A walk down Yonge Street, Toronto. 8-27-92

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0;00 - The video starts with a shot of the Toronto Skyline as seen from the Queen Elizabeth Way Highway.
09;00- Drive by the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres where Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was playing.
40;00 - Drive by the Pantages Theatre where the Phantom of the Opera was playing.
1:01;00 - Trumpet Player at the corner of Dundas and Yonge St.
01:10;00 - Linda who is on a quest to buy a souvenir Toronto shot glass is dropped off at 354 Yonge Street where she starts her search. She walks 02:42;00 north to Gerrard where she crosses and walks south to Dundas 07:00;00 where she crosses the street again and walks back up Yonge to a souvenir store pretty much where she started at 356 Yonge Street. There she buys the shot glass. Recorded on 8/27/1992 between 11:50 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. in Toronto Canada.

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@marciapalacios9783 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in the heart of Toronto from 1975 to now. I'm 60 now, and i should miss the good old Toronto. Miss Honest Ed's, Sam the Record Man, yonge Street was so alive. If i can go back to those days.

@kenglass7833 10 месяцев назад

Ahh the Big Slice at Yonge and Gerrard.....really miss that place !! Thanks for the Video.

@78zappaf 6 лет назад

I got to admit, this is the first time I actually saw a whole "home movie" complete from start to finish. So many places I've forgotten. Thank you for filming during this era.

@OakridgeMovie 8 месяцев назад

I think this was the same day I moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson. Thanks for keeping and sharing this!

@cathybober8774 2 года назад

Loved it! thanks. Brought back so many great memories.

@musicus11 4 года назад

Fascinating - like a mini time-capsule! Before Dundas Square - and A&A Records and Sam's were still going strong. I'd started a part-time job at HMV two days before and was there for 16 years! This is how that city looked at that time - thanks for the memories!

@michaelbrewder9508 4 года назад

SAM THE RECORD MAN a division of Schneiderman's Music Hall

@musicus11 4 года назад

@Jacob T. I'm sure the opening was crazy - I wasn't there at that time. I worked part-time on the third floor at HMV between August 1992 and November 2007. In the '90s, it was a great place to work - crazy and fun, but towards the end, the mood had changed dramatically. The store had become a pale reflection of its former self as it tried to hang on by selling posters, books, CD cases - anything at all, as downloading was crushing CD sales. Some great memories though!,

@musicus11 4 года назад

@Jacob T. Yes it was THE new place to go for music at the time - on weekends, you could hardly move on the main floor it was so congested . The entire place was rockin! And I admit as a shy and somewhat introverted young guy, I initially found it pretty overwhelming. And yes, crazy stories - beginning with the gorgeous girl who trained me on cash. She had beautiful blond hair, exquisite makeup and elegant attire, but unknown to me at first, “she” was actually a man. Then there was the dude who urinated in a corner up on the third floor one evening because he didn’t want to leave the store and search for a public washroom. One Valentine’s Day evening when I was at cash I served a well-dressed man buying several expensive box-sets from the rock department one floor below. As soon as I handed him the large bag, one of the security agents (who had been watching us) shouted out to him: “YOU’RE UNDER ARREST FOR FRAUD UNDER $5000.” Apparently he had been caught switching price-tags, putting lower- priced tags on the sets (this was before barcodes.) He initially denied doing it, but then confessed and he was charged. It turned out he was an important up-and coming Bay St lawyer!! Go figure! I could only imagine the phone call he made to his wife or girlfriend that night- “Hold the champagne, honey - I’m at the police station under arrest for fraud!” Yes, some great memories indeed! They were fun times, probably among the best in my life . I often pass by the old store today (it’s a Tokyo Smoke outlet now) and feel sad those days have gone forever. Thanks for your interest!

@mrcanadaoso 8 лет назад

Thank you for posting this tremontarama, as a lifetime resident of Toronto myself, I remember Yonge St here back in 1992, I was in my early teens back then and I used to walk here on Saturdays sometimes with school friends, or family, wow, seeing Yonge and Dundas now its looks different now, not the same without Sam The Record Man, good times it was, lots of memories :)

@hardyboy1959 6 лет назад

I love the snatches of conversation and music and @ 10:04 "... it's never over..." kinda funny. I lived in Toronto from 1978 to 2000 and know that stretch of Yonge well. It has changed a lot now, big condos going up. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. PS, you're actually walking up Yonge, no biggie.

@salvatore5114 5 лет назад

When Toronto looked and felt like a real city!

@korloffkorloff2134 3 года назад

it is a real city even more so now then it was lmao I don't get why old people keep romanticizing the past as if it was better. Toronto was incredibly seedy, dirty and dangerous back then with huge swaths of industrial railway land downtown.

@AmandaTheCrimsonParadox 11 лет назад

Thanks for posting this. I was actually visiting Toronto myself at this time. My parents took me there for my 12 th birthday. Was there on the 26th and left the 27th. It's brought back so many wonderful memories!!!! I've been back several times since but the first time was magic!

@k.s.333 2 года назад

This is how I will always remember Toronto. Around this time I'd just hop on the GO bus and just walk around. Never felt concerned about my safety. Wish I would have brought along a camera and taken pictures. Haven't been back in ages, I think it was 2009.

@davidfreesefan23 4 года назад

This is what Toronto looked like the year the Blue Jays won the World Series.

@shivercanada 4 года назад

I was there! Did you go to that Downtown rally? It's was amazing seeing Dundas and Young blocked and everyone in an great mood high fiving everyone. Good times!

@ckendall67 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, this was shot while the Jays' regular season was still in play, about a month roughly before the postseason.

