[Street Scenes in Toronto] (1935)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Shots of Toronto Transit Commission traffic at Broadview and Danforth, Sunnyside, Danforth Division, Canadian National Exhibition entrances, the Bay Street terminal, ferry service, and North Toronto terminal.
Source: Library and Archives Canada. Toronto Transit Commission fonds, 1981-0211. IDC: 196210.
That's when there were white people in Canada
@Daniel Drader angry as hell
@Daniel Drader i tell it like it is..
@Daniel Drader fyck you too loser
@Daniel Drader your upset at my telling like it is fuck off go back wherever you come from..
@Daniel Drader un happy at the way this country has fallen apart thats the problem here in Canada. .
So amazing . Everything looked so cool back then , especially the cars 😍😍
People knew how to dress back then too
The ttc tickets in the late thirties were 7 cents or 32 tickets for 2$.
Kid tickets were 3 cents
@@donfearnley8312 amazing that kids tickets were still only a dime in the 70s!
Everybody gangsta until you tried living in that time period.
No fare evasion here!!
not one crazy person
They were kept in mental hospitals then
@@kenkur27 nut houses to be accurate
Canada🇨🇦 was beautiful (Before Islamic invasion)
Please don’t remind me... I have to live in this desolate shit hole
Pre WW2 when everyone man didn't leave the house without a 3 piece suite and a hat.
You can see lots of men in this video without a suit on. It was way more common than today, but certainly not a requirement. People weren't stupid, they wouldn't leave for their job at a factory or butcher with nice clothes on.
Everyone dressed well back then
And yet it was the middle of the Great Depression!
Summer days and innocent times whilst over the horizon a troubling future promises that innocence will have no place in the modern world. .
Pedestrians loved walking in front of street cars and cars --- like there is nothing coming 😂😂😂
Omg I KNOW 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Some things never change. (:
How wonderful. Trams with trailers, a Grand Union Junction, a Birney or two, and all those magnificent old cars...A joy to watch and right down my alley.
Greetings from Melbourne.
Tramway Arthur
Toronto is currently the streetcar capital of North America.
And old fashioned tram/trolley trains
he's australian i love him😩😩👏👏❤❤💋💋
Those ferries still look the same as the ferries now. Lol
That's because some of them are from that era.
I still board the William Inglis regularly, 2020!
Funny how in the 1920s Toronto looked more British than N. American.
Amazing I love old footage like this
What a beautiful civilized place Toronto was back then. It has all gone to hell.
I remember riding on the old trolley buses. The pole that connected to the overhead wire would sometimes jump off. The driver would then go out and using a long pole push it back onto the wire. Lol
I wonder how many shootings and or stabbings and assaults were on those street-cars back then? Anyone care to take a guess???
@Will Wilberforce it's their children who have caused problems not the majority of the first wave. The majority of them came to Canada and made a life for themselves even among some racist groups of people.
Back then probably not much. I do remember back in the sixties that most of the murders committed in T.O. were domestic related. I remember guys going hunting and carrying rifles uncovered slung over their shoulders and walking down the street and riding the transit/subway and nobody would even blink an eye. How I miss those days.
What is awesome is that even in the 1930's great depression men wore suits and ties just to go to the CNE
Lol.. ya. I wonder how the summer temps were back in those days in Toronto?
im pretty sure that it was the only outfit that they owned
Casual, everyday clothing around the world were more dressy (dressy, to modern views). And there wasn't a "casual" category. You just wore the clothing. There was still a a formal level, which was super formal tux and ballgowns. It wasn't until the 1960s, especially the 1970s when clothing became very casual and reached the daily clothing of today. Although it could be said that today's is too casual that it's gone sloppy and off-course.
@@Nexus-7.0 Check the farmers almanac, it show's the history of all temps of each year.
@@D33Lux Yes you are right..thanks.
How they wore all that garb in the summer heat and kept their whites clean in the pollution...
❤ Summer hasn't changed at the CNE in Toronto that much. I recognised it immediately. This reminds me of my father's red rocket collections from his time working for the TTC. He has a Streetcar bell on his head stone. In later years, he worked for Transit control. These films remind me of my father and my childhood. Love it.
