Toronto in 1990(HD) Footage released in 1990 with some footage taken prior. credit: unknown www.oldtorontoseries.com
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@idreeschohan99772 жыл бұрын
Toronto my dream city.
@josecarranza75552 жыл бұрын
I wish I could go to Toronto.
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
This isnt the Toronto of today.. 90's was the last decade that this city was still wholesome. Now its daily shootings, overburdened social systems, and ghetto culture complete with crappy attitudes. A damn shame..
@admiraltamalak75592 жыл бұрын
@@ZeroMass “ghetto culture” - come on sport, say what you really want to say.
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
@@admiraltamalak7559 facts trigger you, Little Fella? google ANY major city, ANY violent crime, followed by suspect.. select images... Tell me, what should we like?
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
@@admiraltamalak7559 cat got your tongue, Princess? "In the late 1980s, gangs in Toronto were becoming increasingly violent. This coincided with the arrival of crack cocaine in the city, which caused more gun violence to occur in low-income neighborhoods.[38[41] In 1991, Toronto experienced its most violent year with 89 murders (that murder tally was surpassed in 2018), 16 of which were linked to drug wars involving rival gangs.[38][42]" All this whilst our media pushed NWA, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and the like... until it became mainstream for the low lq to consume and embrace.
@muratcanefe19692 жыл бұрын
ah yes the days where it didnt cost 1.5 million dollars for a 1000 sqft home
@CharlieND2 жыл бұрын
The sad truth. Now if I wanted to move back to the midtown neighbourhood I used to live in, I wouldn't be able to afford to.
@Jushwa2 жыл бұрын
Wdym, it costs 1.8 mil for a literal shed now 🤣
@dealwiddit50723 ай бұрын
What an absolute sh!t hole of a city. Close the borders please
@fartamplifer3 ай бұрын
lol my parents bought a 4,000 sq ft home in the Kingsway in 1983 for $350,000
@rochester32 ай бұрын
@@Jushwa so thats what home owners love
@GreekboyyD2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. Even her voice sounds like it’s coming out of a Sega Genesis cartridge.
@Shamsithaca2 жыл бұрын
maybe she was.
@respectedgentleman43222 жыл бұрын
SEEEEEEEEEGA
@davidstockman14562 жыл бұрын
Thats not what it actually sounded like tho on the vhs
@nicospencer94832 жыл бұрын
Especially that this is from the 90s
@zprodigalson2 жыл бұрын
😂
@FrankKnight88462 жыл бұрын
This is the Toronto I truly miss. I wanna go back and not return to the present.
@josecarranza75552 жыл бұрын
Why?
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
@@josecarranza7555 His heart and mind knows why.
@josecarranza75553 ай бұрын
@@gregcosta6965 Why though?
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Because Toronto is a far cry from what it once was.
@josecarranza75553 ай бұрын
@@gregcosta6965 What’s the difference between? Toronto is one of the cities I would like to visit.
@JonnBell2 жыл бұрын
I remember when people were actually allowed to have fun in Toronto. Good times.
@theworkethic2 жыл бұрын
What?
@YouYewelz3 ай бұрын
@@theworkethic Go sit around some benches in the subway with four people and take life slow. See if you're allowed to hang out, or if guards / surveillance start circling you expecting you to speed up.
@paulg627421 күн бұрын
haha ur not allowed to have fun?
@paulg627417 күн бұрын
@@YouYewelz sitting by some plants was your main source of fun? 😅
@153eddy2 жыл бұрын
The good old days when Toronto was still small enough to be prosperous and affordable
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
mel lastman killed toronto
@SuzukiKid4002 ай бұрын
@@ZeroMassnoooooooo body!!!
@actionjackson4422 жыл бұрын
I would like to visit this magical place someday. Unfortunately I live in Toronto. Wait a minute..
@georgejetson10252 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jonathanandrew29092 жыл бұрын
Aw! What changed?
@simmerszalai91962 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanandrew2909 Lol! Seriously have look outside or lease take a trip to the island you see it.
@jonathanandrew29092 жыл бұрын
@@simmerszalai9196 i acknowledge there's more people and artifacts from this increase in population. are you saying people are the problem?
@kooldudeno-lastname5 ай бұрын
@@jonathanandrew2909 I mean he isn't wrong...
@Parkwaymania2 жыл бұрын
This WAS Toronto, a long lost love, now unrecognizable. Give me a time machine and I'll spend the rest of my days in Hogtown circa 1970-1990.
@dustymiller652 жыл бұрын
I think you're just lost in the romantic traffic of the past, my friend. (A place where dreams turn off and on like the street lights.)
@razatiger222 жыл бұрын
There was almost nothing better about Toronto back then lol. It had a lot less of just about everything, besides crime which was twice as high in the 90s as it is now. I think you are just suffering from nostalgia.
