This isnt the Toronto of today.. 90's was the last decade that this city was still wholesome. Now its daily shootings, overburdened social systems, and ghetto culture complete with crappy attitudes. A damn shame..
@@admiraltamalak7559 facts trigger you, Little Fella? google ANY major city, ANY violent crime, followed by suspect.. select images... Tell me, what should we like?
@@admiraltamalak7559 cat got your tongue, Princess? "In the late 1980s, gangs in Toronto were becoming increasingly violent. This coincided with the arrival of crack cocaine in the city, which caused more gun violence to occur in low-income neighborhoods.[38[41] In 1991, Toronto experienced its most violent year with 89 murders (that murder tally was surpassed in 2018), 16 of which were linked to drug wars involving rival gangs.[38][42]" All this whilst our media pushed NWA, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and the like... until it became mainstream for the low lq to consume and embrace.
@@theworkethic Go sit around some benches in the subway with four people and take life slow. See if you're allowed to hang out, or if guards / surveillance start circling you expecting you to speed up.
There was almost nothing better about Toronto back then lol. It had a lot less of just about everything, besides crime which was twice as high in the 90s as it is now. I think you are just suffering from nostalgia.
Toronto was very good 2000-2015 this was the prime of toronto. When they won the battle of canada's number 1 elite city against Montreal & Vancouver But it had too much sucess, it became like new york/los angeles/san francisco too much elite. Everyone want to live there. So the cost of living is insane And this cost of living is 100 times more painful when you have 5 month of freezing winter. And 2 month of non freezing but very cold weather 😂 At least if it was Miami or Los Angeles. You be like at least i am near the beach. I can chill in the pool all year. The weather is good all year long. But this is not the case 😂 Toronto has more or less same rent prices as Los Angeles and honolulu hawaii. Its way more expensive then Miami or any florida cities. Yet we are freezing half the year 😂 And our beaches are a joke. You can only enjoy it 3 months a year. Lot of spots are dirty. And the beach often have a very strong smell of piss and weird smelly thing. Cause too much people go there. And i guess hundreds of people are peeing there daily behind trees or bushes at night. Which cause that weird smell 😂
@@mathewvanostin7118 your wrong. Toronto in the 80s and 90s was the best. City still had its soul. Crime rate isn't everything. New York was way better back them too even with higher crime rate. Now the crime is done by the government. Toronto is just a libtard hell hole now.
It's great to see what Toronto looked like pre-condos and unaffordable housing everywhere (ironic combo), I remember the garden thing at new city hall vividly, thanks for this!
@@mitismee not at all. What is beautiful? Overpriced, small sized, high raised condos.one beside another. You can shake hand of your next building neighbour. Skyscrapers covering the sky and the sun.
@@gregcosta6965 no Melvin Douglas Lastman was a Canadian businessman and politician who served as the third mayor of North York from 1973 to 1997 and 62nd mayor of Toronto from 1998 to 2003. He was the first person to serve as mayor of Toronto following the 1998 amalgamation of Metro Toronto and its six constituent municipalities. The amalgamation screwed up everything. Trudeau finished the job with his importation of mass mediocrity.
I live in the condo right beside the cn tower built in 2002. Like i look out my window and see the cn tower. And its heartbreaking to see this area being burned to the ground with condos. And i feel guilty even living in one :(
It’s a very youthful looking city in that it has yet to see the massive changes that will forever change its skyline. Definitely an awesome video and thank you for sharing!
I’ve been living in Toronto for 16 years and it brought tears into my eyes even though I’ve never been through that era. Seeing the old life which is much happier and better and realized that we will never get back makes everyone sad, but we can still treasure the good memories we had and create a new one with our kind heart and effort :)
Kind heart and effort? haha that's a good one. Everybody is ready to bite each other's head off. Contemporary city living in the 21st century. Anger and misery the new way of life.
We had very early day cell phones and internet. The internet came out in the 80s, but it was slow and not very common at all like today. People were still on their home phone all the time though for hook-ups and other things. I remember my mom would be on our house phone for hours when I was a kid in the 90s and plenty of cable TV and early video games. But we also got a lot of fresh air.
I miss Honest Ed's. My mom would take me there all the time when I was little. Bathurst and Bloor just isn't the same anymore now that it's gone. So sad 😞
@Roscoe & Chance This video is from the ‘80s. Notice that the SkyDome (1989), and Scotia Plaza (1988), are yet to be built. In fact, the Dome, whose construction began in 1986, shows no signs of being underway; that would indicate that this footage is from the early or mid-‘80s.
