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- The 1970s was a decade that saw significant change in Toronto. The city experienced a major building boom during this time, most notably the downtown that added the Eaton Centre, office towers and of course the CN Tower to its skyline. This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago.
Better time. Better people and affordable.
Better people? 70's was the epitome of serial killings
The Toronto of my youth! It was AWESOME!! There was palpable optimism in the air. All sorts of shit was getting built. Every year the banks had a competition to see who could build a taller head office. The 401 was widened to12 lanes. The CN Tower was built. Harbourfront was started. Yonge Street was seedy and exciting! I LOVED it!! Bright Lights, Big City!!
It still is awesome and still has bright lights/ big city, but now it is for a younger generation to marvel at! 😊
Corporateria's blunder all by design though...of all the suburbias to amble through, Ton-o-rot's the one where your gaze thereabouts best be locked onto the pavement right before your toes because of its disgustingly revolting appearance coupled to its STUNNING absence of vibe...its endless plummet into hick banality is what's so tellingly queer about its stature
although this attribute of its is spawned throughout the province it lords over, its Edwardian stock is indeed creepily eerie, e.g., their narrow windows conjure imagery of nosey pædo-obsessed family members lurking behind unnecessarily-heavy drapery cloaking sheer mirkiness :brrrRrr: and of all the jaunts this dear continent dishes up, there's NO shaking _that one_ fouling strolls to be paced thereabouts..even lakeside, imagine!
@@bobbbxxx Shit hole now with a negative vibe.
now eroded away by liberalism and immigration
Those that remember those years will tell you those were "the good old days".
When are we going back?
No they weren't
@@saltpeter500I've come to understand that nostalgia has blinded people to the reality
@@walterbrunswick people inherently don't like change. It holds us all back sadly.
M.C.G.A 2030
Back when Canada was Canadian and not Punjabi.
Man i sure miss when we had a country.
lol okay drama queen
we still have a country it's just called india now
Ha. Native born inter generation canadians starting to catch on to the globalist mass immigration scam. There are other global scams as well. Interest times coming. Elites best get to their bunkers i say. As if we cannot dig them out. Better get off planet.
Me too. It was a great country while it lasted.
Ditto. Canada is not a country anymore, it's a giant group of angry bitter little colonies bowing down to Quebec with transfer payments and an absolutely scandalous incompetent prime minister that Only the GTA keeps voting in to bankrupt the nation.
The 3 million population mark included the entire Golden Horseshoe from Oshawa to Hamilton. The city of Metro-Toronto back then had approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The property taxes in Toronto were actually cheaper than they were in Peterborough, Kingston or Guelph.
FYI...(Metro) Toronto had 2 million people in 1971.
That makes sense, I remember as a kid seeing the highway signs on the 401 saying "Toronto - population 1.5 million" back in the late 70's early 80s.
Hard to believe this was roughly 50 years ago. I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like, and will never be again.
Any recommendations? Would love to check them out. RE- " I love watching old movies that were filmed in Toronto back then, gives us a glimpse of what the city used to look and be like."
@@rhymeandreasoning Goin' Down the Road. The gold standard of Canadian film.
@@davidreichert9392 Thank you. I will look for it. Appreciated.
An amazing Era and place... never again.
I miss that city.
I was born the year of 1970 so this was my era as a kid, in Etobicoke. I remember it well. Young street as a young teen was AMAZING! 👍🏼
I remember those 70's days. The homes were old and some are still there. I came to Toronto when Eaton centre started to built it. Good old days.
Bring back the pedestrian mall
Bring back the groovy-ass soundtrack too :)
Toronto was a very immaculate city back in the 70s. There was very little filth or soot. I used to visit Toronto quite a bit in the 70s when the city was just right with both the CN Tower and the 74 story First Canadian Place dominating the city skyline. Toronto was a fun and more affordable city to visit in those days.
The streets were clean but there was soot on a lot of the buildings, like The Royal York Hotel, Union Station and College Park. All those buildings have been cleaned since.
