This is what Toronto in the 1970s looked like

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3 жыл бұрын

The 1970s was a decade that saw significant change in Toronto. The city experienced a major building boom during this time, most notably the downtown that added the Eaton Centre, office towers and of course the CN Tower to its skyline. This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago.

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@BrianBaileyedtech
@BrianBaileyedtech Жыл бұрын
The Toronto of my youth! It was AWESOME!! There was palpable optimism in the air. All sorts of shit was getting built. Every year the banks had a competition to see who could build a taller head office. The 401 was widened to12 lanes. The CN Tower was built. Harbourfront was started. Yonge Street was seedy and exciting! I LOVED it!! Bright Lights, Big City!!
@bobbbxxx
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
It still is awesome and still has bright lights/ big city, but now it is for a younger generation to marvel at! 😊
@trainrover
@trainrover Жыл бұрын
Corporateria's blunder all by design though...of all the suburbias to amble through, Ton-o-rot's the one where your gaze thereabouts best be locked onto the pavement right before your toes because of its disgustingly revolting appearance coupled to its STUNNING absence of vibe...its endless plummet into hick banality is what's so tellingly queer about its stature
@trainrover
@trainrover Жыл бұрын
although this attribute of its is spawned throughout the province it lords over, its Edwardian stock is indeed creepily eerie, e.g., their narrow windows conjure imagery of nosey pædo-obsessed family members lurking behind unnecessarily-heavy drapery cloaking sheer mirkiness :brrrRrr: and of all the jaunts this dear continent dishes up, there's NO shaking _that one_ fouling strolls to be paced thereabouts..even lakeside, imagine!
@karldonutz7770
@karldonutz7770 4 ай бұрын
@@bobbbxxx Shit hole now with a negative vibe.
@vangoghsear8657
@vangoghsear8657 2 ай бұрын
now eroded away by liberalism and immigration
@Ferda1964
@Ferda1964 9 ай бұрын
Those that remember those years will tell you those were "the good old days".
@chris_hawk
@chris_hawk Ай бұрын
When are we going back?
@saltpeter500
@saltpeter500 Ай бұрын
No they weren't
@walterbrunswick
@walterbrunswick Ай бұрын
​@@saltpeter500I've come to understand that nostalgia has blinded people to the reality
@saltpeter500
@saltpeter500 Ай бұрын
@@walterbrunswick people inherently don't like change. It holds us all back sadly.
@contentdeleted4978
@contentdeleted4978 Ай бұрын
M.C.G.A 2030
@mysterion
@mysterion 2 ай бұрын
Better time. Better people and affordable.
@walterbrunswick
@walterbrunswick Ай бұрын
Better people? 70's was the epitome of serial killings
@johnpatterson4272
@johnpatterson4272 9 ай бұрын
The 3 million population mark included the entire Golden Horseshoe from Oshawa to Hamilton. The city of Metro-Toronto back then had approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The property taxes in Toronto were actually cheaper than they were in Peterborough, Kingston or Guelph.
@KardiFan2000
@KardiFan2000 4 ай бұрын
FYI...(Metro) Toronto had 2 million people in 1971.
@Incognitoghost00
@Incognitoghost00 Ай бұрын
That makes sense, I remember as a kid seeing the highway signs on the 401 saying "Toronto - population 1.5 million" back in the late 70's early 80s.
@reallyrandomrides1296
@reallyrandomrides1296 2 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe this was roughly 50 years ago. I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like, and will never be again.
@rhymeandreasoning
@rhymeandreasoning 2 ай бұрын
Any recommendations? Would love to check them out. RE- " I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like."
@davidreichert9392
@davidreichert9392 2 ай бұрын
@@rhymeandreasoning Goin' Down the Road. The gold standard of Canadian film.
@rhymeandreasoning
@rhymeandreasoning 2 ай бұрын
@@davidreichert9392 Thank you. I will look for it. Appreciated.
@richystar2001
@richystar2001 3 ай бұрын
An amazing Era and place... never again.
