Toronto, Canada 1977

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  • Description:
    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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  • @barrroger1162
    @barrroger1162 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Very attractive people back then compared with today

  • @555ontario
    @555ontario 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @rugosetexture2716
    @rugosetexture2716 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @thesketchydude1315
    @thesketchydude1315 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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!

  • @7425park
    @7425park 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yes think i knew your cousin

  • @donmorfeo8901
    @donmorfeo8901 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @paulmorra4424
      @paulmorra4424 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @c3d266
    @c3d266 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @jimross3593
      @jimross3593 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What song is it?

    • @c3d266
      @c3d266 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @frankjames1955
    @frankjames1955 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @fredrezfield1629
    @fredrezfield1629 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    spadina always the toilet