Here's What Downtown Toronto Looked Like in the Late 1990's
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2015
- Random video footage of downtown Toronto recorded in the late 1990's.
Toronto landmarks featured: Yonge & Dundas, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall, Lake Ontario, Harbourfront, Toronto Islands, Gardiner Expressway, St. Lawrence Market, The Flatiron Building, The Royal York Hotel, Chinatown
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This is the time I grew up in Toronto as a teenager and was it a great time to live in Toronto without the expensive cost of living, no bulky ugly condos and far less homelessness than today. I remember taking the subway for the first time as a 13 year old in 1997. A simpler time.
Downtown was clubs clubs and more clubs. You could walk around on the weekends and see all the line ups and the women dressed up with no coats even in the winter. Hard to imagine that clubs almost no longer exist.
Waiting for you to open 1 bruh
It's ok they replaced it with weed shops
@@k-bobmakabaka4420 Peter Hibbert used to live in Flemingdon Park, but now he is in Ajax.
Every block had a club and it was great, loved it. No coats avoiding coat check in those skirts, damn good eye candy and damn good times.
Back when it was still “Metro Toronto”.
Such great memories of growing up there from the time I was born in 1989 until my family and I moved an hour west to Burlington in 2001.
Miss this period - Toronto actually functioned, and ugly cookie-cutter condos weren't going up on every vacant piece of land!
Ontario Place used to be amusement park, but now it is a trail that you can walk on. Also, they have plans to redevelop it. It will be an year round destination. The Video and Arcade Top 10 studio used to be at 550 Queen Street East, if I remember correctly as it aired on YTV.
@@keironforbes9512 They're going to destroy Ontario Place with a spa for the wealthy, but whatever, that's how things go, times change.
Toronto sucks now, it's all too clinical, all glass, grey, boring, no colour, zero character.. but that doesn't matter, everyone's too busy checking their phones.
compared to the commie blocks that went up throughout the 60s and 70's the condos aren't that bad. and i'll take ugly condos over ugly parking lots.
The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s was the best time to be alive
Looks like a mix of Montreal and Cleveland but more stretched out from the lake to Bloor. Nowadays it feels more Vancouver-ish
With a mix of Chicago. Same grid system. Similar lakeshore and downtown.
Love the raw feel and colors!
Yah, that's gone now.
Now it's clinical looking, all glass and grey, nothing fun or vibrant about it.
90s were amazing in Toronto, all the clubs, bars, stores, you name it.
The Gardner and DVP lights remind of heading to jays games in the early 90s
I remember, falling asleep to those orange lights on the highway many times. 🍻
Wow! I didn’t get to visit Toronto for the first time until 2022!, quite the transformation over the years. What a beautiful city, I am in the process of relocating there for more job opportunities.
it was better back then
Before all the hideous condos condos covered the city!
Do you expect them to leave the space empty?
@@keironforbes9512 didnt expect them to filll it up with garbage either
@@clark85 I feel like Toronto wouldn’t have needed all these condos if they allowed to build smaller apartments and not just single family housing. If they did from the start, then Toronto would kind of be like Europe and have lower rise apartments and not huge condos, but also not single family housing
Awesome video, Thank you.
The late 90s when I thought 2 semi detached 3 story house for under 500k on huge lot was too much. Waited years as the prices kept climbing to finally pull the trigger on a smaller semi detached 2 story house on a much smaller lot for almost twice the amount. Toronto is awesome except for the high price of homes…. Time sure flies when you’re having fun!
I can't see the Royal York when in town anymore.
Toronto is kinda like RIP Van WInkle. It fell asleep for 30 years and then got woke up by developers.
More condos are going to go up this decade.
@@keironforbes9512Forbes There are 1500 buildings planned throughout the GTA for the next decade.
My dream city, I live just 60-70 Km from Toronto
now its woke garbage and foreigners everywhere downtown
(and I say this as an immigrant who came here as a kid in the 80s)
0:59 2g DSM spotted
I lived there from 1998-2004. Loved the place. Made some great friends and met some cool people. Hope to move back one day again.
