Toronto 1978 - The Golden Years

Toronto is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
#toronto #ontario #GTA
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years.After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops.York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada.More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group,and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants.[30] While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city Mainly Chinese and Hindi.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production,[and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets.Its varied cultural institutions,which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year.Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks,and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations.Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
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[@findingjoy4725]

So much more space in the city back then. Look at the City Hall photo (at 4:50) - there's so much sky around it - and you don't need to look straight up to see it!! Great pics - thanks for the look back into those years... Maybe no time is purely magical, but those 70's years in Toronto came pretty close...

[@trainrover]

I remember Ton o' rot's Bay Street's endlessness in giant car parks yet a filmed coach ride up it sometime during the past nine months showed all if not most of those tracts as being developed yet still NO character whatsoever! .. queerly telling, Canadia/en/nes not minding cleptoparasitically corporate barons crookedly in their midsts...

[@adamcrawford3297]

Sadly, the homeless are growing in numbers due to high rents and the cost of housing all across Canada. 🇨🇦

[@victornewman508]

Ontario was truly an awesome province to live in the 70s....

[@OofusTwillip]

Thanks to Premier Bill Davis and a PC party that actually governed for the benefit of everyone, instead of being just a collection of vindictive wingnuts in the pockets of wealthy developers.

[@Todd.T]

@@OofusTwillip "Collection of vindictive wingnuts" 😂😂

[@brettfavreify]

On-tar-i-ar-i-o.

[@deanl0]

​@@brettfavreify Yours to re-cover

[@Logan-py8we]

​@OofusTwillip Naaa buddy thank the liberals for their insane immigration policies. We really didn't need or can sustain such levels.

[@Andrew-he7xm]

Real Canada and its lovely city which is gone sadly .

[@MuffHam]

Canada fell once everyone was allow in. Multiculturalism has destroyed the western world.

[@1dilligaf]

What a great safe city to grow up in in the 60s and 70s

[@TabbyAngel2]

Safe? A little boy (Emanuel Jaques) was unalived downtown on Yonge Street. Downtown Toronto used to be very unsafe and seedy back in the 70s.

[@TabbyAngel2]

Safe? A little boy (Emanuel Jaques) was unalived downtown on Yonge Street. Downtown Toronto used to be very unsafe and seedy back in the 70s. Lots of seedy, illegal activity there

[@1dilligaf]

@@TabbyAngel2 yeah OK you heard about things like that. Once in a while now you hear about it every damn day.

[@De_facto23]

I miss what Toronto was, not over crowded could be boring at times, but so much space to breathe.

[@alonzorodriguez8878]

💔

[@jimjackson4256]

Oh man this makes my heart ache .

[@realmikemartins]

Yes JJ me as well

[@jimjackson4256]

@@realmikemartins I was 22 or23 then.A totally different time.

[@brucemcinnis1886]

Great photos. Moved to Toronto in June 1979 at 18 years old and got my first apartment. It was a bachelor apartment and the rent was only $200 bucks a month. First full time job, had no car but life was great, on my own in the big city.

[@j.g.8494]

I lived in a bachelor apartment at Yonge & Eglinton from December 1976 to March 1995. When I moved in, in 1976, I was paying about $240 monthly, including water & electricity and heating in winter & air conditioning in summer. When I left, I was paying over $600. A few months ago, I checked the prices of the same kind of apartment in the renovated block where I used to live. Guess what the monthly rent is? $2,400! (extras NOT included). OUTRAGEOUS! Can someone living in Toronto in 2024 explain to me how a single person manages to pay such high rents and survive in Toronto?

[@BeyondTravel82]

@@j.g.8494you can thank all the useless politicans along with parasites like real estate brokers

[@stephenfermoyle4578]

dito!!!

[@carolannaitken5812]

Very similar experience. my first apartment was a bachelor apt. at Yonge * Eg. with no car and the subway close by. It was so much fun to be young and independent in the big city. I didn't have a lot but it was such a happy time in my life.

[@Holly707]

Nobody loves Toronto anymore. The city we knew is gone and will never be the same again. Everything that was enjoyable was taken away from us. Including the best restaurants and movie theatres. We had live entertainment on the streets that were fun to watch and now its just borining.

[@janetcraft]

True.

[@marquefan1]

Crime and politics.

