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

3 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@tjmcguire9417

Ай бұрын

Damn right. It was a magical time. I miss the good attitudes.

@j.g.8494

Ай бұрын

@@adamcrawford3297 When I moved into a bachelor apartment at Yonge & Eglinton in 1976, I paid about $240 per month, including central heating in winter and air-conditioning in summer. When I left Canada in 1995, the rent had gone up to over $600. Recently, I checked the rent for a bachelor apartment at the same, renovated apartment block. I was SHOCKED to learn that the rent is now over $2000 - no extras included! How can anyone afford such outrageous rents unless they have a permanent, well-paying job?

@fearless.humility

25 күн бұрын

Toronto life before gentrification

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

@CinHalCedHerChance

Ай бұрын

globalists, the politicians are their puppets

@Roadghost88

Ай бұрын

Someone voted for those politicians.

@pietrogervasi6435

Ай бұрын

and Covid 19

@CinHalCedHerChance

Ай бұрын

@@pietrogervasi6435 lol Pietro not quite awake and realizing what's really been going on since 2020

@apscoradiales

24 күн бұрын

We helped by electing them!!! What? Three times Canadians elected Trudeau. Will probably do it again. Canadians deserve it!

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

@TabbyAngel2

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@AlanKelly-nm9lx

Ай бұрын

@@TabbyAngel2 hahahahaah what , who did this crime a cop? our crack smoking mayor?

@nibsvkh

Ай бұрын

@@AlanKelly-nm9lx Liar…shoeshine killing it was called. Young boy was raped and then drowned in a sink. Wtf do you online troll tards spew bs?

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

@OofusTwillip

8 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

@@OofusTwillip "Collection of vindictive wingnuts" 😂😂

@brettfavreify

Ай бұрын

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

@deanl0

Ай бұрын

​@@brettfavreify Yours to re-cover

@Logan-py8we

Ай бұрын

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

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

@alonzorodriguez8878

2 ай бұрын

💔

@kermitfrog593

Ай бұрын

I would argue it's boring now. Everything is unaffordable, can't really do much but walk around.

Oh man this makes my heart ache .

@realmikemartins

2 жыл бұрын

Yes JJ me as well

@jimjackson4256

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@mikeb3539

Ай бұрын

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.

@booooboooo2010

Ай бұрын

No you're a recent immigrant from the eastern bloc. What would you know about Toronto? Answer: Nothing.

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

2 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@stephenfermoyle4578

Ай бұрын

dito!!!

@carolannaitken5812

Ай бұрын

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.

@6ixalive

Ай бұрын

200$wtfff im about to be 18 and rent here is now like 2500$+ and it’s shyt!!

Real Canada and its lovely city which is gone sadly .

@MuffHam

Ай бұрын

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

@prospects0007

Ай бұрын

Why because brown people living there and people of colour all Toronto was a few building

@zed22bahman

Ай бұрын

@@prospects0007 I am from Iran and I came to Toronto back in 1978 as a student and frankly you do not know what you are talking about!

@mikesmith7326

Ай бұрын

My parents and relatives always talk about these times

@onceagain2847

23 күн бұрын

And America.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

FAR OUT. !

@davidmulhall2710

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

Happy 35th anniversary

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

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

@leejones7439

3 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

@@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 ...

@tjmcguire9417

Ай бұрын

Good to hear from you. You've got me by 2 years. Golden years is damn straight. You may remember going to The Bandshell at the CNE and seeing incredible bands. For free. Carry on MacDuff. Even better --- The golden age of Ontario Place.

@apscoradiales

24 күн бұрын

Going to the Unicorn or Rose and Crown for a drink, eh?

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.

@HAMMER8181

Ай бұрын

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

@Logan-py8we

Ай бұрын

@@HAMMER8181 and yet thousands have moved to Hamilton from Toronto. Explain that professor ?

@HAMMER8181

Ай бұрын

@@Logan-py8we cheap housing

@du3223

Ай бұрын

I grew up in Hamilton at the same time and no one ever wished we could be like Toronto. I’ve lived in Ottawa for the last 25 years and I wish it was more like Hamilton.