@davidkwizera94572 жыл бұрын
The devil did us a diservice by introducing iphones.
@mathewvanostin71182 жыл бұрын
Toronto was very good 2000-2015 this was the prime of toronto. When they won the battle of canada's number 1 elite city against Montreal & Vancouver But it had too much sucess, it became like new york/los angeles/san francisco too much elite. Everyone want to live there. So the cost of living is insane And this cost of living is 100 times more painful when you have 5 month of freezing winter. And 2 month of non freezing but very cold weather 😂 At least if it was Miami or Los Angeles. You be like at least i am near the beach. I can chill in the pool all year. The weather is good all year long. But this is not the case 😂 Toronto has more or less same rent prices as Los Angeles and honolulu hawaii. Its way more expensive then Miami or any florida cities. Yet we are freezing half the year 😂 And our beaches are a joke. You can only enjoy it 3 months a year. Lot of spots are dirty. And the beach often have a very strong smell of piss and weird smelly thing. Cause too much people go there. And i guess hundreds of people are peeing there daily behind trees or bushes at night. Which cause that weird smell 😂
@GG-vq6ro2 жыл бұрын
@@mathewvanostin7118 your wrong. Toronto in the 80s and 90s was the best. City still had its soul. Crime rate isn't everything. New York was way better back them too even with higher crime rate. Now the crime is done by the government. Toronto is just a libtard hell hole now.
@FireflyLightningBug10 ай бұрын
The late 1980s were the best, even at 1990! Incomparable! "Protoronto"
@TheMarky263 ай бұрын
100% these were the glory days of Toronto..I'm glad I had a chance to grow up there in the 80s.
@briangraham1024Ай бұрын
Lived in Toronto from '84 to '88. Great times!
@sarah21722 жыл бұрын
It's great to see what Toronto looked like pre-condos and unaffordable housing everywhere (ironic combo), I remember the garden thing at new city hall vividly, thanks for this!
@FG-bu3jp2 жыл бұрын
@@mitismee toronto was better before profit took over
@MrPatrick14142 жыл бұрын
Yes... condos have destroyed TOs culture
@atagadol2 жыл бұрын
@@mitismee not at all. What is beautiful? Overpriced, small sized, high raised condos.one beside another. You can shake hand of your next building neighbour. Skyscrapers covering the sky and the sun.
@vincentlin13622 жыл бұрын
Without the condos Toronto would be even more unaffordable
@shayseahawkraptorfan2 жыл бұрын
yeah overpopulation ruined it.
@Shamsithaca2 жыл бұрын
I would LOVE to go back to the 1990s...the world was a much better place.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
agree. Mid and late 80s too, we didn't know how good we had it. At least I didn't being a kid/adolescent/teenager.
@user-qz5qy3xq5p2 жыл бұрын
Then we had terrorist problems in the 2000s.
@robertharper31142 жыл бұрын
@@user-qz5qy3xq5p This was the start of the slow downfall into now.
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
@HV demographics killed the city.
@Game_Hero2 жыл бұрын
Afghanistan, Rwanda and the ex-USSR countries definitely agree with you
@navpreetsingh38232 жыл бұрын
No cell phones, less stress, no 9/11 impact, low crime , more honesty… what a time ❤️
@bairongshao61605 ай бұрын
A time that will never come back
@MR-te5fk3 ай бұрын
No crazy lgbtqxyx and Muslim radicals... That's the biggest difference
@autograndeunlimited3 ай бұрын
Less attractions, no internet, worse communication, worse entertainment, worse racist xenophobic people, less jobs, less honesty, etc
@railfandepotproductions3 ай бұрын
@@MR-te5fkShut up racist moron, you're breaking KZbin TOS
@scottyrobot3 ай бұрын
1991 was the peak of homicides in toronto history
@enriquerojas1604 Жыл бұрын
Born in 1974. Lived in Toronto. I loved this old skyline.
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Now it's called Moronto or Boronto:)
@BrooklinFunkProject2 жыл бұрын
I was a courier in Toronto in the early 90's as a 20 something kid.... man, what a time - what memories!!!
@ClintScottFischer2 ай бұрын
1990 in Toronto feels like yesterday, I can still remember the weather. Middle of January felt like spring for a little while.
@condoz20092 жыл бұрын
I throughly enjoyed this. Gosh I miss the Toronto of yester-year
@gurtejbauer6592 жыл бұрын
Same
@blairwilliams1362 жыл бұрын
You said it my friend , but you know what? Even for its faults I still love it.
@cliveroberts87602 жыл бұрын
This is my childhood. Im going to have a aneurysm from all the nostalgia vibes
@benythjet2 жыл бұрын
Toronto was clean and beautiful back then... Seems so long ago
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
mel lastman destroyed it.