[@jenniferdarline]

I was born in 82, Scarborough and wish I could have experienced this. Can someone enlighten me what caused this all to go away. I know there is the population part but was it rich people and politics that did the undoing?

[@TheTdh1972]

@@jenniferdarline The new law in 65 and what Trudeau Sr. did thereafter

[@Holly707]

@@jenniferdarline It was politics. They changed the laws for street ventors. Street ventors needed a permit to sell on the street and it was un affordable for them so they have to give that up. As for the street entertainment, im not sure what happened with that. The restaurants are now catered to the immigrants and to the rich. For the regular folks, like me, there are the fast food and franchise restaurants which after a while get boring since its the same menue everywhere now. The politicians wanted Toronto to be rich and glamorous so they got rid of the old and put in the new (buildings) again, for the rich. Toronto was for everyone of all cultures and ages. Now its for the rich/immigrants. This is why they keep coming. Mind you, the immigrants come here have been lied to. Canada isnt what was sold to them. I know this because the immigrants have told me and some want to leave. I wont go to Toronto anymore. My entire family, aunts, uncles, cousins, my mother and all my children (adults) have left and won't return. In the 1980's there were dancing clubs, amazing restaurants, lots to choose from, all non franchised, personally owned, fun, romantic, any mood you were in, had great food. Canada is no longer Canada. Toronto is not Toronto.

[@wowweechip-robotdog8598]

I was 12 yrs old in 1978. I remember T.O. back then...a magical era for a kid to be there. As a young adult, in the mid to late 80's...every Friday night, go for dinner with my girlfriend (at the time...now my wife...34 years, today, as a matter of fact) Mr. Greenjeans at the Eaton's Center...then cruise up and down Yonge Street... Best time to be a kid, was back then. Thanks for sharing this great compilation of timeless photography!

[@johnpatterson4272]

Oh yeah baby! That was livin' large in the 80s. I did the very same thing with my (then) girlfriend, (now) my wife of 33 years. Life seemed more straight-forward then, with BS you could predict and eventually avoid. Mr. Greenjeans was an awesome place, and then the cruise up Yonge from Harbourfront to Steeles, that was magical. All the best my Homie.

[@grahamkane2993]

FAR OUT. !

[@davidmulhall2710]

Yeah me too . Born in ‘66. Went to school downtown for years, grades 3,4 and 5. Really learned my way around. Went into the Easton’s Centre first day it was opened after school, watched the hole in the ground for a few years getting off the subway at Dundas or queen.

[@EScott2U]

@@davidmulhall2710 I was also born in 66, lived in Toronto for my 5th grade year (76/77) attending Brown Elementary on Avenue road, south of St. Clair. My teacher was Mr. Freestone. I was an American from Los Angeles, and it was great living in an eastern city with seasons, and an urban center that was clean and safe. I remember Brown Elementary had an 'unofficial' open campus, and a lunch period that was an hour and twenty minutes. I'd take the TTC anywhere in the city (usually down to the harbor and train yards). My Dad would take me to the Organ Grinder for pizza on special occasions. When I married my wife in 1999, Toronto was our honeymoon destination.

[@who399]

Happy 35th anniversary

[@nivagnoswal]

i was 24 in 1978, living at yonge and eglinton...and yes those the golden years...

[@leejones7439]

I live at Yonge/Eglinton. It's not what it was when I moved here in 1998. Looks like a war zone with all the construction and subways to nowhere.

[@j.g.8494]

Same here! I lived at Yonge & Eglinton from the 1970s to 1995. I didn't know that they were "The Golden Years"! I wonder whether Frans Restaurant & Coffee Shop is still there. (I used to enjoy having breakfast there on Sunday morning.)

[@pillsareyummy]

@@j.g.8494 I used to visit my Aunt, who was attending UofT in the late 70s, early 80s. I remember Frans Restaurant, we went there for breakfast as well. I lived in Toronto for about 15 years, I moved about nine years ago. I remember the (awesome) Famous Players theater on Young & Eglinton, it had only two theaters, one downstairs, one upstairs. I saw The Empire Strikes back there in 1980 and again in 1998 when the original Star Wars trilogy was re-released in theaters. It's gone, replaced by a new Famous Players multiplex. Maple Leaf Gardens, gone ... Sam the Record Man, gone ...