@barrybebenek8691
@barrybebenek8691 6 ай бұрын
I was born the year of 1970 so this was my era as a kid, in Etobicoke. I remember it well. Young street as a young teen was AMAZING! 👍🏼
@jazlewis1770
@jazlewis1770 2 ай бұрын
Man i sure miss when we had a country.
@mariusfacktor3597
@mariusfacktor3597 Ай бұрын
lol okay drama queen
@AverageCanadianStinky
@AverageCanadianStinky Ай бұрын
we still have a country it's just called india now
@jazlewis1770
@jazlewis1770 Ай бұрын
Ha. Native born inter generation canadians starting to catch on to the globalist mass immigration scam. There are other global scams as well. Interest times coming. Elites best get to their bunkers i say. As if we cannot dig them out. Better get off planet.
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
Me too. It was a great country while it lasted.
@timothythomson719
@timothythomson719 Ай бұрын
Ditto. Canada is not a country anymore, it's a giant group of angry bitter little colonies bowing down to Quebec with transfer payments and an absolutely scandalous incompetent prime minister that Only the GTA keeps voting in to bankrupt the nation.
@jackietrujillo9612
@jackietrujillo9612 3 жыл бұрын
I remember those 70's days. The homes were old and some are still there. I came to Toronto when Eaton centre started to built it. Good old days.
@brettfavreify
@brettfavreify 2 ай бұрын
I miss that city.
@stevenl5049
@stevenl5049 3 жыл бұрын
Bring back the pedestrian mall
@dirkverhey6367
@dirkverhey6367 3 жыл бұрын
Bring back the groovy-ass soundtrack too :)
@uhfnutbar1
@uhfnutbar1 2 жыл бұрын
I remember the water slide at Ontario Place. It was made with cement and if you lost your ride mat you where screwed , you get road rash all way down :)
@Wheeler590
@Wheeler590 Ай бұрын
Thought the same thing!
@_tor
@_tor 5 ай бұрын
What a bunch of lies. Having lived in the 70’s it wasn’t filled with soot and filth.
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
Eventually, those who remember the truth of the past will be gone, and they'll be able to convince the newer generations that "now" is better, and the past was evil and awful.
@ianstuart5660
@ianstuart5660 Ай бұрын
​@@leeluvslife Yes, great points!
@r.pres.4121
@r.pres.4121 Жыл бұрын
Toronto was a very immaculate city back in the 70s. There was very little filth or soot. I used to visit Toronto quite a bit in the 70s when the city was just right with both the CN Tower and the 74 story First Canadian Place dominating the city skyline. Toronto was a fun and more affordable city to visit in those days.
@paultoronto42
@paultoronto42 4 ай бұрын
The streets were clean but there was soot on a lot of the buildings, like The Royal York Hotel, Union Station and College Park. All those buildings have been cleaned since.
@Vlad65WFPReviews
@Vlad65WFPReviews Ай бұрын
I'm from the West Coast but I recall when it was hard for Hollywood to have Toronto "double" as a US city for movies because it was "too clean"
@user-wy7ml3sd2m
@user-wy7ml3sd2m Ай бұрын
I lived in downtown Toronto at that time and walked around at all times of day and night without fear.
@MatrixDiscovery
@MatrixDiscovery Жыл бұрын
Looked way better back then !
@AbstractEntityJ
@AbstractEntityJ Ай бұрын
The ridiculous amount of parking lots did not look better.
@peterjeffery8495
@peterjeffery8495 5 ай бұрын
I worked at Toronto Iron Works at Pape & Eastern Ave., during the 70's and 80's and soot and dirt was easy to find south of Queen Street....north of Queen Street was another story. T.I.W. was located at 629 Eastern Ave & our factory was just west of Canada Metal a lead smelter..yes a LEAD smelter. Speaking of "smelt" on the west side of Canada Metal was a Clarkes Tannery. What saved us was the Colgate Palmolive plant on Carlaw that produced Lilac soap. As one of our old Foreman used to lament.."when the wind blows from the east it smells like a shithouse, when it blows from the northwest it smells like a whorehouse". The entire area is now populated with movie studios, sound stages and pre & post film production companies. All the old TIW buildings are still standing.
