentally put it into overdrive it zoomed and the front wheels momentarily came off the pavement and threw everyone back into their seats with a lot of g-force:- this was a seriously scary driving experience! If it had wings it would fly!

[@555ontario]

Back in the day, when life was simpler and the world seemed more joyous. A good life for most seemed to still be within reach. That held true until 2020... Once that thing went around the globe, it sadly seemed to set in motion the seeds of drastic change. Now, the good old days will likely only be for the select, much fewer, well to-doers. These videos bring back the wonderful days when almost all could enjoy a pretty nice life, even on a modest income. One didn't deal with anywhere near as much madness as seems so prevalent nowaday. Oh well, make the most of your time, while you can. This theatre, we call life, does have a closing scene. Thanks for posting the video. ❤

[@imisstoronto3121]

I would have been around ten in 1965 but yes I remember getting my Chum Chart and going to Sam The Record Man or A&A's to get records. I loved the shots of Yorkdale in its early years, i think it was built in the early 60's and they won't leave it alone, even today!!

[@coldlakealta4043]

Just a few years before these shots of Yorkdale my Dad was landing fighter jets at 200 feet right over the site what was to become Yorkdale on what was then RCAF Base Downsview on the NE corner of Dufferin and Wilson. Wilson was a gravel road.

[@TheoneCallahan]

Love the British American BP gas station. I was 11 yrs old. Keel subway station was where the subway ended. Thanks for these.🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Np, I love nostalgia like this myself! My city of birth. 👋

[@eve-marie6751]

@@le__graveuronyoutube When the Bloor-Danforth line opened on Feb 26/66 the TTC did something amazing:- they were giving away free subway tokens at Keele on a Saturday morning, two to a customer and I certainly got my share!

[@danielthoman7324]

I remember B/A gas stations. Also Supertest.

[@James_Knott]

Ummm... British American was B/A, which became Gulf, which became Petro Canada. There used to be a B/A a couple of blocks from where I grew up in Oakville. I remember the Coke machine out front, which only sold small glass bottles of Coke. Great stuff!!!

[@James_Knott]

@@le__graveuronyoutube Mine too. I was born in Grace Hospital and my parents had a bake shop on Kingston Rd. at Lawlor. They apparently were well known for their butter tarts!

[@terencereed1223]

And the Rolling Stones are stil going strong.who,d have thought that?

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Yep! The are still rolling along quite nicely! Big fan here ✌️

[@thesocialartsclub9095]

Radio had that vintage radio sound. Nice.

[@coldlakealta4043]

Yes, kind of an echo or vibe effect. Wonder if they did it on purpose?

[@mayasmudja8440]

Hi! Thank you for posting ❤️ I was born in the 90s, but the first image is where I grew up. It was mostly unchanged from this photo to how it was when I grew up there. I got so excited to see the original structure of this area in Etobicoke. My mom could even pinpoint the first apartment building my family lived in when I was born (literally where my mom carried me in her belly). That area used to have a Valu-mart, some smaller convenience stores, a bakery, pharmacy, hairdressers, a bar, laundromat, and a daycare. There was a mechanic shop near a basketball court. It was a nicer time...everyone knew everyone. Even though it was such a big area. It felt like a community. It's gone now and they've built condos in it's place. It makes me sad knowing no one will have that experience again. All well. Memories are still there. 😊

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Awesome 👍 .... Glad it brought back some memories! I myself was actually born in North York, but my family left the city when I was 2. I still go back to visit from time to time. Glad this video resonates! Cheers 😊

[@despicablemonster]

Lol this station Seems exciting better than any ads on today's radio

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Agreed! The music, the ads, everything!

[@coldlakealta4043]

It had a sound signature like no other. Within 2 seconds of turning the dial you knew you had it.

[@bbrown5887]

This was a real gem. Today’s stations often lack that dynamic advertising, DJ enthusiasm and creativity. Back then listening to the radio was a widow to the world of enthisiasm that was exciting and fun. In my household, whomever got up first in the morning turned the radio on before anything else. The world was far from perfect but people were excited about how it was progressing. A lot of today’s media company’s have stopped prioritizing an entertainment agenda for political and special interest ideologies etc. If today’s generation could even sample a little of what it felt like back then.