[@dean-marr]

Beautiful upload, born in 76, i miss Toronto of the 80s and 90s

[@markojameow]

I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, which in my opinion was the Greatest Generation. (Sorry, Tom Brokaw).

[@annfoster6116]

We had the cleanest subway in the world and there were no shootings and the streets were spotless and no tents !

[@alanwatchesstuff]

we also enjoyed years of economic boom. no shit if everyone is making money, they wont do crime!

[@Alsatiagent-zu1rx]

That's the problem. Benefits from the vast increase in productivity always go to the morbidly wealthy. @@alanwatchesstuff

[@yesyesnonono]

yeah .. urrr ... rose coloured glasses. There was plenty of crime in the 80s we just weren't inundated with 24/7 news cycles.

[@user-yh2of2nz2s]

@@yesyesnonono True, but the 1970's were, without a doubt, a nicer time to be alive in Toronto.

[@josephforest7605]

@@user-yh2of2nz2s So true the women were great , many white blondes , now too many brown ladies .Before the blacks came up from the Caribbean and turned Toronto into a killing patch .

[@manbtm1]

I absolutely loved Toronto in the late 70s in 1980s, it was just a wonderful city to be in , and Canada could be so proud of it, I was back there for two weeks last year and walking around and I felt like I didn’t even belong there anymore , Just couldn’t relate to anybody on the streets or anything. It was just so bizarre, it was like I just don’t belong there. Oh well.

[@realmikemartins]

Couldn't agree more!

[@mikeb3539]

I'm in T.O. right now. Lived here all my life and loved it. It's just getting too crowded and intense now. I'll retire up north like most folks.

[@somewhereovertherainbow4407]

I so love this!! 1978.....I was fifteeeeeen and downtown was just the best ever!! Thank you so much for this sweetness in time♥️

[@cinthia9602]

Downtown did feel much safer back then.

[@alanwatchesstuff]

@@cinthia9602if you look at the crime rate its not the case. you just have coloured lenses.

[@Freeontheland2030]

@@alanwatchesstuff Unreported crime is still crime, people don't bother reporting "minor" crimes anymore because the cops just don't give a shit.

[@user-to1yw8vv2k]

Toronto was the greatest big city in the world to live in at that time. We here in Hamilton wanted to be like Toronto back then . We don't want to be like Toronto anymore.

[@baconchannel307]

Its ok. No ones ever said “i want to be like Hamilton”

[@Logan-py8we]

@@baconchannel307 and yet thousands have moved to Hamilton from Toronto. Explain that professor ?

[@baconchannel307]

@@Logan-py8we cheap housing

[@schowlett3381]

I use to love going to Toronto, now I will not go there. I want to go back to the 70s.

[@cinthia9602]

If I may ask, where do you live? Can't blame you for not wanting to come back to Toronto. I myself prefer to drive most places by car because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.

[@blackbeltjones2903]

​@cinthia9602 oh please. The city is safe by most measures for a big city. Always weird out of towners who buy into the fear mongering.

[@ceer9141]

@@cinthia9602 the city is totally safer than it's ever been, plz

[@Test-vl1ib]

I lived part-time downtown in the late 70s as a kid. Time with mom who lived on St. Joseph St and time with dad who lived uptown. I can assure you that Yonge St from Queen to Bloor was a shithole. There was rampant drug use, dealing, violent crime, perverts, and hookers. And remember the sex-murder of Emanuel Jaques? The 70s were anything but good around there. The city is MUCH bigger now and we have a leftist mayor who won’t fix anything that the previous so-called conservative mayor effed up. But Bloor to Queen’s Yonge St’s biggest fault today is that it’s just dull and kind of dumpy. Other parts of the city have more to offer-Greektown, The Beach, The Annex, Queen West, the list goes on. It’s laughable to pine for the 70s. Though I get most people recall the good times no matter what.

[@Alsatiagent-zu1rx]

One of the safest in NA. @@blackbeltjones2903

[@suespony]

In the fall of 1978, about 60 high school seniors ( including myself) boarded 2 buses from the finger lakes area of NYS and headed to Toronto. I will never forget my senior trip. No one needed a passport, we did have to have a birth certificate, but no one's was ever even looked at. 3 nights of just an amazing time to be a kid from a small town. Only had to be 18 to drink, we were able to pretty much do almost anything we wanted. What a blast it was. I can remember we all went to Ed's for dinner one night

[@stephenscharbach2071]

love that story !