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
@@ZeroMass No because Mel Lastman was only mayor of North York wasn't he? It was the following mayors who destroyed it.
@ZeroMass3 ай бұрын
@@gregcosta6965 no Melvin Douglas Lastman was a Canadian businessman and politician who served as the third mayor of North York from 1973 to 1997 and 62nd mayor of Toronto from 1998 to 2003. He was the first person to serve as mayor of Toronto following the 1998 amalgamation of Metro Toronto and its six constituent municipalities. The amalgamation screwed up everything. Trudeau finished the job with his importation of mass mediocrity.
@barzinlotfabadi2 жыл бұрын
Bring 1990s Toronto back
@WestShore882 жыл бұрын
Living in 2022 and knowing a much much different city today. This really hurts to watch
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah( spoken like a True Canadian) while scarfing down timbits and sipping timmy's coffee:))
@laydeedeathstrike2 жыл бұрын
So weird to see the CN Tower without all the condo buildings surrounding it!!!!
@chaiellexo2 жыл бұрын
I live in the condo right beside the cn tower built in 2002. Like i look out my window and see the cn tower. And its heartbreaking to see this area being burned to the ground with condos. And i feel guilty even living in one :(
@momohkakulatombo-misoi1262 жыл бұрын
Freaking weird!
@urbanistgod2 жыл бұрын
That was before the foreigners came in
@CharlieND2 жыл бұрын
I'd take condos over ugly parking lots any day. I think we can all agree on that.
@urbanistgod2 жыл бұрын
@@CharlieND No. condos are the worst kind of housing
@alisheriff9289 Жыл бұрын
Frankly, the city today is utterly unrecognizable from what’s in this video.
@user-qd9mm5mt4i3 ай бұрын
For the worse.
@KP-my1ud3 ай бұрын
So is the whole world.
@TheUniverseAroundUsNews2 жыл бұрын
Omg... The nostalgia of seeing this! I was 10yrs old in 1990. I grew up in downtown Toronto and seeing this brings back memories. 👍
@OldTorontoSeries2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@rainbowfrequency18 ай бұрын
Same!! I remember walking to the Eatons Center, worlds biggest bookstore and saving up to buy clothes at the Betsy Johnson store on queen st!
@ddedwards60052 жыл бұрын
Childhood memories - so much fun playing in the parks, going to baseball games, having BBQ's, full of ❤ and community !
@Freshlygrazed2 жыл бұрын
Toronto looks like such a lovely place to live. No Traffic, not a lot of people, cheap housing, lots of open space...
@torink82292 жыл бұрын
Hahah that’s a funny one 😭
@hamzasyed2 жыл бұрын
😂😭🙃
@gabriel.hongkong2 жыл бұрын
Well interest rates was above 10% and job market stunk.
@king_ziltch2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂👍
@C-mac_in_the_6ix2 жыл бұрын
You need to go watch current video of the city. Not one from 1990...lol.
@jettbridger23582 жыл бұрын
It’s a very youthful looking city in that it has yet to see the massive changes that will forever change its skyline. Definitely an awesome video and thank you for sharing!
@cn240studios52 жыл бұрын
Once upon a time it was the best place no one knew about. What a beautiful well kept secret.... so glad I grew up there, but never going back.
@celesteamour2 ай бұрын
I miss those days
@ranasidhu30402 жыл бұрын
No cellphone, no social media, affordable house, less crowd, no covid, life seems much better in 90's
@chronofantasy19872 жыл бұрын
We had very early day cell phones and internet. The internet came out in the 80s, but it was slow and not very common at all like today. People were still on their home phone all the time though for hook-ups and other things. I remember my mom would be on our house phone for hours when I was a kid in the 90s and plenty of cable TV and early video games. But we also got a lot of fresh air.
@ranasidhu30402 жыл бұрын
@@chronofantasy1987 agree chris
@spergnation13392 жыл бұрын
Wow. Looks gorgeous compared to now.
@Ronaldoshaw252 жыл бұрын
I’ve been living in Toronto for 16 years and it brought tears into my eyes even though I’ve never been through that era. Seeing the old life which is much happier and better and realized that we will never get back makes everyone sad, but we can still treasure the good memories we had and create a new one with our kind heart and effort :)
@HopeLaFleur19752 жыл бұрын
You are right Toronto was king they destroyed it with condos and buildings!
@Ronaldoshaw252 жыл бұрын
@@HopeLaFleur1975 yeah, I agree, and we can no longer afford a home :(
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Kind heart and effort? haha that's a good one. Everybody is ready to bite each other's head off. Contemporary city living in the 21st century. Anger and misery the new way of life.
@neocelestia2 жыл бұрын
To be able to go back thirty years and enjoy this again... What a wonderful look back at the Toronto of the past. So many childhood memories.
