Toronto's CNE in 1929(HD)

Toronto's CNE in 1929
credit: Library & Archives of Canada

[@Steemer6023]

The two young fellas in the foreground at

[@careyleroux3784]

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[@richystar2001]

So many children ...now no more. Sad😥

[@mikedrown2721]

All those Peter Whitt streetcars.... nice!

[@babababuck]

You can tell that McDonalds hadn't been invented yet. Almost 9 minutes of film and you can count the number of overweight people on one hand. 🙄

[@Corbit]

Everyone is dress so fine!

[@Hamzakhan-dt3gv]

Interesting

[@roseyposey7368]

If this is during the CNE, why were people wearing coats coming off the streetcar?

[@matak99]

Is there anything in this film that is still standing? A building, patch of grass or slab of concrete? The only thing I can imagine is still there is perhaps a tree.

[@evemarie1605]

This film was made by the TTC in 1928 on the 50th anniversary of the CNE. It's clearly "Children's Day" on a Saturday when children were admitted free if accompanied by a parent and the TTC possibly also allowed children to travel free to the CNE on that day. There certainly are a lot of children "mugging" for the camera. Prior to 1950 people tended to attend dressed semi-formally although some children were a bit more casual like the little girl at 0.07 wearing her school gym "bloomers" but that was very "progressive" and just barely acceptable socially even in the "Roaring Twenties". At 0.28 you can see the old GE factory in the background which apparently still stands although extensively renovated into an apartment building. At

[@gregoryworth84]

Not so much of Toronto's CNE, rather than streetcars arriving at the Dufferin Gates and leaving the CNE

[@paulr4190]

1929 you say. Doesn't look like much of a depression to me. In fact everyone is dressed up to the nines.