Toronto changed a lot since that period my friend.
Dont man, it’s become an overpriced dump with far left mental cases rolling around.
Its changed, small city vibe is gone, its like new Manhattan now
You'll pay a lot more now.
@@keeblah1111 Small City vibe? I don’t remember much about what Toronto was like back then but Toronto’s always felt big to me.
*Wow this was when ppl were some what nice.. and the city had a nightlife*
Looked like Cleveland and Montreal mixed together but the downtown is spread further north
We still had the gardiner bump.
Ahh!
SWEET HOME TORONTO!
I wonder if the Air Canada Centre was already in the works?!
love this
Wow now there’s a bunch of condos and high rise that take up all that empty space
Well fuck are you just gonna leave that space empty
@@thatguyoverthere6063 No way, it must evolve, and there are more condos coming.
before the condo era
ah yes, because giant swaths of industrial railway land and parking lots all downtown were so much better..
@@korloffkorloff2134 Endless high rises of condos were the answer. Has ruined the classic skyline of TO forever.
@@korloffkorloff2134
That's true but building hundreds of condos basically anywhere you can fit them didn't solve the problem. Toronto should of done something similar to Chicago and build a real waterfront.
@@korloffkorloff2134 Railways are interesting and charming.
Yeah, I went to university downtown in the late '90s and it was so much different. A lot of charm, character and interesting places/stores. Now, it just feels so boring and depressing. Just surrounded by tall buildings. Even uptown, the same thing is happening. When condos started going up, it was cool and interesting. Now, it's ridiculous. At least old time apartment buildings had a certain charm and character to them.
Alot of comments about how condos ruined the city. Any thoughts as to why the need for all these condos, my fellow Torontonians? Don't you think it has something to do with record-high immigration numbers??
I'm not anti-immigrant or anti-human. But I think we certainly need to question our crazy immigration policies and what that says about public spending and what politicians are doing and saying outside of public view.
Do you really think that _immigrants_ are buying the expensive condos? Maybe, if they're high-end corporate types. But how do you propose to keep _them_ out? (You know the Tories won't. )
More immigration means higher real estate prices. It's simple supply and demand.
@@mislavsplitski7522 Which torpedos GenZ not only because of cost, add in millions of new competitors for scarce employment resources.
@CoolDude-yp9jt Too many people are too slow to grasp that concept. I can't take anybody seriously who demands "affordable housing" but then supports unlimited immigration.
There must didn’t have too many cannabis stores in 1990s as today. Now especially during the second waves of lockdown, cannabis stores just boost up very fast, and lots of abandoned Starbucks such as Yonge and college, and the one near the coach terminal, becomes Cannabis stores
Toronto smells like weed and hot farts 😂
@@nahm4002 Canada now ranks number one in the world on cannabis business
To be honest it looks very vibrant
Where was the "Chinatown" shot? Seems too narrow a street for Spadina.
You're right...it is shot from Spadina looking east on Dundas. The streetcar passing is actually the Spadina LRT heading northbound which was brand new at the time. If you look closely you can see the "A Grand Design" banners hanging from the light posts from when it first launched.
Before condos ruined the city
Agree ,condos are shit. I hope toronto can improve.
@@NationalismDjazair It won't, it's done. These videos are all that's left.
It's so clinical now, glass and concrete, hard pass for me.
Condos are more affordable than homes
The average selling price for a condominium apartment GTA-wide was $737,868 in Q2 2023 - down by 4.2 per cent compared to $770,539 in Q2 2022. In the City of Toronto, which accounted for two-thirds of total condo sales, the average selling price was $769,616.@@TheRedEnsign-Edits now tell me if you can fork up 700k
That's because increase of both local and international students for the universities
:)
A real metropolitan
Like some of the footage but the editing and music are terrible.
Back when people were normal...
Back when English as a first language
Boring blocks of condensed condo's and homeless people. Oh, and the high crime rate. Fun wow
Toronto isn't Toronto anymore especially after ch🖕w gets through with it 😊