@roscoechance51552 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a 70s or 80s version of this
@MojoPin19832 жыл бұрын
@Roscoe & Chance This video is from the ‘80s. Notice that the SkyDome (1989), and Scotia Plaza (1988), are yet to be built. In fact, the Dome, whose construction began in 1986, shows no signs of being underway; that would indicate that this footage is from the early or mid-‘80s.
@brunettesweetie212 жыл бұрын
@@MojoPin1983 the skydome is in this video
@josecarranza75552 жыл бұрын
@Blank Name Lol
@admiraltamalak75592 жыл бұрын
@Blank Name Actually dummy, it was Trudeau Sr who made "us" prosperous only for Mulruney for fcuk it up with trickle down economics and end the 80's with one of the worst economic recessions of the 20th century.
@robertrobski10132 жыл бұрын
@Blank Name haha this good place never be back country is already third world
@lailayas2 жыл бұрын
This was the year my parents migrated to Canada as refugees. Such an amazing city and I’m forever thankful to live here.
@SkipPriest6872 жыл бұрын
Leave
@KCIsMe2 жыл бұрын
@@SkipPriest687 no u
@ramin95102 жыл бұрын
@@SkipPriest687 LOL and you can go back to Europe goofy
@leikeize47812 жыл бұрын
@@SkipPriest687 Well your government let us in so tell that to them lmao
@eliasyonuskeykey71462 жыл бұрын
you should seriously consider leaving, the City is so miserable now, just a dark vibe.
@CoolsBreeze2 жыл бұрын
Wow. What a difference. The CN Tower was noticeably the only building in that area that was tall. And there were only a handful of skyscrapers.
@user-ik4kh9lt6d2 жыл бұрын
I would do anything to go back to this time.
@semoihines1922 ай бұрын
I hear u
@josephschmoe20442 жыл бұрын
this is one hell of a film ill tell ya
@OldTorontoSeries2 жыл бұрын
100%
@soccerlife83712 жыл бұрын
This film gives me times where I remember that society was very simple. It makes me feel very connected with my young self.
@kerrbear1980 Жыл бұрын
RIP Toronto. Our future is bleak. It will never be the gem it once was.
@drlca66013 ай бұрын
After 2010, seems like the condos are everywhere and crime has exploded.
@ItsRaffyFlowers2 жыл бұрын
I miss Honest Ed's. My mom would take me there all the time when I was little. Bathurst and Bloor just isn't the same anymore now that it's gone. So sad 😞
@1dashcamboatsandcars2 жыл бұрын
Downtown cracked shooting sprees now.
@chronofantasy19872 жыл бұрын
Same. I felt like we went there at least once a month and I even remember going there for Christmas time once and there was a Black Santa.
@denmark_morales46952 ай бұрын
It’s so gentrified now it hurts
@Sgt_GloryАй бұрын
Another of my great childhood memories gone. Like Ontario place, the science centre, the monorail at the zoo, the Scarborough RT, list goes on.
@AlexOmiotek2 жыл бұрын
Aaaaaand I’m crying now. To think I could have been in the prime of my adulthood during this video instead of wasting these past two years. Oh how I wish.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
I had to go for a walk and I cried a bit. They say boys don't cry but what do they know? I would have been 15 when this video was filmed.
@AlexOmiotek2 жыл бұрын
@@neilwhitaker6284 Nothing shameful about that, better to be honest with your feelings. I was born in 1996 so this is quite foreign to me but the remnants of this era are what I grew up with and long for once again.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
@@AlexOmiotek thanks man I was being a little tongue and cheek. That's really cool you respect and admire the past. Not everybody of course but a lot of young people (your age down to High School age) seem to be waking up. I have a lot of hope for your generation.
@steaklover9482 жыл бұрын
This seems like the type of video my teacher would play in elementary school. They would get these videos from some ancient library.
@paulmarentette53462 жыл бұрын
A great reminder of how that period offered more affordable, accessible and easy things to enjoy here! Nostalgia is fun, but I've been inspired now to see how many of these places and opportunities remain, especially as Covid restrictions loosen. Going to have to venture out and rediscover Toronto!
@dustymiller652 жыл бұрын
I think you're just lost in the romantic traffic of the past, my friend. (A place where dreams turn on and off like the street lights.) 😉
@christopherreynolds69642 жыл бұрын
Housing wasn't "affordable" back then. Massive housing crash in the late 80s and 1990 was on the cusp of a long deep recession. Lots of people lost everything due to housing speculation. Hopefully this doesn't happen again, but i fear it will as many of the ingredients of that disaster are alive and well in today's Toronto
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
@@dustymiller65 Spoons reference?
@dustymiller652 жыл бұрын
@@neilwhitaker6284 You got it!! 🎶🏆🎉 You're a double blue Torontonian, through and through! "Romantic Traffic" by The Spoons, the '80's video featuring clips filmed on the T.T.C. (Toronto Transit Commission) subway.
