@@hardyboy1959 no no, I think you did the right amount of zooming, it made things feel closer at the right moments. You zoom out and then we see the bigger picture. Or zoom into the distance. For some reason, the quality of videos these days don’t quite capture the moment and atmosphere like those old cameras.
I was in the 9th grade, and lived in Etobicoke. My friends and I would go downtown on the weekends and window shop and eat food. Man I miss those days!
turd Ferguson yeah diversity is good but to an extent people here don’t even have patriotism or care about Canada because they all came from somewhere else
@@sda-clips it's all teenagers from one particular culture though. It's all part and parcel with woke culture cancelling police and that culture raising their kids to not respect police or society's rules.
My parents ran a business near Yonge and Bloor, I was 10 years old and roaming freely during this hot summer. Exploring and going into all the stores. What a great time to grow up in this city.
I remember this day. I was on the streetcar and saw that guy videoing the gold building and thought - “I will never see what that man is filming”. I had to deal with that fact for over thirty years. Now I know. Thank you for posting. Wow Toronto sure has changed! Go leafs.
Now do you want to hear a real unbelievable story ? A couple of years ago, I found a photo of myself, that had been uploaded and posted on YT in around 2011. A guy was on holidays in Toronto in 1977, ( I think he was from Holland) and was taking pictures on Yonge St. He captured a pic of me in my favourite pinball arcade. And like 45 years later, I found the picture of myself on YT. Sometimes the internet can be mindblowing.
Because at 15 yrs old you didn't worry about driving. Leave your car at. home. It never occurs to ppl complaining about Toronto traffic that they are the problem. Be Free! The city is better by bicycle, wheelchair, scooter, and on foot,. Consider you're doing it wrong. Don't compare wherever you live to a thriving metropolis. Again, don't drag your old perspective into a new situation. One of these things is not like the other. I walk every city. It's the only way to truly know any place.
I was free In Vancouver with many girlfriends Come back to Toronto with bc weed no one want it too sticky hydro I met this actress lenore zahn at bamboo club Holy f .she now NDP Nova scotia. Then i venture to south beach Debauchery and sin Models & parties Thank god when you cross border Wow America aint canada Now 4 bedroom 4 cats and bored aint life wonderful 🖤🇨🇦 be good toronto 90-92 was good tlmes
His Tshirt cut way down under arms. His mullet! And moustache! "This Bud's for You" girl. No air- conditioning on streetcar. Old muscle cars and gas-guzzlers. Old red and cream streetcars. My favourite. SAM the record man! 1980's geometric patterns on clothes in bright colours. NOBODY is on their cell phone! Everyone is calmer because of it. City Hall looks the same. NO Toronto sign. Good videography work. Nice eye. Love the closeup/zoom out shots. Great montage of the relief/statues of underclad men on the old Bank of Nova Scotia building. Thanks for sharing.
Cell phones absolutely destroyed the fabric of society, everyone with an iPhone in their hands is when everything really started to change for the worse
Oh how I miss old Toronto. We moved here from Europe in 86' and never looked back. I love this city. Just after 1:38 minutes you can see a terrifying billboard of Joseph Bloor. Lol, thank you for posting this!
Got a tear in my eyes I grew up Toronto during the 90’s I was a child and the fond times I had in this beautiful city seem like a distant memory. How this province has changed
Oh bo the f ho it is only because Toronto is not has white has it used to be it is now a multicultural city witch I think is a good thing for the city to be this way it shows how open minded the city is
@@HealthWealth-sy2jq I can’t even bear to ride on the subways and buses now. I feel completely out of place, as if I woke up in another country or two or three…
They can jack up the rents, gentrify the neighbourhoods in the seemingly unending quest to be more 'New York' but this, this is when Toronto truly shared a soul with New York City and I feel blessed to have lived in that time and remember it well!!
Totally randomly stumbled upon this, and within the first 30 seconds found someone I know! Amazing. Can't wait to let them see it tomorrow, I might really creep them out ahahaha.
Its changed so much downtown. I hardly recognized the Gardener Expressway travelling eastbound to Jarvis. It almost looks like a different city compared to 10 years ago.
It was like I was walking with you guys back in time. Seeing the old familiar places that are long gone now. I remember having dinner w my best friend on Xmas eve bc our families were such messes we didn’t want to be w them. It was at the Licks Hamburgers across from the Eaton Centre, where Yonge Dundas Srq stands today. Such a lot to recall & take in from those days. It’s a privilege to be able to see these things again
Ahh Yonge street, my old stomping grounds, with it's arcades, Sam, head shops, and so much fun. I moved to the west coast by '90, but I would visit and it looked like this during the 80's as well. I don't wanna be a downer, but it's such a sewer these days, a waste of space, a shadow of it's former glory. Yonge and Dundas especially...ugh. It's all gone or slapped together in a way that doesn't make sense, but memories, photos and home movies of the real deal remain. Thank you!
Sam!!!!! ❤❤❤ So cool…. 😢😢😢😢 I know everyone misses the past, but it’s so true, I miss the 90’s (What a bummer, there’s no emoji of a Record for Sam the Record Man!!!)
