Born in 1969, and I absolutely love to see the Toronto I remember from my youth.

100 times better than TO of today

I really miss those days.

@amero3577

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, yet I wasn’t even born until 2001. I don’t know why I feel nostalgic

@isaiahcampbell3992

4 жыл бұрын

I wasn't even born yet. My mom was only like 7 in 1980.

@sda9995

4 жыл бұрын

I was born 1971 love Toronto!!

@Sgt_Glory

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in TO in the 80's and grew up there in the 90's. Soo good to see old footage from when I was a kid. In many ways it's the same, but in many more ways it's a very very different place.

@spendingtimetogether8428

4 жыл бұрын

Good and simple times.❤

amazing quality footage.

@spendingtimetogether8428

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, such clarity, amazing!

I'm having trouble understanding how someone had access to this kind of video quality back then , this footage is outstanding!

@breadmaker

4 жыл бұрын

it's film, not video

@danielmichael6938

2 жыл бұрын

You know how old movies look good? Film was high-resolution. This isn't even a particularly good example.

@atheist8184

11 ай бұрын

he was a time traveller

@atheist8184

11 ай бұрын

actually it was done by iphone 14

i look at these old videos and hope to see myself in one of them, but of course i never do. Everything changes so slowly over the years you never notice, then one day you discover everything has changed. Love this these clips from the past.

Flashback in the 70's & 80's

Great footage and great quality! I really miss those days, a time when toronto actually functioned - and there weren't ugly cookie-cutter condos going up on every vacant piece of land!

@AndreasDuessca

9 ай бұрын

A dead downtown full of parking lots, a highly polluted waterfront and smog days for weeks....

@Blakbox92

3 ай бұрын

@@AndreasDuessca Yeah people really like to put on their rose tinted glasses, things weren't all bad, but Toronto was much dirtier, uglier, and violent back in the 70s and 80s. As cool as this footage is, shots of buildings, traffic and street corners doesn't tell the whole story.

people say there was never traffic before . lol I see traffic back then😂

@sda9995

4 жыл бұрын

Not as bad as it is today

@franki3Ru550

4 жыл бұрын

@@sda9995 that's true because population is increasing so yea I get your point.

@maxchoi6394

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree

@mejsmith1

4 жыл бұрын

It would be more accurate to say there was less traffic back then. Was still bad at rush hour, though.

@nevarmaor

Ай бұрын

It's just these days rush hour is 24 hours long :D

My god there were trees inside the Eaton Centre at one point? I would’ve never known otherwise if it weren’t for these videos. The Centre looked so beautiful back then but now they’re just cramming in multiple stores as much as possible. Look at that walkway at 0:26 for example, what it looks like now is very different and has zero character at all.

I prefer the old days. If Canada is not banning real estate wholesaling practice and refinancing landlords, we will see decline in prosperity through out the country.

Toronto the good

16mm film, quality holds up well,.

Dude the color of the camera kinda changes the look of it and it for some reason reminds me of Mario kart wii

U should see Yorkdale today wow & the Eaton center is way bigger my grandmother worked at Eaton downtown when they first opened for 23 years then she left to take care of us in the 70s she just had 2 more years she would of gotten a diamond ring

@Seventh-nk5oq

9 ай бұрын

What a great grandmother you had for giving up a diamond 25th anniversary ring to take care of you. I love comments like yours that make me smile 😊

Looks like they drove in a civilized manner. Now.......

Haha old police car God I'm old

@spendingtimetogether8428

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, almost forgot about those. Looks so weird now!

0:53 401 or gardener expressway?

@lornemcclenaghan5428

5 жыл бұрын

looks like Gardiner looking west.

@creman12

5 жыл бұрын

Lorne McClenaghan yea I think you’re right, the Parklawn exit appears to be on the left and the collector going east merges like a bottle neck with the express today

@fabio40

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Looking west from the Royal York Road bridge.

@Vincent_Sullivan

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting question! If you were at this location today the road would indeed be named the Gardiner Expressway, but at the time the film was shot, the Gardiner Expressway ended at the Humber river and the name of the road changed to The Queen Elizabeth Way, usually known as the "QEW". In 1997 the ownership of the section of the QEW from the Humber river to highway 427 was transferred from the province of Ontario to the City of Toronto and as part of that ownership transfer the name Gardiner was extended from the Humber river to the South end of highway 427 and the name of the road now changes to QEW there. I drove that road twice a day for 5 years (1975-1980) living in downtown Toronto and working at Pearson airport so I know it well from the era shown in this film.

Too bad everything wasn't still like the 80s

20884

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@lilka1serofficial980

3 жыл бұрын

Stop

@bigmonkey838

3 жыл бұрын

@@lilka1serofficial980 damn you commented on that 1 year to late my guy

@Seventh-nk5oq

9 ай бұрын

​​@@bigmonkey838you mean 2 YEARS too late, and, yes it's 'too' late not 'to' late 😅 try focusing on mastering basic math and grammar skills instead of trolling.

Turns out we invented HD before we invented SD 😂

Now this Canada Dream is gone! I am certain that 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the beginning of the 2000s - it was great place to live! Later then, it became TOTALLY AWKWARD! We are rather living in CANADIAN NIGHTMARE!

Life before Palestinian encampments, and injection sites sure seemed civil.