@Blank Name Actually dummy, it was Trudeau Sr who made "us" prosperous only for Mulruney for fcuk it up with trickle down economics and end the 80's with one of the worst economic recessions of the 20th century.
Aaaaaand I’m crying now. To think I could have been in the prime of my adulthood during this video instead of wasting these past two years. Oh how I wish.
@@neilwhitaker6284 Nothing shameful about that, better to be honest with your feelings. I was born in 1996 so this is quite foreign to me but the remnants of this era are what I grew up with and long for once again.
@@AlexOmiotek thanks man I was being a little tongue and cheek. That's really cool you respect and admire the past. Not everybody of course but a lot of young people (your age down to High School age) seem to be waking up. I have a lot of hope for your generation.
A great reminder of how that period offered more affordable, accessible and easy things to enjoy here! Nostalgia is fun, but I've been inspired now to see how many of these places and opportunities remain, especially as Covid restrictions loosen. Going to have to venture out and rediscover Toronto!
Housing wasn't "affordable" back then. Massive housing crash in the late 80s and 1990 was on the cusp of a long deep recession. Lots of people lost everything due to housing speculation. Hopefully this doesn't happen again, but i fear it will as many of the ingredients of that disaster are alive and well in today's Toronto
@@neilwhitaker6284 You got it!! 🎶🏆🎉 You're a double blue Torontonian, through and through! "Romantic Traffic" by The Spoons, the '80's video featuring clips filmed on the T.T.C. (Toronto Transit Commission) subway.
@@dustymiller65 When people like you have to repeat your comments everywhere, we know that what your sellin' is bullshit! Things WERE better back then. It's not nostalgia.
Excellent! While I'm from the old Toronto, I'm new here on your vlog. I will watch as many as I can. One place I used to go, a long time ago, was Allen Gardens for a stroll through the greenhouses and picnic in the Park.
For me, I think Toronto had its heyday from the 1950s to 1970s, and even the 1990s and 1990s were ok. Best of all, it was still affordable back then even if it was a bit more gritty and rough around the edges. I love watching old movies shot in Toronto from those bygone eras.
@@Shamsithaca Until about 1970 Montreal was the banking service centre of Canada and where the major stock market was located. Toronto was a working class city also called "Hogtown" because of all the meat packing plants there. After about 1970 the banks and stock market moved to Toronto from Montreal and the makeup of the city started to slowly change. When this video is made in 1990 Toronto was a clean city. I think what the poster you are asking a question to is that many areas like Queen St. for example where Much Music and City TV are were not gentrified in say the early 1980s. There was a fashion and textile industry there, very few chain stores. I think it was better then and it has lost its character but it was "grittier", less corporate. edit: from my memories which start in earnest in the early 1980s, Toronto was a safe, orderly and clean city for the most part but in the early 80s it was "gritty", more working class in many areas and when I left in 2011 it was mostly white collar service industry. Much more capital, small boutique shops were cleaned up and renovated or replaced by chain stores. That sort of thing.
You are correct. I said that in another response above. The real heydays of Toronto( or Toronnuh) were in the time frame you discussed. Especially the 1960s what a time that must have been in Toronto. The Leafs were awesome.
Toronto in The 90s as a kid growing up was fun..Remember there was so much to do and see..Now it's just all business..Condos & Park Space..No Places to have fun or really take your family anymore. Biggz Was Here. 33.
Without social intervention, every big city just becomes a museum and home to the ultra rich. Canada sold out to foreign buyers decades ago and this is the result now.
I went back to Toronto after 20 something years couldn't recognize anything except that skinny building at 1:50 and the CN tower incredible how it changed.
This is a great and very nostalgic video. I was born in Toronto in 1987 and I swear @5:54 of the video the little boy in blue is me at 3 or 4 years old at Ontario place watching the show. Unfortunately the video quality back then sucks so it's hard to tell. But this is still an interesting watch since there wasn't very many videos back then except some my dad used to take on his big cam recorder back then.
this is truly a time machine that bring us back the pre-Condo and pre skyscraper era... so empty and free of chaotic... the old times as always intrigue me, 1990 I was only 6years old... hmmm interested to do a same documentary but with modern footage hahaha
Toronto was an amazing city to live in I’d say from the late 1960’s to the early 90’s. I moved in 1984. I miss the old Toronno. If you’re not dropping the last T then you’re not a Torontonian. Cheers!!!
pronounced "Turrahnuh" for anybody not Canadian here. Like he pronounces it in this funny video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2WRoZA3RXI4.html
for some reason when looking at this, I think back to some of what my now deceased relatives and family friends were doing in the city back then in their day to day lives before they left this world, was 1990 that far back? thirty 30 years it doesnt seem that long ago yet it was, the essence of the city is still the same now, hah look at that - wonderland, remember those summers? hah my mom used to dress like this back when she worked downtown, what a nice time, I wish I could go back, the world seems a little colder now than then, a little more grey today and less bright, I will retain my memories of this bygone era in my mind and heart
@@craig221 🤔 racism. Nice. Felt good. Well don't blame me for not being a provider, protector, and supporter to your lovely wife so she can kick monkey butt and let you know we can't afford kids cuz you're still mama's boy.