I was born in Regent Park 1960. Lived and worked downtown at the Eaton Center and Commerce Court until I was 40 and then able to move to a warmer climate. This video brings back soooo many happy memories. I know Toronto has changed but I still try to visit every few years and always love the energy. I’ll be back in a couple of months and looking forward to seeing the old neighborhoods and the new changes. It’s a fabulous city ❤
It’s changed more since the last time you left than any other time you left. It’s actually a Punjabi city now. Even small towns in Ontario are fully Indian now.
@@thatsgangst6026 a white racist? How typical. That's the Toronto I know. Show your true colours u dirty inbred hick. Dont u have ur sister to touch when then Indians get on your nerves. I know just stay commenting online. Keep ya mouth shut like the rest of yall do in public. Bitch made soft ass pigskin ppl.
@@HarmanPremiumYT Toronto clone? Tf? Have u seen Chicago 1920s architecture my guy? The home of the skycraper with a beautiful river in it, meanwhile, toronto be looking like shanghai with all those soviet looking condos lmao
The month I graduated high school over in Ajax. When I was young I was filled with the possibility and couldn't wait until future 10 years 20 years and here we are 34 years later and all I want to do is go back to the 1970s and 80s💕
I took off from Rio de Janeiro to Toronto on June 14, 1987, three years to the day this video was filmed. I flew CP Air (Canadian Pacific Air Lines), which no longer exists. Precious memories!
@@hardyboy1959 Wow...a month to day before I landed in Toronto. The jets with the white circle and the Maple Leaf in the middle are from CP Air. Exactly how I remember. Thanks for the memories!
I used to take that crowded streetcar on Queen Street and transfer onto the Trolleybus at Bay Street to go to school with my older brother. I was only 8 years old when this was taken but it brought back memories of being a kid growing up in the "Big Smoke" like it was yesterday. Loved this video, thanks for posting it.
Wow that's amazing! I remember that day, it was the birthday of a pretty blonde I dated. We went bar hopping, drinking on patios in the King & John area. So many great memories from that summer.
I was still just a kid back then, and I cam still remember some of these vistas. Born and raised more or less everywhere this video showcased. I've moved out to Scarborough now, and I don't dare go downtown unless I really have no choice.
WOW! Things seemed so civil compared to today. I wish I could go back to those days. The lack of cell phones is very refreshing. 8:59 everyone just sitting around relaxing taking the day in. The other night I saw a tiktok of a young 20yr old climbing over the big arch over the water at Old City Hall and there was a barricade and sign that said, "no climbing", but social media got him to do it, all for clout. This city has really gone to crap, so has the world it seems.
4:43 Loved going to Toronto when I was a kid in the 80s just for that arcade and one or two others nearby. I've never seen so many video games in my life.
I have been to Toronto very very few days in my life but this day was one of them, a moment in time when I graduated from high school and went to join my friend Tammy who had run away from our insane boarding school. Bought a pair of thigh high boots at Master John that trip haha, they got a lot of use but no, I don’t still have them. This really brings me back showing up in my feed the night I decided the time has come, far past due, to write this story. Also beside this video in the feed, George Michael’s Freedom 90, urging me to purge my memory, as it has always been part of it all, and freedom the ultimate climax. The story and accompanying soundtrack have been written in my head for 34 years now, time to release the demons. Hope you can see the movie someday. 🍿 🎥 🎦
1990.. what a beautiful time. This guy is a comedian and he doesn't even know it! On a seperate note, I wasn't even conceived yet.. Still floating in my one of my dad's dingleberry. But also an unfortunate time, 1990 was the start of Canada's most recent economic recession and real estate crash. If only you could time travel.
I remember that version of Toronto fondly, but it's easy to look back with rose-tinted glasses. I'm not saying today is better or worse, but we have to move on with the times and make tomorrow better for future Torontonians.
I was 19 yrs old then. Toronto is unrecognizable now. Same with Burlington where I grew up. There was a lot more breathing room in 1990, that's for sure.
I don't know, I came to Toronto in 1993, it was very much as on this video. Every time I come now, I do not feel it changed that much, especially if you got a bit away from downtown. Of course 30 years did not pass for nothing ....
Grew up in Pickering remembering going to the Ajax theatre. It was just in the middle of farmer fields. Now it it is surrounded by Costco, Walmart, Canadian Tire a bunch of other stores and housing. The area I grew up in still feels the same, any time I drive by it.
No idea why this popped up in my feed today but I’m so happy it did. Thank you for posting this all those years ago so that it could eventually make its way to me and give me all the best memories of walking/driving around that city as a young boy with my dad before and after games at Maple Leaf Gardens. I still remember the first lesson my dad ever taught me about Toronto, he said - “If by some chance you’re ever hit by a car in the city, just walk it off if you can, because chances are you’re only gonna end up getting in a fight anyway for making whoever hit you late for work“ 😂😂 He always was one for the advice. I remember him also saying “If you’re just walking down the streets here don’t always be looking up because you’ll look like a tourist and will be treated like one” lol. Advice I still employ to this day. I still don’t get hit by cars so as not to inconvenience the other driver 😋
Back when you didn't have to put the 416 in front of a phone number, the classic cars, the city was cleaner, calmer; what a wonderful Time Capsule! Thank you so much for sharing!! I hope you and Alex are doing well!
