The Toronto of my youth! It was AWESOME!! There was palpable optimism in the air. All sorts of shit was getting built. Every year the banks had a competition to see who could build a taller head office. The 401 was widened to12 lanes. The CN Tower was built. Harbourfront was started. Yonge Street was seedy and exciting! I LOVED it!! Bright Lights, Big City!!
Corporateria's blunder all by design though...of all the suburbias to amble through, Ton-o-rot's the one where your gaze thereabouts best be locked onto the pavement right before your toes because of its disgustingly revolting appearance coupled to its STUNNING absence of vibe...its endless plummet into hick banality is what's so tellingly queer about its stature
although this attribute of its is spawned throughout the province it lords over, its Edwardian stock is indeed creepily eerie, e.g., their narrow windows conjure imagery of nosey pædo-obsessed family members lurking behind unnecessarily-heavy drapery cloaking sheer mirkiness :brrrRrr: and of all the jaunts this dear continent dishes up, there's NO shaking _that one_ fouling strolls to be paced thereabouts..even lakeside, imagine!
The 3 million population mark included the entire Golden Horseshoe from Oshawa to Hamilton. The city of Metro-Toronto back then had approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The property taxes in Toronto were actually cheaper than they were in Peterborough, Kingston or Guelph.
Hard to believe this was roughly 50 years ago. I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like, and will never be again.
Any recommendations? Would love to check them out. RE- " I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like."
I remember the water slide at Ontario Place. It was made with cement and if you lost your ride mat you where screwed , you get road rash all way down :)
Toronto was a very immaculate city back in the 70s. There was very little filth or soot. I used to visit Toronto quite a bit in the 70s when the city was just right with both the CN Tower and the 74 story First Canadian Place dominating the city skyline. Toronto was a fun and more affordable city to visit in those days.
The streets were clean but there was soot on a lot of the buildings, like The Royal York Hotel, Union Station and College Park. All those buildings have been cleaned since.
I was born in Brampton in 1958 but lived in Rexdale . I remember the TD centre being built.. Ontario Place ... The CN tower.. I watched the Sky Crane top it off from my bedroom window.... The Sky Dome... We were there for the " Dome Opener" and we got wet. In 1976, we moved to Muskoka. I never looked back.
I worked at Toronto Iron Works at Pape & Eastern Ave., during the 70's and 80's and soot and dirt was easy to find south of Queen Street....north of Queen Street was another story. T.I.W. was located at 629 Eastern Ave & our factory was just west of Canada Metal a lead smelter..yes a LEAD smelter. Speaking of "smelt" on the west side of Canada Metal was a Clarkes Tannery. What saved us was the Colgate Palmolive plant on Carlaw that produced Lilac soap. As one of our old Foreman used to lament.."when the wind blows from the east it smells like a shithouse, when it blows from the northwest it smells like a whorehouse". The entire area is now populated with movie studios, sound stages and pre & post film production companies. All the old TIW buildings are still standing.
Ha. Native born inter generation canadians starting to catch on to the globalist mass immigration scam. There are other global scams as well. Interest times coming. Elites best get to their bunkers i say. As if we cannot dig them out. Better get off planet.
Ditto. Canada is not a country anymore, it's a giant group of angry bitter little colonies bowing down to Quebec with transfer payments and an absolutely scandalous incompetent prime minister that Only the GTA keeps voting in to bankrupt the nation.
Looks like 45 years ago.. 1976. I don't remember it being dirty or soot covered. The metro area then would have been something like 2.8 million... the city pop hasn't changed much, still under a million in 2022... but the metro area is pushing 5 million Nice footage, sub par fact checking.
@@gregoryian123 Probably someone who hates the fact it was mostly white back then until Trudeau who hated Canadians wanted to punish us and make us a minority in the country our ancestors built.
The City of Toronto population in 2018 was around 3,000,000, which was the population of the entire Metropolitan area back then so it has grown a lot. We can tell this by how much more built up the actually city has become. The GTA population today is around 6.700,000
Considering the population of the city is 3 million today, I highly doubt it was 3 million in the 1970s... I think you mean the population of the GTA was 3 million (which is a pretty big difference than just Toronto...)
tellingly that dump's the continent's worst judging by fuckingly miserable bouncers that even menace entertainers their bosses'll have invited to perform for imps posing as revelers thereabouts :brrrRrr:
I worked in Toronto then at the CIBC Main Branch. It was a an amazing city, clean, Lots of interesting unique stores (it was before chains took over) and it wasn't dangerous to go anywhere in it.
Was born in THE Tornoto Genetal Hospital in the early 60's. Grew up and lived in Scarborough until 1985. Our neighborhood was safe until we moved. Doors were kept unlocked most of the time. Unimaginable today. I rarely go back to Toronto these days.
