Toronto, Canada 1977

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  • Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada and today is considered the financial capital of Canada and is ranked among the top financial centers in the world.
    We are in the city’s center, views of vehicles and pedestrians on the road, the lens focuses at the CN Tower, a 553.3 m-high concrete communications and observation tower which is a signature icon of Toronto's skyline and held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure and the world's tallest tower. Around the CN tower a series of skyscrapers made mainly of glass and steel.
    A city in motion, groups of friends who are enjoying it and some school children who are obviously having a tour in the sights of the center, accompanied by their teachers. A kiosk and a group of skyscrapers, a fountain and the historic clock tower on Yonge Street.
    The bustle in the multicultural city continues.
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    Creator's description:
    This is the downtown area of Toronto, and you feel rather small here standing beneath the Canadian National Tower, 1800 ft high, and these giant skyscrapers. But actually they are less ugly than I expected -indeed they have a certain attraction. But how do they clean all those windows? If you look you will see cradles lowered from the roof. I must say a window-cleaner here certainly needs a good head for heights.
    While we’re here let’s look at the people passing by -a pretty mixed lot, as you see.
    -Bonar, Andrew Graham
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  • @suzyzoom
    @suzyzoom 3 місяці тому +5

    What the bananas is up with Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend"? What a bizarre choice of music to pair with an otherwise feel-good look at Canada's biggest city. Mind you, it was neck-in-neck with Montreal for the title back then.

  • @General_MacArthur
    @General_MacArthur 2 місяці тому +11

    no indians

  • @donmorfeo8901
    @donmorfeo8901 Рік тому +14

    That was when Toronto meant something, now its an overcrowded dump full of rude people. 1977 was a bad year here though and it happened on that strip.

    • @Cellmate412162
      @Cellmate412162 7 місяців тому +8

      And on top of that, there’s lots of homeless people on the streets & sidewalks, complete with lots of tents. Oh, & crime is even higher than back then.

    • @kenlompart9905
      @kenlompart9905 5 місяців тому +10

      It was the reason they shut down all the sex shops and cleaned up Younge street.

    • @paulmorra4424
      @paulmorra4424 5 місяців тому +7

      Yes that young show shine boy being murdered was sad. I was a couple years his junior at that time. Really hit home.

    • @karagi101
      @karagi101 24 дні тому +1

      Been here since 1970. Toronto is way better now. It was a dull, dirty, grimy place and had much higher per capita violent crime rate.

    • @Sthmohtwenty
      @Sthmohtwenty 21 день тому +1

      It's the same e/were

  • @rugosetexture2716
    @rugosetexture2716 Рік тому +12

    I know I have said it before - you have a wonderful collection of old videos. Thank you for this!

  • @thesketchydude1315
    @thesketchydude1315 Рік тому +8

    As a Canadian this was a welcome surprise from this channel!
    I'd be curious to see if you have any others like this for the Neighboring Province of Manitoba? (my home)
    great footage as always!

  • @barrroger1162
    @barrroger1162 4 місяці тому +19

    Very attractive people back then compared with today

  • @555ontario
    @555ontario 4 місяці тому +8

    Cool. I enjoyed your video. Really digging the accompanying music. When I look at these old Toronto videos, it may just be my imagination, but I see a flow of life, more in tune, and somehow, in line. Yes, there was a seedy undercurrent on Yonge St but it was obvious and open. The Emanuel 'shoe shine boy' incident started the change of all that. These days, it seems life downtown is disjointed and encased in a mess of road work, traffic, and congestion.

    • @tdunph4250
      @tdunph4250 4 місяці тому +7

      You forgot to mention A LOT more crime and street people now as well.

  • @thomassmith1922
    @thomassmith1922 2 місяці тому +4

    Lots of Mr. Sub back then. I enjoyed the pictures of the windows

  • @discodirk48
    @discodirk48 2 місяці тому +2

    The 70's was the summer of a generation and now we're in winter...the end.

  • @ricardomilos1784
    @ricardomilos1784 4 дні тому +1

    I wish I was born in the 1960s

  • @Hellya38
    @Hellya38 Місяць тому +1

    2:22 wow the old ladies back then walk fast, now most peep at that age are on mobile scooters

  • @c3d266
    @c3d266 Рік тому +5

    That song sounded so familiar. Took me a while to find it. Elton John?

    • @jimross3593
      @jimross3593 Рік тому +1

      What song is it?

    • @c3d266
      @c3d266 Рік тому +2

      @@jimross3593 __ Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding . Probably the most prog rock thing I have heard from Elton John.

  • @CinHalCedHerChance
    @CinHalCedHerChance 2 місяці тому +2

    2:47 loved Yonge st... so much personality, wish I was a teen during those years.

  • @alexjohn5086
    @alexjohn5086 2 місяці тому +2

    Braless an the pill ...it was a wonderful time to be in college!!! An some how I never got the clap.

    • @charlesrb3898
      @charlesrb3898 Місяць тому +1

      The 70s was the era of the see thru blouse. And yes still braless. Even in the office. Memories.

  • @jefferyhansford1971
    @jefferyhansford1971 2 місяці тому +2

    My brothers and sisters. With Love ❤️ Jeff.

  • @clairelolification
    @clairelolification 2 місяці тому +3

    so beautiful

  • @mozybowzy1161
    @mozybowzy1161 29 днів тому +1

    Great clip. Love the song too! Who's the band/artist?

  • @RandomDailies-vi1so
    @RandomDailies-vi1so Місяць тому

    Thanks for the upload. Its funny that the narrator in the begining says, it was less ugly than he expected. He should see it today.

  • @7425park
    @7425park 4 місяці тому +3

    My Moms cousin owned the Stollery’s mens store at Yonge and Bloor.
    He was an old guy in the mid 1960s, but he got on his hands and knees and played on the kitchen floor with me and my Corgi toys.
    I remember that house was a mansion.

    • @glen6945
      @glen6945 4 місяці тому

      yes think i knew your cousin

    • @lee02jepson
      @lee02jepson 3 місяці тому +1

      @@glen6945 I remember Stollery's, I work in the office for Studio 267 down the street. Stollery's was friendly completion. Hated to see Stollery's go, the building look lovely.

  • @frankjames1955
    @frankjames1955 5 місяців тому +5

    Once you left downtown area you get into a more normal decent type folks

  • @fredrezfield1629
    @fredrezfield1629 11 місяців тому +1

    spadina always the toilet