Parts of this take me back. As a kid I rode the ferry every summer to Center Island.. Always loved that trip. And just coincidently, I recently purchased a G scale Peter Witt car. I had a print shop make the Toronto decals for it. A big thanks for sharing this video. I learned a lot and really enjoyed it.
Enjoyed this. Distant memories brought back. A Toronto long gone in many ways, Music choices must have been by a fellow classical music lover. Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and more.
Also rare. This would be excellent for those who want to know something about the history of Toronto and the TTC - the way it was. Probably the finest film about old Toronto.
most of the peopel in this video are dead besides maybe a couple kids if they were lucky to live this long.. you're looking at peopel who were once here but now gone forever.
@sonnyc3826, thanks for pointing that Captain Bringdown. My great uncle who was a pilot in the RCAF during WW2 had already been gone 3 years when this film came out. All those people in the film had the same amount of time on earth as you or I. Time is fleeting. We’re here for but a moment, then gone. Make the most of it.
Amazing video ! Thanks for finding and posting it ! Cheers, Peter
Whoever found in curated this should be congratulated a wonderful movie thank you thank you thank you
Parts of this take me back. As a kid I rode the ferry every summer to Center Island.. Always loved that trip. And just coincidently, I recently purchased a G scale Peter Witt car. I had a print shop make the Toronto decals for it.
A big thanks for sharing this video. I learned a lot and really enjoyed it.
Enjoyed this. Distant memories brought back. A Toronto long gone in many ways,
Music choices must have been by a fellow classical music lover. Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and more.
Great video
Also rare. This would be excellent for those who want to know something about the history of Toronto and the TTC - the way it was. Probably the finest film about old Toronto.
Thanks for posting. I didn't know this video existed
@ 15:53 That's a mighty detailed application, Jim! Let's get started...
Made just 4 yrs. before I was born at Womens Collage Hospital this brings back a lot of memories .
My brother was born at women’s college hospital in 1985.
I was born there in 72
Such beautiful times! Elegant fashion, nice suits worn by streetcar operators, art deco transit vehicles etc.!! Amazing!
and war!
@@johnbland3642 We should've never participated in WW2, regardless of what was going on at the other side of the pond.
The smell of the non pollution controlled cars and buses must have been very pungent
@@alexsmith-ob3lu, we’d all be speaking German now were it not for the brave Canadian men & women who fought against the “axis of evil.”
@@marc_simmons Not true at all.
Just the fact that beyond St. Clair was considered to be the northern outskirts requiring an extra fare is wild!
Good flashback
Thanks . This was fantastic
Boy those ancient Witt Street cars are really something
I love the march of the valkyries
I miss the grey coach buses!
I really miss the Gray coach buses as I was hired in 1988 as a furlough driver for Gray Coach later to be hired by the TTC.
All of this occurred before Subways were even thought of
NINE FARES!!!! kinda looks like fun jammin on that ol tram though
Yes I remember in the 60's another fare was paid going north on Dufferin st. at Briar hill just north of Eglington.
Interesting that the PCC streetcar still look pretty modern
Where was this meant to be shown? I never saw this on TV as filler back in the 70’s or 80’s. Has anyone ever seen this prior to UA-cam?
No bike lanes…
Oh my God the orchestral track is so drab.
Not an encampment seen anywhere…
They're not all churches there are synagogues as well
I laughed out loud when they said that the TTC was quick, convenient, safe and costs little to go that way...None of that is true anymore.
most of the peopel in this video are dead besides maybe a couple kids if they were lucky to live this long.. you're looking at peopel who were once here but now gone forever.
@sonnyc3826, thanks for pointing that Captain Bringdown.
My great uncle who was a pilot in the RCAF during WW2 had already been gone 3 years when this film came out.
All those people in the film had the same amount of time on earth as you or I.
Time is fleeting. We’re here for but a moment, then gone. Make the most of it.