Wow it's been close to 34 years since this video was shot! I lived in Regent Park at the time. Traffic has gotten much worse over the years. As a teen I frequented the Eaton Centre, Sam the Record Man, A&A and Sunrise Records, the Head Shops. As an adult I try to avoid downtown T.O. Thanks for posting. Cheers Brian and Alex!
Thank you for posting this Brian, this is the Toronto,and Yonge street I remember, and always will. I was born and raised right in the downtown core and still reside here, but it's not the same anymore and a shame what this wonderful city has become. I remember going to Baskin Robbins, and Licks burgers when they were side by side at Yonge and Dundas with my mother and siblings. If it wasn't for your video I could only picture it in my head which I do and always will because it was one of the best times and some of my greatest memories ever. Thanks again. It's very much appreciated.
My parents and siblings were newly immigrated to Toronto, my mom was very pregnant with me in the summer of 1990, and my dad filmed everything. some of the footage reminds me of our home videos (especially of the buildings), and now with my mom gone, this brought tears to my eyes. thanks for the upload, I've been postponing getting our video cassettes digitized, but now I'm ready.
Wow, this is my favorite video ❤ it's crazy how things changed over so many years ... I was born and raised in Toronto ontario. I was 1 year's old when u were traveling there...the fashion the old school cars even the cop cars I loved seeing it all ❤
I don’t care what anyone says . I have Lived here 30 years . Love it . Unlike small towns across the province things are always changing . So much to document and see . This actually proves it .
11:10 was so trippy. Kinda made me feel like this is when architecture started becoming “mass-produced” and looking all the same. Specifically office buildings.
My mum would've been a high school junior growing up in Jane and Finch around this time! Crazy to see how much Toronto has changed over the years. Thanks for sharing!
I remember that seagull at 9:43. I met him the other day and said would you stop hangin out at city hall and staking at people's food leftovers? He didn't have much to say. In his heart he knew what he was doing is wrong and that's why he quickly flew away.
Born & raised there. Used to play floor hockey in the stairwells in the Maple Leaf Gardens. Lived in the beaches in the 80’s. Good times there. Moved to the US in 1996 & have never looked back. Could never move back to Toronto, as what made it great is gone. All my relatives moved away to get out of that condo maze & traffic disaster.
I was a 15 year old club kid during this time RPM, focus, inner city etc Never went through the rocker stage lol house music, rap, hip hop,reggae. Hung out at Eaton Center. The underground Yonge and Gould With a large large group of us from around Toronto. Had the best times back then. Thank you ❤❤
Good one boys! Around that time, me and the wife were in these areas every week. Go out for dinner, we saw the Phantom, etc. We lived in Brampton for decades. It was our date night, to head to Toronto. Thanks for this!
Look at how little traffic there is on the street then vs now. I lived a 45 minute walk east of there just off Queen E. God how I wish I could visit those days again
I think what’s most impressive is that the majority of the buildings I find most iconic about downtown Toronto and its financial district were already built here. Feels like for the most part the buildings that came up since don’t have as much character.
Born and raised in Toronto and although this was 6 years before I was even born, it feels really nostalgic, and crazy to see the massive difference in how some of those intersections looked then compared to today. That cruiser really emphasized how old this is
sad. As a new comer landed in 2019, I couldn't even recognize. So many changes job market, Indian, house affordability, international competitivity. Now I even barely see people who speak English on streets.
I work in the city and it's amazing to see people 30 years ago walking on the same streets, sitting on the same bench and eat at the same restaurants I eat at today #hardrockcafe
It was such a different city back then. I think I was around 14 in 1990 and remember Toronto back then. There's lots of great stuff about the city now but there is so much I miss about Toronto from back in the late 80's and early 90's.
From 1983-1997, we were downtown and in Toronto constantly. 1997 afterwards life started to change and it seemed like the Toronto I knew did too. Great video.
Sure makes me mad seeing what the city once was and what it's become. And did anyone vote for over a million third worlders to immigrate to Canada every year? Nope its just forced on us by wacko politicians. Terrible.
Watched TO change so much since the 60s. Completely different city now. Fun fact still waiting for another Stanley Cup in 2021. I was 8 when they won in 67. LOL. 🇨🇦🍺🍺🥅🏒
Why is it the only intersection left with those florescent intersection signs is Bay and Queen? And I didn't even realize we had those mid-20th century streetcars as late as 1990 on Toronto streets. Drats my Mississauga upbringing.
I was 10... back then Toronto was so much fun to visit. Now I dread every single drive through the hell of glass and concrete. People walking down the streets not afraid for their lives while now even your car isn't going to protect you from the violence. I miss old Canada... now I just want to move away as far as I can.
Lol who is afriad for their lives walking down the street? 😅 Toronto is also like an incredibly safe city on the world scale. If you think it's dangerous it means basically youve never traveled. I think we just get nostalgic for our childhood
@@Nutellachocolatehazelnut I do live here. If you are scared to be in Toronto, big city living just isnt for you. It's safer than like 90% of cities over 1 million. 1.8 murders/100k ppl. Even the US has several cities with murder rate of 50/100k 😂 Have you ever been to big cities in the US, latin america or Europe?
When this man first made this video it was worthless but now it's priceless
@ReligionlessFAITH it was actually shot on a camera like this unit...
