Late 60s, Early 70s Toronto, Canada, 8mm Home Movies

[@5346565]

I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat.

[@johncorcoran4250]

Yes indeed

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Me too. Let’s build a Time Machine.

[@L1V2P9]

Thanks. I was in my early 20's then. It was a Toronto I truly miss!

[@littleflower8915]

Maybe.But Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister and he was ruining Canada.We voted Trudeau in(I was the only one among my peers who voted Stanfield.) because he was young,trendy"groovy".Now his Son",Twinkie," carries on his old man's legacy and not for the best of Canada.Cheers!

[@TheFirstCause]

@@littleflower8915 He was a traitor who created the multiculturalism mind plague that is destroying the Western world. The West is the least racist, least sexist, least bigotted most advanced places on Earth. It is that way BECAUSE of Western culture. We needed multiracialism united around Canadian based culture. That was it. Instead we now mass import cultures that never went through any social revolutions and simply want to use multiculturalism as a loophole to colonism and spread theocracy, medieval ideologies. Race is not culture. Race is race. I vomit thinking I voted for his son. I voted liberal my entire life. But Trudeau 2.0 has ended that with his Woke political religion insanity.

[@carlinthomas9482]

@@TheFirstCause Well said, many of us feel the same way.

[@wais_45]

@@TheFirstCause Probably the most typical braindead Conservative take i've seen. What you said is completely false, just say you dont like non-white people and keep it moving.

[@calebmanuel17]

@@wais_45 I support Justin Trudeau as a Indian he should be prime minister in next 15 years.

[@tdunph4250]

Back when Toronto was Toronto The Good!!

[@Laughandsong]

And also Toronto the Boring!

[@funkfunkable]

Yonge Street was very seedy..

[@funkfunkable]

@@Laughandsong best live bands and bars back then...

[@thegoldendog7991]

@@Laughandsong I’ll take boring over today’s conditions any day.

[@francislo5470]

Thank you for sharing the video. My favourite part is definitely the interesting mix of unfamiliarity (different skyline with fewer tall commercial buildings ) and familiarity (City Hall, Gardiner Expressway) plus zero count of anyone using a cell phone! Love it!

[@hassanqureshi2101]

fantastic video

[@LoveLife-yh7ke]

I remember Toronto and Nathan Phillips Square so well when I lived in Toronto in the 1970s. It was a great time to be alive with nice respectable people. In comparison The people in 2019 are a disrespectful cesspool. I wish I could jump into this video and go back to the 1970s

[@rontyler1234]

The footage at Nathan Philips square was taken on the Orangemans Day parade, hence all the Orange balloons. It is forgotten today but back then it was a big day for the cities Protestants....

[@rontyler1234]

Everyday I would eat my brown bag lunch in Nathan Philips square, checking out the girls...I'm an old geezer now, those were the best years..

[@jeffadapoolsbarta3305]

ya the EX was fun back then lots of free stuff

[@jsilence418]

Damn I remember TORONTO then ,taking the GO train from MIMICO down town seeing the Royal York hotel as you came out of union station, am I that old ? ...don't answer.

[@bodaciousbiker]

It's also kind of amazing to see how dirty the front of the Royal York Hotel was...probably due to decades of steam locomotives pulling into and out of Union Station...it certainly looks better today!

[@Firestone1]

Great upload! A kid wearing PF Flyer running shoes at 3:30, brings back memories!

[@studdedsail7126]

Everywhere you went there were fountains back then. Nowadays you don't see too many....

[@vk215]

My parents immigrated to Caanda in the late 60's from. These were the good old days, now Toronto has turned into a shit hole. Notice how everyone seems to be happy and social.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Love it! The CNE shots brought back a lot of memories. Thank you. ❤

[@bobbyjames4300]

All those people look the same , clean and showered..not today..

[@kenkur27]

Don't know about some of those hippies in the late 60s and early 70s...

[@dougtaylor2803]

This is a fantastic presentation and I want to thank you for providing it and congratulate you for having done such a wonderful job. Cheers!