[@pargolf3158]

Where is NYS? ( obviously not New York Sity)

[@suespony]

Finger lakes area ​@@pargolf3158

[@phillydisco]

@@pargolf3158 New York State.

[@Logan-py8we]

@@pargolf3158 New York State - people are dumb geez

[@italianmama373]

Brings back memories. Thank you!

[@jamesweekes6726]

I used to love Toronto...but in the last 20 years I don't even recognize it. Ford and his developer buddies continue to wreck it with condos and sprawl and they continue to pack more and more into it...bloody shame, no longer "People City" or "Toronto, the city that works"...those sayings died in 2000. You can vote for whoever you want, but the developers and banks run the show here.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

No , condos keep people working at good paying trades , from the cement that is mixed and delivered , to the steel and all of the people that put these buildings together .When they are finished , people are needed to work in the condos . Good for Ford and John Tory .

[@jamesweekes6726]

@@Jay-vr9ir Well it's fairly obvious that any idiot can create jobs in Ontario by allowing unbridled expansion...it's doing it in a way that keeps our communities "liveable" and with community consultation that takes creativity and brains, two things Ford lacks.

[@hardyboy1959]

I moved to Toronto in '78 then away in 2000. I keep thinking that I'd like to move back but hear that it's changed for the worse. Still...Toronto's got things!

[@Jay-vr9ir]

@@jamesweekes6726 Any idiot ? That would have been Kathleen , before Ford , yes she was the perfect example of an idiot.

[@Jay-vr9ir]

@@hardyboy1959 Yes ,I being from out of town never found Toronto , to have any warmth , I have been treated better in New York City . Things are bad , way too much violence and a lazy police dept that doesn't care .

[@jamesnash7262]

…lived and worked and played music in and out of Toronto during much of 1971-1979…stayed at the Warwick Hotel one night as i waited to go home for Christmas, had my guitars, watched John Denver special, lol…even so, the best of, the peak of, the most soulful musical decade Toronto ever had…

[@realmikemartins]

Thanks for sharing

[@ursulafey6183]

Exactly this year I lived in Toronto for a year as a babysitter (1978 I was 18).... from Switzerland .. thank you I love these pictures, memories come up 😍🤩

[@realmikemartins]

No worries 👍 have a great weekend

[@frankrizzo4778]

Remember going to the head shops on Young st back in the 70s and 80s

[@realmikemartins]

Yep the good ole days 😪

[@snaggletooth7031]

O man you said it,,great times

[@iwantthe80sback59]

Still a few of them down here (Yonge & Gloucester).

[@LimitlessThinker]

Yes, I remember those!

[@goldenretriever6261]

I bought a huge Judas Priest and Iron Maiden flags to put in my wall from the head that was in the basement at Yonge and Gould.

[@7555mac]

i grew up 1955-1960 Larkfield Dr in Leaside, then the George S Henry farmhouse 1960-65 Sheppard Ave/Don Mills Rd just before Henry Farms became a subdivision, Mason Blvd 1966-72, Milton Ontario 1972-75 (pop 4500), Edmonton 1975-77, climbing the Hollywood Sign in California in 1978, Utah 1978-80, Young/Eglinton Toronto1980-1991, Utah 1993-2003, Clinton Ontario 2007-2023. This brings back great memories.

[@frankrizzo4778]

Good old days. Skipping off school and going to the arcades on Younge and Dundas. Miss the old Pinball machines The song Eddie Money~I wanna go back popped into my head watching this video.

[@realmikemartins]

Ya frank . I really miss them days 😪 and dressing up like Miami Vice lolol

[@roadstar92220]

In 1978 I lived on St. Joesph street & Younge Street in the heart of Toronto. The best times, but that era is gone, sadly.

[@necrogirl67]

Wow❤❤❤❤❤what a wonderful time travel....I wish I could go back to being exactly 11 years old at that time. I remembered it exactly like that! I felt I went back in time for REAL! ❤❤ Great work❤❤

[@johnpatterson4272]

Thanks for the memories MM. A better time in Toronto history to be sure. Just make your videos much longer, I am waiting for your next series of videos from '79 to '83.