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The quality and zoom is impressive. Might be image stabilization too. These clips take us back in time
like stepping into a time machine. i dont go downtown often. when i do it feels like "Back to the Future" lol
@@OttawaInHD Thanks, I think the big camera resting on my shoulder helped steady the picture. Personally, I think I did way too much zooming!
@@hardyboy1959 no no, I think you did the right amount of zooming, it made things feel closer at the right moments. You zoom out and then we see the bigger picture. Or zoom into the distance. For some reason, the quality of videos these days don’t quite capture the moment and atmosphere like those old cameras.
I was in the 9th grade, and lived in Etobicoke. My friends and I would go downtown on the weekends and window shop and eat food. Man I miss those days!
I live in Etobicoke & it's bad now 😥
@turd Ferguson Where I live people are killing each other sad😪 every two days someone gets hurt & mostly teenagers
turd Ferguson yeah diversity is good but to an extent people here don’t even have patriotism or care about Canada because they all came from somewhere else
@@sda-clips it's all teenagers from one particular culture though. It's all part and parcel with woke culture cancelling police and that culture raising their kids to not respect police or society's rules.
You were smoking pot and got stoned
My parents ran a business near Yonge and Bloor, I was 10 years old and roaming freely during this hot summer. Exploring and going into all the stores. What a great time to grow up in this city.
Bro I was doing this only ten years after you haha
Great city and so close to America
Ah the days before Shania Twain got famous.If she walked these streets then-no one would have any idea who she was
What was the gas price at that time? Probably $0.30-$0.40?
@oneundecided around 0.35
I remember this day. I was on the streetcar and saw that guy videoing the gold building and thought - “I will never see what that man is filming”. I had to deal with that fact for over thirty years. Now I know. Thank you for posting. Wow Toronto sure has changed! Go leafs.
small world
Now do you want to hear a real unbelievable story ? A couple of years ago, I found a photo of myself, that had been uploaded and posted on YT in around 2011. A guy was on holidays in Toronto in 1977, ( I think he was from Holland) and was taking pictures on Yonge St. He captured a pic of me in my favourite pinball arcade. And like 45 years later, I found the picture of myself on YT. Sometimes the internet can be mindblowing.
@@k_DAN Wow, that is neat!
@@k_DAN that's crazy lol
This is literally the definition of quantum entanglement .. wow!
Quite a few people in my life passed away just after this video was made. God, I wish they were all still with us.
Was 15 in 1990, and going to Toronto was exciting. 49 now, and going to Toronto is a logistical nightmare.
Hello fellow 1974 person 👋
@@richguy66974 the whites
It was a nightmare then too. You just weren't doing the driving.
Because at 15 yrs old you didn't worry about driving. Leave your car at. home. It never occurs to ppl complaining about Toronto traffic that they are the problem.
Be Free! The city is better by bicycle, wheelchair, scooter, and on foot,. Consider you're doing it wrong. Don't compare wherever you live to a thriving metropolis. Again, don't drag your old perspective into a new situation. One of these things is not like the other. I walk every city. It's the only way to truly know any place.
You're right. Toronto is not for you. Stay in your racist hovel wherever you dwell.
It actually looks so clean and wholesome. A time when most people cared and worked together to make a better tomorrow.
no browns
Toronto died in 1994 after the Just Desserts shooting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Desserts_shooting
Many white faces.
I remember the summer of 1990 like it was yesterday.
Good times 😌
I was free
In Vancouver with many girlfriends
Come back to Toronto with bc weed no one want it too sticky hydro
I met this actress lenore zahn at bamboo club
Holy f .she now NDP Nova scotia. Then i venture to south beach
Debauchery and sin
Models & parties
Thank god when you cross border
Wow America aint canada
Now 4 bedroom 4 cats and bored aint life wonderful 🖤🇨🇦 be good toronto 90-92 was good tlmes
@@vantastroganoff4370 are you stupid?
@@vantastroganoff4370 ua-cam.com/video/QW-aJU36-ME/v-deo.html
Old fart
I Was Living In Mississauga During This Summer
His Tshirt cut way down under arms.
His mullet! And moustache!
"This Bud's for You" girl.
No air- conditioning on streetcar.
Old muscle cars and gas-guzzlers.
Old red and cream streetcars. My favourite.
SAM the record man!
1980's geometric patterns on clothes in bright colours.
NOBODY is on their cell phone!
Everyone is calmer because of it.
City Hall looks the same. NO Toronto sign.
Good videography work. Nice eye.
Love the closeup/zoom out shots.
Great montage of the relief/statues of
underclad men on the old
Bank of Nova Scotia building.
Thanks for sharing.
Cell phones absolutely destroyed the fabric of society, everyone with an iPhone in their hands is when everything really started to change for the worse
Good eye!
@@ezpzlemonsqzI was just about to make this reply..... Looking at the kids these days, smart phones really could be the beginning of the end
@@hurricanestarang Yes, internet is great, the problems started when it moved into people's back pocket.
No gimmigrants and shittigrant paper Canadians either so great.