@lekevire
@lekevire Ай бұрын
Back when Canada was Canadian and not Punjabi.
@bobdevreeze4741
@bobdevreeze4741 Ай бұрын
I was born in Brampton in 1958 but lived in Rexdale . I remember the TD centre being built.. Ontario Place ... The CN tower.. I watched the Sky Crane top it off from my bedroom window.... The Sky Dome... We were there for the " Dome Opener" and we got wet. In 1976, we moved to Muskoka. I never looked back.
@jayus2033
@jayus2033 Ай бұрын
Brampton is even better now 😂🎉
@bobdevreeze4741
@bobdevreeze4741 Ай бұрын
@@jayus2033 It's all a zoo ..I still live in Muskoka and avoid Toronto as much as possible.
@JKTProductionzIncNCo
@JKTProductionzIncNCo Ай бұрын
Good for you. Hopefully Canada one day recovers from the Trudeau family's nightmare that began with Pierre.
@dh5040
@dh5040 5 ай бұрын
Notice no graffiti. Some of more recent arrivals in Canada think graffiti is art.
@TrueNorth1217
@TrueNorth1217 Ай бұрын
Graffiti was most prominent in 70s and 80s what are you talking about 😂
@ront769
@ront769 Ай бұрын
@@kkjppt5359 Absolutely was here. Witnessed it myself all over trains & some infrastructure. Not just an American problem.
@InvisibleHotdog
@InvisibleHotdog Ай бұрын
You watched a 90 sec video and think there was no graffiti? Find a brain
@clark85
@clark85 Ай бұрын
@@kkjppt5359 absolutely was lol wow you did not get out much
@clark85
@clark85 Ай бұрын
@@kkjppt5359 oh wow no wall of text im impressed
@markinnes4264
@markinnes4264 2 жыл бұрын
Looks like 45 years ago.. 1976. I don't remember it being dirty or soot covered. The metro area then would have been something like 2.8 million... the city pop hasn't changed much, still under a million in 2022... but the metro area is pushing 5 million Nice footage, sub par fact checking.
@gregoryian123
@gregoryian123 2 жыл бұрын
The soot comment was over the top.
@BrianBaileyedtech
@BrianBaileyedtech Жыл бұрын
Toronto now has a population of around 3 million. Metro is around 7 million and the GTA is around 10 million.
@erics9754
@erics9754 Жыл бұрын
@@gregoryian123 Probably someone who hates the fact it was mostly white back then until Trudeau who hated Canadians wanted to punish us and make us a minority in the country our ancestors built.
@bobbbxxx
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
The City of Toronto population in 2018 was around 3,000,000, which was the population of the entire Metropolitan area back then so it has grown a lot. We can tell this by how much more built up the actually city has become. The GTA population today is around 6.700,000
@rommelangus
@rommelangus 2 жыл бұрын
We need to bring back pedestrians streets days on select weekends year round.
@IntrepidMilo
@IntrepidMilo 3 жыл бұрын
My father was a cop in Toronto in the 70s before moving to Kingston in the late 70s to be a cop there.
@johnpatterson4272
@johnpatterson4272 9 ай бұрын
My respect to your father. I was with TPS for 32 years.
@bobconrad578
@bobconrad578 2 жыл бұрын
"Covered in soot and filth"??? 🤣
@davidbrewer7937
@davidbrewer7937 2 жыл бұрын
Now it is covered in drugs, beggars, homeless, gangs, loan sharks, garbage, pot holes & congestion!
@jeffreyrombough8360
@jeffreyrombough8360 2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't that bad. 8mm film makes it look old. I saw a 'film' from 1986 (Not sure who would be still using super 8mm film in 1986) and it made everything look old and dirty. It was not that bad. At least you could afford a house there at that time without needing the income of a drug lord. The city then was priced for people within it and not the draw from foreign capital.
@r.pres.4121
@r.pres.4121 Жыл бұрын
If you wanted soot and filth, you crossed the border and visited either Buffalo or went to Cleveland. Both Buffalo and Cleveland were filthy disgusting industrial towns that were declining and deteriorating steadily with very high crime rates.