@@craig221 lol. Says a man who chose van life over being a provider, protector and supporter of his family. Ever thought why migration is required. Because you're too mama's boy not to have enough children since you can't afford them. Blame others for you own failures.
I totally miss the Toronto of yesterday. Going down Yonge street was always fun. Maple Leaf Gardens was a great place to be, whether it was for Hockey or Concerts. And tripping out in the planatarium for the Lazer Rock shows.. Mmhm 🤘
I lived in the Yonge & Eglinton area from 1976 to 1995. Back then, the neighbourhood was not as upscale as it seems to be now. Suffice it to say that at the corner of Yonge & Orchard View Blvd, there used to be a large dry-cleaning plant where the clothes were actually cleaned on the premises. Nowadays, the same site is an office building. The site of the Rose & Crown pub in the same area was, up to the late 1970s, a Funeral Parlor! The Yonge/Eglinton area was more livable and less hectic. There were no major construction projects going on between 1976 to 1995. Nowadays, the area is unrecognizable to me on RU-vid videos. I was shocked when I first saw those SUPER TALL skyscrapers (or condos?) in the neighbourhood. They seem so out of place! Considering all the negative comments about present-day Toronto on RU-vid videos, I consider myself very lucky to have lived there from 1976 to 1995.
I grew up in this area and now live on Duplex just a stone's throw from the station. Our view used to show the whole east end and the lake. In the last eight years, that view has completely been obscured by a platoon of condo towers. We can only see north now and there's not much to see that way. It won't be too long before we can't seen anything but glass condos. We are on the 29th storey!
Lived in Toronto from '84 to '88. Had a townhouse on Pacific Avenue close to High Park. Office was located downtown on Yonge Street right across from the Eaton Centre. Fun times during that era.
I can only watch a little at at time, it is too depressing thinking how much we have lost and how far we have fallen. I left Ontario for good last year, grew up there but will never return. In the spring of 1991 we did a big project on Toronto for Geography, 2 day field trip observing the different neighbourhoods. I didn't know then what was going to happen to us, I suppose its that innocence and naivety that is lost that I wish I could get back.
@@CA-ly7my Now you are lying. If you were genuine asking a question you wouldn't have written "your (sic) being dramatic". You are trying to make a point and debate me. Given you are too young to remember those days I have no interest in debating you and given your lack of manners and rudeness, conversing with you.
I loved growing up in Toronto in the 90's. It's just sad to see that it has become a cesspool of condos and unaffordability. Pretty much everything iconic with the exception of the CN Tower and Skydome are gone, and they even tried to get rid of the Skydome too. Thankfully they are choosing to renovate it instead. Memories of my youth and teen years are literally the only thing that keeps me attached to this city because it's definitely not the same.
Also born in the same year. While I wish to relive the Toronto of the 2000s during our childhoods, the TO of the 80s/90s is a definite second choice for me.
@@1234canadianguy 80s and 90s were a blast guys, and the diversity of music was awesome then too: hip hop, dance, pop, country, rock, metal, house, etc. Amazing times
I miss the '90's. People are socializing without social media. There playing games, laughing having fun. Walking upright down the street and not hunched over staring into a phone being ignorant. I miss the '90's. Great times
During those years No traffic on route, 5 minutes take 5 minutes, nowadays 5 minutes = 50 minutes. That much horrible situation. Full-size winter , so beautiful days , So much Peace. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠
@@djvelocity Before media, movies, and television shoved mediocrity down our throats, destroyed the middle class alongside greedy politicians and flooded our city with a criminal element en masse. The internet will be what saves us.🍺
It's almost sad to see this because this was the last decade that Toronto was really a "nice" place to live. It was such a relaxing and easy going city, even with all the people and traffic, it still was a pleasant place to be. Now its a nightmare and I can't even stand to visit it anymore, even though I spent most of my life in the GTA.
I left in 2011 could see the writing on the wall through about 2007-10. I could see the changes right before my eyes. Left Ontario last year. I understand you, all the best.
Pretty interesting seeing hardly any skyscrapers in Toronto in this footage kinda reminds me of how Mississauga is now where there’s some skyscrapers but it’s mainly smaller buildings
