I was born in TO in the 80's and grew up there in the 90's. Soo good to see old footage from when I was a kid. In many ways it's the same, but in many more ways it's a very very different place.
i look at these old videos and hope to see myself in one of them, but of course i never do. Everything changes so slowly over the years you never notice, then one day you discover everything has changed. Love this these clips from the past.
Great footage and great quality! I really miss those days, a time when toronto actually functioned - and there weren't ugly cookie-cutter condos going up on every vacant piece of land!
@@AndreasDuessca Yeah people really like to put on their rose tinted glasses, things weren't all bad, but Toronto was much dirtier, uglier, and violent back in the 70s and 80s. As cool as this footage is, shots of buildings, traffic and street corners doesn't tell the whole story.
My god there were trees inside the Eaton Centre at one point? I would’ve never known otherwise if it weren’t for these videos. The Centre looked so beautiful back then but now they’re just cramming in multiple stores as much as possible. Look at that walkway at 0:26 for example, what it looks like now is very different and has zero character at all.
Now this Canada Dream is gone! I am certain that 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the beginning of the 2000s - it was great place to live! Later then, it became TOTALLY AWKWARD! We are rather living in CANADIAN NIGHTMARE!
I prefer the old days. If Canada is not banning real estate wholesaling practice and refinancing landlords, we will see decline in prosperity through out the country.
U should see Yorkdale today wow & the Eaton center is way bigger my grandmother worked at Eaton downtown when they first opened for 23 years then she left to take care of us in the 70s she just had 2 more years she would of gotten a diamond ring
Lorne McClenaghan yea I think you’re right, the Parklawn exit appears to be on the left and the collector going east merges like a bottle neck with the express today
Interesting question! If you were at this location today the road would indeed be named the Gardiner Expressway, but at the time the film was shot, the Gardiner Expressway ended at the Humber river and the name of the road changed to The Queen Elizabeth Way, usually known as the "QEW". In 1997 the ownership of the section of the QEW from the Humber river to highway 427 was transferred from the province of Ontario to the City of Toronto and as part of that ownership transfer the name Gardiner was extended from the Humber river to the South end of highway 427 and the name of the road now changes to QEW there. I drove that road twice a day for 5 years (1975-1980) living in downtown Toronto and working at Pearson airport so I know it well from the era shown in this film.
@@bigmonkey838you mean 2 YEARS too late, and, yes it's 'too' late not 'to' late 😅 try focusing on mastering basic math and grammar skills instead of trolling.
Born in 1969, and I absolutely love to see the Toronto I remember from my youth.
amazing quality footage.
Agreed, such clarity, amazing!
I really miss those days.
Me too, yet I wasn’t even born until 2001. I don’t know why I feel nostalgic
I wasn't even born yet. My mom was only like 7 in 1980.
I was born 1971 love Toronto!!
I was born in TO in the 80's and grew up there in the 90's. Soo good to see old footage from when I was a kid. In many ways it's the same, but in many more ways it's a very very different place.
Good and simple times.❤
I'm having trouble understanding how someone had access to this kind of video quality back then , this footage is outstanding!
it's film, not video
You know how old movies look good? Film was high-resolution.
This isn't even a particularly good example.
he was a time traveller
actually it was done by iphone 14
100 times better than TO of today
i look at these old videos and hope to see myself in one of them, but of course i never do. Everything changes so slowly over the years you never notice, then one day you discover everything has changed. Love this these clips from the past.
Flashback in the 70's & 80's
Great footage and great quality! I really miss those days, a time when toronto actually functioned - and there weren't ugly cookie-cutter condos going up on every vacant piece of land!
A dead downtown full of parking lots, a highly polluted waterfront and smog days for weeks....
@@AndreasDuessca Yeah people really like to put on their rose tinted glasses, things weren't all bad, but Toronto was much dirtier, uglier, and violent back in the 70s and 80s.
As cool as this footage is, shots of buildings, traffic and street corners doesn't tell the whole story.
people say there was never traffic before . lol I see traffic back then😂
Not as bad as it is today
@@sda-clips that's true because population is increasing so yea I get your point.
I totally agree
It would be more accurate to say there was less traffic back then. Was still bad at rush hour, though.
It's just these days rush hour is 24 hours long :D
My god there were trees inside the Eaton Centre at one point? I would’ve never known otherwise if it weren’t for these videos. The Centre looked so beautiful back then but now they’re just cramming in multiple stores as much as possible.
Look at that walkway at 0:26 for example, what it looks like now is very different and has zero character at all.
16mm film, quality holds up well,.
Toronto the good
Now this Canada Dream is gone! I am certain that 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the beginning of the 2000s - it was great place to live! Later then, it became TOTALLY AWKWARD! We are rather living in CANADIAN NIGHTMARE!
I prefer the old days. If Canada is not banning real estate wholesaling practice and refinancing landlords, we will see decline in prosperity through out the country.
U should see Yorkdale today wow & the Eaton center is way bigger my grandmother worked at Eaton downtown when they first opened for 23 years then she left to take care of us in the 70s she just had 2 more years she would of gotten a diamond ring
What a great grandmother you had for giving up a diamond 25th anniversary ring to take care of you. I love comments like yours that make me smile 😊
Dude the color of the camera kinda changes the look of it and it for some reason reminds me of Mario kart wii
0:53 401 or gardener expressway?
looks like Gardiner looking west.
Lorne McClenaghan yea I think you’re right, the Parklawn exit appears to be on the left and the collector going east merges like a bottle neck with the express today
Yup. Looking west from the Royal York Road bridge.
Interesting question! If you were at this location today the road would indeed be named the Gardiner Expressway, but at the time the film was shot, the Gardiner Expressway ended at the Humber river and the name of the road changed to The Queen Elizabeth Way, usually known as the "QEW". In 1997 the ownership of the section of the QEW from the Humber river to highway 427 was transferred from the province of Ontario to the City of Toronto and as part of that ownership transfer the name Gardiner was extended from the Humber river to the South end of highway 427 and the name of the road now changes to QEW there. I drove that road twice a day for 5 years (1975-1980) living in downtown Toronto and working at Pearson airport so I know it well from the era shown in this film.
Turns out we invented HD before we invented SD 😂
Looks like they drove in a civilized manner. Now.......
Haha old police car God I'm old
Yup, almost forgot about those. Looks so weird now!
Too bad everything wasn't still like the 80s
yo I'm tryna link up with shordy
Stop
@@lilka1serofficial980 damn you commented on that 1 year to late my guy
@@bigmonkey838you mean 2 YEARS too late, and, yes it's 'too' late not 'to' late 😅 try focusing on mastering basic math and grammar skills instead of trolling.
Life before Palestinian encampments, and injection sites sure seemed civil.
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