@sg6474
@sg6474 11 ай бұрын
I first visited in 1975. Very clean, modern. Was very impressed with the Don Valley Parkway !!!!
@mastersamurai7683
@mastersamurai7683 11 ай бұрын
In those days I'd go out to deliver papers at 5am and come home looking like a coal miner an hour and a half later
@khanman6874
@khanman6874 3 жыл бұрын
I think they mean metro Toronto was 3million
@johncorcoran4250
@johncorcoran4250 Жыл бұрын
Much better than now
@stephen9609
@stephen9609 3 жыл бұрын
Considering the population of the city is 3 million today, I highly doubt it was 3 million in the 1970s... I think you mean the population of the GTA was 3 million (which is a pretty big difference than just Toronto...)
@ALuimes
@ALuimes 3 жыл бұрын
Back then it wasn't. The 905 cities were still mostly undeveloped.
@BrianBaileyedtech
@BrianBaileyedtech Жыл бұрын
In 1976, Metro Toronto had a population of 2.7 million.
@bobbbxxx
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
The GTA is 6,700,000 people today, and was around 3 million back then.
@trainrover
@trainrover Жыл бұрын
Ton-o-rot 💡💡💡
@trainrover
@trainrover Жыл бұрын
tellingly that dump's the continent's worst judging by fuckingly miserable bouncers that even menace entertainers their bosses'll have invited to perform for imps posing as revelers thereabouts :brrrRrr:
@AEW4L1FE
@AEW4L1FE Ай бұрын
Living in downtown Toronto since 92. Downtown Toronto was so lite up back then
@JERREY-vw3do
@JERREY-vw3do Ай бұрын
Time has really changed things THEN AND NOW
@Nightcool678
@Nightcool678 Ай бұрын
It wasnt covered in dirt. Rain and snow washed most of it away. It also wasn't crammed tight - you could move around easily.
@StuMarston
@StuMarston 4 ай бұрын
Brings back memories. Sitting right up on sniff row at the old Brass Rail.
@JustinEastmanMedia
@JustinEastmanMedia 3 жыл бұрын
The good old days
@animaldw6996
@animaldw6996 Ай бұрын
Man I miss those days. Long gone now. Much better times for sure.
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
Hop in my time machine, animal!
@barrroger1162
@barrroger1162 Ай бұрын
Paradise compared with today
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
I'll take a little soot over what we have now.
@cyberpleb2472
@cyberpleb2472 Ай бұрын
I was born in 1970 in Toronto. It was a great time and place.
@percy6532
@percy6532 Ай бұрын
Born in toronto in 2005 and lived here my whole life. Seeing the CN tower without skyscrapers is wild to me. Everything is so short and nearly unreconisable. So much stuff has been built in just a few decades its wild
@truckerdave2446
@truckerdave2446 2 ай бұрын
It looked more hopeful back then.
@christrudell7966
@christrudell7966 2 жыл бұрын
I remember getting on the lift at the Ex, smoking a joint on the way to the other side. Good times 😊
@AEW4L1FE
@AEW4L1FE Ай бұрын
Woodbine Beach looks so clean on that picture 😱
@jamesmacleod9382
@jamesmacleod9382 9 күн бұрын
I worked in Toronto then at the CIBC Main Branch. It was a an amazing city, clean, Lots of interesting unique stores (it was before chains took over) and it wasn't dangerous to go anywhere in it.
@davidbrewer7937
@davidbrewer7937 2 жыл бұрын
How did we come from this visionary place which people wanted to visit to where we are today, a gridlocked, overpriced, gang ridden, drug infested shopping mall?.... When I first moved to Canada in 2000 TO was a great, safe & interesting place to have fun, now it is a place people grudgingly commute to if they have no other option!
@theokanarellis9539
@theokanarellis9539 2 жыл бұрын
It'll get worse trust me.
@BrianBaileyedtech
@BrianBaileyedtech Жыл бұрын
What nonsense. Toronto is now the fastest growing city in North America and one of the safest. I visit almost every year and it keeps getting better and better.