Eventually, those who remember the truth of the past will be gone, and they'll be able to convince the newer generations that "now" is better, and the past was evil and awful.
It wasn't that bad. 8mm film makes it look old. I saw a 'film' from 1986 (Not sure who would be still using super 8mm film in 1986) and it made everything look old and dirty. It was not that bad. At least you could afford a house there at that time without needing the income of a drug lord. The city then was priced for people within it and not the draw from foreign capital.
If you wanted soot and filth, you crossed the border and visited either Buffalo or went to Cleveland. Both Buffalo and Cleveland were filthy disgusting industrial towns that were declining and deteriorating steadily with very high crime rates.
Born in toronto in 2005 and lived here my whole life. Seeing the CN tower without skyscrapers is wild to me. Everything is so short and nearly unreconisable. So much stuff has been built in just a few decades its wild
That’s when I tore it up down there and until not to long ago. What a city. In 1970 I saw, J Winters, Humble Pie, J Carrey was in bars around then, they said some crazy sob was rippin it up here. SCtv, E John, The best era, I think.
I bussed tables at Egerton's (pub close to Ryerson U) in the summer of 75 making $2.25 an hour plus tips and free bowl of chili every shift. Good times!
How did we come from this visionary place which people wanted to visit to where we are today, a gridlocked, overpriced, gang ridden, drug infested shopping mall?.... When I first moved to Canada in 2000 TO was a great, safe & interesting place to have fun, now it is a place people grudgingly commute to if they have no other option!
What nonsense. Toronto is now the fastest growing city in North America and one of the safest. I visit almost every year and it keeps getting better and better.
Perhaps you have become jaded; it is still a great city that people want to visit which is why Toronto gets more tourism annually than any other Canadian city. "Drug infested shopping mall"? Really?
Toronto doesn’t have half the crime that most USA and Latin American cities suffer from. Despite some violent incidences on its subway lines, Toronto is still one of the safest major cities in the Western Hemisphere.
(1) Sort of weird that in 2020 you use an image clearly from 1978 at the earliest and place text on it reading: "This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago." It was 42 or less. (Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, completed 1979, is clearly visible.) (2) I can't believe how lonely and isolated the Gooderham Building was. Berczy Park behind it was just a forlorn dirt triangle, dead flat and almost literally as featureless as parts of the Moon. Not even a weed is discernible.
Lighthouse at Ontario. Guess Who at the CNE for free!! Born there, grew up there. Home my parents bought for $42,000 now valued north of a million. Jiminy Hendrix at MLG!!
Toronto was not grubby or dirty - that's wrong. Yonge St. around Dundas was sleazy though - massage parlours and porno theatres, like in any big city before home video. That's partly why they built the Eaton Centre - to clean up that area. Also in the 70s, Toronto surpassed Montreal as Canada's largest city partly due to Anglos leaving Quebec when the PQ were first elected.
Toronto politicians at the time were fixated on Toronto becoming a 'World class City', thinking the CN Tower would help them get there and put Toronto on the map. Some FM Radio stations at the time would incessantly spout 'Toronto the Good.' 'Toronto the Good,' morning, afternoon and night. Meaning (I'm assuming ), you could walk the streets at night and not get mugged or murdered, like in those bad American cities. However, as critic Henry Morgan said in response to those sanctimonious ads, "Sure, you can walk the streets after dark, but where would you go?"
I went to see a play at CAA Theatre recently, as we left the Yonge-Bloor subway station we had to avoid a violent brawl between three people. After the play my wife wanted to walk along Yonge Street, but it was dirty and stank and there was a naked man wearing a bedsheet half-covered in foam; this was all during the daytime!
As a Canadian my only visit to Toronto was in 1976 and I have never had any inclination to go back. Give me the never ending boreal forests, lakes, rivers and towns under 10,000 in population. I don’t need the traffic, crime and crowded everything that cities like Toronto have to offer.
Toronto was way better in the 70s. The Eaton Centres destroyed the downtown cores of all the major cities in Canada. Then Eatons went bankrupt. "Toronto the good" is ,known as the Toilet now.
Globalist shit hole now, repopulated by the overflow population of the 3rd world, brought here by traitor politicians and their globalist money people.
Soot and Filth? Think of how bad it must have been when homes used coal for heating and the steam powered trains just south of Front Street. Also the stink of cattle at St. Clair and Keele. I knew a guy who remembers that- He said that you could smell it on Roncesvalles when the wind was right.