If your childhood is in the 30s you have done well to live this long
@@mckessa17 no it wasn't. Red subways were called red rockets and were from the 70s and 80s. Lose the attitude. People COLLECT things from different eras, not necessarily from the specific years they were ALIVE. You write this to me on Father's Day as I remembered his LIFE....f$@k you.
My Grandfather worked for the TTC till he Retired in I think was 1980 _.
I wish there was a shot of the old bridge at Sunnyside Station at King, Queen & Roncy (that were all the traffic was going to the bottom/right of the picture) off Queen. It was so much a part of my childhood.
Oh my Canada love you
And hardly a single overweight person to be seen!
Thanks to the Great Depression.
Good point. They actually had a strong work ethic and no welfare crutch.
@@sheltv100 it was like that long after The Great Depression ended
@@bombasticbushkin4985 And high suicide rate but those don't show up in film/video.
hard times
No traffic lights ?
I guess people were civil back then and used common sense.
Now people are rude, drive recklessly and everyone walking is playing with their crack phones not paying attention.
So just because there was no traffic lights that means people were civil?? Great logic. NOT
Deaths in road traffic accidents have gone down steadily in recent years even though number of vehicles has been increasing.
they didn't have as many cars on the road and as much traffic as they do today...do'h! also much less population
@ E.B.C How about showing me the evidence on that one...and not the CBC.
@ DragonPupEclipse Yes, there is no evidence to suggest that people WERE more civil back then and vice versa however, all we can go on right now is how people are now and in THAT case, @ Grant Chow is completely correct.
Loved the Toronto Island ferries ballet.
That black smoke though.
I sure hope Gordy’s Restaurant is still in business. 🤣
Breaking news: it's not! 🤣🤣🤣
red hots 5 cents wow
I think they were referring to what we now call "hot dogs".
No Gardner Expressway and no 401.
Really nice, cool stuff, very interesting, awesome nostalgia. Grandparents and parents were alive in this period, each parent just few years old, looking at these not having been born at this time feel something been drawn to it, maybe because being my parent's child there,s a psychic residue,feeling what they felt as they were growing up in 30,s and later on ? Historical perspective to me is this: Another four years before Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster (was cousin of Frank Shuster 9:46 of Wayne & Shuster comedy duo.] would successfully debut Superman in Action Comics#1. Five years later Bob Kane would create Batman & would debut in Detective Comics #27, original Robin the boy wonder kid sidekick wouldn't appear till Detective #38 in 1940. At this point Walt Disney,s Mickey Mouse & other characters are becomining increasingly famous & popular, Warner Bros. characters as well, Merrie Melodies cartoons are popular & have the original Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd among others. (Porky Pig & Daffy Duck cartoons in black & white in world war II effort propaganda cartoon episodes come later.) Lol. Way overseas in Belgium Remi Georges ( or is it Georges Remi? ) who,s pen name is Herge is on the fastrack of making Tintin and his other characters world famous, though adventures of Tintin would definitely be his most famous of his creations with Tintin,s dog Snowy, of course. Popeye,from Thimble Theatre comic strip,s breakout hit character & subsequent supporting characters (Olive Oyl, Bluto a.k.a. Brutus, Wimpy) were also popular cartoon creations, if not totally, well on their way. Lol. 😅😊.
Notice the lack of traffic signals at Queen-King-Roncesvalles-Lakeshore:- they had a few downtown but they were still a daring new innovation and the City was very stingy with them:- trying to get through a busy intersection unscathed was not easy then! Nowadays Toronto is "red-light city" with a traffic signal every two blocks with only two speeds permitted for motor traffic:- "dead stop" and "going nowhere"!
Love seeing this! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Those ferries well built. Still using after 80 yrs old. Sydney in Australia also got old ferries.
buy a house for $3000
blow up a house for $200
huhh?
And the average yearly wage was $475.
Back then people were only making 25 cents a hour or less
Yes, but don't forget that ONE wage (one wage household/family) was enough to buy a house and have a bit more for extras.
