TORONTO - 1989 "This is all gonna be parkland by 1992"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Some home video of a car trip in Toronto along Lake Shore Blvd. around Coxewll Ave to Leslie, down to Commissioners St. west to Cherry Street, back up to Lake Shore, up the Gardner Expressway to the new Sky Dome. Complete with descriptive narrative!
TORONTO 1989 BC (before condos)
I moved to Toronto by train from Edmonton in '78 and my first night was spent at the Royal York hotel, then the YMCA! I remember the room I got at the Royal York was $30 a night!
Brian Hardy you stayed at the Royal York hotel in 1978 nice you probably met or seen my grandparents they worked there for 30 something years and that's where they met , they retired I believe in 1981
It's amazing how things can change so much !!
Thanks for posting. I miss Knob Hill Farms on Cherry. Used to sit and drink $1.50 bottles in their little luncheon area.
Nice camero your driving.
Wonder if that camaro still on road 🤔.
A few errors, you are not in the beaches you're on lakeshore Avenue.
when i said that in the video, we were literally looking right at the beach! and if you want to get real picky... it's Lake Shore Boulevard not lakeshore Avenue!
@@hardyboy1959 I see
@@hardyboy1959 way to Brian. lakeshore avenue. blasphemy.
I loved visiting Toronto since I was a kid in the 90s.
amazing how the fast food spots are still there
Hi Brian -- Had to come back to this video! As I'd mentioned, I have a family history of CP/Smith Transport and I enjoy seeing the office building where I spent the summers of my teen years! It brought back some great memories for me! Thank you so much for posting this.
Wow@ great video! Thanks for sharing this! I actually have some footage on same location you filmed near Cherry beach... I'll try to upload it and share it! Thanks again
All going to be parkland by 1992. More than 30 years later, almost partially true.
and we're still talking about the Gardiner. Amazing!
WOW that's awesome. So much less density back then!!
Those bleak parking lots are the "good old days" that the anti-development/ anti-condo crowd say they wish would
return.
on just run away and hide from the world in your 60th floor Hong Kong style shoe box.
thanks so much for this video. i'm doing research for a story i'm writing which is set in the late 80s in toronto and this is soo helpful!
let me know if you want more, I shot a lot of video around Toronto starting in April, 1987.
That's awesome, would love to see more!
You're doing a great service to us old timers. I was only a kid in the 80s so I didn't have cameras like some privileged people did.
The more the city changes, the more I yearn for the old, if I'm honest. These new buildings and so called revitalization projects are killing the very soul of this city.
Where these new buildings stand used to be miles upon miles of parking lots. It is for the better.
You know this city is being slowly strangled and suffocated to death by all the new buildings and gentrification. We've reached the capacity with which the city can handle in terms of how many people it can accommodate. People cannot even afford rent anymore because of all the bidding wars.
Signs of the times I guess. Just never thought I'd witness it in my life time. Give it a few more decades and we will be fighting for natural resources like water amongst ourselves like rabid dog.
Hey! Who’s drivin the blue ‘87 IROC-Z?!? Mine was red, and it was stolen from Don Mills/Steeles area in 1990. Wish your sis a happy belated 61st for me!! Keep the videos comin!
That was my bf Howard and it was actually an '85 Camaro.
Regarding the Gardiner replacement (or should that be a supplement?), I suggest constructing precast tunnel sections, inflating buoyancy devices, floating them into position on the lake, and sinking them in-situ.
good job ...og for youtube...thanks
At 6:33 you should make an updated video of today of that area it would be really cool
Cool video. I came across a lot of your videos and am really enjoying them. I was trying to see what kind of convertible you were riding in, at one point I notice the driver was wearing a cool GM Motorsports jacket so my guess is the car was a Camaro? But it didn't sound like a Camaro so maybe it was a Cavalier?
It was an '85 IROC-Z Camero with a 't-top'
Amazing...my old hood. So the The loblaws was opened as a Superstore...that explains why its such an unusually large Loblaws
There was a Loblaws down a block from where that one in that video is. Its a retirement home now while the Superstore is just a regular Loblaws now.
Nice video.
Lol 20 years later still not parklands🤣
nice video👍👍👍
They never did turn that area into parkland lol
In 1989 my dad moved back to Toronto he was originally from Toronto my grandparents worked at the Royal York hotel for 30 something years for me I was born in Winnipeg and in 1993 I moved to Toronto with my dad and in 1998 moved back to Winnipeg:( I wanted to stay but being a 16 year old I wanted my drivers license so I moved back to Winnipeg got my license then asked my dad for money to move back and his answer to me was go get a job hahahaha so I been stuck in Winnipeg ever since 1998 and last time I was in Toronto was in July of 2001 and I went to a Jays game and saw them play the Tigers of July of 2001 and I still have that ticket stub lol , when I lived in Toronto I been to so many Jays games . Great times in that city
Dude, periods and paragraphs. lol
Brian, did you work at CP Transport, formerly Smith Transport, 150 Commissioners Street?
lovesmusic36 yeah;, do we know each other???
My father worked there until 1982 when, while at his desk at work, he passed away from a heart attack. His name was Nat Ginsberg. He was a dispatcher/road supervisor coordinator. I also worked there when I was a teenager in the 1960s. I came across your video by accident, as I like looking at scenes of old Toronto. I was amazed when you were driving along Commissioners and I saw the trucks and the old office building!
I didn't know your dad as I didn't start there until '89. Sorry to hear about his passing away at work, helluva way to go. You might be interested in seeing my two other postings about working at CP...
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Thanks, Brian. I never saw the dock area of CP/Smith Transport. I was always in the office (worked there during the summers in the 1960s). I'd work in various departments. If someone was on vacation, I'd help out wherever. Just seeing the old office building brought back some great memories. Was it in 1992 that the building was demolished? Thanks for posting this video! It was wonderful to come across this and see a special part of my life!
I feel like there was more Park space and more Trees back then..Now it's just a Hollow shell of its Former self..It looked more Fun and Friendly..Now it's all cold and dead and just building after building...It's funny how in 1989 Parkland is still the same..It's more like Wasteland..Now just about 3 years ago or so they just started to revamp it..After all them years.
Biggz Was Here. 33.
That Loblaws is still there
It sure is. They just got rid of that giant sign several years ago.
Always nice to see older TO. Thank you...uhm, This is so bad, it's good. Wobbly camera, (nice floor mats) bad sound (tape cotton over mike) and missing Yonge st. DOH!
Great video. I got a touch of motion sickness at first and threw up.
Okay now. Okay now.
Thanks fellas.
Lol it still looks the same lol