@@Moxy770 Yes, there were several and there still are some on Glen Scarlett road and Gunns road Plus a plant that processes cow hides. I had to go there for work and I stunk horribly for two days. At the northwest corner of St Clair and Keele. I first came to Toronto in 1989 and the sheds and corrals were there at the southwest corner but that's all gone now.
@@Moxy770 I had to go that plant to inspect the boiler. I went in the morning and called my boss and said I had to go home and take a shower. He said, "You went to the rendering plant didn't you? Take the rest of the day off." The stink was unreal. Next door is Universal Drum (still there) they recondition used 55 gallon drums, It is a Charles Dickens industrial hell! So glad I don't have to go there anymore.
The 70s had more violent crime than now. That's pretty much the trend for all major cities across North America. Toronto for the most part has always been safe.
@@jumbothompson that is totally untrue and the government statistics refutes your lie. All major western cities have seen crime increase due to third world immigration into once safe homogeneous countries!
You see those people boarding a bus at the beginning of the clip? It looks nice and quick and easy. But in reality you might have stopped at a bus stop for five minutes or so because bus drivers used to sell tickets and sometimes people might fumble around looking for money in their pockets or purse or ask a friend for change so they could buy a strip of tickets. A bus ride that takes 15 minutes today might have taken 25 minutes then. Also, because people knew that bus drivers used to carry money you'd sometimes hear reports of them getting beaten up and robbed. The trains used to be red, the lights would sometimes go out for a second or two and then come back on, and they had windows that you could open as you rode through the tunnels. On the weekend the trains were shortened to four cars instead of the usual six, making it entirely possible to miss a train even though you were standing on the platform. If you didn't know about this and were standing at either end sometimes you had to run for it. Vintage TTC.
@@monicapushkin3274 Maybe, I just don't remember it. Not on the vehicles themselves although people used to smoke on the subway platforms, maybe up until the eighties or nineties. Even then I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure it was finished by the year 2000.
I remember those red trains growing up, and those windows you could open and close. The draft was so needed during hot summer days. I also remember rush hour was from 7 to 9 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. Outside of those hours, travelling around the city was a breeze. Not any more. “Rush hour” starts at 6 am and ends at around 9 or 10 pm on weekdays.
It's such a cesspool now. Expensive-Mediocrity personified too. Lived in city since '98 or '79 if you count east burbs after being shipped over as a youngster from the UK. Going back to the homeland is the plan.
@@robhersey1796 The Canadian Government should outlaw the PQ (Parti Quebecois) and then revoke the Canadian citizenship of all of it's members and supporters and then should DEPORT them all from the Dominion of Canada and send them right back to the Republic of France. It is a shame and a disgrace that both Montreal and Quebec City are still culturally and linguistically French since 1763 and are not culturally and linguistically English like Toronto. Both Montreal and Quebec City would be much better cities if the French Quebecois and other imported Francophones from examples like Algeria and Haiti were to be removed and then true and real Canadians ie Anglo-Canadians were to move in to replace them. Anglo-Canadians (British-Canadians ie English-Canadians, Scottish-Canadians and Irish-Canadians) made Montreal into the biggest and richest city in the Dominion of Canada and made Quebec City the biggest port in the Dominion of Canada. Under Anglo-Canadian rule the Province of Quebec was the most industrialised and richest of Canada's provinces, now look at it now, poor and improvised run by a bunch of anti-Canada separatist traitors and anti-English bigots in the Parti Quebecois and the Liberal Party of Quebec. The Canadian Government should ANGLICISE the Province of Quebec from a French province into an English province like it should have been for the past 260 years now. Air Canada, Bank of Montreal, Montreal Canadians, Molson Breweries, etc were founded in the City of Montreal by either Anglo-Canadians or British settler-colonists. The French Quebecois in the Province of Quebec I call New France Leftovers and to me they will never be real and true Canadians. The Dominion of Canada should be monolingual English nation and a monocultural British nation like it should have been since 1763 and that nation includes the Province of Quebec and the Cities of Montreal and Quebec City. Anglo-Canadians enriched and built up the Province of Quebec, while New France Leftovers impoverished and tore it down. I have always believed that Montreal should have been chosen as the Capital City of the Dominion of Canada and not Ottawa because Montreal was the richest and largest city in the country at the time and would have encouraged more Anglo-Canadians and British settler-colonists to move to the city and the Province of Quebec and today Anglo-Canadians would be the ethnic majority and not New France Leftovers in the Province of Quebec and especially in the cities of Montreal and Quebec City. The Parti Quebecois are traitors to the Dominion of Canada PERIOD.
when the political climate in montreal looked sketchy so business and educated people moved there en masse. maurice duplessis is the father of torontos economic growth
@@erics9754 you clearly don't lmao. Canada has always been multicultural. It's early beginnings it was people from scotland, ireland, france and england. Then we had africans and chinese people bulding the railroads in the 1800's followed by japanese people coming here etc.
