Loved seeing eatons annex. I am now 93 years old. Brings back a lot of fond memories of those times.

@pauloli4341

3 жыл бұрын

Best wishes to you, This might be from your teenage days... May God bless you with best of health..

@jpp4566

13 күн бұрын

Damn you still alive?

I want to get back onto one of those streetcars and just go. Can't I? Can't I walk into the film, join the crowd, and take off? I rememember those streetcars; there were still a few running when I was a kid. Dad used to hold me up so I could see out the windows. Loved them.

Thank you for this interesting upload...My mom would have been 26 when this was filmed...I wonder where she was on this day..

Wouldn't it just be so awesome to have a time machine and experience time travel in 3D?

@johnwoa

7 жыл бұрын

I did experience "time travel", in a matter of speaking. Being born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and being a transit enthusiast from a very young age, the last PCC streetcar to run in Cincinnati was in 1951. After that, the streetcars were gone. Also, the last trolley bus in Cincinnati ran in 1965. After that, the trolley buses were gone. Nothing but diesel buses in Cincinnati after that. Fast forward to 1986 when I first came to Toronto and saw, to my amazement, PCC streetcars rumbling along the tracks downtown and many routes of "Flyer" trolley buses. It was like going back in time and living my childhood all over again! I could ride the PCC streetcars here in Toronto and I also rode the trolley buses regularly until they disappeared from the TTC routes in 1993. I can still ride the CLRV and the ALRV streetcars to this very day!

@transitbricks8920

6 жыл бұрын

I agree time-travel would be amazing!

@barbaraleszczynski2214

3 жыл бұрын

Clinton....What a wonderful thought! That would be a dream come true! Awesome.....for sure!

@robertpeter3550

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@saugabwoy

Жыл бұрын

Time travel is only amazing for white ppl. I can feel the racism in this video

There are both Peter Witt and the old air-electric PCC streetcars shown in the footage. Some of the air-electric streetcars were still on the rails into the early 1970s and I recall riding on some of them. They had bigger windows than the streetcars that came in later and it seems to me that you raised or lowered them with winding handles perched above the window panes.

Looks like we'd have to be more alert back in those days. Without the cross lights. No cellphone :D

I do recognize the old Jane loop. There was a gas station at the northwest corner of Jane and Bloor. The Humber theater was not built until 1947 and there wasn't much commercial development on Bloor west of Jane. The Bloor streetcars were signed for "Danforth" and actually ran to a loop at Luttrell Ave.

@transitbricks8920

6 жыл бұрын

Steve M. Thats awesome!

Used to take those streetcars to school in early 60’s before the subway!

It seems to start at the 2:18 mark in The Junction, i.e. Bloor and Dundas. The footage prior to that seemed to be more from downtown, as there were tall buildings that would not have existed anywhere near Dundas and Bloor at that time.

@thesteampunkjunction8225

8 жыл бұрын

+Joey Schwartz I updated the info!

Wow, the Eaton's Annex (1:51). I'd forgotten that even existed.

Good old days.

@walterbrunswick

5 жыл бұрын

I used to think like you once... well, there were never really "good" old days. In 1940 the Second World War was raging, so many deaths, Hitler and Stalin were in power, so, really not all that "good", понимаеш?

what a gem!

At around 1:45, the building the right side of the screen has a sign that says, "Eaton's Annex," which would have been behind Old City Hall. I kind of wish I had had the opportunity to have seen what that area looked like before they tore everything down to build the Eaton Centre.

@andrewcharles459

2 ай бұрын

Eaton's Annex was destroyed in a fire while the Eaton Centre was under construction. I never did learn the cause, but I have my suspicions... ;-)

1:23 - American Austin turning right?

Weird to think nearly all of those people are dead.

@sweiland75

7 жыл бұрын

Weird to think you are dead

@fabio40

4 жыл бұрын

It's 1940 buddy. Seventy-seven years ago as of the year you posted this. A number of them I'm sure are still kicking.

@youbetcha6880

4 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily everybody, but even if you were a kid in 1940, you'd be at least in your early 80s.