@bobbbxxx
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
Perhaps you have become jaded; it is still a great city that people want to visit which is why Toronto gets more tourism annually than any other Canadian city. "Drug infested shopping mall"? Really?
@r.pres.4121
@r.pres.4121 Жыл бұрын
Toronto doesn’t have half the crime that most USA and Latin American cities suffer from. Despite some violent incidences on its subway lines, Toronto is still one of the safest major cities in the Western Hemisphere.
@bobbbxxx
@bobbbxxx Жыл бұрын
@@r.pres.4121 Most of the people who say things like this don't even live in Toronto.
@pty8s
@pty8s 7 ай бұрын
That’s when I tore it up down there and until not to long ago. What a city. In 1970 I saw, J Winters, Humble Pie, J Carrey was in bars around then, they said some crazy sob was rippin it up here. SCtv, E John, The best era, I think.
@glenrobinson916
@glenrobinson916 Ай бұрын
It was easy to find a place to live, for rent signs were all over, rooms, apartments for very reasonable cost.
@PopShoppekid
@PopShoppekid 9 ай бұрын
Loved Toronto then. Very free city and kinda affordable not like now.
@terrygelinas4593
@terrygelinas4593 6 ай бұрын
Actually there were dreary parking lots dominating the harbourfront area. So glad they are gone.
@Zuka-fz3he
@Zuka-fz3he Ай бұрын
It was a great city with great people and NOW nothing like the 70s
@dixonpinfold2582
@dixonpinfold2582 9 ай бұрын
(1) Sort of weird that in 2020 you use an image clearly from 1978 at the earliest and place text on it reading: "This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago." It was 42 or less. (Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, completed 1979, is clearly visible.) (2) I can't believe how lonely and isolated the Gooderham Building was. Berczy Park behind it was just a forlorn dirt triangle, dead flat and almost literally as featureless as parts of the Moon. Not even a weed is discernible.
@district5198
@district5198 Жыл бұрын
We can’t afford a vacation to India, but thanks to out of control immigration. We can now visit Toronto, same difference 🤔.
@LHRTW
@LHRTW 11 ай бұрын
Go to North Pole and live there or better return to Amsterdam where your roots are.
@arricammarques1955
@arricammarques1955 10 ай бұрын
'Sooner or late were going to hump you' (c) Russel Peters
@terrygelinas4593
@terrygelinas4593 6 ай бұрын
????
@rickbaker8188
@rickbaker8188 5 ай бұрын
Wow, your inside voice came out in a racist kinda way.
@district5198
@district5198 4 ай бұрын
@@rickbaker8188 Sorry if truth hurts. Truth and racism are not the same fyi
@ReverendObe1
@ReverendObe1 Ай бұрын
I bussed tables at Egerton's (pub close to Ryerson U) in the summer of 75 making $2.25 an hour plus tips and free bowl of chili every shift. Good times!
@sahibaforoz7905
@sahibaforoz7905 10 ай бұрын
My late father worked there from 74 to 78.. thats y there is connection
@anthonyattard6726
@anthonyattard6726 11 ай бұрын
back when Canada was a real country
@Mrgreen2558
@Mrgreen2558 7 ай бұрын
That time 70s,80 and 90s were amazing incredible. No Internet, no mobile and the life was amazing. Yes it was real country
@terrygelinas4593
@terrygelinas4593 6 ай бұрын
??????
@karldonutz7770
@karldonutz7770 4 ай бұрын
Globalist shit hole now, repopulated by the overflow population of the 3rd world, brought here by traitor politicians and their globalist money people.
@clearlynotwoke4929
@clearlynotwoke4929 Жыл бұрын
Nicer and safer then, not so much now…
@korloffkorloff2134
@korloffkorloff2134 Жыл бұрын
uhhhh wat lmao
@clearlynotwoke4929
@clearlynotwoke4929 Жыл бұрын
@@korloffkorloff2134 🤡🤡
@LHRTW
@LHRTW 11 ай бұрын
@@clearlynotwoke4929before Columbus bandit landed
@jumbothompson
@jumbothompson 2 ай бұрын
The 70s had more violent crime than now. That's pretty much the trend for all major cities across North America. Toronto for the most part has always been safe.