Oh how I miss old Toronto. We moved here from Europe in 86' and never looked back. I love this city. Just after 1:38 minutes you can see a terrifying billboard of Joseph Bloor. Lol, thank you for posting this!
poland i assume?:)
Got a tear in my eyes I grew up Toronto during the 90’s I was a child and the fond times I had in this beautiful city seem like a distant memory. How this province has changed
Thanks Doug Ford and the international scam schools like Conestoga "College".
John Tibbits is a profiteering ne'er do well.
Oh bo the f ho it is only because Toronto is not has white has it used to be it is now a multicultural city witch I think is a good thing for the city to be this way it shows how open minded the city is
Thank you for posting this. It’s like being in beautiful dream. I wish I could wake up to this version of Toronto.
Not the one we have today in 2025
These old clips are always so fascinating
Feels like time travel!
Wow, a first hand glimps into a world with no cell phones and everyone is actually living life.
Back when products were built to last. Now we have phones that only give us two years.
I can’t make myself watch this. Couldn’t bear to see how Toronto once was when I used to go on heritage walks. It’s
unrecognizable now.
I feel the exact same way. I couldn’t bear to watch it either. I’m so sad 😞
@@HealthWealth-sy2jq I can’t even bear to ride on the subways and buses now. I feel completely out of place, as if I woke up in another country or two or three…
Its simple go to Moscow. Its even better than old Toronto
@@clairecarscallenSAME! I avoid subways too. Totally feels like another country. Ie. India etc 😢
@@liamneslind5708you’re right!
So weird seeing the city I was born in, know and love just a few years before my birth.
It's so familiar and yet so foreign.
They can jack up the rents, gentrify the neighbourhoods in the seemingly unending quest to be more 'New York' but this, this is when Toronto truly shared a soul with New York City and I feel blessed to have lived in that time and remember it well!!
Totally randomly stumbled upon this, and within the first 30 seconds found someone I know! Amazing. Can't wait to let them see it tomorrow, I might really creep them out ahahaha.
What a treasure trove., holy crap. I wish I had shot videos of Toronto when I was a young kid.
Right no cellphone back then
@@sda-clips ua-cam.com/video/QW-aJU36-ME/v-deo.html
Considering how unstable personal video cameras were in the early 90s, this guy has some pretty steady shots!
Was thinking the same .. most of this looks like those live shots before a commercial on CityTV
@@grandanalog4959This is City TV... Everywhere
The early camcorders were big enough to balance the weight on the shoulder, it helped stabilize the shot!
looks like a shoulder mounted.
Its changed so much downtown. I hardly recognized the Gardener Expressway travelling eastbound to Jarvis. It almost looks like a different city compared to 10 years ago.
It was like I was walking with you guys back in time. Seeing the old familiar places that are long gone now. I remember having dinner w my best friend on Xmas eve bc our families were such messes we didn’t want to be w them. It was at the Licks Hamburgers across from the Eaton Centre, where Yonge Dundas Srq stands today. Such a lot to recall & take in from those days. It’s a privilege to be able to see these things again
Toronto was great back in the days. I truly miss it. Thank you for sharing this video. Brings a lot of memories.
Something you wouldn't hear today: "I'll be home in eight days... when I get there, you'll see this, when you see this, I'll be there."
Ahh Yonge street, my old stomping grounds, with it's arcades, Sam, head shops, and so much fun. I moved to the west coast by '90, but I would visit and it looked like this during the 80's as well. I don't wanna be a downer, but it's such a sewer these days, a waste of space, a shadow of it's former glory. Yonge and Dundas especially...ugh. It's all gone or slapped together in a way that doesn't make sense, but memories, photos and home movies of the real deal remain. Thank you!
Sam!!!!! ❤❤❤ So cool…. 😢😢😢😢 I know everyone misses the past, but it’s so true, I miss the 90’s (What a bummer, there’s no emoji of a Record for Sam the Record Man!!!)
I was born in Regent Park 1960. Lived and worked downtown at the Eaton Center and Commerce Court until I was 40 and then able to move to a warmer climate. This video brings back soooo many happy memories. I know Toronto has changed but I still try to visit every few years and always love the energy. I’ll be back in a couple of months and looking forward to seeing the old neighborhoods and the new changes. It’s a fabulous city ❤
I was born in Regent in 1982 and both my parents were born there in the mid-50's. This video is a refreshing walk through my childhood.
Northside!!
It’s changed more since the last time you left than any other time you left. It’s actually a Punjabi city now. Even small towns in Ontario are fully Indian now.
@@thatsgangst6026 a white racist? How typical. That's the Toronto I know. Show your true colours u dirty inbred hick. Dont u have ur sister to touch when then Indians get on your nerves. I know just stay commenting online. Keep ya mouth shut like the rest of yall do in public. Bitch made soft ass pigskin ppl.
Wow downtown really had a huge change since then!! Yonge & dundas i cant believe it.
Yes... Now it looks like an attempt at looking like an American city ...
@Dazz 416 lmfao stop, Canada looks exactly like the usa, there is nothing british in Canada left
@Dazz 416 btw toronto ugly af, got nothing on beautiful chicago
@@NationalismDjazair lol chicago, out of all the cities that are actually better looking than toronto.. you picked a toronto clone
@@HarmanPremiumYT Toronto clone? Tf?