LOL! Umm, 'white' looking people speak different languages and have different cultures and are from different countries, just like people of color. And not all 'white' looking people are Caucasian, if that's what you mean by white. I grew up in Toronto in the early 80"s and Toronto was indeed ethnically diverse...
The Toronto of my youth! It was AWESOME!! There was palpable optimism in the air. All sorts of shit was getting built. Every year the banks had a competition to see who could build a taller head office. The 401 was widened to12 lanes. The CN Tower was built. Harbourfront was started. Yonge Street was seedy and exciting! I LOVED it!! Bright Lights, Big City!!
It still is awesome and still has bright lights/ big city, but now it is for a younger generation to marvel at! 😊
Corporateria's blunder all by design though...of all the suburbias to amble through, Ton-o-rot's the one where your gaze thereabouts best be locked onto the pavement right before your toes because of its disgustingly revolting appearance coupled to its STUNNING absence of vibe...its endless plummet into hick banality is what's so tellingly queer about its stature
although this attribute of its is spawned throughout the province it lords over, its Edwardian stock is indeed creepily eerie, e.g., their narrow windows conjure imagery of nosey pædo-obsessed family members lurking behind unnecessarily-heavy drapery cloaking sheer mirkiness :brrrRrr: and of all the jaunts this dear continent dishes up, there's NO shaking _that one_ fouling strolls to be paced thereabouts..even lakeside, imagine!
@@bobbbxxx Shit hole now with a negative vibe.
now eroded away by liberalism and immigration
The 3 million population mark included the entire Golden Horseshoe from Oshawa to Hamilton. The city of Metro-Toronto back then had approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The property taxes in Toronto were actually cheaper than they were in Peterborough, Kingston or Guelph.
FYI...(Metro) Toronto had 2 million people in 1971.
That makes sense, I remember as a kid seeing the highway signs on the 401 saying "Toronto - population 1.5 million" back in the late 70's early 80s.
Mississauga always had the lowest taxes thanks to Hazel
I was born the year of 1970 so this was my era as a kid, in Etobicoke. I remember it well. Young street as a young teen was AMAZING! 👍🏼
Hard to believe this was roughly 50 years ago. I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like, and will never be again.
Any recommendations? Would love to check them out. RE- " I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like."
@@rhymeandreasoning Goin' Down the Road. The gold standard of Canadian film.
@@davidreichert9392 Thank you. I will look for it. Appreciated.
I remember those 70's days. The homes were old and some are still there. I came to Toronto when Eaton centre started to built it. Good old days.
An amazing Era and place... never again.
I remember the water slide at Ontario Place. It was made with cement and if you lost your ride mat you where screwed , you get road rash all way down :)
Thought the same thing!
Those that remember those years will tell you those were "the good old days".
When are we going back?
No they weren't
@@saltpeter500I've come to understand that nostalgia has blinded people to the reality
@@walterbrunswick people inherently don't like change. It holds us all back sadly.
M.C.G.A 2030
Toronto was a very immaculate city back in the 70s. There was very little filth or soot. I used to visit Toronto quite a bit in the 70s when the city was just right with both the CN Tower and the 74 story First Canadian Place dominating the city skyline. Toronto was a fun and more affordable city to visit in those days.
The streets were clean but there was soot on a lot of the buildings, like The Royal York Hotel, Union Station and College Park. All those buildings have been cleaned since.
I'm from the West Coast but I recall when it was hard for Hollywood to have Toronto "double" as a US city for movies because it was "too clean"
Bring back the pedestrian mall
Bring back the groovy-ass soundtrack too :)
I lived in downtown Toronto at that time and walked around at all times of day and night without fear.
I miss that city.
I was born in Brampton in 1958 but lived in Rexdale . I remember the TD centre being built.. Ontario Place ... The CN tower.. I watched the Sky Crane top it off from my bedroom window.... The Sky Dome... We were there for the " Dome Opener" and we got wet. In 1976, we moved to Muskoka. I never looked back.
Brampton is even better now 😂🎉
@@jayus2033 It's all a zoo ..I still live in Muskoka and avoid Toronto as much as possible.
Good for you. Hopefully Canada one day recovers from the Trudeau family's nightmare that began with Pierre.
@@JKTProductionzIncNColol.. cry.. WEF will provide you aa choice
Better time. Better people and affordable.
Better people? 70's was the epitome of serial killings
Dirty people then
Looked way better back then !
The ridiculous amount of parking lots did not look better.