@clearlynotwoke4929
@clearlynotwoke4929 2 ай бұрын
@@jumbothompson that is totally untrue and the government statistics refutes your lie. All major western cities have seen crime increase due to third world immigration into once safe homogeneous countries!
@americanhotdog
@americanhotdog Ай бұрын
Beautiful place before the 3rd world showed up
@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada
@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada 7 ай бұрын
Stats in your videos, Toronto's present downtown skyline is a graphical represention of the 1%,but everywhere else outward,is poor!
@rickbaker8188
@rickbaker8188 3 ай бұрын
Lighthouse at Ontario. Guess Who at the CNE for free!! Born there, grew up there. Home my parents bought for $42,000 now valued north of a million. Jiminy Hendrix at MLG!!
@plutoniusis
@plutoniusis 2 ай бұрын
Up to that time prosperity to majority of people was visible, but then happen...
@anantpathak2899
@anantpathak2899 3 жыл бұрын
the only thing that bothers me is the sea of parking lots. Cant imagine all the beautiful buildings that were torn for an empty piece of lot
@lassepeterson2740
@lassepeterson2740 2 жыл бұрын
They were mostly rail yards and outdated factorys that were torn down for parking lots .
@zoranvuk1231
@zoranvuk1231 Ай бұрын
Luv this
@skeetsmesquita8100
@skeetsmesquita8100 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't that "dirty" as per ..
@herschelwright4663
@herschelwright4663 2 ай бұрын
TRUE GRIT!👍🏽💯
@maximilliancunningham6091
@maximilliancunningham6091 2 ай бұрын
Moved here from Montreal, 1979.
@robhersey1796
@robhersey1796 Ай бұрын
Yep. Toronto can in part thank the PQ for its huge growth during that time.
@cinthia9602
@cinthia9602 Жыл бұрын
I remember...
@Duckify_
@Duckify_ Ай бұрын
Im curious, do well people know about the CN tower in foreign countries?
@jamesanthony5681
@jamesanthony5681 Ай бұрын
Toronto politicians at the time were fixated on Toronto becoming a 'World class City', thinking the CN Tower would help them get there and put Toronto on the map. Some FM Radio stations at the time would incessantly spout 'Toronto the Good.' 'Toronto the Good,' morning, afternoon and night. Meaning (I'm assuming ), you could walk the streets at night and not get mugged or murdered, like in those bad American cities. However, as critic Henry Morgan said in response to those sanctimonious ads, "Sure, you can walk the streets after dark, but where would you go?"
@stevenc.6502
@stevenc.6502 Ай бұрын
I went to see a play at CAA Theatre recently, as we left the Yonge-Bloor subway station we had to avoid a violent brawl between three people. After the play my wife wanted to walk along Yonge Street, but it was dirty and stank and there was a naked man wearing a bedsheet half-covered in foam; this was all during the daytime!
@lawrencelewis2592
@lawrencelewis2592 2 жыл бұрын
Soot and Filth? Think of how bad it must have been when homes used coal for heating and the steam powered trains just south of Front Street. Also the stink of cattle at St. Clair and Keele. I knew a guy who remembers that- He said that you could smell it on Roncesvalles when the wind was right.
@lawrencelewis2592
@lawrencelewis2592 2 жыл бұрын
@@Moxy770 Yes, there were several and there still are some on Glen Scarlett road and Gunns road Plus a plant that processes cow hides. I had to go there for work and I stunk horribly for two days. At the northwest corner of St Clair and Keele. I first came to Toronto in 1989 and the sheds and corrals were there at the southwest corner but that's all gone now.
@lawrencelewis2592
@lawrencelewis2592 2 жыл бұрын
@@Moxy770 I had to go that plant to inspect the boiler. I went in the morning and called my boss and said I had to go home and take a shower. He said, "You went to the rendering plant didn't you? Take the rest of the day off." The stink was unreal. Next door is Universal Drum (still there) they recondition used 55 gallon drums, It is a Charles Dickens industrial hell! So glad I don't have to go there anymore.