Have u seen Chicago 1920s architecture my guy? The home of the skycraper with a beautiful river in it, meanwhile, toronto be looking like shanghai with all those soviet looking condos lmao
That cramming of the bus😮I could NEVER!!!
Anyone else remember the Skydome? Way better name IMO. It's so weird to think I could see my dad as a young man passing by on these streets.
I was thinking the same thing about my dad man! Shit maybe they were friends haha
I still call it the Skydome. It will always be Skydome.
@@CDN1975 Im still calling the SBA the Air Canada center lol
Everybody I know still calls it the skydome..
Rogers Center
I love this. I was visiting Toronto that very summer, when I was a mere lad of 18. Wonderful memories.
The beginning alone made me want to cry. Street cars are the same and everything is under construction and busy. Wicked video either way
I'm pretty sure that's me reading a book/play on that packed bus. Thanks for posting. It makes me nostalgic for living in Toronto. ❤
At 0 : 52 ? ... lucky you,I've not spotted myself yet.
The month I graduated high school over in Ajax. When I was young I was filled with the possibility and couldn't wait until future 10 years 20 years and here we are 34 years later and all I want to do is go back to the 1970s and 80s💕
I took off from Rio de Janeiro to Toronto on June 14, 1987, three years to the day this video was filmed. I flew CP Air (Canadian Pacific Air Lines), which no longer exists. Precious memories!
Thanks for the comment! you might enjoy a video I shot at YYZ a month before you flew...
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@@hardyboy1959 Wow...a month to day before I landed in Toronto. The jets with the white circle and the Maple Leaf in the middle are from CP Air. Exactly how I remember. Thanks for the memories!
I used to take that crowded streetcar on Queen Street and transfer onto the Trolleybus at Bay Street to go to school with my older brother. I was only 8 years old when this was taken but it brought back memories of being a kid growing up in the "Big Smoke" like it was yesterday. Loved this video, thanks for posting it.
Dude, I miss the arcades on Yonge...just north of Dundas.
What a GEM of a video!! Thanks for uploading.
It’s crazy to see everyone walking looking ahead and not with cell phones in their hands, and the amount of cars has grown exponentially!
Thsts not what exponentially means. They have grown linearly or gradually
OMG! This makes me want to cry...
Man I was born June 14 1990 in Toronto and Toronto totally different now. I'll be 34 in June😂. Just seeing this video shows you a blast from the past
Wow that's amazing! I remember that day, it was the birthday of a pretty blonde I dated. We went bar hopping, drinking on patios in the King & John area. So many great memories from that summer.
Me too, except I was 25 when this was filmed
You mean nothings changed 😂
@@victorchen9170 If you don't know why are you commenting?
@@leftistfactchecker7672 ?
I was still just a kid back then, and I cam still remember some of these vistas. Born and raised more or less everywhere this video showcased. I've moved out to Scarborough now, and I don't dare go downtown unless I really have no choice.
WOW! Things seemed so civil compared to today. I wish I could go back to those days. The lack of cell phones is very refreshing.
8:59 everyone just sitting around relaxing taking the day in.
The other night I saw a tiktok of a young 20yr old climbing over the big arch over the water at Old City Hall and there was a barricade and sign that said, "no climbing", but social media got him to do it, all for clout.
This city has really gone to crap, so has the world it seems.
lack of other things too
So was the thick brown smog during summer
@@shaunpierre Now it's brown all the time.
Lack of browns also helped
Smart phones and mass immigration is completely destroying Western countries as planned.
4:43 Loved going to Toronto when I was a kid in the 80s just for that arcade and one or two others nearby. I've never seen so many video games in my life.
Freaking glory days. It was all new and shiny. We were not yet jaded, just amazed, and excited for more.
I have been to Toronto very very few days in my life but this day was one of them, a moment in time when I graduated from high school and went to join my friend Tammy who had run away from our insane boarding school. Bought a pair of thigh high boots at Master John that trip haha, they got a lot of use but no, I don’t still have them. This really brings me back showing up in my feed the night I decided the time has come, far past due, to write this story. Also beside this video in the feed, George Michael’s Freedom 90, urging me to purge my memory, as it has always been part of it all, and freedom the ultimate climax. The story and accompanying soundtrack have been written in my head for 34 years now, time to release the demons. Hope you can see the movie someday. 🍿 🎥 🎦
That was amazing to read. Please write novels! Or screenplays. You have an eye for capturing narrative.
Thanks for the vintage tour of Toronto.
1990.. what a beautiful time. This guy is a comedian and he doesn't even know it!
On a seperate note, I wasn't even conceived yet.. Still floating in my one of my dad's dingleberry.
But also an unfortunate time, 1990 was the start of Canada's most recent economic recession and real estate crash.
If only you could time travel.
I remember that version of Toronto fondly, but it's easy to look back with rose-tinted glasses. I'm not saying today is better or worse, but we have to move on with the times and make tomorrow better for future Torontonians.
This was the year that I was born!!! Thanks for uploading
I was 19 yrs old then. Toronto is unrecognizable now. Same with Burlington where I grew up. There was a lot more breathing room in 1990, that's for sure.
I don't know, I came to Toronto in 1993, it was very much as on this video. Every time I come now, I do not feel it changed that much, especially if you got a bit away from downtown. Of course 30 years did not pass for nothing ....