[@WeazelJaguar]

I had two of the charts from the late 60's, it was amazing the variety of tunes that were top 40, at the same time! Always wanted to blow them up POSTER SIZE!!!!

[@barrysims9906]

Thank you for the trip back.

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

No worries!

[@coldlakealta4043]

@@le__graveuronyoutube from me too!

[@s.avelar.7979]

I was born in 65 came to Canada 1969...so cool to see. 👍🇨🇦

[@RacerX888]

When I was a kid in the 60's, I used to live just behind the plaza in the opening clip. We lived in the row of apartments you can see over the top of the plaza.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Lightfoot : " Toronto The Good " --- " The City is quite big but the circle of friends is small . "

[@James_Knott]

When I was a kid, CHUM was the station to listen to. We wouldn't be caught dead listening to CFRB. I used to have a CHUM Bug card in those days. I grew up in the east end of Oakville, not far from the CHUM and CFRB transmitters, which were just across the line in what's now Mississauga.

[@thegoldendog7991]

CFRB was my father’s station. He had it on every morning to listen to Jocko Thomas. I was a CHUM listener.

[@coldlakealta4043]

so, you were a CHUM Bug - did you ever Win It This Minute?

[@James_Knott]

@@coldlakealta4043 No, didn't win anything. 😞

[@rward8872]

"I'm a CHUM bug! Are you?"

[@coldlakealta4043]

I'm a CHUM Bug who never did Winit This Minit! But I did do the Hit Pickers' Hit Parade ...

[@1dilligaf]

It’s a bloody shame the kids nowadays are never going to get the chance to grow up with the same freedoms and safety we had in the 1960s and 70s. I remember myself and three friends hitchhiking from Scarborough to the CNE at the age of 12 because of a bus strike we never had any issues getting a ride either way

[@James_Knott]

What a wimp, only hitchhiking from Scarborough to the CNE. I hitchhiked from Oakville to Kitchener and from Severn Bridge (north of Orillia) to Toronto. I also rode my bike from Port Credit to around Pape & Gerrard and from Scarborough up past Barrie to Minesing.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

My daughter was going by herself on foot to the school at 8, back in 1994

[@iwantthe80sback59]

I used to listen to CFTR but always got my CHUM Chart every week.

[@davidmacphee8348]

I remember CFTR a bit. Could you refresh me with what you remember? It will all come back. The funny thing is that I was literally in a totally different body back then. All my cells have been replaced many times over but the Me of me is still here, way high up, in the 21st Century already but I am old and can't remember where I parked my stupid flying car.

[@Argonaut121]

I got mine too. At Dave Snider's music store on Yonge, north of Eglinton.

[@richardthompson6366]

Randy Rivers in the morning?

[@imisstoronto3121]

@@richardthompson6366 I remember Tom Brady in the morning; his joke was to remind people to take the meat out of the freezer for dinner tonight!!! LOL Also remember Terry Steele!

[@tomryan914]

@@imisstoronto3121 Now Tom Brady takes 'Alpo' or 'Kal Kan' for his wife!

[@johnkay9112]

This was an Amazing video, Love the photo's, and memories from Chum.....to bad CHUM is a Train Wreck now.

[@James_Knott]

That happened to the radio and TV stations that Bell took over. CHUM was at it's best when it was owned by the Waters family, IIRC. They also own a couple of TV stations, including CKVR in Barrie.

[@barrysims9906]

Nice blast from my past thank you. Born in TO in 58. I was 7 then. 😊

[@kabiam]

It's a heartache Nothing But A Heartache. Those Were The Days My Friend.

[@justpassinthruonR66]

I had 60 Chum-charts from '63 to about '67. At flea markets I couldn't get $1.00 each so I still have them. I once drove all night to New Brunswick listening to 1050 Chum. I had the station the whole time until I turned off the car radio once I had arrived. When I turned it back, the station was gone and I couldn't tune it back.