There was one long scene from King and Queen at Roncesvalles. ... and those ferries look like the one still in operation today in 2015.
I was wondering if one of those ferries is the Trillium, still in operation on steam today.
The William Inglis and Trillium still in use, 2020
And it kept repeating. LOL.
Look how well dressed and polite waiting their turn getting on streetcar.😳???
Amazing, I've been watching movies from 1906 in various cities, what a difference 30 years make. No more horse-drawn carriages, all cars now, and no one meandering willy-nilly jaywalking through the streets anymore.
I'm gotta love my city no matter what 🇨🇦
meh, seeing as how the gays have overrun it... time to leave the sinking ship.
@@schitlipz the gays LOL
I never saw a gay in Downtown Toronto....
@@winstonthespartan5593 Church and Wellesley. Nuff said.
No matter what? Was it hard to find something you liked in this video?
big city great canadians
all 4 of my grandparents were 34 or 35 years old, and my Mom was a 1 year old baby
And now there are kids with sagging pants that shows underwears and rap music that is terrible and no sense of class or respect.
*eyeroll*
I’m an old man who’s confused about modern life! And I’m scared, and why isn’t Andy of Mayberry on television anymore!!!
ok boomer
Why does nobody wear hats anymore (not including baseball caps)?
just think if no one had filmed this you would be in the dark about your past---but not now
Well dressed!
No need to worry about anyone texting and driving.
Probably weren't a lot of mass shootings around that time either I would say....
That's cuz society wasn't as contaminated as it is today.
Oh u were free to smoke look at that no government control lol
Toronto before Trudeau destroyed it
Just had to politicize this eh???
Toronto is nice city i was there late 1989-90 wow they always had street cars . how much was bus fair that time ?
In the 1900 was 2 cents for adults or 6 ticket for 10 cents children under 9 was 1 cents in your in arms free night time 5 cents & 1989 one dollar lol I just Google that wasn't born in the 1900
Just for fun, and to see how wrong things have become: 1980 Metropass was $26. 1985 Metropass was $38.50. 1990 Metropass cost $53.00.
cheaprealcheap
@@alexsdb9712 2022, Metro pass $143...almost 3 triple the cost.
Wow, I wish there were that many streetcars today!
Toronto before automobiles destroyed it
Everyone is this video is dead. Freaky.
Georgian Bay Paranormal: Not dead now but in their 80s and 90s .
I remember these streetcars. They ran on Bathurst to the CNE in the 1950s.
Any weird shit goin on up there these days hombre?
Oh boy I think Canada is a nice place to live 👍👩❤️👨
it is with great people from allovern the flat earth love
Compared to where?
Lots of street cars! ❤
Everybody was white. Crazy.
Great clips. Toronto was quite the bustling city back then. People dressed better. Look at all the hats! It's an odd watching all these people walking around, knowing that all of them died many years ago. They are all ghosts captured on film.
Canada was much better then.
And those Peter Witt tramcars kept running into the 1970s (some are still running in Milan Italy today). How many of those motor cars are still on the road,?
I believe the streetcar with the "cowcatcher" at 7:39 and 8:40 was one of the "Radial" cars that went up to Lake Simcoe from North Toronto Terminal, which was at Glen Echo & Yonge. From North Toronto Terminal it took 2:45 to reach to top of the line. It ran along the side of Yonge St., and wasn't fast- legislated to top speed of 20mph. Andrew Merrilees Inc. bought and scrapped it in 1948. In the 8:40 clip you can see the rear trolley being pulled down and the front one put up, they were going to reverse out of there- no turning loop.
+synthfreakify You have a sharp eye, and you're very knowledgeable re a radial system that existed so long ago. By 1935, those cars were only running to the north end of Richmond Hill, having been cut back in 1930. I never rode on one, but I saw them in Willowdale and they seemed to be faster than 20MPH. A friend of mine, who did ride it, still claims 50 MPH down the Hogg's Hollow hill. They did have their own loop at Glen Echo on the north side of the 'station'. The Yonge cars and trailers turned on the south side, using a city block.
the streetcar to lake simcoe took off from jolly miller tavern on yonge st drank lot of beer therein 70s
@@davidandrew477
It was probably faster by train.
