Wild. I was a kid in 1987 and my family visited Toronto. We went to this same museum, which I think was called the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) and we also have a bunch of camcorder video of it inside. We very well could have been at the museum on this same day. I grew up in Michigan, and at the time it was my first experience being in another country. Even though Ontario has a lot of the same feel overall as places in the midwestern U.S. like Michigan.
I was born in 1978 in Brantford and I remember going to Toronto as a child and it was always fun. Now I utterly loathe the idea of going there. I guess nothing lasts forever. Toronto is unrecognizable to me now.
Well yea you were younger back 50 years ago the city is for young people and suburbs are for the elderly that’s why there’s no outside entertainment in Branford, it’s a quiet old people town
Wow ! Toronto looks so good , less traffic less people , less ugly condos , probably less rent less crime etc I came to the party too late 😝 it’s a cold not wold class city
man I would kill to go back to this time. no cell phones, no internet, no social media. you knew all the kids who lived in your area. there was so much stuff to do for free or for next to nothing. you could get into a fight with someone, dust each other off, and go about your day without worrying about dying. nobody was car jacking or stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. 😅
Does anyone else miss the orange glow of those sodium vapour street lamps at night? I wasn't alive in 1987 but we have lost so much of the warmth of this city between the first decade of the 2000's and today.
wow a year before i was born in the city i now live in. what the difference. and WOW THAT SCIENCE CENTER.... why cant it be like that now... oh yeah politics
That was the year rollings and swarmings really started happening. If you were a teenager wearing Doc Martins or other valuable gear and you were alone on the subway or in a mall etc there was a good chance you would be jumped and robbed - lots of times you wouldn't even be hurt, they just rip what they wanted from you and split, but sometimes you get beat up as well. The media really picked up on it by 89 and then by the early 90's it had died down and teenage swarmings weren't a thing much after that
@@r.pres.4121 I agree. And moving it down by the lake? The traffic is terrible downtown! It's not like condos would make housing in Toronto more affordable anyway.
@@nicholashylton6857 while it may be more upscale and "cleaner" (whatever you mean by that), It lost 100% of its character and now it just looks like a shitty street of condos & congestion
Yup i also visited Toronto in 1987. Wow what a nice functional city and clean it was back then. You wouldn't even be hearing english nowadays up there. Who could have thought... some normal looking people back then. No tattooed multi hair colored freakazoids, people actually laughed not the moody uptight *** they've become. And for 1987 Toronto was pretty modern and functional. I'd go back in a heartbeat compared to now.
1987??? We were there. You weren’t in the right places. I was just starting law school. Gay “T-Dances” on Sunday afternoons were amazing. You clearly never hit the ‘Church Street Beach’. 🏳️🌈 And yes, everybody speaks English these days. Omg. You’re the ones we were glad left. Good times indeed.
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@@gregcosta6965 Because the zoning laws do not allow density outside certain places, it must be very tall to accommodate demand. I think people would be more mad if you tore up homes in their neighborhood to build medium density than to have high density on major arterioles where there is abundant food, fun and transit.
@@InADarkTavern *** zoning by laws. Canada has tons of space. Toronto ain't Hong Kong where space is limited so you have to build upward. No this is an act of greed. The mayors and city officials are in the backpockets of the corporations( in this case builders of condos and other real estate moguls). What is being done is an urban travesty. Shame on the mayor, the premier and the PM of Canada for allowing the destruction of a once promising city.
This brings me back! Thank you for sharing your footage. I was born and raised in the GTA from 1976-1996. I remember going to the Ontario Science Centre several times. Love that place.
I’m directing a documentary about a radio station in Toronto in the 80s called CFNY and came across your footage. I’d love to use 6 seconds of it in the film. Would that be possible?
It’s actually a relative of mine that shot it but I’ll see if I can get their blessing on that. Cfny back in Brampton or Queen west? Or both? I remember being in there (Queen st)watching an oasis interview
It reminds me when me and my friend Gord headed west to Toronto for jobs. Lawyering jobs and doctoring jobs. We didn't gets jobs though so we went to Yonge Street.
I miss when that's what Canadians sounded like
I've been looking for any media of the science centre when it was great before they ruined it. Thank you so so much for sharing!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I wish I could dive through the screen and go visit the Record Peddler.