[@mikedrown2721]

It would be nice if CFZM am 740 get the PAMS series 27 JET SET jingles from 1964. They are still available as far as I know. Thanks for showing, I enjoyed it very much.👍👏😊♥️

[@midnightrambler7716]

First shot is of Humbertown Plaza on the Kingsway near Royal York Road, much as I remember it from the 60’s. Years after this, my sister briefly lived in those apartments behind the cleaners (at the far end of the plaza…at least I think it’s cleaners), which later became a Shoppers Drug Mart (not sure if it still is since I haven’t been by there in years). My public school Humber Valley Village that I went to from the mid 60’s to the early 70’s was just NW of this on the Kingsway. Spent much of my youth hanging out here, pretty much right behind where the picture is taken from, where there used to be a smoke shop (what they used to call convenience stores) where we used to buy our 10 cent chocolate bars and 10 cent Hostess chips in the foil bags and 8 cent pops!

[@packratswhatif.3990]

Oh yes I remember these days with CHUM as I was a 'Chum-Bug' . The main station of Toronto ...

[@bbrown5887]

That was awesome!

[@user-db6pt7vr3l]

When Toronto was mostly homogeneous and on Sundays the city shut down. Miss those days.

[@pacificbob24]

Does anyone remember Al Boliska, Bob Macadory, Mike Darrow "two mikes and one turntable", Dave Johnson and Bob Lane doing the all-night shift? I remember the CNE as 'CHUM checks from the Ex'. I especially remember the Chum Chicks. I moved to Vancouver in 1967 and worked in radio for a while, inspired by CHUM. I also remember the CKEY Good Guys.

[@berwick777]

The Prez Brian Skinner was a great DJ. After CHUM he left the broadcasting business and moved to Washington state and became an art teacher for gifted students. His son Kori told me that. He DJ’ed at CHUM in the 90s.

[@davidmacphee8348]

yeah, I think Brian Skinner was my favorite. Didn't he have a "Fright night" show on Fridays? Also, Even as a kid, I loved Larry Solway's talk show

[@berwick777]

@@davidmacphee8348 the Grooveyard

[@davidmacphee8348]

@@berwick777 Thankyou Marty!

[@coldlakealta4043]

@@berwick777 Yep, the Groove Yard with his gf Barbed Wire

[@mollydcanada7276]

During this time, we were driving along the Queensway & the water was up to the hubcaps. CHUM is giving us a weaher update: "Sunshine outside our windows here today! Another great summer day in Chum city!" Right!!!

[@PatreceSunflower]

Nicely done! ✅

[@tdunph4250]

@00:08 Grew up right around the corner from this Plaza...Humbertown Plaza it's called! :) Those buildings in the background were put up in the mid-late 60's

[@anma2267]

eatly 50.s.

[@johnnypoker46]

'Get Off My Cloud' by the Rolling Stones and 'Yesterday Man' by Chris Andrews are two of the best songs of 1965

[@cacampbell3654]

I was living in Toronto and a CHUM listener at that time. CBC radio fan now and a provincial indigenous station - love the sounds of Cree and Dené! Good quality radio develops an ability to process ideas, info, with sound alone - very different from using visual mediums. And helpful in terms of developing an ear for languages, grammar, etc.! #loveradio

[@emjaydark2811]

CBC lies about everything.

[@lvfreeAdventures]

Love old Canada ❤

[@terenceoneil7670]

as a kid in scarboro in the 60's 70's, i was led by an older sibling to become a professional shoplifter....i have since amended my ways

[@tonyking7714]

I love the Dj's laugh.

[@derrickharvey295]

Who remembers the great morning guy...."Al Boliska" and the antics he used to get up to.......what an era.....everyone seemed happy and content.......I sure was, going to school in Weston and carrying my transistor radio on my shoulder, listening to CHUM. I have one chum chart in my souvenir tote....the chipmunks were number 1....yikes

[@andrewffrench4265]

I remember having the chum zodiac buttons and the chum CNE midway from the 1970s

[@coldlakealta4043]

used to spend our Ex days inside the Prince's Gate at the mobile station checking out the CHUM Chicks! In the mid-70s a CHUM DJ named Mike Cooper rode the Ferris wheel at the Ex for the whole 21 days of the show.