I worked at Toronto Iron Works at Pape & Eastern Ave., during the 70's and 80's and soot and dirt was easy to find south of Queen Street....north of Queen Street was another story. T.I.W. was located at 629 Eastern Ave & our factory was just west of Canada Metal a lead smelter..yes a LEAD smelter. Speaking of "smelt" on the west side of Canada Metal was a Clarkes Tannery. What saved us was the Colgate Palmolive plant on Carlaw that produced Lilac soap. As one of our old Foreman used to lament.."when the wind blows from the east it smells like a shithouse, when it blows from the northwest it smells like a whorehouse". The entire area is now populated with movie studios, sound stages and pre & post film production companies. All the old TIW buildings are still standing.
Man i sure miss when we had a country.
lol okay drama queen
we still have a country it's just called india now
Ha. Native born inter generation canadians starting to catch on to the globalist mass immigration scam. There are other global scams as well. Interest times coming. Elites best get to their bunkers i say. As if we cannot dig them out. Better get off planet.
Me too. It was a great country while it lasted.
Ditto. Canada is not a country anymore, it's a giant group of angry bitter little colonies bowing down to Quebec with transfer payments and an absolutely scandalous incompetent prime minister that Only the GTA keeps voting in to bankrupt the nation.
Living in downtown Toronto since 92. Downtown Toronto was so lite up back then
I think they mean metro Toronto was 3million
It wasnt covered in dirt. Rain and snow washed most of it away. It also wasn't crammed tight - you could move around easily.
We need to bring back pedestrians streets days on select weekends year round.
My father was a cop in Toronto in the 70s before moving to Kingston in the late 70s to be a cop there.
My respect to your father. I was with TPS for 32 years.
Looks like 45 years ago.. 1976. I don't remember it being dirty or soot covered. The metro area then would have been something like 2.8 million... the city pop hasn't changed much, still under a million in 2022... but the metro area is pushing 5 million Nice footage, sub par fact checking.
The soot comment was over the top.
Toronto now has a population of around 3 million. Metro is around 7 million and the GTA is around 10 million.
@@gregoryian123 Probably someone who hates the fact it was mostly white back then until Trudeau who hated Canadians wanted to punish us and make us a minority in the country our ancestors built.
The City of Toronto population in 2018 was around 3,000,000, which was the population of the entire Metropolitan area back then so it has grown a lot. We can tell this by how much more built up the actually city has become. The GTA population today is around 6.700,000
Considering the population of the city is 3 million today, I highly doubt it was 3 million in the 1970s... I think you mean the population of the GTA was 3 million (which is a pretty big difference than just Toronto...)
Back then it wasn't. The 905 cities were still mostly undeveloped.
In 1976, Metro Toronto had a population of 2.7 million.
The GTA is 6,700,000 people today, and was around 3 million back then.
Ton-o-rot 💡💡💡
tellingly that dump's the continent's worst judging by fuckingly miserable bouncers that even menace entertainers their bosses'll have invited to perform for imps posing as revelers thereabouts :brrrRrr:
I worked in Toronto then at the CIBC Main Branch. It was a an amazing city, clean, Lots of interesting unique stores (it was before chains took over) and it wasn't dangerous to go anywhere in it.
Was born in THE Tornoto Genetal Hospital in the early 60's. Grew up and lived in Scarborough until 1985. Our neighborhood was safe until we moved. Doors were kept unlocked most of the time. Unimaginable today. I rarely go back to Toronto these days.
@@custodiansrock
You don't like it?
Man I miss those days. Long gone now. Much better times for sure.
Hop in my time machine, animal!
It looked more hopeful back then.
What a bunch of lies. Having lived in the 70’s it wasn’t filled with soot and filth.
Eventually, those who remember the truth of the past will be gone, and they'll be able to convince the newer generations that "now" is better, and the past was evil and awful.
@@BebeDaull
Yes, great points!
Or graffiti I bet.
Exactly
Back when Canada was Canadian and not Punjabi.
Time has really changed things
THEN AND NOW
Woodbine Beach looks so clean on that picture 😱
"Covered in soot and filth"??? 🤣
Now it is covered in drugs, beggars, homeless, gangs, loan sharks, garbage, pot holes & congestion!
It wasn't that bad. 8mm film makes it look old. I saw a 'film' from 1986 (Not sure who would be still using super 8mm film in 1986) and it made everything look old and dirty. It was not that bad. At least you could afford a house there at that time without needing the income of a drug lord. The city then was priced for people within it and not the draw from foreign capital.
If you wanted soot and filth, you crossed the border and visited either Buffalo or went to Cleveland. Both Buffalo and Cleveland were filthy disgusting industrial towns that were declining and deteriorating steadily with very high crime rates.
I first visited in 1975. Very clean, modern. Was very impressed with the Don Valley Parkway !!!!