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

@alanwatchesstuff

3 ай бұрын

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

@Alsatiagent-zu1rx

2 ай бұрын

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

@yesyesnonono

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@josephforest7605

2 ай бұрын

@@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 .

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

Жыл бұрын

Downtown did feel much safer back then.

@alanwatchesstuff

3 ай бұрын

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

@Freeontheland2030

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

love that story !

@pargolf3158

2 ай бұрын

Where is NYS? ( obviously not New York Sity)

@suespony

2 ай бұрын

Finger lakes area ​@@pargolf3158

@phillydisco

Ай бұрын

@@pargolf3158 New York State.

@Logan-py8we

Ай бұрын

@@pargolf3158 New York State - people are dumb geez

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

@j.g.8494

Ай бұрын

The best decades of the second half of the 20th century were the Fabulous Fifties & the Swinging Sixties - a time of great prosperity & optimism about the future - not to mention the carefree times

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

Ай бұрын

True.

@marquefan1

Ай бұрын

Crime and politics.

@jenniferdarline

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

@Holly707

Ай бұрын

@@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.

Brings back memories. Thank you!

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

Жыл бұрын

No worries 👍 have a great weekend

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

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

@cinthia9602

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

​@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Test-vl1ib

8 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

One of the safest in NA. @@blackbeltjones2903

I used to love Toronto and lived there for 25 years. I moved out in 2018. It doesn't even resemble the Canada that I grew up in now. Way too many foreigners now and unfortunately not the best ones .

@TimmyOzman

27 күн бұрын

Most of Canada doesn't resemble the country we grew up in. Very sad...

@randolphpinkle4482

12 күн бұрын

I have no problem with foreigners from anywhere in the world, but when they insist on bringing their cultural baggage to Canada and ghettoizing neighbourhoods, that I don't appreciate.

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

Back during a time that if you were new to Canada, you could get a job anywhere doing pretty much anything and be able to afford a place to live, have a car, have a family and a decent life. Crazy how you can't do that no more...

It was a fantastic city back then.

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.

Watching in 2024 - born in 1980, I want the good old days back…😢

Those were the days

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

@realmikemartins

3 жыл бұрын

Yep the good ole days 😪

@snaggletooth7031

2 жыл бұрын

O man you said it,,great times

@iwantthe80sback59

2 жыл бұрын

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

@LimitlessThinker

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I remember those!

@goldenretriever6261

2 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@darkjusticemedia5621

Жыл бұрын

Wasnt hero in big then too

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

@janetcraft

Ай бұрын

That is so true. Almost everyone looked natural.

Wow, I lived in Toronto in 1978. I was 11. A lot of these photos bring back vivid memories of those days.

@realmikemartins

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

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

Жыл бұрын

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

70s 80s and even the 90s was the time to live for sure. miss my 90s :(

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!

Thanks for sharing these images. Gives a glimpse into the good days gone by.

What a beautiful time. When Canada belonged to Canadians.

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.

It’s obvious to me what the differences are.

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

@janetcraft

Ай бұрын

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 :)

Hey Mike , this is awesome. Love looking back and ya there was so much space compared to now. With all these condo's popping up downtown, it doesn't even look like Toronto anymore. Great stuff.

@realmikemartins

24 күн бұрын

Thanks Jeff have a great long weekend

I miss that Canada so much!!!!

@bry4162

Ай бұрын

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

I really enjoyed this piece of the past! Thank you

@realmikemartins

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

@PatreceSunflower

Ай бұрын

@@realmikemartinsAbsolutely!

Now it’s Mogadishu North.

@j.g.8494

2 ай бұрын

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.

@Tarapatil2023

Ай бұрын

lol

@Blaze44_22

Ай бұрын

Unless you're indigenous to this country you are an immigrant or descendants of immigrants

@mr.spongylikeaboss4987

Ай бұрын

Sad but true, esp in North Etobicoke - Little Somalia

@apscoradiales

24 күн бұрын

Yep, Yep, yep!!!

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.