@situational.analysis
@situational.analysis 2 ай бұрын
Wait. Wasn't that Ratso Rizzo walking there? 😊
@bigideatelevision8658
@bigideatelevision8658 Ай бұрын
I miss all the parking.
@ginnel_snicket
@ginnel_snicket 2 ай бұрын
It's such a cesspool now. Expensive-Mediocrity personified too. Lived in city since '98 or '79 if you count east burbs after being shipped over as a youngster from the UK. Going back to the homeland is the plan.
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
I wanna go back, too. They keep telling us Canadians to go back to where we came from. Happily.
@MrPatrick1414
@MrPatrick1414 7 ай бұрын
Can't find any outdoor parking lots now...all converted to condos
@johnziegelbauer4999
@johnziegelbauer4999 Ай бұрын
Actually very clean back then . No garbage and no homeless...
@criticalmass613
@criticalmass613 Ай бұрын
3 million in 1970?
@MapleSyrupPoet
@MapleSyrupPoet 7 ай бұрын
💙💙💙👍
@MarkWalsh-ku5dn
@MarkWalsh-ku5dn 8 ай бұрын
You see those people boarding a bus at the beginning of the clip? It looks nice and quick and easy. But in reality you might have stopped at a bus stop for five minutes or so because bus drivers used to sell tickets and sometimes people might fumble around looking for money in their pockets or purse or ask a friend for change so they could buy a strip of tickets. A bus ride that takes 15 minutes today might have taken 25 minutes then. Also, because people knew that bus drivers used to carry money you'd sometimes hear reports of them getting beaten up and robbed. The trains used to be red, the lights would sometimes go out for a second or two and then come back on, and they had windows that you could open as you rode through the tunnels. On the weekend the trains were shortened to four cars instead of the usual six, making it entirely possible to miss a train even though you were standing on the platform. If you didn't know about this and were standing at either end sometimes you had to run for it. Vintage TTC.
@monicapushkin3274
@monicapushkin3274 8 ай бұрын
I think smoking was allowed on buses into the early 70s.
@MarkWalsh-ku5dn
@MarkWalsh-ku5dn 8 ай бұрын
@@monicapushkin3274 Maybe, I just don't remember it. Not on the vehicles themselves although people used to smoke on the subway platforms, maybe up until the eighties or nineties. Even then I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure it was finished by the year 2000.
@Rob-pz5lf
@Rob-pz5lf 7 ай бұрын
I remember those red trains growing up, and those windows you could open and close. The draft was so needed during hot summer days. I also remember rush hour was from 7 to 9 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. Outside of those hours, travelling around the city was a breeze. Not any more. “Rush hour” starts at 6 am and ends at around 9 or 10 pm on weekdays.
@Governmentiscorrupt
@Governmentiscorrupt Ай бұрын
No crime....wonder why
@christrudell7966
@christrudell7966 2 ай бұрын
And then something happened in the 80's... Can't quite put my finger on it.. 😮
@leeluvslife
@leeluvslife Ай бұрын
Someone happened.
@christrudell7966
@christrudell7966 Ай бұрын
@@leeluvslife yup
@thevinmeister5015
@thevinmeister5015 Ай бұрын
Back before every building that gave the city character was demolished in favour of some bland condo building.
@user-br1gm3et5w
@user-br1gm3et5w 14 күн бұрын
I arrive vancouver then then...
@tylerarnold943
@tylerarnold943 Ай бұрын
Not enough money in the world you could give me to live in Toronto.
@chickenburgerfan88
@chickenburgerfan88 Ай бұрын
RIP Canadian culture
@frankgarrett242
@frankgarrett242 Жыл бұрын
We used to be a proper country, with proper citizens. They're all gone now, only to be replaced by an assortment of raving mental patients.
@tarotbyamber7233
@tarotbyamber7233 Жыл бұрын
Bit like the UK that's why I moved to Spain
@LHRTW
@LHRTW Жыл бұрын
@@tarotbyamber7233UK is full of East European Untermensh and Muslims
@arricammarques1955
@arricammarques1955 10 ай бұрын
Queens Park & Ottawa = Political Asylum.