[@realmikemartins]

Check ✔️ my yearbook Playlist on the channel. I may have covered those years ?

[@darkjusticemedia5621]

Wasnt hero in big then too

[@FamilyMan88]

In all these old shots I’m hard pressed to find one overweight person.

[@janetcraft]

That is so true. Almost everyone looked natural.

[@Redhackle]

It was a fantastic city back then.

[@tonya8825]

Those were the days

[@frankgarrett242]

Now it’s Mogadishu North.

[@j.g.8494]

I lived in Toronto from 1975 to 1995. By the time I left Canada in 1995, I had already noted a big difference in Toronto from the way it had been in 1975. I was amazed at how many more immigrants from all over the world I could see on the Toronto subway.

[@user-tr4jj9pt7x]

Not a bike lane in sight. This city was so on track to be one of the great urban destinations in the world. On the edge of a Great Lake. It was one of the three "it" cities for both rock and roll and the punk... So sad to see what it's become.

[@ThingsPlus]

I really enjoyed this piece of the past! Thank you

[@realmikemartins]

Glad you liked it

[@PatreceSunflower]

@@realmikemartinsAbsolutely!

[@r.pres.4121]

Toronto was just right in 1978 and it didn’t need anymore major new construction. From that point on the economic development focus should have been on improving existing buildings and infrastructure and only adding new when necessary. After the Eaton Centre and the Cadillac Fairview Tower were completed that should have been it for major new development and a historic preservation process should have been implemented so Toronto could retain its soul and its uniqueness. Sadly today it is like any major global city, overwhelming, expensive, and increasingly unfriendly. The city has become too corporate for its own good.

[@j.g.8494]

In June 1975, a few months after I had arrived in Toronto, Time magazine had a cover story entitled The Greening of Toronto". "Toronto is the first major North American city to say no to the building boom, and to reject what Marshal McLuhan called "the cult of moreness"!

[@phillydisco]

At that time, they had already (or were about to) open the Spadina subway to Wilson as well. We were staying ahead of the transit curve. But within 10 years, we were already 20 years behind.

[@kiloechocharliekool2151]

Fabulous. Now? The city that can't have fun because someone would be offended. Dead city...

[@wmfulmer]

I lived in Toronto for 2 years (1979-80). My apartment was a studio in Parkdale with a view of the lake. I went to George Brown College Kensington Campus. Thanks for sharing the memories

[@kirstinedwards3473]

Thanks - I was born in Toronto in 1975 but didn't have the pleasiure of growing up there. Lovely to see what it would have been like! Thanks so much! X

[@vikingblood0408]

Toronto the good I remember so well. Sadly it is not the same! Moved away over 40 years ago and don't want to go back!

[@richardahern3005]

Everyone more or less got along plus there was enough freedom to enjoy yourself

[@janetcraft]

Especially when Younge St. was blocked from Queen up to Bloor and no cars were allowed one summer. The whole street was a walking paradise :)

[@greasyflight6609]

I was at that Oct 1978 Bob Dylan concert at the Gardens....I was 13

[@s.avelar.7979]

Miss those days, lived on queen and differin area. 😢. My father was a construction worker who built the highways, and my mom worked at the Toronto Dominion Tower's, bringing back beautiful memories.

[@60yroldRockstar-kl7mt]

One thing is true? Politicians have ruined everything.......

[@elliotwalton6159]

Such a great city to grow up in. I was just turning 20 in '78. Great photos! I remember it all like it was yesterday.

[@Nerfvincible]

I loved this! Definitely a walk down memory lane! I remember so many of those places as a kid. Great video!

[@user-ph4sy1bu4s]

Wow those were the good old days of Toronto, life in Toronto, was simple and easy. Great memories too. Thank Mike, for the great video. I hope you have more pictures of Toronto if any.