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

😢 what happened 🇨🇦👈 must hold every politicians accountable for what they done to our once great country 😑

@realmikemartins

Ай бұрын

Exactly

I also miss the old Toronto of the 70s and 80s, when I go back now I just don’t feel like I even belong, but we have to be honest here, life was different back than around the whole world, it doesn’t matter where you go , many other things that bother us are the same everywhere, you also have to remember big time, there was no Internet and social media That has changed our world enormously for the good and terribly bad. It has changed our lifestyles, made us a much smaller world, made us more confrontational with each other, and created a lot of ugliness, on top of giving us things like warp speed, financial access, unbelievable access to any information we want and host of other things, definitely bittersweet, I still think I’d rather be able to go back in time but that of course is impossible, it’s called change . people screamed equally loud about the industrial revolution when it happened decades and decades ago and either you went with it or you just basically fell behind.

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

Ahhh back when Toronto was Toronto the good

The crazy thing when I see videos like this. I was a teenager in the 70's and everything seemed so advanced and modern! How times a change. Unfortunately, social media has destroyed the good in so many things. Granted social media does have some pluses! Great video down memory lane!

…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

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

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

A great retrospective. Thanks very much for posting this!

@realmikemartins

Жыл бұрын

No problem JC

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

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

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

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.

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Jay-vr9ir

2 жыл бұрын

@@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 .

Thanks for sharing your pictures.Nostalgic for what was.

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.

I was 24 in 78. Great time to be alive. Long since moved out of TO.

Is diversity really our strength?

@user-nq1fm7xs2f

Ай бұрын

Read The Vertical Mosaic, John Porter.

@j.g.8494

Ай бұрын

@@user-nq1fm7xs2f Could you tell us what the book is about?

@1Grandoptimist

Ай бұрын

Nope

@alextyy

Ай бұрын

No

@Ferst60

Ай бұрын

Idiots

This brought back so many memories ❤

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

2 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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.

I was born in Toronto in 1978, nice to see, my parents are gone way too early and I know how much they loved the city. I get emotional seeing this and imagining them, getting ready for my to be born. I left in 2005, buying my first home outside the GTA and never going back. No one there now😢so these videos really hit home.

Fabulous. Thank You. I was there then. SAM The Record Man at D&B was my favourite place. Age 20. I was there at The Gardens for Max Webster and RUSH. Max Webster blew Rush off the stage as the first act. Good to see my Toronto.

@realmikemartins

Ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it ✨️

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.

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!

So very sad how Toronto has turned out!

Started working full time in 1978. Took me about 15 to 20 minutes to drive from Ajax to Willowdale Avenue in North York. Hahaha!!! Today, that trip can take 2 hours or more sometimes.

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

All gone now... RIP Toronto

@j.g.8494

2 ай бұрын

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

@user-nb7mz3fb5p

Ай бұрын

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

@j.g.8494

Ай бұрын

@@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

Ай бұрын

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

I came to Toronto 1979 - I remember the big cars and yellow police cars, 2 bedroom apartment $280, gas 0.24 c Litre , maybe 3 homiside in the whole year, roller skating in Ontario Place - was beautiful - all that change now

@realmikemartins

28 күн бұрын

Ahhh yes the years of the European expansion

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.

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.

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

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

I came to Canada from the UK in ‘81. The recession there was just starting to lift but now arriving in Canada. Lucky me, I got to experience a lot of miserable years. Gone downhill from that time…. But I still don’t regret coming here after seeing what life is like over the pond.

I have a lot of emotional attachments to Toronto. I moved there in 1991 and spend a few nights in a youth hostel near Yonge and Dundas. I then moved to a room in a house on Marlee Avenue, near the Glencairn metro station. Toronto was a breakthrough city where I shattered a lot of inner barriers and pushed through the envelope.

I''ve always enjoyed visiting Toronto. I haven't been there since Covid hit...

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

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

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!

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

June 1978 was when my family immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. My youth memories were filled with going to the movies at the Imperial 6, cheap meals at McDonald’s. Page 3 of the Toronto Sun.😅

Thanks for sharing!

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

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

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

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@MatrixDiscovery

5 жыл бұрын

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

What is gone is never lost.

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.

This was before it became a third world city.

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.👍

Fifty years from now Torontonians shall lament about the good old 2020's. Listen just take the good with the bad. Everything is in flux...

60s and 70s toronto def was the best era for the city it seems