Toronto, Canada 1977
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2022
- Description:
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada and today is considered the financial capital of Canada and is ranked among the top financial centers in the world.
We are in the city’s center, views of vehicles and pedestrians on the road, the lens focuses at the CN Tower, a 553.3 m-high concrete communications and observation tower which is a signature icon of Toronto's skyline and held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure and the world's tallest tower. Around the CN tower a series of skyscrapers made mainly of glass and steel.
A city in motion, groups of friends who are enjoying it and some school children who are obviously having a tour in the sights of the center, accompanied by their teachers. A kiosk and a group of skyscrapers, a fountain and the historic clock tower on Yonge Street.
The bustle in the multicultural city continues.
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Creator's description:
This is the downtown area of Toronto, and you feel rather small here standing beneath the Canadian National Tower, 1800 ft high, and these giant skyscrapers. But actually they are less ugly than I expected -indeed they have a certain attraction. But how do they clean all those windows? If you look you will see cradles lowered from the roof. I must say a window-cleaner here certainly needs a good head for heights.
While we’re here let’s look at the people passing by -a pretty mixed lot, as you see.
-Bonar, Andrew Graham
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Very attractive people back then compared with today
Because they're white
I know I have said it before - you have a wonderful collection of old videos. Thank you for this!
As a Canadian this was a welcome surprise from this channel!
I'd be curious to see if you have any others like this for the Neighboring Province of Manitoba? (my home)
great footage as always!
Cool. I enjoyed your video. Really digging the accompanying music. When I look at these old Toronto videos, it may just be my imagination, but I see a flow of life, more in tune, and somehow, in line. Yes, there was a seedy undercurrent on Yonge St but it was obvious and open. The Emanuel 'shoe shine boy' incident started the change of all that. These days, it seems life downtown is disjointed and encased in a mess of road work, traffic, and congestion.
You forgot to mention A LOT more crime and street people now as well.
That was when Toronto meant something, now its an overcrowded dump full of rude people. 1977 was a bad year here though and it happened on that strip.
And on top of that, there’s lots of homeless people on the streets & sidewalks, complete with lots of tents. Oh, & crime is even higher than back then.
It was the reason they shut down all the sex shops and cleaned up Younge street.
Yes that young show shine boy being murdered was sad. I was a couple years his junior at that time. Really hit home.
My Moms cousin owned the Stollery’s mens store at Yonge and Bloor.
He was an old guy in the mid 1960s, but he got on his hands and knees and played on the kitchen floor with me and my Corgi toys.
I remember that house was a mansion.
yes think i knew your cousin
@@glen6945 I remember Stollery's, I work in the office for Studio 267 down the street. Stollery's was friendly completion. Hated to see Stollery's go, the building look lovely.
That song sounded so familiar. Took me a while to find it. Elton John?
What song is it?
@@jimross3593 __ Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding . Probably the most prog rock thing I have heard from Elton John.
What the bananas is up with Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend"? What a bizarre choice of music to pair with an otherwise feel-good look at Canada's biggest city. Mind you, it was neck-in-neck with Montreal for the title back then.
Once you left downtown area you get into a more normal decent type folks
spadina always the toilet