[@vassa1972]

Good stuff I was born on July 15 1972 at Toronto general hospital

[@patrickmoan4086]

What Toronto needed in 1978 was far more immigration from South Asia and China. I live in Halifax and over the last 4 years the entire downtown has changed as the city has worked with developers to knock down the historic city and rebuild bigger, better, and far denser. We can now walk around on streets in perpetual shadows because we love high rises. And I love the fact that about 45% of the ground floor retail is either Indian or Chinese. And I'm super excited by the multi-culturalism in Halifax. Early in the evening, I can walk through the downtown core and, depending on what street I'm on - be it Spring Garden, Clyde Street, or wherever, I might only hear Punjab or Cantonese. And oh how my European-rooted heart loves the feeling of seeing nobody who looks like me. To think any differently would be racist right? As an American immigrant to Canada, I can say without hesitation, that Canada is a clusterf*ck. As soon as our youngest child graduates from HS next year, we're returning to the USA regardless of that country's problems. At least in the US the problems are complex, centuries old, and not entirely self-inflicted by those living today. Canada...? Since moving here in 1999, the place has changed dramatically because of a bizarre commitment to destroy the country in the name of wokeness and multi-culturalism (which is a euphemism for mass immigration from India and China for the most part). Heartbreaking because, I really valued the Canada I came to in 1999. I hold Canadian citizenship. All 3 of our children were born here. And sadly it's questionable if any will stay as they have other options. Our oldest left last year as soon as he graduated from Queens. Another at Polytechnique may follow suit and our daughter talks about moving to the US. My wife and I absolutely plan to leave Halifax for the USA as the people filling all these new high rises come from completely different cultures we don't wish to be immersed in (I have never had a desire to live in India for example, and India is literally coming to my doorstep here in Halifax courtesy of institutions such as Dalhousie University (e.g., doubling the Computer Science enrollment so they can make tons of $ off of international students) . Canada... sad and bizarre. And to think I voted for Trudeau. I'll be voting Conservative for the first time in my life for an fool who denies climate change is real.

[@pillsareyummy]

Toronto has always been multicultural. However, I agree, it's gotten out of hand. I have nothing against the concept of 'woke', however, since 2016 (although you could see the changes earlier) it's gone completely 'off the rails'. Trudeau has got to go. I liked him initially (legalizing marijuana for example) however, not anymore.

[@janetroberts3202]

Amen to all you said!!

[@billdaverne9389]

Nobody denies climate change is real. The climate has always changed, but it's not CO2 that changes it. Molten planet core and daily blasts from Sun bring heat that melted the 3 km thick Laurentide ice sheet that used to cover most of Canada and the northern US. It finished melting 12,000 years ago, before recorded history, but I doubt there waere any SUVs. None of the predictions made by and profited from by climate alrmists has come true. Seas not rising. More ice in both Arctic and Antarctica. We've been scammed. CO2 is not pollution it's what trees and plants grow from. As carbon-based life forms, humans need more CO2, not less. That said, vehicles need to pollute less, just not less CO2. Why do you believe who claim they know when none of their predictions match reality? That's the question.

[@joecascone2189]

A great retrospective. Thanks very much for posting this!

[@realmikemartins]

No problem JC

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Flashback in the 70's

[@snaggletooth7031]

Oh god what i would do ,,just to be in that time again,,awsum memories

[@newhorizons9104]

Love these pictures!!! Please post more of you have:)

[@mrbasinstudios]

I miss those days they were the best, as child. Now Toronto has become a mass thiings were simpler then when we had more freedom as torontonians and canadians.

[@btoexport2]

I miss those times. It was the exact year that I lived there as an exchange student. My favourite spot at Younge St was the A&A record shop. I bought many records there. Went to the Queen concert at Maple Leaf Gardens on Dec 3. A great year.

[@frankdenardo8684]

I was about 12 or 13 in 1978. My first trip to Toronto was in 1987. I went again in the summer of 1990, and 2004. Winter of 2012. I hope to go again next summer for the CNE Canadian National Exhibition.

[@heyjer8000]

thanks Mike

[@jameswillett7186]

The photo of the subway is from the mid 1960's not 1978. It's at 5:25.

[@staytruefoundation3768]

My heart is oozing off Nostalgia of this vid ... thank you good sir! 🤩🥰

[@downupblockinc1380]

really enjoyed the tunes

[@NeilB.Arnold]

Love the video, I wish I had a copy of those photo's, I could use them in my throwback video's.

[@nlisinski]

We lived at 1 Ravenrock Court from 1969-1972, I went to Brookbanks Public school for grades 1-3. We moved to Malvern east of the Sheppard and Markham Road area, and it was farmland back then. The suburbs were still developing east and Scarborough was a very "white-bread" community then, clean, no crime, middle-class neighbourhoods. Lived at 12 Griffen drive from 1972-1984, some of my fondest memories there. I kept moving east since then, now in North Oshawa (the nice part of the "Shwa").