I'm from the West Coast but I recall when it was hard for Hollywood to have Toronto "double" as a US city for movies because it was "too clean"
What a bunch of lies. Having lived in the 70’s it wasn’t filled with soot and filth.
Eventually, those who remember the truth of the past will be gone, and they'll be able to convince the newer generations that "now" is better, and the past was evil and awful.
@@leeluvslife
Yes, great points!
I remember the water slide at Ontario Place. It was made with cement and if you lost your ride mat you where screwed , you get road rash all way down :)
Thought the same thing!
Looks like 45 years ago.. 1976. I don't remember it being dirty or soot covered. The metro area then would have been something like 2.8 million... the city pop hasn't changed much, still under a million in 2022... but the metro area is pushing 5 million Nice footage, sub par fact checking.
The soot comment was over the top.
Toronto now has a population of around 3 million. Metro is around 7 million and the GTA is around 10 million.
@@gregoryian123 Probably someone who hates the fact it was mostly white back then until Trudeau who hated Canadians wanted to punish us and make us a minority in the country our ancestors built.
The City of Toronto population in 2018 was around 3,000,000, which was the population of the entire Metropolitan area back then so it has grown a lot. We can tell this by how much more built up the actually city has become. The GTA population today is around 6.700,000
I was born in Brampton in 1958 but lived in Rexdale . I remember the TD centre being built.. Ontario Place ... The CN tower.. I watched the Sky Crane top it off from my bedroom window.... The Sky Dome... We were there for the " Dome Opener" and we got wet. In 1976, we moved to Muskoka. I never looked back.
Brampton is even better now 😂🎉
@@jayus2033 It's all a zoo ..I still live in Muskoka and avoid Toronto as much as possible.
Good for you. Hopefully Canada one day recovers from the Trudeau family's nightmare that began with Pierre.
Looked way better back then !
The ridiculous amount of parking lots did not look better.
I lived in downtown Toronto at that time and walked around at all times of day and night without fear.
Considering the population of the city is 3 million today, I highly doubt it was 3 million in the 1970s... I think you mean the population of the GTA was 3 million (which is a pretty big difference than just Toronto...)
Back then it wasn't. The 905 cities were still mostly undeveloped.
In 1976, Metro Toronto had a population of 2.7 million.
The GTA is 6,700,000 people today, and was around 3 million back then.
Ton-o-rot 💡💡💡
tellingly that dump's the continent's worst judging by fuckingly miserable bouncers that even menace entertainers their bosses'll have invited to perform for imps posing as revelers thereabouts :brrrRrr:
I worked at Toronto Iron Works at Pape & Eastern Ave., during the 70's and 80's and soot and dirt was easy to find south of Queen Street....north of Queen Street was another story. T.I.W. was located at 629 Eastern Ave & our factory was just west of Canada Metal a lead smelter..yes a LEAD smelter. Speaking of "smelt" on the west side of Canada Metal was a Clarkes Tannery. What saved us was the Colgate Palmolive plant on Carlaw that produced Lilac soap. As one of our old Foreman used to lament.."when the wind blows from the east it smells like a shithouse, when it blows from the northwest it smells like a whorehouse". The entire area is now populated with movie studios, sound stages and pre & post film production companies. All the old TIW buildings are still standing.
We need to bring back pedestrians streets days on select weekends year round.
"Covered in soot and filth"??? 🤣
Now it is covered in drugs, beggars, homeless, gangs, loan sharks, garbage, pot holes & congestion!
It wasn't that bad. 8mm film makes it look old. I saw a 'film' from 1986 (Not sure who would be still using super 8mm film in 1986) and it made everything look old and dirty. It was not that bad. At least you could afford a house there at that time without needing the income of a drug lord. The city then was priced for people within it and not the draw from foreign capital.
If you wanted soot and filth, you crossed the border and visited either Buffalo or went to Cleveland. Both Buffalo and Cleveland were filthy disgusting industrial towns that were declining and deteriorating steadily with very high crime rates.
I first visited in 1975. Very clean, modern. Was very impressed with the Don Valley Parkway !!!!