[@carlcaccia7879]

Toronto late sixties and the seventies was just paradise room and kitchen 12$ a week

[@dominicbriganti5710]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS !!!

[@jessicaross4609]

Amazing video! Thank you so much for sharing 😁

[@soggyjungle6065]

Would love to see Dufferin Mall interior, and exterior early-mid 70's

[@prp3858]

Yup I remember all of this when I was child.

[@zhannahere20]

Nobody is holding a cell phone.

[@TheIronDuke9]

So what, they all have cigarettes instead

[@DejanOfRadic]

So beautifully filmed

[@infoupdater582]

believe me, there was more jobs on that time,every one looked happy,smiling,charming and rich

[@thefozzybear]

There was less population at that time too.

[@FS02012]

And it was better!

[@1928ModelA1931]

And better dressed.

[@bodaciousbiker]

If some time traveller from the 21st century came up to me in 1969 or 1970(and if I was old enough to even care or understand) and told me that the circular York St. offramp from the Gardiner Expressway would someday be replaced with something called 'Love Park', or that the quaint little building with the white trim across the street on the waterfront would be selling a pastry called a 'Beaver Tail' to throngs of tourists, I'd probably look at him askance as though he needed his head examined!

[@MegaTmarshall]

People seem to take more pride in their personal appearance back then. I don't see too many bluejeans or slobs anywhere...not a panhandler to be found! Wow! There doesn't appear to be too much obesity either. We all are eating too much sugar and processed foods now. imo Our society is seriously regressing.

[@ichtube]

Great footage but why not put some music on it?

[@touringthecitywalking9209]

Toronto in the 60s and 70s-no Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Jamaicans, or even a good shawarma spot! No sushi, no biryani, no jerk chicken, or all those spicy curries! How did they survive without all the flavor we have today? 😂

[@rontyler1234]

I saw the footage of the St. Charles at Yonge and Alexander, that was gay before gay was popular. No one today would believe that people would line Yonge St. across from the tavern on Halloween night and throw tomato's and eggs at the gay men, as they held their yearly drag parade in front of the St. Charles...Crazy how bad that sounds, but that's how it was I noticed the Old St. Charles still stands, it now houses a few retail stores, and is under going renovation

[@Genuinepleather]

Did this actually happen??

[@kenkur27]

@@Genuinepleather Yes, I remember seeing it in the mid seventies. There was a huge crowd. Most were there just to watch the partiers arrive, but others were hooting and hollering and throwing things.

[@bodaciousbiker]

Interesting to see how neglected and grimy 'Old City Hall' looked across the street from its shiny new counterpart. Around the time this movie was shot, the plans for the first iteration of the Eaton Center were afoot, and if built as originally proposed, Old City Hall and the charming little Church of the Holy Trinity would've been demolished and replaced by a complex of banal office towers and a new, flagship Eaton's store at the corner of Queen and Yonge St. The plan only allowed for the preservation of the Old City Hall clock tower, almost as a token nod to the past sitting in isolation amid the new buildings. Fortunately, these plans never came to fruition and the current version of the complex was decided upon instead. It's scary to think how close we came to losing both of these great old buildings!

[@martincvitkovich724]

Rochdale 1970

[@jeffadapoolsbarta3305]

micro dot hahaha.....

[@kenkur27]

I remember the last days of that place, I was living across the street.

[@RPRIMICI]

Back when the CNE was more fun. Now on the rides are blah and even the cable car is gone.

[@canman5060]

0:09 Look like the Commerce Court was under construction.

[@blueblaze9862]

When my parents inmigrated to Canada.

[@tdunph4250]

Did they need to be accommodated by they Federal Government???

[@sebastianjames7423]

@@tdunph4250 if they were refugees escaping death and prosecution who came here with nothing then yes

[@peterhogan9537]

the CHUM wild cat.

[@emills6075]

Residential schools were a thing

[@staycee1]

wow

[@mtlicq]

6:08 looks like she is handling a cellular phone call ( I know it's not )

[@hojoinhisarcher]

Sorta Kenyon and Michelly.