So Caucasian, so beautiful... we can barely recognize it.
Iree mon.
You can barely see the people bigot boy
Being a racist is miserable.
Judging by the photos, there must have been many collisions back then.
slow the speed down to .75 and it's more accurate.
How do you slow it down
Thanks for posting. Enjoyed watching
The east side Exhibition loop looked the same in the 80s, 50 years later.
No one is smoking...
Everyone smoke back then u could smoke on the boat & buses too anywhere u liked they were free! No control by their government yet oh wait that makes my Gov too sh#t lol
Looks like Queen & roncesvales & king intersection.
Hard to believe all the people in the video are all dead now. We live life now going to bed and waking up every morning on this beautiful planet. the thought of it being gone forever one day is a really scary fucking ithought.
Great! And, rare for Toronto, many of the buildings in this film are extant. Cool to see Parkdale before it went down the toilet into a drug, prostitution, and welfare haven (although, it's slowly improving in sections). My family lived there when this was filmed and said it was the "Rosedale of the west end."
@Toronto Strong Indeed. My family spent a great deal of the 1940s and before at a friend's mansion on Jamieson. Beautiful street at one time. Long gone as you know.
That's so sad really.....to see once well cared for communities today..become rundown! So sad....
Socialized housing ruined it.
no cell phones
1935 baby
Aww I was born too late, my grandparents would speak of the fifties in Toronto. I wish I'd grown up then, I walk in some of these old buildings now, and imagine just how special those days must've been .
0:02 Looking NE Broadview & Danforth? Yes streetcars did cross Bloor and Danforth.
0:10 Roncy & King/Queen?
1:51 Ex turn/station
4:15 Trillium @ ferry docks
5:20 Union Station?
5:43 Bus terminal on Bay?
Notice the streetcars don't stop at every switch? LOL unions haven't figured out anything since then. No clue where the streetcar footage is from.
Great post.
Back to the time when people spoke with a totally foreign British accent on Canadian soil !
How did they speak on pavement?
Same in America too. Remember all the Brits in The Shining?
@@sweiland75 Drunk Irish?
Great video! It's interesting how so many film reels from this time seem to be playing slightly fast. Slowed down about 10% would probably make it more realistic. In fact, even the 0.75x option in RUclips looks right.
GREAT VIDEO REALLY TOOK ME BACK IN TIME ANY MORE OF THIS TYPE
yes willpost another
They all look so progressively bustlingly happy, just 4 years before WW2.
Almost nobody had internet access those days. Too expensive.
dum ass
We didn't have any internet prior to the 1990s.
You folks don't know a lame joke when ya hear it?
We have long distance cable texting in those days and it is already expensive enough.
I haven't head of internet until 1993 !
Is this where King st and Queen st meet??
well your operations on stolen land has a expiry date also !!! not much of you walking around in the sun these days what happened ??
Bank of Canada at 0:30, they didn't know back than that that would be a serpent sucking the nation dry.
Look at the amount of public transit! Why don't we get such service today?
We do? That's the exhibition loop, still runs like that, same place, the street cars are a bit bigger though.
Cars were more of a luxury item then. There were less people driving cars, therefore much more of a need to move people around.
We do, it's just extended to take us everywhere now rather than a few different routes.
I can just feel the racism.
Only in yourself.
Look at 1:55 mark and see rollar coaster in the background
I see it
Looks like transit was faster and more efficient back then.
great footage of the real deal -----no bullshit
What do you mean by no bullshit? What were you expecting?
This comment section... Oh boy
The clips from 0:00 to 0:59 are all where Roncesvalles, Queen, King, Lake Shore, and the Queensway all met;
1:11. to 1:48: is that 'Danforth Division'?
1:49 to 2:17 we are in front of the old Sheep and Cattle buildings at the east end of The Ex;
2:17 to 3:00 various Ex entries;
3:00 to 4:00 mostly in front of the Cattle building;
4:00 to 5:18 Mostly Ferry docks
5:18 to 5:53 Toronto Coach Terminal at Bay and Edward
5:53 to 6:55 Buses on the road… and then at Hillcrest?
