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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Raw footage of Queen Street West in Toronto, spring 1986. Natural street sound. Back when the neighbourhood was still funky, before gentrification. Released into the public domain. If you use it in another production just give me a credit, thanks. Everyone else - enjoy the show!
Thanks for the post. Brings back a lot of memories. Bakka, silver snail, dragon lady . Many Saturday s spent going to each to buy my comics
Edward's Books, Silver Snail, Bakka, Dragon Lady, Pages Book Store... all within a few blocks of each other. Plus record stores, plus live music venues, plus clothing shops, restaurants and more. What a stretch of arts and culture. Was so lucky to experience it!
Thanks for uploading. Amazing quality video for the time. Brings back so many memory's of a great Toronto.
Every year that goes by, chips away more and more of Toronto's character and soul.
I remember so many of these stores.. THAT WAS QUEEN ST W at it's best. I loved About books! The Riv and The Bamboo... Classic.
Lara Brooks: that reminds me, The Rivoli had about the BEST coffee I ever tasted....don't know what blend, but I think they ground the beans for every order....
Used to shop on Queen West back in the late 80’s. I would spend ages in About books, and in the crystal shop called Zephyr. Great to see scenes of old Queen West. Thanks for posting!
Same! Did you go to the Snow Lion too 😊
I miss the silver jewelry carts , there was one woman who hand made earrings with coloured stones. They were so pretty and unique.
1986! Canada was so amazing back then. I miss it 💔
And Queen street was awesome.
Yes. The way I look at it, all the various aspects of Canadian life and society - and I could name a hundred - peaked at different times. But in my view they all peaked between 1980 and 2005. If I had to pick a single year as the overall peak, it would be very difficult. But I daresay it might be about 1998. I wonder what others would say.
@@dixonpinfold2582I'd say all of that is arbitrary and strange.
The good old days!! Thanks for posting!!
I got the hell out in 2008 don't even want to fly over it now the city i grew up in and loved.
Great time capsule of Queen St. W! Miss the used the bookstores.
It's not every day I get to see casually-shot footage from the 1980s.
It's a bit surreal for sure.
I wish I had a time machine.
Before much music moved to 299. The city was so exciting back then.
How so? Not challenging, just curious.
I spent my 20's, 1991-1998 living and working in a rockbar called 'The Gasworks'. I had so much fun hanging on Queen st. and at 'The Bovine Sex Club'. I go back occasionally but find Toronto a very aggressive/violent city now.
Everyone now-a-days are rent and mortgage broke. No one has disposable income to go out and spend on the city.
Amazing! I still miss Bakka and that amazing 2nd hand bookshop
@@keithjohnston6861 There were cell phones in 1986; there was jet exhaust from the 1960s onwards.
I was waiting for Silver Snail and you did not disappoint
Lot of fun drunk nights, especially upstairs at the Bev. The area ended I think when City TV relocated there from Queen St. East.
Bakka, Dragon lady, Silver Snails and Active Surplus were my go to stores on sat afternoon.
I swear in the shot looking west 1:40 you can see the green and orange sign of May's deli. I'm convinced that it was Mc.D's, Starbucks, Gap that signaled the end of the Queen W. That I remember. Freakshow then to D.C. for day olds and coffee.
I used to go down to Bakka on the weekends to buy Dr. Who books. I met Douglas Adams there. Good times.
Thanks for posting. I was down there a lot from the late 70s onward. Other than the retail landscape, the buildings along there are pretty much the same. I recall getting a little robot from Bakka in 1979 or ‘80. Had it for 20 years-anyone know where it is?
Hello Dana Lee,
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. 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!😃
Twinkle toes Comrags Fab was my favourite store cool clubs got shoe Rivoli I still drop by Peter Pan still there. Great memories. Queen St was like the centre of the universe back then Very different today.
We would love to do a high quality transfer of the tape.
My old hood! And look, nobody is looking at their phone -- they are looking in the shop windows!
Toronto is dead now, it's Just Sushi , Asian foods , Indian Foods, Condos , Congestion, No smile, That's it.
Thats Incredible Hulk 321 in the window of Silver Snail. and Conan #184.
Jaywalking on queen, that's entertainment.
I remember back then in Toronto even in the nineties not one hijab-wearing woman it was great such a clean City back then now it looks like the slums of Somalia
Thanks for being full of shit! How are these hijab affecting your life?
Maybe mm 12 is expressing feminist solidarity with Muslim sisters. You can't get much more patriarchally oppressive than making women cover up. You sound anti-woman. And thanks for your potty mouth.
seriously? your sound like a dork bigot
its like American apparel
This brings back lots of memories, I too spent many lunch hours at About Books. A Queen Street lost forever.
Thanks for posting. Miss Bakka and the Bamboo. And I recall a large bar across from The Shoe called Garbo's.
Yup , no soap or deodorant in Toronto these days..the tube and busses full of you know..all stinky now...