In those days I'd go out to deliver papers at 5am and come home looking like a coal miner an hour and a half later
I think they mean metro Toronto was 3million
My father was a cop in Toronto in the 70s before moving to Kingston in the late 70s to be a cop there.
My respect to your father. I was with TPS for 32 years.
Living in downtown Toronto since 92. Downtown Toronto was so lite up back then
Notice no graffiti. Some of more recent arrivals in Canada think graffiti is art.
Graffiti was most prominent in 70s and 80s what are you talking about 😂
@@kkjppt5359 Absolutely was here. Witnessed it myself all over trains & some infrastructure. Not just an American problem.
You watched a 90 sec video and think there was no graffiti? Find a brain
@@kkjppt5359 absolutely was lol wow you did not get out much
@@kkjppt5359 oh wow no wall of text im impressed
It wasnt covered in dirt. Rain and snow washed most of it away. It also wasn't crammed tight - you could move around easily.
Time has really changed things
THEN AND NOW
Much better than now
I was born in 1970 in Toronto. It was a great time and place.
Man I miss those days. Long gone now. Much better times for sure.
Hop in my time machine, animal!
Brings back memories. Sitting right up on sniff row at the old Brass Rail.
Born in toronto in 2005 and lived here my whole life. Seeing the CN tower without skyscrapers is wild to me. Everything is so short and nearly unreconisable. So much stuff has been built in just a few decades its wild
I worked in Toronto then at the CIBC Main Branch. It was a an amazing city, clean, Lots of interesting unique stores (it was before chains took over) and it wasn't dangerous to go anywhere in it.
The good old days
Woodbine Beach looks so clean on that picture 😱
It looked more hopeful back then.
It was easy to find a place to live, for rent signs were all over, rooms, apartments for very reasonable cost.
We can’t afford a vacation to India, but thanks to out of control immigration. We can now visit Toronto, same difference 🤔.
Go to North Pole and live there or better return to Amsterdam where your roots are.
'Sooner or late were going to hump you' (c) Russel Peters
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Wow, your inside voice came out in a racist kinda way.
@@rickbaker8188 Sorry if truth hurts. Truth and racism are not the same fyi
I remember getting on the lift at the Ex, smoking a joint on the way to the other side. Good times 😊
That’s when I tore it up down there and until not to long ago. What a city. In 1970 I saw, J Winters, Humble Pie, J Carrey was in bars around then, they said some crazy sob was rippin it up here. SCtv, E John, The best era, I think.
Loved Toronto then. Very free city and kinda affordable not like now.
Actually there were dreary parking lots dominating the harbourfront area. So glad they are gone.
How did we come from this visionary place which people wanted to visit to where we are today, a gridlocked, overpriced, gang ridden, drug infested shopping mall?.... When I first moved to Canada in 2000 TO was a great, safe & interesting place to have fun, now it is a place people grudgingly commute to if they have no other option!
It'll get worse trust me.
What nonsense. Toronto is now the fastest growing city in North America and one of the safest. I visit almost every year and it keeps getting better and better.
Perhaps you have become jaded; it is still a great city that people want to visit which is why Toronto gets more tourism annually than any other Canadian city. "Drug infested shopping mall"? Really?
Toronto doesn’t have half the crime that most USA and Latin American cities suffer from. Despite some violent incidences on its subway lines, Toronto is still one of the safest major cities in the Western Hemisphere.
@@r.pres.4121 Most of the people who say things like this don't even live in Toronto.
It was a great city with great people and NOW nothing like the 70s
(1) Sort of weird that in 2020 you use an image clearly from 1978 at the earliest and place text on it reading: "This is what Toronto looked like 50 years ago." It was 42 or less. (Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower, completed 1979, is clearly visible.)
(2) I can't believe how lonely and isolated the Gooderham Building was. Berczy Park behind it was just a forlorn dirt triangle, dead flat and almost literally as featureless as parts of the Moon. Not even a weed is discernible.
Paradise compared with today
I'll take a little soot over what we have now.