[@user-nb7mz3fb5p]

We lived at Military Trail and Morningside Ave. in '72 (just south west of Malvern) ...and it was farmland and just our brand new Townhomes on the street...east Scarborough was like heaven back then....lol.....the nice part of the "Shwa is definitely in the north end....stay away from the south...a.k.a. "The dirty 'Shwa"...lived 12 years in Bowmanville too....from 2006...it's crazy how Durham Region is now.

[@nlisinski]

@@user-nb7mz3fb5p I deliver in the south end of the Shwa, I know what you mean. I went to West Hill starting in '77, before Pearson was completed.

[@user-nb7mz3fb5p]

@@nlisinski Wow...I actually went to West Hill briefly in '79 and we moved to Brampton in the fall of that year. Time goes by so quickly. Stay safe out there my man.

[@user-wb4cl7wm7n]

This brought back so many memories ❤

[@mikeroulleau3963]

Towards the end of video they accidentally showed a photo with an S.S. KRESGE Store in it. I re-watched it and discovered it was a shot of Kresge on the left...Le Terraces in the middle...and EATON on the right of the photo on Rue St. Catherine in Montreal Centre-Ville. I went to McGill University for four years in the mid to late eighties and worked in the Downtown Montreal EATON Department Store at 677 Rue St.Catherine. That photo brought back many happy memories for me. Both the Kresge Co. 5 & 10 and Les Terraces are long demolished. The beautiful nine floor Art Deco EATON building still stands and is a mixture of both retail and office space. The lower two floors and underground are part of Le Centre EATON Montreal.

[@1td205]

Nice! Thanks.

[@sunitachaudry390]

THIS WAS GOD DESIGNED AWESOME AND AMAZING!!!! LOVED IT WAS MUCH!

[@mikeroulleau3963]

There is also a shot of the Northwest Corner of Queen and Yonge Streets...showing the original T. EATON Company 190 Yonge/Queen Store (Demolished in 1977/78) and F.W. Woolworth Co. Store which is still standing and is currently under restoration and refurbishment.👍

[@youknowcrimedontpay9257]

Thank you. I was in grade 9 at a Toronto school. Grew up in Troronto and all the pics in this video I remember. I worked at Mother's Sandwich Shop at Eglinton & Yonge St, at Duplex also went to Northern Secondary School. SCTV was a big thing back then. John Candy was a regular customer and he'd always come in at just before 2AM when we were just about to close up. Meatball sub, double meat with fries and a chocolate milk shake. He would usually leave me a nice size tip. Once he gave me a $100.00 bill. I asked him to autograph the bill which he did. I still have it in and made a plaque with a pic of John and me. Kodak Insta camera. Bro this was a special video / pics for Mr. Brings back so many memories. Thanks again!

[@HalisIstanbullu]

I miss that Canada so much!!!!

[@bry4162]

....So does everyone from Canada, except Commie Castro of the WEF (from Cuba)

[@MatrixDiscovery]

What a find! I came to Toronto in 1980 and it looked so beautiful ! I remember the beach was beautiful as Miami beach before the condo's started to go up.

[@realmikemartins]

Yes tell me about it ! I think we lived during the best time

[@MatrixDiscovery]

@@realmikemartins The 80's and 90's were the last great decades.

[@outonthetiles]

I loved growing up in Toronto through the 70’s and 80’s. Was such a fun time. ❤️🇨🇦

[@leejones7439]

Wow, so many memories as a teenager in 1978. Too young for the nightlife, but the Ex, Ontario Place, Edward's Gardens, walking through Yorkville and Yonge/Dundas, taking the ferry to Toronto Island, Organ Grinder restaurant, Ed's restaurant after going to one of the plays or shows at a Mirvish Theatre was exciting. Toronto has changed so much, and not for the better.

[@johnziegelbauer4999]

Nice video Mike ..... Thanks

[@realmikemartins]

Nthank you JZ

[@NorthStarman1]

That’s the year I moved to Toronto. It went downhill after that.

[@gerryhansen8664]

It’s obvious to me what the differences are.

[@jasond1976]

I love and miss this Toronto with all my heart, that I despise and loathe the current one.