@robertharper31142 жыл бұрын
@@dustymiller65 When people like you have to repeat your comments everywhere, we know that what your sellin' is bullshit! Things WERE better back then. It's not nostalgia.
@poserexposer7182 жыл бұрын
I was in grade 1 in 1990. Those where the days. Before social media ruined it all.
@unknownninja44303 ай бұрын
Started or ended in '90?
@JohnnyT0022 жыл бұрын
I had gotten this video after on of my visits to Toronto in the 90's. Thanks for posting it. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@chantalreneehayles79762 жыл бұрын
Damn I wish I was born 20 years earlier! The city sucks now 😭
@1234canadianguy2 жыл бұрын
As an almost lifelong Torontonian who was born in 1997, I'm fully in the same camp as you
@FG-bu3jp2 жыл бұрын
Agree born 1993, 2004 was when the vultures took over.
@peterhibbert76822 жыл бұрын
I was born in 2003 In Scarborough Lol
@thebacheafghan2 жыл бұрын
I like Toronto of today. Lots of skyscrapers and high rise condos. Proud of these condos.
@user-kt3yo3dc5h3 ай бұрын
@@thebacheafghanI bet you're a Punjab
@reallyrandomrides12962 жыл бұрын
For me, I think Toronto had its heyday from the 1950s to 1970s, and even the 1990s and 1990s were ok. Best of all, it was still affordable back then even if it was a bit more gritty and rough around the edges. I love watching old movies shot in Toronto from those bygone eras.
@ANGRYCSPLAYER2 жыл бұрын
Toronto started really going down hill in the last 4 years. Too expensive and the social scene is basically dead... which for me was its biggest pull.
@Shamsithaca2 жыл бұрын
tell us more....how was it rough around the edges? It looks so clean by the way.
@deplorablesteve8192 жыл бұрын
@@creepythinman1978 You can thank mass immigration for that
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
@@Shamsithaca Until about 1970 Montreal was the banking service centre of Canada and where the major stock market was located. Toronto was a working class city also called "Hogtown" because of all the meat packing plants there. After about 1970 the banks and stock market moved to Toronto from Montreal and the makeup of the city started to slowly change. When this video is made in 1990 Toronto was a clean city. I think what the poster you are asking a question to is that many areas like Queen St. for example where Much Music and City TV are were not gentrified in say the early 1980s. There was a fashion and textile industry there, very few chain stores. I think it was better then and it has lost its character but it was "grittier", less corporate. edit: from my memories which start in earnest in the early 1980s, Toronto was a safe, orderly and clean city for the most part but in the early 80s it was "gritty", more working class in many areas and when I left in 2011 it was mostly white collar service industry. Much more capital, small boutique shops were cleaned up and renovated or replaced by chain stores. That sort of thing.
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
You are correct. I said that in another response above. The real heydays of Toronto( or Toronnuh) were in the time frame you discussed. Especially the 1960s what a time that must have been in Toronto. The Leafs were awesome.
@lwest56862 жыл бұрын
Excellent! While I'm from the old Toronto, I'm new here on your vlog. I will watch as many as I can. One place I used to go, a long time ago, was Allen Gardens for a stroll through the greenhouses and picnic in the Park.
@PawnScript2 жыл бұрын
Sadly this area is full of crackheads now :(
@mgjk2 жыл бұрын
@@PawnScript dude, it's gotten better. There's a dog park now and a children's playground. And the crackheads were replaced with alcoholics.
@blacksheep79102 жыл бұрын
@@mgjk 🤔 🤣 🥴
@bhcuteboy2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this
@JeSuisHulk11 ай бұрын
I went back to Toronto after 20 something years couldn't recognize anything except that skinny building at 1:50 and the CN tower incredible how it changed.
@jessannreece56722 жыл бұрын
Man... this is the Toronto I love and remember. Look at the clean skyline yall! Unobstructed by condos... it was so beautiful once...
@FrankKnight88462 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, I have the same feeling.,
@SanjayPatel-sb5tx2 жыл бұрын
Toronto was beautiful back then. Now its infested with condos everywhere.
@SanjayPatel-sb5tx3 ай бұрын
@@craig221 🤔 racism. Nice. Felt good. Well don't blame me for not being a provider, protector, and supporter to your lovely wife so she can kick monkey butt and let you know we can't afford kids cuz you're still mama's boy.
@SanjayPatel-sb5tx3 ай бұрын
@@craig221 lol. Says a man who chose van life over being a provider, protector and supporter of his family. Ever thought why migration is required. Because you're too mama's boy not to have enough children since you can't afford them. Blame others for you own failures.