In those days I'd go out to deliver papers at 5am and come home looking like a coal miner an hour and a half later
Born in toronto in 2005 and lived here my whole life. Seeing the CN tower without skyscrapers is wild to me. Everything is so short and nearly unreconisable. So much stuff has been built in just a few decades its wild
I remember getting on the lift at the Ex, smoking a joint on the way to the other side. Good times 😊
The good old days
Much better than now
That’s when I tore it up down there and until not to long ago. What a city. In 1970 I saw, J Winters, Humble Pie, J Carrey was in bars around then, they said some crazy sob was rippin it up here. SCtv, E John, The best era, I think.
I remember going to the Eaton centre as a kid. Thrilling .
Loved Toronto then. Very free city and kinda affordable not like now.
Actually there were dreary parking lots dominating the harbourfront area. So glad they are gone.
I bussed tables at Egerton's (pub close to Ryerson U) in the summer of 75 making $2.25 an hour plus tips and free bowl of chili every shift. Good times!
How did we come from this visionary place which people wanted to visit to where we are today, a gridlocked, overpriced, gang ridden, drug infested shopping mall?.... When I first moved to Canada in 2000 TO was a great, safe & interesting place to have fun, now it is a place people grudgingly commute to if they have no other option!
It'll get worse trust me.
What nonsense. Toronto is now the fastest growing city in North America and one of the safest. I visit almost every year and it keeps getting better and better.
Perhaps you have become jaded; it is still a great city that people want to visit which is why Toronto gets more tourism annually than any other Canadian city. "Drug infested shopping mall"? Really?
Toronto doesn’t have half the crime that most USA and Latin American cities suffer from. Despite some violent incidences on its subway lines, Toronto is still one of the safest major cities in the Western Hemisphere.
@@r.pres.4121 Most of the people who say things like this don't even live in Toronto.
Paradise compared with today
I'll take a little soot over what we have now.
population of toronto was under a million....it was pretty nice.
Lots of good people back then.
I was born in 1970 in Toronto. It was a great time and place.
(1) Sort of weird that in 2020 you use an image clearly from 1978 at the earliest and place text on it reading: "This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago." It was 42 or less. (Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, completed 1979, is clearly visible.)
(2) I can't believe how lonely and isolated the Gooderham Building was. Berczy Park behind it was just a forlorn dirt triangle, dead flat and almost literally as featureless as parts of the Moon. Not even a weed is discernible.
Notice no graffiti. Some of more recent arrivals in Canada think graffiti is art.
Graffiti was most prominent in 70s and 80s what are you talking about 😂
@@kkjppt5359 Absolutely was here. Witnessed it myself all over trains & some infrastructure. Not just an American problem.
You watched a 90 sec video and think there was no graffiti? Find a brain
@@kkjppt5359 absolutely was lol wow you did not get out much
@@kkjppt5359 oh wow no wall of text im impressed
Lighthouse at Ontario. Guess Who at the CNE for free!! Born there, grew up there. Home my parents bought for $42,000 now valued north of a million. Jiminy Hendrix at MLG!!
It was a great city with great people and NOW nothing like the 70s
Toronto was not grubby or dirty - that's wrong. Yonge St. around Dundas was sleazy though - massage parlours and porno theatres, like in any big city before home video. That's partly why they built the Eaton Centre - to clean up that area. Also in the 70s, Toronto surpassed Montreal as Canada's largest city partly due to Anglos leaving Quebec when the PQ were first elected.
Actually very clean back then . No garbage and no homeless...
Toronto politicians at the time were fixated on Toronto becoming a 'World class City', thinking the CN Tower would help them get there and put Toronto on the map.
Some FM Radio stations at the time would incessantly spout 'Toronto the Good.' 'Toronto the Good,' morning, afternoon and night. Meaning (I'm assuming ), you could walk the streets at night and not get mugged or murdered, like in those bad American cities. However, as critic Henry Morgan said in response to those sanctimonious ads, "Sure, you can walk the streets after dark, but where would you go?"
I went to see a play at CAA Theatre recently, as we left the Yonge-Bloor subway station we had to avoid a violent brawl between three people. After the play my wife wanted to walk along Yonge Street, but it was dirty and stank and there was a naked man wearing a bedsheet half-covered in foam; this was all during the daytime!
As a Canadian my only visit to Toronto was in 1976 and I have never had any inclination to go back. Give me the never ending boreal forests, lakes, rivers and towns under 10,000 in population. I don’t need the traffic, crime and crowded everything that cities like Toronto have to offer.