[@bodaciousbiker]

Scottish Highland dancers in Nathan Phillips Square, pith-helmeted mounted cops, crisply manicured gardens and even Sir Henry Pellatt's bizarre, Scottish Baronial/Gothic Revival mansion with the Spanish-sounding name of Casa Loma! If it weren't for the already burgeoning skyline(I do believe that was an embryonic Commerce Court West under construction), one might almost be forgiven for thinking this was Edinburgh, or at the very least, a suburb of London. The one thing that really sticks out to me is how 'British' Toronto was, or at least, aspired to be, for so long. Please don't get me wrong, I love the Brits, their amazing history and their culture, but 'Toronto the Good', as it was called back then, was always the much more boring, tamer and vanilla alternative to its bigger and brasher French-Canadian rival down the Seaway(yes, Montreal was bigger than T.O. at the time). Though those overwhelmingly white crowds in their mini-skirts and bellbottoms at the CNE might suggest otherwise, Toronto was already on its journey to becoming the multicultural metropolis it is today. That change, from a sleepy wannabe enclave of the British Empire to a metropolis of millions, composed of countless ethnicities and all else that goes with it, really became 'supercharged' in the late seventies and the eighties. As a result, Toronto today is a much richer, interesting and happening place than it ever was before. Not just a city with an incredible selection of great restaurants and vibrant neighbourhoods, but also a city where two men(or two women) in love can walk down the street holding hands without as much as a sideways glance from passersby, and without fear of being ridiculed or even arrested! Would I ever wish to go back to those 'olden', 'golden' days? Hell no(well, maybe just for a short day trip to seek out my seven or eight-year-old self and tell him, "Whatever you do son, hold onto those baseball and hockey cards for dear life!")

[@Busbybeats]

That's when Canada truly was Canada. Before the effects of Trudeau started the decay that we see today.

[@cosmith19]

What is Canada now?

[@hojoinhisarcher]

Trudeau was an effect not a cause

[@tdunph4250]

@@hojoinhisarcher Actually Trudeau senior was the cause and Trudeau junior is an effect. Think about it....

[@1928ModelA1931]

@@cosmith19 A 'multicultural' disaster with no coherent/cohesive identity.

[@1928ModelA1931]

@@hojoinhisarcher Trudeau Senior foisted multiculturalism on us. Trudeau Jr. revises history to justify the mess Daddy left behind.

[@stevebarbier5602]

52 ish seconds in Vauxhall Viva HA..................(GM)

[@Richard_Lush]

TO looks terrible now.

[@kenlompart9905]

Toronto was great back then but personally I think it peaked in the 80s and has been going downhill since.

[@Intellisecular]

Agreed!

[@mikedrown2721]

All those white people 😊

[@swiralgod]

It's ruined now

[@Test-vl1ib]

Always interesting to see public spaces before they were signed over to junkies and lunatics.

[@rosylove389]

No homeless back then

[@erics9754]

Libtards would see this and find something negative about it. Only a fool would say it is better now. Someone please invent a time machine.

[@dougtaylor2803]

100% agreement Eric! Those were indeed THE days!

[@erics9754]

Thank god I am still awake and do not sit by as my culture is sold off.

[@erics9754]

WTF.

[@erics9754]

No Stu but the numbers are too high we should still be what we were intended to be .Read a little history about how Canada was formed and built. I have no problem with any race of people some religions yes but people no. Saying that i believe Canada was better when it was 97 percent white and British culture was the prevalent one. It seems every other race can have a majority of their people in their country except for white countries did you every ask yourself why. I grew up in the Canada pictured here so i have first hand experience and it was way better then people had a feeling of togetherness we do not have today and patriotism and pride. I do not enjoy living in crowded cities that never had to be that way .Our corrupt goverment flooded Canada with third world immigration for its own evil and selfish reasons no one was asked.

[@cumbco]

So every other race can have a country but Whites eh Sunny?

[@perinestor2717]

My Toronto,with Eaton's,simsons, woolworth,metropolitan,cresge,Yorkville and other missing places.