@Catciy2 ай бұрын
Tell me about it so true
@_ahsanalvi2 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe this was 32 years ago 👁👁
@JIMMY_NEMESIS2 жыл бұрын
this is truly a time machine that bring us back the pre-Condo and pre skyscraper era... so empty and free of chaotic... the old times as always intrigue me, 1990 I was only 6years old... hmmm interested to do a same documentary but with modern footage hahaha
@aravindkramesh2 жыл бұрын
*I remember watching these kind of videos on TV when I was a child.*
@akshayjd2 жыл бұрын
i was 5 years old.. but i remember this good as yesterday! i miss those days in the city!
@spendingtimetogether84282 жыл бұрын
Miss this Toronto❤
@chronofantasy19872 жыл бұрын
This is a great and very nostalgic video. I was born in Toronto in 1987 and I swear @5:54 of the video the little boy in blue is me at 3 or 4 years old at Ontario place watching the show. Unfortunately the video quality back then sucks so it's hard to tell. But this is still an interesting watch since there wasn't very many videos back then except some my dad used to take on his big cam recorder back then.
@liamwatson51252 жыл бұрын
Oh Toronto looked so nice in the 1990s!
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Actually Toronto was at its zenith i believe in the 50s and 60s. It was a fantastic time to be a Torontonian back then.
@Purplegorillaz2 жыл бұрын
Toronto in The 90s as a kid growing up was fun..Remember there was so much to do and see..Now it's just all business..Condos & Park Space..No Places to have fun or really take your family anymore. Biggz Was Here. 33.
@mervinprone3 ай бұрын
Without social intervention, every big city just becomes a museum and home to the ultra rich. Canada sold out to foreign buyers decades ago and this is the result now.
@blairwilliams1362 жыл бұрын
Where did you find this film ? It's truly phenomenal and brings me back to such a happy time in my childhood.
@littlejimmy28252 жыл бұрын
Probably was saved on some vhs tape hidden away
@ftkinsella2 жыл бұрын
Toronto was an amazing city to live in I’d say from the late 1960’s to the early 90’s. I moved in 1984. I miss the old Toronno. If you’re not dropping the last T then you’re not a Torontonian. Cheers!!!
@paulgill79402 жыл бұрын
toronnovirus
@gabrieldsouza65412 жыл бұрын
it still is a great place to live for lots of people
@vqh2 жыл бұрын
but you have to use the 2nd T when saying "Torontonian"....funny how that works. Never heard anyone say Torononian before.
@ftkinsella2 жыл бұрын
@@milosb9979 yea but that’s how we pronounce it.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
pronounced "Turrahnuh" for anybody not Canadian here. Like he pronounces it in this funny video kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIi1oI13aLeLf5Y
@bleepbloop70392 жыл бұрын
for some reason when looking at this, I think back to some of what my now deceased relatives and family friends were doing in the city back then in their day to day lives before they left this world, was 1990 that far back? thirty 30 years it doesnt seem that long ago yet it was, the essence of the city is still the same now, hah look at that - wonderland, remember those summers? hah my mom used to dress like this back when she worked downtown, what a nice time, I wish I could go back, the world seems a little colder now than then, a little more grey today and less bright, I will retain my memories of this bygone era in my mind and heart
@sjappiyah40712 жыл бұрын
The vibes are immaculate
@j.g.84943 ай бұрын
I lived in the Yonge & Eglinton area from 1976 to 1995. Back then, the neighbourhood was not as upscale as it seems to be now. Suffice it to say that at the corner of Yonge & Orchard View Blvd, there used to be a large dry-cleaning plant where the clothes were actually cleaned on the premises. Nowadays, the same site is an office building. The site of the Rose & Crown pub in the same area was, up to the late 1970s, a Funeral Parlor! The Yonge/Eglinton area was more livable and less hectic. There were no major construction projects going on between 1976 to 1995. Nowadays, the area is unrecognizable to me on KZbin videos. I was shocked when I first saw those SUPER TALL skyscrapers (or condos?) in the neighbourhood. They seem so out of place! Considering all the negative comments about present-day Toronto on KZbin videos, I consider myself very lucky to have lived there from 1976 to 1995.
@drlca66013 ай бұрын
I grew up in this area and now live on Duplex just a stone's throw from the station. Our view used to show the whole east end and the lake. In the last eight years, that view has completely been obscured by a platoon of condo towers. We can only see north now and there's not much to see that way. It won't be too long before we can't seen anything but glass condos. We are on the 29th storey!
@ClintScottFischer2 ай бұрын
Used to be one of the best areas in town. You're right, give man more time, and we will figure out more ways to ruin a good thing.
@king_ziltch2 жыл бұрын
I totally miss the Toronto of yesterday. Going down Yonge street was always fun. Maple Leaf Gardens was a great place to be, whether it was for Hockey or Concerts. And tripping out in the planatarium for the Lazer Rock shows.. Mmhm 🤘
@Taz.B2 жыл бұрын
The memories..... I was 6 yrs old then....