Grew up in Pickering remembering going to the Ajax theatre. It was just in the middle of farmer fields. Now it it is surrounded by Costco, Walmart, Canadian Tire a bunch of other stores and housing. The area I grew up in still feels the same, any time I drive by it.
@@dmitripogosian5084 "Every time I come now" - So you don't live here now, which is why you don't see how much it's changed.
Downtown before it became Browntown...
@@mrveritas700 i know right west toronto is indian north is asian and east is mixed and centre is everything combined now
Everything about this video oozes nostalgia including your buddy's "I only do biceps and bench press" physique. Thanks for sharing this absolute gem.
Yeah. He's gonna wanna be doing squats if he's going to Church st.
The real Toronto.....so raw and vibrant
Excellent camera work buds! Kept hoping to see myself walking by. 👍
No idea why this popped up in my feed today but I’m so happy it did.
Thank you for posting this all those years ago so that it could eventually make its way to me and give me all the best memories of walking/driving around that city as a young boy with my dad before and after games at Maple Leaf Gardens.
I still remember the first lesson my dad ever taught me about Toronto, he said - “If by some chance you’re ever hit by a car in the city, just walk it off if you can, because chances are you’re only gonna end up getting in a fight anyway for making whoever hit you late for work“ 😂😂
He always was one for the advice.
I remember him also saying “If you’re just walking down the streets here don’t always be looking up because you’ll look like a tourist and will be treated like one” lol.
Advice I still employ to this day.
I still don’t get hit by cars so as not to inconvenience the other driver 😋
Back when you didn't have to put the 416 in front of a phone number, the classic cars, the city was cleaner, calmer; what a wonderful Time Capsule! Thank you so much for sharing!! I hope you and Alex are doing well!
We're both doing great, thanks!
Wow it's been close to 34 years since this video was shot! I lived in Regent Park at the time. Traffic has gotten much worse over the years. As a teen I frequented the Eaton Centre, Sam the Record Man, A&A and Sunrise Records, the Head Shops. As an adult I try to avoid downtown T.O. Thanks for posting. Cheers Brian and Alex!
Amazing time capsule man, thanks for sharing! I was 15 months old when you filmed this!
Thank you for posting this Brian, this is the Toronto,and Yonge street I remember, and always will. I was born and raised right in the downtown core and still reside here, but it's not the same anymore and a shame what this wonderful city has become. I remember going to Baskin Robbins, and Licks burgers when they were side by side at Yonge and Dundas with my mother and siblings. If it wasn't for your video I could only picture it in my head which I do and always will because it was one of the best times and some of my greatest memories ever. Thanks again. It's very much appreciated.
My parents and siblings were newly immigrated to Toronto, my mom was very pregnant with me in the summer of 1990, and my dad filmed everything. some of the footage reminds me of our home videos (especially of the buildings), and now with my mom gone, this brought tears to my eyes. thanks for the upload, I've been postponing getting our video cassettes digitized, but now I'm ready.
My TV is now the same size as the Cineplex Theatre screens at the Eaton Centre.
🤣 I remember that, sitting in otherwise empty cinema, watching some crap movie, but it was fun.
Haha bet you have the same electricy bill as the Eaton center did. I know I do.
Wow, this is my favorite video ❤ it's crazy how things changed over so many years ... I was born and raised in Toronto ontario. I was 1 year's old when u were traveling there...the fashion the old school cars even the cop cars I loved seeing it all ❤
I moved to Toronto in September '89 and honestly Toronto was AMAZING in the 90s...not so much now 😒
Cool place back then
Longest away 2000
4 million in 5 years on down i could not travel
@@vantastroganoff4370 sorry I don't speak methanese 😒
@@W1DN173it was the worst time. Best time was pre Columbus
Disagree, love Toronto today, seems just as vibrant as it was back in 1990.
@@LHRTW Cope harder ya poor
I don’t care what anyone says . I have Lived here 30 years . Love it . Unlike small towns across the province things are always changing . So much to document and see . This actually proves it .
11:10 was so trippy. Kinda made me feel like this is when architecture started becoming “mass-produced” and looking all the same. Specifically office buildings.
OMG! Amazing Video! Awesome to see how Toronto has changed! Awesome time capsule! ❤
My mum would've been a high school junior growing up in Jane and Finch around this time! Crazy to see how much Toronto has changed over the years. Thanks for sharing!
I remember that seagull at 9:43. I met him the other day and said would you stop hangin out at city hall and staking at people's food leftovers? He didn't have much to say. In his heart he knew what he was doing is wrong and that's why he quickly flew away.
I hope you and that seagull are doing well 😬
🤣👍🏻
indian?
I remember a one-legged seagul I would see at Broadview station every day on my way to co op, wonder if he's still alive... (this was 2021)
What a lovely video!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Toronto was lovely in the 90s. Simpler. All good 👍 Still beautiful 🎉🎉🎉
Hamilton the new toronto
This was the best video I have watched in a long time.
Thanks very much for sharing.
Born & raised there. Used to play floor hockey in the stairwells in the Maple Leaf Gardens. Lived in the beaches in the 80’s. Good times there. Moved to the US in 1996 & have never looked back. Could never move back to Toronto, as what made it great is gone. All my relatives moved away to get out of that condo maze & traffic disaster.