I've been living in Toronto for the majority of my 50 years now. The way in which local governments have ruined this city is atrocious.
I hate 2024. I want to go back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there
so this is where the old scarborough town center got its idea for gas balloons in the mall
Wild. I was a kid in 1987 and my family visited Toronto. We went to this same museum, which I think was called the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) and we also have a bunch of camcorder video of it inside. We very well could have been at the museum on this same day. I grew up in Michigan, and at the time it was my first experience being in another country. Even though Ontario has a lot of the same feel overall as places in the midwestern U.S. like Michigan.
WOW look at the smog back then....
And now it's fucked. :)
Gone to trash now...
Wow 40 years later I live on the waterfront and it looks NOTHING like that! I was toddler when this was filmed 😂
I was born in 1978 in Brantford and I remember going to Toronto as a child and it was always fun. Now I utterly loathe the idea of going there. I guess nothing lasts forever. Toronto is unrecognizable to me now.
Well yea you were younger back 50 years ago the city is for young people and suburbs are for the elderly that’s why there’s no outside entertainment in Branford, it’s a quiet old people town
Wow ! Toronto looks so good , less traffic less people , less ugly condos , probably less rent less crime etc I came to the party too late 😝 it’s a cold not wold class city
It looked grey and ugly back then just a bunch of cars, roads and cancer filled smoke in the air, Windsor was a much better city back then
Great archive video!
man I would kill to go back to this time. no cell phones, no internet, no social media. you knew all the kids who lived in your area. there was so much stuff to do for free or for next to nothing. you could get into a fight with someone, dust each other off, and go about your day without worrying about dying. nobody was car jacking or stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. 😅
What is gone will never come back.
That's when you still had a country.😂
Notice how it doesn't look like the third world. This country is severely broken
have you been to a 3rd world country? canada looks nothing like it. quit your yappin
Does anyone else miss the orange glow of those sodium vapour street lamps at night? I wasn't alive in 1987 but we have lost so much of the warmth of this city between the first decade of the 2000's and today.
I'm on this stretch of road in the back of my mind at this time in history all the time
So different, but at the same time, so many things the same.
Before Trudeau diversity turned it into a complete dump
Good old days... long gone now
wow a year before i was born in the city i now live in. what the difference. and WOW THAT SCIENCE CENTER.... why cant it be like that now... oh yeah politics
I was two years old living around Jane street and Weston road at that time.
Smoggy. Concrete. Grey. Much prefer how it is today.
We were there at the end of March 1987 for our honeymoon
The Science Centre in its heyday, before the government slashed its funding. I had a lot of fun there as a kid. Brings a tear to my eye.
That was the year rollings and swarmings really started happening. If you were a teenager wearing Doc Martins or other valuable gear and you were alone on the subway or in a mall etc there was a good chance you would be jumped and robbed - lots of times you wouldn't even be hurt, they just rip what they wanted from you and split, but sometimes you get beat up as well. The media really picked up on it by 89 and then by the early 90's it had died down and teenage swarmings weren't a thing much after that
jbwarehouse.blogspot.com/2015/08/off-grid-retro-to-golden-age-of-swarming.html
I remember that...
My birth year and place .....wow .....thanks
Same!! 🙌
The Ontario Science Center exhibit is cool. I went to see it with my high school sweet heart
I practically grew up in the Science Centre. It makes me so freaking angry that Ford wants to tear it down for condos. 🤬
What do you expect today's politicians are in the pockets of greedy corporate interests.
How many more goddamned condos do they need? The science Centre is a major educational and cultural attraction.
@@r.pres.4121 I agree. And moving it down by the lake? The traffic is terrible downtown! It's not like condos would make housing in Toronto more affordable anyway.
stop immigration then
Bro...Ford is car company right?...could you please elaborate why they would be interested in condos construction?...please reply
The smell of hops when we got past Spadina on the Gardiner…
I was 3 years old in 1987 but I never been up their to Toronto CA.
Who cares
Younge Street looked much better back then
Yeah it didn't look like you're in another country.
No, not really. It's infinitely more upscale and cleaner today than back then.