6:55 to 7:36 Looking up and down (mostly?) Yonge Street from above
7:36 to 8:54 Streetcar boarding… but where?
8:54 to 9:46 Streetcar loops… where?
+Craig White I used to operate streetcars for the TTC back in 1996. I believe that 8:54 is at the Humber Loop. The loop that goes around that building near the end of the video, I thought was Danforth Division, but I didn`t recognize the building. But I do believe your right about Danforth Division at 1:11 to 1:48. There used to be a streetcar loop on the east side of the building where there is now a library. And on the south side of the building where the old bus bays were, there was a church. When the TTC took over the land they pulled down the church, and used the framework for one of the bus bays. At least that`s what I understand from a elderly fellow who was a mechanic there, for many, many years. He and I walked over to the the old bus exit entrance off of Coxwell, and he showed me the the impression of a cross that was still mildly impressed into the building right above one of the bus bay garage doors. He say`s this is where the church used to reside.
also looks like gerrard and broadview?
Not Humber Loop at 8:54. That loop was not built until 1957 or so, when the Queensway was extended from Etobicoke to link up with Queen St. at Roncesvalles and the streetcars were moved off of Lakeshore eat of the Humber River. Might be Jane loop.
6:55 - Specifically, that's Yonge & Adelaide, with that same building still standing on the northeast corner. It's really nice to have that sort of connection to the past.
I believe 7:36 to 8:54 is Dufferin Gate Loop just outside the EX
7:47 -7:48 Robert Stack when he was young. Nah he would be 16 then
Hmmmm.....that is one Unsolved Mystery.
Wow traffic hasn't changed much lmao!
Is opening scene Dundas St West and Roncesvailes?
nope, the first scene is Broadview and Danforth. i recognized the bank with the huge pillars immediately (on the north east corner)
No stress lights wow
You mean street lights.
Courtesy, respect and order...a.k.a rules...still existed...FIFO...based on a merit of trust.
They all look so British 😅
Toronto looks exactly the same. Proving once again to be crown jewel of the most old fashioned province in backwards old Canada.
It looks exactly the same? Ummmm .... riiiight. I guess it is also a crime that Boston is "similar" to its past!?! I've spent time in Vancouver. It could be a beautiful city, if it wasn't shrouded in bleak grey almost 5 months of the year, ok, 4. The trouble with "out west" ... full of ex-Ontarians justifying their move, that's all.
Toronto > Vancouver
All those people are prob deseased now
wow
you should convert this to color
Example of wages per hour -- Building trades - Wages per hour from (labourer - electricians) $.50/hr - $1.00/hr ....Metal trades (blacksmith - machinists) $.50/hr - $.80/hr.....Electric Railway workers (less than trades; from labourers - electricians) $.30/hr - $.74/hr.....Printing trades (bindery - pressman) $12-18/week to $46-50/week.
Back then they only made a quarter a week some 5 cents my grandfather made a quarter a day in the 40s
And they could still support a family. A large one by today’s standards, at that.
So, I could be a labourer and make 10 to 20 red hots an hour? Not too bad.
100 ferries going to the island at once. What was over there at that time that made things so interesting?
Back then Toronto had very strict liquor laws; the Toronto Islands had less liquor restrictions, on Sundays fathers would encourage the family to go to the island, that way dad could have his beer and the kids would enjoy the rides. So back then Sundays were huge line-ups to go to the island; so much so that there would be charter taxi boats to handle the over flow of crowds.
There used to be a whole town on the islands. With hotels, and barber shops. Plus the cottages, and tent city, that surrounded it.
My Dad told me that they were still demolishing some of it, in the early 1960’s.
instructions sandbox city
sick
The way people drive today in Mexico and it's a miracle nobody get hit
Toronto was and still is in Canada, not Mexico. Toronto also has never had a large population of Mexicans. What are you trying to say, amigo?
2:35 juul
huh. interesting