My corporate apartment at 71 Front Street, Toronto; Construction of the Skydome; View of the city from CN Tower; The Amazing Video Machine at Miracle Foodmart.
This was filmed on April 18th 1989. The Yankees were playing the Jays at Exhibition Stadium the previous night and had an afternoon game the following day. It was the only time they played at that stadium that season. The Jays later moved to the newly built Skydome later that season. I miss the old Toronto before it became overpopulated. It was North Americas best kept secret for a long while!
People didn't want to live downtown then. They were all moving into Mississauga, Pickering, Markham, where the new housing developments were . The downtown was dying and schools were closing. Attitudes changed dramatically, I think it was a generational shift.
Wonderful memories of Front St and area. I worked at 10 Wellington from 1983 until my company sold the building around 2018. Wonderful memories. Thank you for sharing
I'll never forget those hot summer nights walking on Yonge up to Yorkville Ave. Everyone playing music and showing off their cars. What a great time that was. Seeing this just makes me miss it more 😪
@@Skyfoogle No the 80s, wasn't known for its beautiful architecture, but I wouldn't trade my solid and spacious 80s condo for the cheap-looking crap being built today!
@@Skyfoogle The suburban houses being built on the edge of steels and into Markham at the time. There were some interesting architecture in the the 70s that carried over into the 80's. What we think of as ugly 80s stuff is the stuff from the late 70s that they really made cheaply, and ended up looking really ugly. Some of those big blocky building are solid and have large interesting interior spaces, as seen here, compare to the ugly shoe boxes where you can hear people cough in the next apartment or condo
Toronto looks so different. I went to visit the city in 2019 and there's big changes. It turned as my favorite place and I'm residing in US. Toronto. Got Impressed from the Beautiful, friendly people and cleaness environment.
Wow that was a blast from the past, including smoking in any restaurant, the music and seeing the area where future buildings were to be built. The family is marvellous with their New Jersey accent. The kids now are probably 42-44+ Oh my. This was an awesome video, thanks for sharing it! ♥️ 🇨🇦
Yes, the two kids are my nephews ... they both have kids, one in college already! My mom was only 54 in this video, she passed away in 2015. Thanks for watching!
Having recently travelled to the Balkans where smoking in restaurants is allowed or bans are not yet enforced, I got immediate memories of my childhood, and had to eat outside to avoid the smoke. I believe banning smoking indoors was a change for the better.
Remember those days well. Downtown looks like a little village compared to now! We didn't even have Sunday shopping back then, that battle was just ramping up. When I first got here, just before this, I went up in the CN Tower and looked down at the Skydome (today, Rogers Centre) which was just a hole in the ground, hadn't even poured concrete yet, let alone rolled out their turtle mascot "Domer". Thanks!
Dayam!😳 You guys were livin’ like THAT in ‘89?!!😳 Wow! Thank you SO much for sharing this! Was REALLY nice seeing the neighbourhood like this again! St. Lawrence neighbourhood in its prime! I was 12. I know those kids didn’t go to Market Lane!😆
It was so nice to live in Toronto, I'm originally from NJ. I worked in Mississauga but wanted a "cool" apartment in the city! The two little kids are my nephews, now in their 40s ... also from NJ.
Video Machine (at the end of the clip) That boy is the exact same age I was - looking over the Video Rental machine trying to pick out which movie to get. Just seeing that Video Machine logo brought back so many memories.
The first thing I noticed was the cars LOL I was 30 years old in 1989 driving etc. but the cars looked great LOL Now looking back wth? LOL I recognized all the areas you were in amazing how under developed they were compared to now. Thanks for sharing this and jogging my memory as well!
In 1989 Toronto, you were able to board a train to take you across the country, in the greatest scenic route in the world, at any day you desire on a whim.
@@ianstuart5660 No. I said 𝘢𝘯𝘺 day. The current VIA transcontinental schedule departs Toronto only on Wednesdays and Sundays. Daily service from here started in the 1890s and ended 1990/01/14. And it is routed on CNR lines exclusively, missing some sights the original CPR line was famous for.