I bussed tables at Egerton's (pub close to Ryerson U) in the summer of 75 making $2.25 an hour plus tips and free bowl of chili every shift. Good times!
Stats in your videos, Toronto's present downtown skyline is a graphical represention of the 1%,but everywhere else outward,is poor!
Lighthouse at Ontario. Guess Who at the CNE for free!! Born there, grew up there. Home my parents bought for $42,000 now valued north of a million. Jiminy Hendrix at MLG!!
My late father worked there from 74 to 78.. thats y there is connection
the only thing that bothers me is the sea of parking lots. Cant imagine all the beautiful buildings that were torn for an empty piece of lot
They were mostly rail yards and outdated factorys that were torn down for parking lots .
back when Canada was a real country
That time 70s,80 and 90s were amazing incredible. No Internet, no mobile and the life was amazing. Yes it was real country
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Globalist shit hole now, repopulated by the overflow population of the 3rd world, brought here by traitor politicians and their globalist money people.
Up to that time prosperity to majority of people was visible, but then happen...
Im curious, do well people know about the CN tower in foreign countries?
Toronto politicians at the time were fixated on Toronto becoming a 'World class City', thinking the CN Tower would help them get there and put Toronto on the map.
Some FM Radio stations at the time would incessantly spout 'Toronto the Good.' 'Toronto the Good,' morning, afternoon and night. Meaning (I'm assuming ), you could walk the streets at night and not get mugged or murdered, like in those bad American cities. However, as critic Henry Morgan said in response to those sanctimonious ads, "Sure, you can walk the streets after dark, but where would you go?"
I went to see a play at CAA Theatre recently, as we left the Yonge-Bloor subway station we had to avoid a violent brawl between three people. After the play my wife wanted to walk along Yonge Street, but it was dirty and stank and there was a naked man wearing a bedsheet half-covered in foam; this was all during the daytime!
Nicer and safer then, not so much now…
uhhhh wat lmao
@@korloffkorloff2134 🤡🤡
@@clearlynotwoke4929before Columbus bandit landed
The 70s had more violent crime than now. That's pretty much the trend for all major cities across North America. Toronto for the most part has always been safe.
@@jumbothompson that is totally untrue and the government statistics refutes your lie. All major western cities have seen crime increase due to third world immigration into once safe homogeneous countries!
Soot and Filth? Think of how bad it must have been when homes used coal for heating and the steam powered trains just south of Front Street. Also the stink of cattle at St. Clair and Keele. I knew a guy who remembers that- He said that you could smell it on Roncesvalles when the wind was right.
@@Moxy770 Yes, there were several and there still are some on Glen Scarlett road and Gunns road Plus a plant that processes cow hides. I had to go there for work and I stunk horribly for two days. At the northwest corner of St Clair and Keele. I first came to Toronto in 1989 and the sheds and corrals were there at the southwest corner but that's all gone now.
@@Moxy770 I had to go that plant to inspect the boiler. I went in the morning and called my boss and said I had to go home and take a shower. He said, "You went to the rendering plant didn't you? Take the rest of the day off." The stink was unreal. Next door is Universal Drum (still there) they recondition used 55 gallon drums, It is a Charles Dickens industrial hell! So glad I don't have to go there anymore.
Beautiful place before the 3rd world showed up
Actually very clean back then . No garbage and no homeless...
Wasn't that "dirty" as per ..
TRUE GRIT!👍🏽💯
Moved here from Montreal, 1979.
Yep. Toronto can in part thank the PQ for its huge growth during that time.
Luv this
Wait. Wasn't that Ratso Rizzo walking there? 😊
I remember...
Can't find any outdoor parking lots now...all converted to condos
I miss all the parking.
It's such a cesspool now. Expensive-Mediocrity personified too. Lived in city since '98 or '79 if you count east burbs after being shipped over as a youngster from the UK. Going back to the homeland is the plan.
I wanna go back, too. They keep telling us Canadians to go back to where we came from. Happily.
And then something happened in the 80's... Can't quite put my finger on it..
😮
Someone happened.
