The Toronto of the mid sixty’s when I arrived as a 23 year old ready to take on the world is a very distant memory both with fondness and sometime better forgotten. First, staying at the YMCA on Collage and walking over to Eatons for my first job. Being from Ballymena a job at Eatons was a guarantee, just to get you started. Then myself and another YMCA arrival from the UK rented an apartment at Yonge and Davisville, obtaining a job with better prospects and the rest is history. Toronto even into the late 1980s is gone. Very expensive to live there now and crime has gone through the roof. You can’t read the Star on the internet now, without a shooting or other crime being committed within the great City. I haven’t lived there since 1999, most of the friends have become ships in the night at sea, drifting away, passed on or nearing the end of their run. Yes, think of some of them, particularly the early group who arrived from where ever as young immigrants, or Toronto born people trying to make their way in life with their young families. Swallowed up by time and life.Yes, often sit here of an evening watch these videos and reminiscing about the good old days that outweighed the not so good, which you don’t dwell about in any case. I do miss the Jewish Deli food 5hat only Toronto can provide, or shopping at Canadian Tire, and the subway, which is second to none. How lucky you are in Toronto that Nathan Phillips had the foresight to build it. It’s massive now of course. I don’t miss the winters and the snow one little bit thank you. The two things on my last to do list is take the train during the Spring/Summer/Fall from Vancouver to Banff and order a cond beef on Rye with chips and coke, at a good Jewish Deli at Yonge and Steels or somewhere, and perhaps find an old friend from the early years for a chat, before 5he final curtain. Like the person singing the song Carrickfergus, I need to find me a handy boatman as too much water between Australia and Canada.
the twin towers made new Yorks's skyline unique. after they were gone the skyline is boring that freedom tower doesn't stand proud it just there doesn't stand out amongst the other building's it's sad looking and sorry looking
This is not accurate…… the buildings that were shown in 1906 were standing during the 1855 painting as well as 1870 painting….. those tall buildings are antiquitech architecture built by a civilization way more advanced than us. They’ve been here for hundreds of years
you don't miss something until it's gone the Twin towers made New York special set it apart from any other city. the towers were unique now it looks at it it's like any other city nothing special. freedom tower a single weak structure. that we are supposed to be proud of give me a break nice video I enjoyed seeing the changes or time
Photography has been around since the early 1800s.. I feel like the reason there are only illustrations of what the NYC cityscape looked like in the 1800s is because that's not really what it looked like. How was somebody able to capture what the first 2 images looked like in the form of an illustration? They spent like 10 hours in a hot air balloon drawing all those tiny buildings instead of just taking a photograph of it? Does that make sense?
The first image of the future features the rebuilt World Trade Center. One WTC was not done yet at the time of this video but is done now. It's a nice building. I didn't like it very much until I saw it in person. Two WTC is on hold. I think it look cool and hope it gets built.