It was easy to find a place to live, for rent signs were all over, rooms, apartments for very reasonable cost.
the only thing that bothers me is the sea of parking lots. Cant imagine all the beautiful buildings that were torn for an empty piece of lot
They were mostly rail yards and outdated factorys that were torn down for parking lots .
Stats in your videos, Toronto's present downtown skyline is a graphical represention of the 1%,but everywhere else outward,is poor!
No crime....wonder why
Toronto was NOT covered in soot and filth. Flith, however, is evident everywhere in various forms, in the city in 2024.
Wasn't that "dirty" as per ..
Toronto was way better in the 70s.
The Eaton Centres destroyed the downtown cores of all the major cities in Canada.
Then Eatons went bankrupt.
"Toronto the good" is ,known as the Toilet now.
No rural ontario is a toilet
back when Canada was a real country
That time 70s,80 and 90s were amazing incredible. No Internet, no mobile and the life was amazing. Yes it was real country
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Globalist shit hole now, repopulated by the overflow population of the 3rd world, brought here by traitor politicians and their globalist money people.
Up to that time prosperity to majority of people was visible, but then happen...
Back when it was actually affordable 🙄
All that parking is hideous. So glad we are correcting that mistake from the past
Soot and Filth? Think of how bad it must have been when homes used coal for heating and the steam powered trains just south of Front Street. Also the stink of cattle at St. Clair and Keele. I knew a guy who remembers that- He said that you could smell it on Roncesvalles when the wind was right.
@@Moxy770 Yes, there were several and there still are some on Glen Scarlett road and Gunns road Plus a plant that processes cow hides. I had to go there for work and I stunk horribly for two days. At the northwest corner of St Clair and Keele. I first came to Toronto in 1989 and the sheds and corrals were there at the southwest corner but that's all gone now.
@@Moxy770 I had to go that plant to inspect the boiler. I went in the morning and called my boss and said I had to go home and take a shower. He said, "You went to the rendering plant didn't you? Take the rest of the day off." The stink was unreal. Next door is Universal Drum (still there) they recondition used 55 gallon drums, It is a Charles Dickens industrial hell! So glad I don't have to go there anymore.
We can’t afford a vacation to India, but thanks to out of control immigration. We can now visit Toronto, same difference 🤔.
Go to North Pole and live there or better return to Amsterdam where your roots are.
'Sooner or late were going to hump you' (c) Russel Peters
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Wow, your inside voice came out in a racist kinda way.
@@rickbaker8188 Sorry if truth hurts. Truth and racism are not the same fyi
TRUE GRIT!👍🏽💯
My late father worked there from 74 to 78.. thats y there is connection
We remember it well. Toronto the Good. Not anymore. Left 7 years ago. No better in any other large CDN city. Sad truth.
Go away .. leave the earth as well
Im curious, do well people know about the CN tower in foreign countries?
None know
Can't find any outdoor parking lots now...all converted to condos
Nicer and safer then, not so much now…
uhhhh wat lmao
@@korloffkorloff2134 🤡🤡
@@clearlynotwoke4929before Columbus bandit landed
The 70s had more violent crime than now. That's pretty much the trend for all major cities across North America. Toronto for the most part has always been safe.
@@jumbothompson that is totally untrue and the government statistics refutes your lie. All major western cities have seen crime increase due to third world immigration into once safe homogeneous countries!
You see those people boarding a bus at the beginning of the clip? It looks nice and quick and easy. But in reality you might have stopped at a bus stop for five minutes or so because bus drivers used to sell tickets and sometimes people might fumble around looking for money in their pockets or purse or ask a friend for change so they could buy a strip of tickets. A bus ride that takes 15 minutes today might have taken 25 minutes then. Also, because people knew that bus drivers used to carry money you'd sometimes hear reports of them getting beaten up and robbed. The trains used to be red, the lights would sometimes go out for a second or two and then come back on, and they had windows that you could open as you rode through the tunnels. On the weekend the trains were shortened to four cars instead of the usual six, making it entirely possible to miss a train even though you were standing on the platform. If you didn't know about this and were standing at either end sometimes you had to run for it. Vintage TTC.
I think smoking was allowed on buses into the early 70s.
@@monicapushkin3274 Maybe, I just don't remember it. Not on the vehicles themselves although people used to smoke on the subway platforms, maybe up until the eighties or nineties. Even then I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure it was finished by the year 2000.
I remember those red trains growing up, and those windows you could open and close. The draft was so needed during hot summer days. I also remember rush hour was from 7 to 9 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. Outside of those hours, travelling around the city was a breeze. Not any more. “Rush hour” starts at 6 am and ends at around 9 or 10 pm on weekdays.
Such a better city back then
3 million in 1970?
It's such a cesspool now. Expensive-Mediocrity personified too. Lived in city since '98 or '79 if you count east burbs after being shipped over as a youngster from the UK. Going back to the homeland is the plan.