@at1212b 3 года назад

My parents ran a business from 87 to 2012 at Yonge and Bloor and I went down there and just walked around the city like crazy. Especially down Yonge Street around this time and stopped by all the arcades. What a great time in this city.

@Nottsboy24 4 года назад

Oh my goodness 🙌 this was the year i first visited Toronto, I was so young back then visiting my uncle. It so different now and in 2017 when i was last there. Can't wait to visit this August ☺

@bb3ca201 6 лет назад

OMG the awesome flashbacks!

@justinharvey1355 4 года назад

0:50 Growing up during this period, The Phantom Of The Opera was the scourge of my childhood. I can still very vividly remember a rotation of promotion videos for "Phantom" in Toronto with the grim background voice of the late Graeme Campbell that used to air at random here in the US. Those used to scare the hell out of me as a kid.

@tremontarama 4 года назад

We haven’t been back since. Based on just that one trip I have always thought of Toronto fondly.

@MissEddieBlueKawaiiKrafts 3 года назад

It’s my home town, thank you for this 💖 I have not been home for a long time... don’t know why I needed to see it now but I did.. & I’m so happy it was here 🖤🥀🍃

@TheKIWIRodriguez 10 лет назад

The poster and head shop was downstairs! Yeah, I kept looking for myself.

@thejessesouth 2 года назад

This video is so interesting to me. I was born august 28 1992 my pregnant mothers hobbling around somewhere in toronto probably in north York😜

@Dragondude2525 6 лет назад

God, I was thrown off by the buildings at the south east corner of Yonge and Dundas. When I was a kid my parents never took us that deep downtown, at most we'd go to Bay and Bloor. I can't even imagine what it would look like now without Dundas Square. Didn't even realize that wasn't built until 2002. My earliest vivid memory of that area is from a school trip in 2003, damn, even that was 15 years ago.

@sonnyblack0870 8 лет назад

Well that was an annoying choppy video

@RR-xu5xk Год назад

I was 15 at the time and remember going down for the arcades. Seemed like every 3rd store was an arcade. Instead of shops, Yonge St is full of bums sitting along the sidewalk stinking up your day.

@queenwest2018 2 года назад

Go check out keele and old western rd now!!! It's like a new mini city back in those days scrap yards auto machinery shops run down houses and paint shops.

@C-mac_in_the_6ix 3 года назад

At 10:57 mark, "Toronto so big, you have lot's of skyscrapers" reply from store clerk "oh yeah, we have more Jewish people then you"....????WTF Very fun video to watch. That's when Yonge street had so much character.

@purvisvandongen4258 3 года назад

a much nicer place than what we see today. dundas square looks far better here than now.

@Maxxramus 8 лет назад

thanks for posting! pretty different now there eh?

@lolerserzamma1539 8 лет назад

Pretty same as today if you ask me but now we have condos and mooore condos... and much more condozzzz

@TheIndoNerd 4 года назад

I loved the interaction you had with the souvenir store owner as it really encompassed how people embraced the mecca Toronto was becoming. Have you been back since. There is some footage of two of the major video game arcades that we frequented during the 1990s playing all of the classics

@tremontarama Год назад

We haven't been back yet. Maybe someday. If we go back we'll approach it the same way. We are just like we were 30 years ago.

@CJvsAJPodcast 5 лет назад

More and more as I get nostalgic about the "old" Toronto, I end up looking for videos like this that fit what my head says "those" days were like. If nowadays somebody just recorded the random shit that's in this video, it would seem weird, because EVERYONE records EVERYTHING. But back then, it was a weird, new concept to record daily life. It's now a new, cool time capsule of the time.

@Dragondude2525 6 лет назад

At 7:45, literally 1-2 blocks north of where you were there would have been souvenir stores that are still there to this day.

@Dragondude2525 6 лет назад

Funny how to the right of the Ed Mirvish theatre was an electronics store, and now there's an eb games to the left of it. It's a stretch but still electronics.

@TheBlueyedblond 4 года назад

0.17: I saw that show with Donny Osmond. It was great. Toronto was great, back then....

@Bananz 4 года назад

Wow this is what Toronto looked like in 1992,

@39PSIOnTheDaily 11 лет назад

Great video, except for the snarky remark on "anti-semitic pigs over here". That's not very nice, as the guy said nothing bad about Cleveland at all. This brings back a lot of memories of my childhood. Thanks for posting.

@coolspot18 7 лет назад

The shop owner made a politically incorrect comment ... especially when looking back 25 years later.

@cameranmanner4701 9 лет назад

I played with that blind trumpet player (Randy). Wow awesome to see this video. Was there a problem with the footage as it keeps pausing?

@tremontarama 9 лет назад

+Cameran Manner The camera was on telephoto and shaking violently for the first part of the walk. I thought pausing the video on interesting faces and objects was better than the hard to watch shaky video that was originally shot.

@cameranmanner4701 9 лет назад

+tremontarama Forgot about the lack of the video stabilization back in the day. :) Thanks for sharing your personal footage.

@wHw_Syxx 4 года назад

Nobody with their head down looking at their stupid, fucking phone. I love my Toronto but miss this Toronto even though I was only 4 but loved the 90s growing up!

@ckendall67 5 месяцев назад

People complain about phones today while USING their phones at the same time.

@historybuff333 3 года назад

This is awesome ! how can i reach you to ask a question ?

@michaelbrewder6498 7 лет назад

Toronto was never as bad as NYC Times Square but both seemed to clean up about a year or so post 1992. This reminds me of Times Square just before it became Disneyfied

@ScottSimpson 6 лет назад

So shaky it made me queasy and made my eyeballs hurt. But I watched the whole thing because it's likely I was in that same neighbourhood that day. Nope.