@KillaSlotsK2 жыл бұрын
WOW WOW . very wholesome. Gorgeous video of Toronto. Makes you wanna take things back
@mooneymash8126 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Brings back memories.
@asakurayoh39092 жыл бұрын
Imagine investing in real estate in 1990’s and now you don’t have to work.
@Demise90Racing2 жыл бұрын
I loved growing up in Toronto in the 90's. It's just sad to see that it has become a cesspool of condos and unaffordability. Pretty much everything iconic with the exception of the CN Tower and Skydome are gone, and they even tried to get rid of the Skydome too. Thankfully they are choosing to renovate it instead. Memories of my youth and teen years are literally the only thing that keeps me attached to this city because it's definitely not the same.
@timidesoul2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1997 - it's nice though to see how Toronto was before.
@1234canadianguy2 жыл бұрын
Also born in the same year. While I wish to relive the Toronto of the 2000s during our childhoods, the TO of the 80s/90s is a definite second choice for me.
@markjanssens16582 жыл бұрын
@@1234canadianguy 80s and 90s were a blast guys, and the diversity of music was awesome then too: hip hop, dance, pop, country, rock, metal, house, etc. Amazing times
@elthionel3 ай бұрын
We didn't know it at the time, but this was Toronto's glory days.
@briangraham1024Ай бұрын
Lived in Toronto from '84 to '88. Had a townhouse on Pacific Avenue close to High Park. Office was located downtown on Yonge Street right across from the Eaton Centre. Fun times during that era.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
I can only watch a little at at time, it is too depressing thinking how much we have lost and how far we have fallen. I left Ontario for good last year, grew up there but will never return. In the spring of 1991 we did a big project on Toronto for Geography, 2 day field trip observing the different neighbourhoods. I didn't know then what was going to happen to us, I suppose its that innocence and naivety that is lost that I wish I could get back.
@CA-ly7my2 жыл бұрын
Your being a bit dramatic. What changed?
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
@@CA-ly7my what you are doing is called gaslighting. It is a trick of abusive, manipulative and passive aggressive people.
@CA-ly7my2 жыл бұрын
@@neilwhitaker6284 I’m genuinely asking what changed. I was born in 2001 so I have no idea what Toronto was like 32 years ago
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
@@CA-ly7my Now you are lying. If you were genuine asking a question you wouldn't have written "your (sic) being dramatic". You are trying to make a point and debate me. Given you are too young to remember those days I have no interest in debating you and given your lack of manners and rudeness, conversing with you.
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
@@neilwhitaker6284 thats why born and raised canadians are leaving toronto in droves.. only the masochists and their beloved imports remain.
@smitagandhi62492 жыл бұрын
During those years No traffic on route, 5 minutes take 5 minutes, nowadays 5 minutes = 50 minutes. That much horrible situation. Full-size winter , so beautiful days , So much Peace. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠
@lenag37692 жыл бұрын
Amazing, I wish I could back to this Toronto ❤️ brings back childhood/teen memories.
@DimmyV2 жыл бұрын
This is incredible to see. Been living in Toronto 5 years and amazing to see how little high rises there were
@farmerjoe85082 жыл бұрын
It was great before all the browns arrived
@nickj42812 жыл бұрын
@@farmerjoe8508 💀
@PowerslaveWarrior Жыл бұрын
Fun, spirit, hope, culture, family, tranquility and prosperity. What the heck happened?!
@RacerX8882 жыл бұрын
It's almost sad to see this because this was the last decade that Toronto was really a "nice" place to live. It was such a relaxing and easy going city, even with all the people and traffic, it still was a pleasant place to be. Now its a nightmare and I can't even stand to visit it anymore, even though I spent most of my life in the GTA.
@neilwhitaker62842 жыл бұрын
I left in 2011 could see the writing on the wall through about 2007-10. I could see the changes right before my eyes. Left Ontario last year. I understand you, all the best.
@admiraltamalak75592 жыл бұрын
@@neilwhitaker6284 No one misses you pal.
@RyanRoemer86242 жыл бұрын
Toronto and Ottawa in the 1990s is beautiful if there is heaven this must be it ,
@ryline6662 жыл бұрын
Better times...
@Busbybeats Жыл бұрын
My God, what happened to my city? Such a beautiful place, now destroyed by politicians and their toxic policies. But, I still have the memories.
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
Art Eggleton the last decent mayor Toronto had.
@adamwiggins98652 ай бұрын
Heartbreaking to see what’s become of it.
@OldTorontoSeries2 ай бұрын
Record tourism this past year.