@liberatetutemeexinferis5902
@liberatetutemeexinferis5902 Ай бұрын
Now Toronto is part of India.😂
@Dosai99
@Dosai99 Ай бұрын
Back when it was actually affordable 🙄
@angusmackaskill3035
@angusmackaskill3035 2 ай бұрын
when the political climate in montreal looked sketchy so business and educated people moved there en masse. maurice duplessis is the father of torontos economic growth
@tilaman3
@tilaman3 Ай бұрын
2024 the population is over 3 million GTA 6.7 million
@judistench2167
@judistench2167 Ай бұрын
Gritty…but much more live-able than today’s 💩 hole GTA
@Keefterdam
@Keefterdam 5 ай бұрын
Toronto was way better in the 70s. The Eaton Centres destroyed the downtown cores of all the major cities in Canada. Then Eatons went bankrupt. "Toronto the good" is ,known as the Toilet now.
@Gillz22
@Gillz22 2 жыл бұрын
Everyone was white
@erics9754
@erics9754 Жыл бұрын
So much for the myth that Canada was always multicultural lol.
@ceer9141
@ceer9141 Жыл бұрын
@@erics9754 what myth? No one thinks it was ALWAYS multi cultural. Learn some history.
@erics9754
@erics9754 Жыл бұрын
@@ceer9141 Many do and I know my history. Why would you assume other wise?
@korloffkorloff2134
@korloffkorloff2134 Жыл бұрын
@@erics9754 you clearly don't lmao. Canada has always been multicultural. It's early beginnings it was people from scotland, ireland, france and england. Then we had africans and chinese people bulding the railroads in the 1800's followed by japanese people coming here etc.
@multipass888
@multipass888 11 ай бұрын
LOL! Umm, 'white' looking people speak different languages and have different cultures and are from different countries, just like people of color. And not all 'white' looking people are Caucasian, if that's what you mean by white. I grew up in Toronto in the early 80"s and Toronto was indeed ethnically diverse...
@playboyflash
@playboyflash 2 ай бұрын
Better people and better city back then.
@Art--Deco
@Art--Deco 5 ай бұрын
"covered in soot" Hilarious. I was there. Ummmm, no it wasn't. But the MASSIVE parking lots downtown? Yes.
@goldenretriever6261
@goldenretriever6261 2 ай бұрын
Look at all white people! Good old days.
@mariusfacktor3597
@mariusfacktor3597 Ай бұрын
Hahaha go back into the woodwork, we don't want to hear your crap.
@g.w.7893
@g.w.7893 Ай бұрын
Back when Canada was the real deal.
@tarotbyamber7233
@tarotbyamber7233 Жыл бұрын
Looks like new York
@drew6194
@drew6194 2 ай бұрын
Leave it to blogTO to spout complete rubbish.
@galaxiedance3135
@galaxiedance3135 Ай бұрын
Amazing how the name Trudeau can screw things up.
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170 Ай бұрын
Yurop.
@squangan
@squangan Ай бұрын
As a Canadian my only visit to Toronto was in 1976 and I have never had any inclination to go back. Give me the never ending boreal forests, lakes, rivers and towns under 10,000 in population. I don’t need the traffic, crime and crowded everything that cities like Toronto have to offer.
@xieulong
@xieulong Ай бұрын
Wow.. it looked shitt# back then too.
@rip2025
@rip2025 Ай бұрын
It was a toilet then,and an even bigger one now
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170 Ай бұрын
Sata.ghher.ka.eta.fakna.building.move
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170
@sushmasinghkisibhibdestark9170 Ай бұрын
Danesh.ke.house.ke.bagal.may.sata.2.house.ka.wood.doore.reach.people
@lordofbathurst
@lordofbathurst Ай бұрын
Guys, which Home Depot has some orange buckets available? The tears in these comments must be collected. Glory to Madame Chow! $500m to Zelensky's coffer at once! ~~TrudeauForever~~
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