@barbaraleszczynski2214

3 жыл бұрын

Yes....most are gone...but hopefully a few still around and well! They lived a great simple life then!

@eltorpedo67

3 жыл бұрын

@@fabio40 Right. Notice i said "nearly". The vast majority of the people we see there are adults. Born in 1920 or earlier.

Big difference in the street cars in 1935 and 1940. WOW

Royal bank, Canada bread, Imperal oil, Eaton,s , back then we had Canadian names, now it,s all American.

My grandfather was 23 years old he was born in Toronto 1917!

Just love watching the world from the past. I'm jealous.....cause life may not have been easy then too....but at least it was simpler! Too much technology distracting us now. In those days....families came home from work, school and actually sat down at the dinner table for dinner and talked about their day together. Now......each to their own! So sad!

I want their coats

Ton o' rot has never been supposed to have ever been easy on the eyes, has it there

Strangely automotive technology still work on the same principal the only difference from then and now is the advancement of integrated circuits & mm radio band transmissions & nano technology beyond that nothing has really changed significantly in the last 78 years how curious .

What's a German Volkswagen at 1:20 doing in Toronto in 1940 when Canada was already at War well before the USA?

@CaptHollister

5 жыл бұрын

It's not a Volkswagen, it might be a Hupmobile.

I think this was before car centric city planning reached Canada and everything got torn down for sake of cars is most cities except parts of montreal and some small towns and stuff wherever they didn't get enough development to force this less sustainable change

I wonder what Steele and Yonge look like in those time.

@email5023

6 жыл бұрын

My dad was born and raised in Toronto. In those days, they went camping up there.

@ofb-jq5lc

5 жыл бұрын

Farm land.

@canman5060

4 жыл бұрын

@@ofb-jq5lc Full of highrises plus a big mall there today !

I wish they still had the electric powered street cars, they should have extended that to Mississauga and Scarborogh that would save people a lot of money on transportation.

@noisespektrum5416

7 жыл бұрын

they are still electric powered

@ALuimes

6 жыл бұрын

There actually WERE streetcars in Mississauga. ran to the Small Arms Loop near Dixie to serve a munitions plant during WW2. They also ran to Scarborough to Kingston Rd. and Birchmount.

Every single person dressed up and looking their best. Everyone orderly in a crowded scene. No bums or crazy people wandering around. Obesity isn't even a thing. My, my...we are not evolving we are devolving it would seem.

2 ай бұрын

Blame technology.

Seems to have fewer vehicle's, hence probably why the streetcar was more efficient

2 ай бұрын

I only saw one guy on a cell phone - I guess they weren't that popular back then.

😊😊😊😊

we were also at war

That is really how old history look like

I'm surprised that the women didn't wear proper boots for the winter season. All have bare legs.

@spm116

7 жыл бұрын

They did not have good overshoes for winter wear in those days. However, I understand that the women did wear nylon stockings.

EN VEZ DE PONER ESTO DEBEN DE PONER HEMBRAS

And btw canada was at war in this time

just imagine..everyone of the people in this film are dead....lol

@laimeing615

2 жыл бұрын

I think I saw a few kids and youths there so may still be alive today

I wonder how was the crime? Any shootings on a daily basis?

@erics9754

3 жыл бұрын

I will take a wild guess I think it was a lot lower lmao.

If there was a video taken of Toronto today, the intersection would show cyclists ignorantly taking up the roads. Beggers all over the corners. People crossing and getting hit. Dogs walking all around. Impatient people. Toronto in the 1940's operates better than it does in 2017.

@cellom.9227

6 жыл бұрын

So in other words, nothing changed...

@thefozzybear

5 жыл бұрын

Only because your stuck in the 1940's.

No obesity

Mostly white europeans

@email5023

6 жыл бұрын

Now its Soviet Canuckistan.

@TurkistanSeneti

5 жыл бұрын

E Mail more like hongerstan

How wonderful Canada must have been before the Trudeau family and multiculturalism.

@erics9754

3 жыл бұрын

It was fantastic we had our own country like the Asians have. We still had our own culture this never had to change. RIP Canada.