I wanna go back, too. They keep telling us Canadians to go back to where we came from. Happily.
It has certainly taken a very dark turn if you know what I mean
Wait. Wasn't that Ratso Rizzo walking there? 😊
Geeeeze look at that manageable traffic
Look at all white people! Good old days.
Hahaha go back into the woodwork, we don't want to hear your crap.
RIP Canadian culture
It was indeed dirty... but it was funky.
Moved here from Montreal, 1979.
Yep. Toronto can in part thank the PQ for its huge growth during that time.
@@robhersey1796 The Canadian Government should outlaw the PQ (Parti Quebecois) and then revoke the Canadian citizenship of all of it's members and supporters and then should DEPORT them all from the Dominion of Canada and send them right back to the Republic of France. It is a shame and a disgrace that both Montreal and Quebec City are still culturally and linguistically French since 1763 and are not culturally and linguistically English like Toronto. Both Montreal and Quebec City would be much better cities if the French Quebecois and other imported Francophones from examples like Algeria and Haiti were to be removed and then true and real Canadians ie Anglo-Canadians were to move in to replace them. Anglo-Canadians (British-Canadians ie English-Canadians, Scottish-Canadians and Irish-Canadians) made Montreal into the biggest and richest city in the Dominion of Canada and made Quebec City the biggest port in the Dominion of Canada. Under Anglo-Canadian rule the Province of Quebec was the most industrialised and richest of Canada's provinces, now look at it now, poor and improvised run by a bunch of anti-Canada separatist traitors and anti-English bigots in the Parti Quebecois and the Liberal Party of Quebec. The Canadian Government should ANGLICISE the Province of Quebec from a French province into an English province like it should have been for the past 260 years now. Air Canada, Bank of Montreal, Montreal Canadians, Molson Breweries, etc were founded in the City of Montreal by either Anglo-Canadians or British settler-colonists. The French Quebecois in the Province of Quebec I call New France Leftovers and to me they will never be real and true Canadians. The Dominion of Canada should be monolingual English nation and a monocultural British nation like it should have been since 1763 and that nation includes the Province of Quebec and the Cities of Montreal and Quebec City. Anglo-Canadians enriched and built up the Province of Quebec, while New France Leftovers impoverished and tore it down. I have always believed that Montreal should have been chosen as the Capital City of the Dominion of Canada and not Ottawa because Montreal was the richest and largest city in the country at the time and would have encouraged more Anglo-Canadians and British settler-colonists to move to the city and the Province of Quebec and today Anglo-Canadians would be the ethnic majority and not New France Leftovers in the Province of Quebec and especially in the cities of Montreal and Quebec City. The Parti Quebecois are traitors to the Dominion of Canada PERIOD.
Amazing how the name Trudeau can screw things up.
Take me back!
Gritty…but much more live-able than today’s 💩 hole GTA
We used to be a proper country, with proper citizens.
They're all gone now, only to be replaced by an assortment of raving mental patients.
Bit like the UK that's why I moved to Spain
@@tarotbyamber7233UK is full of East European Untermensh and Muslims
Queens Park & Ottawa = Political Asylum.
Beautiful place before the 3rd world showed up
Luv this
I miss all the parking.
It was heaven.
Back before every building that gave the city character was demolished in favour of some bland condo building.
'Covered with soot and filth'...? It wasn't that bad, i don't remember that.....exaggeration...
The city also smells like pee from all the homeless now
And then something happened in the 80's... Can't quite put my finger on it..
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Someone happened.
@@BebeDaull yup
when the political climate in montreal looked sketchy so business and educated people moved there en masse. maurice duplessis is the father of torontos economic growth
Leave it to blogTO to spout complete rubbish.
Everyone was white
So much for the myth that Canada was always multicultural lol.
@@erics9754 what myth? No one thinks it was ALWAYS multi cultural. Learn some history.
@@ceer9141 Many do and I know my history. Why would you assume other wise?
@@erics9754 you clearly don't lmao. Canada has always been multicultural. It's early beginnings it was people from scotland, ireland, france and england. Then we had africans and chinese people bulding the railroads in the 1800's followed by japanese people coming here etc.
LOL! Umm, 'white' looking people speak different languages and have different cultures and are from different countries, just like people of color. And not all 'white' looking people are Caucasian, if that's what you mean by white. I grew up in Toronto in the early 80"s and Toronto was indeed ethnically diverse...
Wish it was like this now. People wise anyway
Better all rotten ones have gone. You old fart as well go away
And now Toronto is a shit hole
And today toronto is a total shit hole
@@lookingthroughice7843
You don't like it?