1989 I was 10 years old and I spent the summer in Toronto at my aunts place and went all over to the CN tower, The Zoo, Science Center, the ROM, Canada's Place and the EX, the island and Maple Leaf Gardens it was a great time that summer and remember much of it.
Wow, amazing video. I was 9-10 years old. Going to the arcades. My parents ran a shop at bay n bloor so I would go down every weekend and then explore the city on my own. Yes, it was simpler, easy times, safe. Gun crimes were unheard of really. This vid really captured the mood and feel of the city. And notice the lack of 'young' ppl?
The 80s were the best of times for me living in T.O . This looks like early Johnny Strides RU-vid video . Ha Ha . I left T.O in the fall of 1989 for a new life in the Great state of Florida and have never looked back . Except for RU-vid videos of the city , WOW have things changed , a lot GOOD and some not so good . I Remember watching the CN tower getting built while in High School at Central Tech ,what a great high school that was .My Auto shop teacher was Mr Pipa . But I have to say the other half of my life living in Florida has been Great . I Think it's time for a HogTown visit .
I was just going into grade 9 the air felt crisp no crime ridden or gun ridden shootouts that we hear almost everyday now, going to school getting the marks and enjoying walks with an aging dog life was grandiose.
You know the jist of why the 80's were greatest? After the 80's, Toronto fell into a depression that we never really came out of. In the 80's, everyone was making money. Life was affordable... and fun.
The 1980s Recession was the worst in Canadian History. Many companies closed down and thousands of citizens were out of work. Canada also had one of the worst Conservative Governments at the time. Mulroney was a disaster!
More “the past was better” crap. You realize you are living in the most prosperous, peaceful, healthy and informative age in HUMAN HISTORY? does that mean nothing to you? People have being doing what you are doing since Moses wore short pants. The past is always better. Even when it wasn’t. When this video was taken, 1989, you realize someone was complaining about how shitty things are and how everything was better in the 1950s? And in the 1950s someone was complaining how awful things are and everything was better in the 1920s. Etc etc.
@@MrGittz We create our reality. Which means that anyone who is lack-oriented and fear-based, will see and live and attract that, no matter what seems to be going on otherwise. Same for those who are abundance, love, and joy-oriented ... they will experience that likened reality no matter what else seems to be going on. My family has always been the former, and still are No matter what, things suck and they never have enough and everything is someone else's fault etc But I look around and things from a positive perspective, are pretty great. We bring with us, what we are within. We see through whatever lens and reality is tinted that way.. It emerges in that correlating manner.. It is basically impossible to see other than however one is oriented within because our RAS filter in the mind will be programmed to perceive whatever, and so can only see that Only when we want better and allow and are open, can this start to change. But it was always there, we just maybe aren't lined up with it to see it. It is too bad ppl are so deep in their programming that they don't know they can change it, and as they do so, things will change automatically and effortlessly 🤷♀️and indeed we can then look back and see a completely different picture, via a different lens
Back then life was good. Not like today. Toronto is too overpopulated and not enough affordable housing and I truly despise the government for all the hardships we currently face. 1989 was truly a beautiful time!
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I wish i was raising my kids during these times rather then today during a fucking pandemic. Plus toronto looked much nicer and less crowded with overpriced condos owned by investors in other country’s. It cost 1million to buy a house today in scarborough lol. Between the pandemic and house prices, life sucks right now lol
TO was a great place, Eaton's Center, Young Street, Bloor West, always something to do. I heard that Eaton's is now gone, pity. I left in March of '90. I now live in the Land Down Under and would never go back to Canada.
This video gave me goosebumps because I remember these times and all the areas and how they were back then and how fun it was. I just want to ask you at the end of the video your all in my area of Mississauga first at Square One and then at the Iona plaza at Mississauga Valley and Central Parkway where the Miracle Mart was then Dominion and now Metro. How did you wind up in Mississauga? Did you live there or just visiting? Also were you from Toronto in general or new to the city?