@sometf2player7523 ай бұрын
Pretty interesting seeing hardly any skyscrapers in Toronto in this footage kinda reminds me of how Mississauga is now where there’s some skyscrapers but it’s mainly smaller buildings
@Valarmorgolis2 жыл бұрын
I miss the '90's. People are socializing without social media. There playing games, laughing having fun. Walking upright down the street and not hunched over staring into a phone being ignorant. I miss the '90's. Great times
@markjanssens16582 жыл бұрын
The 80s and 90s were fun. I feel bad for kids today glued to Tik Tok and Insta and the photos are all filtered and fake.
@atpacific2 жыл бұрын
@@markjanssens1658 2000s were great too
@Lushy2607 ай бұрын
I was born in 1990, I agree with you. I'm glad when I was a kid and even a teenager I didn't have the technology
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
@@atpacific Tolerable i would say "not great", as opposed till today.
@railfandepotproductions3 ай бұрын
@@markjanssens1658social media back in the 2000s and 2010s were alright, I think the problem here is corporate greed
@djvelocity2 жыл бұрын
It was a *simpler time before the Internet and social media* eh? 🤩🙌
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
social media has nothing to do with it.
@djvelocity2 жыл бұрын
@@ZeroMass so just internet? 🤔
@ZeroMass2 жыл бұрын
@@djvelocity Before media, movies, and television shoved mediocrity down our throats, destroyed the middle class alongside greedy politicians and flooded our city with a criminal element en masse. The internet will be what saves us.🍺
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
"anti-social"media it should be dubbed.
@Goatchild902 ай бұрын
I was born in 1990 in Toronto so this video is a nice treat
@WeeferKeefАй бұрын
I miss Ontario Place so much!!
@jdmciviczc2 жыл бұрын
i miss those days
@JackXMULA2 жыл бұрын
imagine working 2 years back then and getting a 4 bedroom.
@rayrayofficial22912 жыл бұрын
LOVE THE CITY! BEEN LIVING NOW HERE FOR 10 YEARS
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
If you "love" the city clearly you haven't travelled much.
@weimo11472 жыл бұрын
This moment is like so much today Montreal, whatever city or people, this is my real feeling of living the both cities:)
@spartjovic Жыл бұрын
Ah yes a city I once loved...
@xbman110 ай бұрын
Toronto was so clean compared today. There were no druggies passing out, pissing and shitting all over the place. No tents occupying parks.
@OldTorontoSeries10 ай бұрын
1990-1991 had the highest level of murders and violent crimes in the city’s history when adjusted for population.
@xbman19 ай бұрын
@@OldTorontoSeries 1990-1991. You took a snap shot for that years and generalized it for decades. I’ve no words.
@Aces77777 Жыл бұрын
I was there in the 1990s, I have forgotten how empty the skyline looked
@gregcosta69653 ай бұрын
You call a bunch of ugly condos today " a skyline"?
@barbaraazzopardi4892 ай бұрын
Wow, we had such a great city. I remember all these sites. Do even half of them even exist anymore?
@IKhanNot2 жыл бұрын
Great skyline because no overpriced shoebox condos, lower crime, less traffic and the clubbing scene in the early to mid 90s were absolute fire.
@StormcastMarine2 жыл бұрын
lol, where are those crime stats from? Toronto had 89 homicides in 1991, 71 last year, while doubling the population.
@vg6662 жыл бұрын
@@StormcastMarine Source: He pulled it out of his ass
@jojo-sb5ww2 жыл бұрын
@@StormcastMarine ppl just wanna be different so bad
@StormcastMarine2 жыл бұрын
@@HeadingNorth04 so you could commit violence against those that don't agree with you, because it won't be on camera? That sounds horrible. Isn't the snowflake the one that is so triggered that violence has to commence? Glad criminals have to be careful today.
@StormcastMarine2 жыл бұрын
@@HeadingNorth04 you tell me what your words mean then? "If you talked the talk you had to walk the walk" So 30 years ago, when you didn't like what someone said, something would have happened that can't happen now because now you'll be on camera? If you're not referring to violence, or other illegal activity, then what are you talking about?
@Theepaullyp2 жыл бұрын
Ontario used to be so normal and wholesome. Now it sucks
@elitenmengne11652 жыл бұрын
Have any of you checked out vintage photos of your neighborhood?
@j.g.84943 ай бұрын
The segment showing The Eaton Centre reminds me of the opening day (can't remember whether it was in 1976 or 1977). It was a memorable event, and there was a lot of activity at the Centre. The interior of the first phase of the Centre looked like a scene from a classic Hollywood movie. I worked at Simpsons at that time, which was considered the better store of the two. Not anymore after the Centre opened. The president or CEO of Simpsons visited the Eaton Centre on that day. He knew that the Eaton Centre had now superseded Simpsons. The Eaton Centre marked the rejuvenation of that part of Yonge Street (which was pretty run down at that time.)