[@WeazelJaguar]

Great posting, now do The Spirit of Radio, CFNY-FM, loved their announcers too!

[@168charger]

There's a Blast from the Past" Great memories while growing up in Totonto. Who remembers the DJ "Shotgun" Tom Rivers?

[@CanadianSmoke]

I used to listen to CHUM FM 104.5... David Marsden.

[@pinocircular9913]

Yorkdale at 1:28 - 1:38

[@louiseahrens5575]

RR 1, Etobicoke????wow

[@xburk550]

Love how the give out the address of the winners. 🤪🥳🤪

[@dirtyduck1947]

funny listing to this Iwas born and raised about 120 miles north and bit east of toronto my dad ran a garage beside the house , my mother hated rock and roll music she called it jizz jazz, garbage etc, so when I wanted to listen to chum I had to go to the garage and dad had a radio out there or there was a old car with no motor in the back yard that I would put a battery in and listen to the radio that way ,who remembers the time chum had cruise nights in toronto or at the CNE 9 canadian national exabition) chum had a stage on the midway with pretty girls giving away 45 records and paper fans the girls were called chuming birds

[@golf4ubacknine768]

Born July 1965 ❤️🎸

[@coldlakealta4043]

Turned 17 March 1965! Had a driver's license so the gf's and I could noodle around town in Grampa's VW Beetle and listen to 1050 in our own little cocoon. Unfair advantage, sure, but I wasn't ashamed!

[@glesgapal]

I came from Glasgow to Toronto in 1960 at age 15. 3 years at Winston Churchill Collegiate in Scarborough. Lived life to the fullest in the 60s. Saw the Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1965. They're wasting Toronto now with the forest of 50 storey shoebox sameness

[@Kns567]

I remember the jingle…1050 Chum…

[@buckaroo1949]

I recall if you answer your phone with "i listen to CHUM", and if it is CHUM calling, you could win big money.

[@Shackman66]

Look at the kings/giants of retail. Kresge, Simpson's (Sears), Tip Top (Dylex group), Eaton's even a huge player in finance Household. All relegated to the backbenches or gone altogether. In less than one persons lifetime. All of them failed to recognize two things: You can't keep taking out if you aren't putting in and failure to adapt = death.

[@coldlakealta4043]

Remember the lunch counters in Kresges and Woolworths?

[@chuckguyitt4017]

This should be CKLW Windsor now that was a radio station.

[@shawnkennedy855]

There is a documentary somewhere on youtube about "The big 8".I grew up listening to it

[@coldlakealta4043]

It had an influence on what was played and who was hot all over North America.

[@shawnkennedy855]

@@coldlakealta4043 Introduced a lot of Canadian bands to the American market as well(Canadian content laws)

[@cinthia9602]

1:40, Yorkdale!!🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@ratherbaked40]

Always tried to pull CHUM in back then, but it's apparently directional. In CA that usually means East-West

[@normguthrie8870]

Wow what a change, definitely nothing to look at now even in the 1980's far better place.

[@anonanon7235]

Time moved much more slower back then. People stayed at their jobs for decades and was cool with it. Pinball machines and sports were past times. You were well off if you made $20K/year.

[@imisstoronto3121]

yes but minimum wage was really minimum! I worked part time in the 70's and it was like $1.75 an hour. In 1965 it would have been less.

[@mtlicq]

in 1965 $20k/a. was a lot of money, You could buy a house with $20K

[@haweater1555]

0:34. There certainly aren't any "rural route" postal addresses in Etobicoke anymore.

[@coldlakealta4043]

You packed a lunch to go to Richmond Hill!

[@eve-marie6751]

@@coldlakealta4043 and Brampton was long-distance calling from downtown Toronto!

[@vassa1972]

I was born in '72 Listen to chum AM as a kid

[@JohnnyBoy1533]

I am not completely sure, but the third photo that appears at 0:23 looks like Lawrence Avenue East just west of Don Mills Road. Old Don Mills Centre would have been just off to the right.