I'm originally from NJ, I worked in Mississauga but wanted a "cool" apartment in the city! I made so many great friends in Toronto (actually married one, but later divorced!). My office was near SquareOne! :)
@ViaSandee Really cool your from NJ and came to Toronto to live. Glad you met some really good friends and even got married, Sorry to hear about the divorce though. Where was your office in Mississauga? I live right around that Miracle Mart in Mississauga that's in your video and I immediately recognized it so that's why I asked. I used to live around Dufferin and King and Etobicoke on Eastmall and Rathburrn in the early 80's to early 90's but I've lived in Mississauga for 30 years going on 31 this year. This is the city I call home the most. When I moved out here in 92 it was a fresh start and I loved it. Is still love it But I miss the 80's and 90's so much! Things were so much better back then. Even the early 2000's were good but things have really fallen apart in the world the last 15 years or so. I Pray things are good for you and your family though and all the best always! Thank You for replying❤️🙏
You lived in the theatre (71 Front E)? Or did that A/V shop start after? Much safer back then. Won't miss the old North Market though. The new one is taking ages to build. Your building had that Ontario Place/Eaton Centre design aspect to it. Same designer from what I understand, who died recently.
Front street was special The market was special What the hell happened to toronto I moved.to Vancouver 89 Bus cost 150 train.220 I visited.back every year then stop in 2000
what was that cash counter RBC at foodmart, was that the ATM predecessor? When did get ATMs? We were early to that game in Canada. EDIT: ah I see its what RBC called an ATM back then :)
Do these condos still exited? The one your sister lived in??? I loovee the one with the White kitchen gosh i want a house like That im wondering if That building still looks the same
HOLY COW things look sooo different the metro is there now there is a weed shops now haha oh man this makes me want to make a video of thing now to s ee in 30 years how things will change
Back in the day when you go out and buy a VHS tape at Biway/Honest Ed's and break in your $2000 fully loaded shoulder camera. Those cameras were a bit heavy.
Reminds me of the time I went around taking pictures in public right after 9/11 and people asking me to stop and even calling the police because they thought I could be a terrorist taking pictures in preparation for my attack. It's been said that if you let the terrorist change us, they won. Well, they won.
Amazing,we ate.coceau saint jacque..PEOPLE forget that whole area was discoland and singles bar One night me & matt frum enter.downtown julie brown on front,oh life under age
It was relatively quiet, busier on the weekends with the market down the street. Lots of nice, little places to eat in the area. I LOVED living in Toronto!
@@mgtowworldwideself-improve3469y’a, it would be shameful to disparage the guy who kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed little girls. You should really start a PB fan club.
The cover pic' I turned that building into a store called The Brown Bag. Back in the early 90's I rented the 100 ft by100 ft atic' for a $100 per month. In that same building. Shiu pong construction.
My family took me almost every summer to Hamilton in the mid 70s. I really miss the Canadian people from back then, even on up to the late 80s. Here are two of my favourite cross references: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S9UqU4i3Bvs.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OpJXAavGpi4.html
29:39 1989: "Here's your smoothies, kids. Enjoy." "Thanks, grandma, we love you." 2020: What are those decorations in the smoothies? These children will surely both lose an eye! Somebody call the Children's Aid Society! And their grandma is smoking! That's child abuse! Call the police! The mere fact I'm being forced to witness this abuse is itself abuse! Xanax, I need a Xanax! Hypocrisy! (Ok, that very last one refers to Cosby and doesn't belong here. But it still fits somehow, so I'll leave it in.)
That's funny! My mom, blond smoking, started to talk at about 29:39 ... she was born in Czechoslovakia and then sent to Germany after the war. In 1955, she came to the United States. Her accent sounds German, but has a slight dialect (Bavarian). People said she looked like Zsa Zsa Gabor's other sister! Thanks for commenting!
@@ViaSandee Interesting. Thanks! And thanks so much for this fascinating window on the not-so-recent past. I hope the video stays up for future generations to watch.
I Came To Canada with only 5000 Indian Rupees . I had no choice but to be on social assistance the first few years but thank god me and my family members were able to buy our first home in Brampton While we rented our basement to a Tamil Family and two Bangladeshi students to help with the mortgage payment oh man tough times . But Things are getting better many old Canadians are retiring in different countries plenty of opportunities for new Canadians. God bless Canada .