[@michaelt1349]

I absolutely remember that WILD MOUSE ride at the Ex! Those 90 degree turns where I thought we would go right off the tracks at what seemed like 50 feet off the ground!

[@jacobrocks7]

Thanks for the great memories. I used to work right across the street from AA Records and Thrifty..crazy times back then during my youth. Wish I can go back to visit during those simple times. Thanks

[@realmikemartins]

I'm happy you enjoyed the video . I grew up around Duffrin and St Claire

[@dogporchdogporch171]

Brings back loads of memories.

[@christopherlee9184]

Great video nice to see the year a was born

[@anitalee675]

Yes I was here in ‘81 and Toronto was so different then than now …

[@brettfavreify]

Couple times a year in the 70s we'd come down from Northern Ontario to visit my grandparents in Oshawa, and an aunt in Kensington, and take in all that Toronto offered. So much fun. Lots of things that were affordable for families and young kids. One of favourite things was standing on the roof at Terminal 1, watching jumbo jets take off and land. Don't have that where I'm from. I lament the Toronto that's been lost.

[@chickenburgerfan88]

Is diversity really our strength?

[@newfie-dean5803]

These times were Better. Happier. Indeed. This social media age has destroyed the fabric of society!

[@snaggletooth7031]

I remember all the out door skate rinks we would go to ,,seemed likes there was a ton of them,,not any more tho

[@Bryan-nc3te]

OMG Yonge Street reminded me so much of the "Deuce" in NYC at that time not as deadly but still a similar feeling

[@sean367]

Rush and Max Webster nothing more Toronto than that .Rock on !!

[@annfoster6116]

No homeless no graffiti no cig butts no druggies! I miss it!

[@CalgaryRambler]

Ahhh back when Toronto was Toronto the good

[@GlurfMundoo-lv3pf]

Fascinating watching. Almost all the images are still identifiable. Had trouble with the parking lot with the police car lol. I'm thinking somewhere around York and Richmond, or Adelaide.

[@thesocialartsclub9095]

I was just thinking of Rush in 1978 when I clicked on this. Thinking they must've been on their "Farewell to Kings" tour. And sure enough...there's Geddy 1:58

[@realmikemartins]

Amen to that ! Some of my yearbook videos have me banned until next month . ill be back in march to post more videos

[@katiegrundle9900]

if they played 3 nights at maple leaf gardens, it was the hemispheres tour

[@bigbirdgonewild]

“Farewell to Kings” was CNE…Max opened up! 🤯…EXCEPTIONAL!

[@Nikolak44_AJ_Epic]

the world had gone to shit since! Toronto now is somewhere I want to get out of!

[@jimjackson4256]

This was before it became a third world city.

[@yvonnemariane2265]

4:49 we're told Ottawa's streetcars just had to be scrapped but Toronto's seemed to hold up okay still by 78. Great video

[@ps-fx5hs]

A simpler time ,no internet ,no cell phones...Real life

[@TomBarradas]

All gone now... RIP Toronto

[@j.g.8494]

"All gone now." Is it really? I lived in Toronto in the 1970s to 1995. When I watch videos of Toronto in 2024 on KZbin, it looks more modern and beautiful than ever! What's wrong with Toronto now?

[@user-nb7mz3fb5p]

@@j.g.8494 If you have to ask...you never lived there in the 70's or 80's.

[@j.g.8494]

@@user-nb7mz3fb5p Oh yes, I DID live in Toronto from 1975 to 1995, at Orchard View Boulevard, one block north of Yonge & Eglinton!

[@user-nb7mz3fb5p]

@@j.g.8494 Welll...you must be a lot more tolerant than I am...I could never go back.

[@wendyh2708]

Grew up west of Barrie. Spent a lot of time in Toronto. Oh those were the days! Moved to Toronto and spent 30 years there. Left for Windsor. You couldn't pay me to go back to Toronto now.

[@wrestlingwithjay3770]

Flashback in the late 2010's

[@madmikemadmike2175]

in 1978 i moved from Northern New Brunswick to Toronto to teach French as a second language at George Brown College. what a awesome city it was then, when i left in 2001 not so much.

[@raffickabdool414]

My first trip to toronto was 1979 summer 1981 winter 1983 summer 1983winter 1985 winter from trinidad loved it

[@deanl0]

Some classic and Dundas is long gone.. with the wind Reply