@@nicholashylton6857 while it may be more upscale and "cleaner" (whatever you mean by that), It lost 100% of its character and now it just looks like a shitty street of condos & congestion
Yup i also visited Toronto in 1987. Wow what a nice functional city and clean it was back then. You wouldn't even be hearing english nowadays up there. Who could have thought... some normal looking people back then. No tattooed multi hair colored freakazoids, people actually laughed not the moody uptight *** they've become. And for 1987 Toronto was pretty modern and functional. I'd go back in a heartbeat compared to now.
1987??? We were there. You weren’t in the right places. I was just starting law school. Gay “T-Dances” on Sunday afternoons were amazing. You clearly never hit the ‘Church Street Beach’. 🏳️🌈 And yes, everybody speaks English these days. Omg. You’re the ones we were glad left. Good times indeed.
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin You must be one of the multihaired freakshows then. Your opinion is meaningless freakshow.
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin whatever you say freakshow.
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin don't worry Toronto will return to 1987 glory sometime.
There's a rainbow in Toronto where the Maritimers are bold. They always get a potfull-but they never get a pot of gold. 🎶
Maritimers are good people. Nice Canadians in contrast with Ontarioans.
In 2024 more people more buildings more crime but far better hospitals
9:25 lol. I am at Westin Harbour Castle at this moment looking at Waterpark place. So much changed.
Hello Gary, Amazing video and quality! We would like to use part of this video for a student documentary at Humber College if you agree. I would like you to know that we will give you credits with the name of your preference. And share with you the final result if you would like. Please let me know if it's okay with you. Have a great week!😃
Sure np Credit Gert Bakker please!
This is an amazing video, hardly no cars on the Gardiner Expressway, few people on the streets and no condo's all around.
Ugh those condos ruined the skyline of Toronto. Way way too much urbanization.
Um, no, they were on the 401 heading east around 427 area.
@@gregcosta6965 Because the zoning laws do not allow density outside certain places, it must be very tall to accommodate demand. I think people would be more mad if you tore up homes in their neighborhood to build medium density than to have high density on major arterioles where there is abundant food, fun and transit.
@@InADarkTavern *** zoning by laws. Canada has tons of space. Toronto ain't Hong Kong where space is limited so you have to build upward. No this is an act of greed. The mayors and city officials are in the backpockets of the corporations( in this case builders of condos and other real estate moguls). What is being done is an urban travesty. Shame on the mayor, the premier and the PM of Canada for allowing the destruction of a once promising city.
@@InADarkTavern Toronto ain't Hong Kong. There is no need to build skyward and fill up the whole city with these ugly monstrosities.
Look how great Yonge Street looked with all the lights. It doesn't have that same vibe at all today.
This brings me back! Thank you for sharing your footage. I was born and raised in the GTA from 1976-1996. I remember going to the Ontario Science Centre several times. Love that place.
Be fascinating to see the pan shots from the CN tower today. The City is all condos.
I’m directing a documentary about a radio station in Toronto in the 80s called CFNY and came across your footage. I’d love to use 6 seconds of it in the film. Would that be possible?
It’s actually a relative of mine that shot it but I’ll see if I can get their blessing on that. Cfny back in Brampton or Queen west? Or both? I remember being in there (Queen st)watching an oasis interview
All good buddy. Credit Gert Bakker if you can please
@@garykuiper5936 Thank you so much! CFNY in Brampton 1977-1990. I can definitely credit Gert Bakker. Thank you!
It is impossible for it to be 1987. You know why? Because by that time scotia plaza would be already present on toronto skyline
No i think you're wrong Scotia plaza was built in 1989.
@@gregcosta6965 no
Wowzers so weird not seeing Skydome and it didn't look like construction even started
It looks to be well underway at 8:58
Wait till you see Toronto back in the 1970s
Quite a different scene these days. Especially around the Eaton Center. Pretty sad really.
It reminds me when me and my friend Gord headed west to Toronto for jobs. Lawyering jobs and doctoring jobs. We didn't gets jobs though so we went to Yonge Street.
Haha Gord. What a Canadian name:))
@@gregcosta6965hahaha
Gas was expensive that’s day. 45 cents! 😂