@@leeluvslife yup
Now Toronto is part of India.😂
RIP Canadian culture
3 million in 1970?
Back before every building that gave the city character was demolished in favour of some bland condo building.
You see those people boarding a bus at the beginning of the clip? It looks nice and quick and easy. But in reality you might have stopped at a bus stop for five minutes or so because bus drivers used to sell tickets and sometimes people might fumble around looking for money in their pockets or purse or ask a friend for change so they could buy a strip of tickets. A bus ride that takes 15 minutes today might have taken 25 minutes then. Also, because people knew that bus drivers used to carry money you'd sometimes hear reports of them getting beaten up and robbed. The trains used to be red, the lights would sometimes go out for a second or two and then come back on, and they had windows that you could open as you rode through the tunnels. On the weekend the trains were shortened to four cars instead of the usual six, making it entirely possible to miss a train even though you were standing on the platform. If you didn't know about this and were standing at either end sometimes you had to run for it. Vintage TTC.
I think smoking was allowed on buses into the early 70s.
@@monicapushkin3274 Maybe, I just don't remember it. Not on the vehicles themselves although people used to smoke on the subway platforms, maybe up until the eighties or nineties. Even then I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure it was finished by the year 2000.
I remember those red trains growing up, and those windows you could open and close. The draft was so needed during hot summer days. I also remember rush hour was from 7 to 9 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. Outside of those hours, travelling around the city was a breeze. Not any more. “Rush hour” starts at 6 am and ends at around 9 or 10 pm on weekdays.
No crime....wonder why
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I arrive vancouver then then...
We used to be a proper country, with proper citizens.
They're all gone now, only to be replaced by an assortment of raving mental patients.
Bit like the UK that's why I moved to Spain
@@tarotbyamber7233UK is full of East European Untermensh and Muslims
Queens Park & Ottawa = Political Asylum.
Not enough money in the world you could give me to live in Toronto.
Look at all white people! Good old days.
Hahaha go back into the woodwork, we don't want to hear your crap.
Gritty…but much more live-able than today’s 💩 hole GTA
Back when it was actually affordable 🙄
2024 the population is over 3 million GTA 6.7 million
Toronto was way better in the 70s.
The Eaton Centres destroyed the downtown cores of all the major cities in Canada.
Then Eatons went bankrupt.
"Toronto the good" is ,known as the Toilet now.
Better people and better city back then.
when the political climate in montreal looked sketchy so business and educated people moved there en masse. maurice duplessis is the father of torontos economic growth
"covered in soot"
Hilarious. I was there. Ummmm, no it wasn't. But the MASSIVE parking lots downtown? Yes.
Back when Canada was the real deal.
Everyone was white
So much for the myth that Canada was always multicultural lol.
@@erics9754 what myth? No one thinks it was ALWAYS multi cultural. Learn some history.
@@ceer9141 Many do and I know my history. Why would you assume other wise?
@@erics9754 you clearly don't lmao. Canada has always been multicultural. It's early beginnings it was people from scotland, ireland, france and england. Then we had africans and chinese people bulding the railroads in the 1800's followed by japanese people coming here etc.
LOL! Umm, 'white' looking people speak different languages and have different cultures and are from different countries, just like people of color. And not all 'white' looking people are Caucasian, if that's what you mean by white. I grew up in Toronto in the early 80"s and Toronto was indeed ethnically diverse...
As a Canadian my only visit to Toronto was in 1976 and I have never had any inclination to go back. Give me the never ending boreal forests, lakes, rivers and towns under 10,000 in population. I don’t need the traffic, crime and crowded everything that cities like Toronto have to offer.
Amazing how the name Trudeau can screw things up.
Leave it to blogTO to spout complete rubbish.
Guys, which Home Depot has some orange buckets available? The tears in these comments must be collected. Glory to Madame Chow! $500m to Zelensky's coffer at once! ~~TrudeauForever~~
Wow.. it looked shitt# back then too.
Looks like new York
Yurop.
And today toronto is a total shit hole
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And now Toronto is a shit hole