Must've walked that boardwalk countless times
So American cities don't have traffic or appartment bulldings? 🙄
been here since '84 - I still love Toronto with all of it's flaws and bullshit. Thanks for this upload - been on a nostalgic binge this year!
This is crazy! I live in PEI, grew up in that section of T.o and am watching this in 2024
Spectacular video great job
I was a 15 year old club kid during this time RPM, focus, inner city etc Never went through the rocker stage lol house music, rap, hip hop,reggae. Hung out at Eaton Center. The underground Yonge and Gould With a large large group of us from around Toronto. Had the best times back then.
Thank you ❤❤
Focus! With the Sarasoda coolers! Many weekends at Focus, RPM, Whiskey - so much fun.
Good one boys! Around that time, me and the wife were in these areas every week. Go out for dinner, we saw the Phantom, etc. We lived in Brampton for decades. It was our date night, to head to Toronto. Thanks for this!
Look at how little traffic there is on the street then vs now. I lived a 45 minute walk east of there just off Queen E. God how I wish I could visit those days again
Excellent video. Toronto was a great city back then.
I think what’s most impressive is that the majority of the buildings I find most iconic about downtown Toronto and its financial district were already built here. Feels like for the most part the buildings that came up since don’t have as much character.
Born and raised in Toronto and although this was 6 years before I was even born, it feels really nostalgic, and crazy to see the massive difference in how some of those intersections looked then compared to today. That cruiser really emphasized how old this is
Those were the best years 80s and 90s What happened to our beautiful Country?? 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
sad. As a new comer landed in 2019, I couldn't even recognize. So many changes job market, Indian, house affordability, international competitivity. Now I even barely see people who speak English on streets.
Trudeau Sr. started it and his idiot stepchild is trying to finish it off.
Mass immigration
@ytbytb8103 good, fuck the colonizers
Indians flooded all of Canada and shit on our diversity. Theyve completely destroyed the country.
This is the Toronto i would have liked to visit, not the current one, and thanks to this video I was able to.
the toronto i miss so much
A lovely little blast to the past ❤ Thank you for posting this 😊
What a time capsule❤
Absolutely!
I work in the city and it's amazing to see people 30 years ago walking on the same streets, sitting on the same bench and eat at the same restaurants I eat at today #hardrockcafe
Hardrock not pickle barrel
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Both Are GONE
@@dukehalliday9833 Yes❣
Hardrock closed like 8 years ago lol
It was such a different city back then. I think I was around 14 in 1990 and remember Toronto back then. There's lots of great stuff about the city now but there is so much I miss about Toronto from back in the late 80's and early 90's.
From 1983-1997, we were downtown and in Toronto constantly. 1997 afterwards life started to change and it seemed like the Toronto I knew did too. Great video.
I love how that drilling sound everywhere was already going back then lol
No one with a cell phone in sight. It was awesome back then. Great video
This was awesome to watch
I am giggling of nostalgia, thank you for sharing
I miss those old Toronto Police cruisers. They were amazing to see on the streets. Wish they were still around.
Much better times....
Ever since you left
@@GoodAfternoonDave rdrr - Still here, dingleberry hal
@@stevie1748 Nice
Well there was a recession then but people were in generally a better position of living regardless.
Once one of the safest cities in North America. This video reminders of the those days.
Sure makes me mad seeing what the city once was and what it's become. And did anyone vote for over a million third worlders to immigrate to Canada every year? Nope its just forced on us by wacko politicians. Terrible.
It’s so different, yet I can still recognize the places in Yonge and Dundas. Very interesting
Watched TO change so much since the 60s. Completely different city now. Fun fact still waiting for another Stanley Cup in 2021. I was 8 when they won in 67. LOL. 🇨🇦🍺🍺🥅🏒
I miss walking around Toronto at all times of day and night, such a cool city to explore tbh
Why is it the only intersection left with those florescent intersection signs is Bay and Queen? And I didn't even realize we had those mid-20th century streetcars as late as 1990 on Toronto streets. Drats my Mississauga upbringing.
Thank you for posting this. Makes me realize how much we've changed... But also how we haven't changed at all.
Post-P Toronto needs love.
I was 10... back then Toronto was so much fun to visit. Now I dread every single drive through the hell of glass and concrete. People walking down the streets not afraid for their lives while now even your car isn't going to protect you from the violence. I miss old Canada... now I just want to move away as far as I can.
Lol who is afriad for their lives walking down the street? 😅 Toronto is also like an incredibly safe city on the world scale. If you think it's dangerous it means basically youve never traveled. I think we just get nostalgic for our childhood
@@paulg6274 you clearly don't live here or have balls of steel. Shootings, stabbings, bomb threats... Ya just a regular day at the office here.
@@Nutellachocolatehazelnut I do live here. If you are scared to be in Toronto, big city living just isnt for you. It's safer than like 90% of cities over 1 million. 1.8 murders/100k ppl. Even the US has several cities with murder rate of 50/100k 😂 Have you ever been to big cities in the US, latin america or Europe?
I was 17 around this time. What an amazing time capsule of what Toronto was like in 1990. So much has changed since then.