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

The apartments look like around that area, new at the time I think. Yes!

[@lp3037]

Some of the buildings are still there. Unbelievable!

[@coldlakealta4043]

Yes. Thank heavens Toronto didn't tear them all down. That was the thing in those days - out with the old, and in with the new. We came unbelievably close to losing Old City Hall to make the Square bigger. They were just going to leave the Cenotaph. It was literally last minute.

[@keyzenthiru5867]

SOOO COOL

[@georgehenry76]

Every second car in the 70’s had a CHUM sticker

[@eve-marie6751]

CHUM-AM 1050 was Toronto's first "teenage" radio station so it was populated by "silly old farts" who still thought like teens:- ie arrested development! However in those days if you were a teen anyone over 25 was an "SOF"! My father, who could barely speak English, liked listening to CHUM:- it was the perfect accompaniment to a bottle of beer! His favorite song was "Big Bad John":- he renamed our cat as "Big Bad Cat" when he heard this song. My favorite CHUM person was Al Boliska who looked fairly "normal" while standing still (which he hardly ever did) but otherwise was quite zany. Al B was also the Official World Custodian of "elephant jokes", a genre which fortunately he euthanized before it drove the World totally batty! Al B suddenly died at 39 one day before his "40th":- the good die young! At the "Ex" each year they would hand out cardboard fans on a stick with the logo "I'm a CHUM fan!" but in the "cow palace" some "smarty-pants" was always sure to leave a CHUM fan sticking out of a pile of cow poop. Today's teens and 20-somethings seem so deadly serious by comparison:- young "old fogies" before their time:- why is youth always wasted on the young!?

[@brian13105]

Wow ! Your comment reminded me about Al's " Elephant Jokes " . I haven't remembered those for 60 years .

[@eve-marie6751]

Yes, and this mischievous "teeny-bopper" made her own dreadful contribution to that genre! We also had those dinky little Japanese-made handheld transistor radios in those days so teens could listen and dance to the music anywhere and everywhere to the endless irritation of adults! That first picture in the video seems to be Humbertown Plaza just north of Dundas and Royal York:- see the reference to "stamps" on the Loblaws window?:- those were bonus stamps the store handed out with each purchase and you pasted them into a book and when it was full you redeemed it for something:- my mother had a few books with one for each store-chain and I kept track of them for her:- "Little Miss Bookkeeper" here!@@brian13105 🙂

[@peterhogan9537]

we want CHUM back.

[@paulzielinski3594]

Cool ☺👍

[@jeremythornton6090]

Who remembers “2 in a row. On ten five oh!”

[@travisazzopardi8024]

Remember hoping someone would see your CHUM sticker on your car so you'd win? Pepperidge farms remembers...

[@jackdddddddddd]

Where is the morning guy Al Boliska and maybe a World's Worst Joke. Looked forward to hearing him every morning on the way to work.jack demille

[@donmorfeo8901]

Wow Yorkdale mall when it actually meant something.

[@glennsankey8186]

Love it. The country was strong and free. Until now.

[@eve-marie6751]

Let's not forget Geets Romo (David Haydu) and his partner Pete Giffin who came along on CHUM only a few years later ca 1970:- in the Summer of 1973 there was a shortage of camping spots in Algonquin Park so Geets proposed an amazing solution:- high-rise tents but no one could figure out how to close the zipper at night on a 60-storey tent so it went nowhere!

[@palette_1563]

I was born in 1963 at Scarborough General. The older I get the more surreal life seems, it's really strange sometimes. Isn't time experienced differently by everyone? Time is relative, at least according to Einstein.

[@TimothyForbesXXI]

2:26: Similar to what WTRY (and Boston's WMEX) had as well!!!

[@le__graveuronyoutube]

Yes a lot of the stations had the same type of jingles and station IDs. Pams was a big company doing this during that era, and the famous 'Good Guys' schtick .... There were Good Guys on almost every station across North America, I think. I especially like the synthsonic jingles and station IDs that sounded like they were either robotic or mixed in with a reverb.

[@bigtaxrefund]

1:52 yorkdale mall. my god i wasnt born until 71