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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2024
- Heartbreaking news that the Ontario Science Centre has closed permanently. Here is a short film from the early days, narrated by Bert Devitt.
Retrontario’s primary mission is the preservation, research and exhibition of rare videotape recordings (1970s to 1990s) recorded off of any and all Ontario (and surrounding area) TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. We also hope to create an ongoing oral history of this content through comments left below the videos. Please add to this evolving history, if you know more information pertaining to the clips, fondly remember them or have a modern thought all comments are welcome! For more information on how to help in our mission please visit us at: www.retrontario...
I am floored by the news. The Ontario Science Center was THE coolest place to go as a kid, and as an adult. Good times, will be missed.
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
Field Trips to Science Center in the late 80s, early 90s was the best time!
Absolutely tragic loss
It was overrated to begin with
Didnt age well and wasting space
culturally trapped by the essence of pre social media. Good riddance
@@indolestic_rhoze my only issue was the price. The place rocked!
@@indolestic_rhoze "Culturally trapped by the essence of pre social media" Nothing like a 16 year old wannabe intellectual trying to sound like 18 year old wannabe intellectual 😂
ur stuck in the past
grow up loser
say goodbye to ur memories. cherish them
but remember its always time to embrace change
change in your fav science centre closing down. Time for something more fresh for the city
@@tehCrusix 😂😂😂😂
As an American who loves this sort of thing, I have sympathy for you Canadians oh this loss
As a fellow American and lover of museums, I am grateful for the numerous times I was able to visit this place in the late 1970s. I am very sorry that I was unable to visit in recent years. I would have liked to have seen the exhibit featuring the traditional clothing of the indigenous tribes of Canada. I know it may sound like a cliche, but this place is truly a Canadian institution and national treasure.
That building is so beautiful 😢 what a loss 💔
Such sad, sad news on the first weekend of summer.
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
Went there on a class trip when I was in Grade 3. Remember the static experiment well!
I honestly do not understand how this isn't considered a protected heritage building.
THat's a great point! People need to value science.
@@saganandroid4175 Indeed they need to value science, but this building-complex is an architectural gem! It can’t be torn down!!!
A masterpiece by one of Canada's greatest architects.
I went there twice. I love science museums but I especially always loved the science museum gift shops.
Yes! I loved the gift shop at this place! One time, they were selling a plastic hard hat with a small solar panel on top connected to a propeller! Way cool! All of the gifts were related to science, like physics and chemistry! Great stuff!
This is shameful. No money to have public educational venues like this or the Planetarium. It costs money to have infrascruture and to maintain it! Cut the bureaucracy and politicians' salaries!
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
I think the problem is less about politician salaries (which are reasonable) than it is CEO salaries (which are astronomically out of proportion and drive massive political corruption) and general income disparity.
@@Barnaclebeard the issue is the conservative party and their addiction to corporate money. they will bend over backwards to help their friends who give them donations.
@@damonin While yes the conservative party has that problem, it's certainly not unique to them.
My dad used to work there, I spent many happy hours there growing up. Then I watched it get run into the ground by repeated cost-cutting and mismanagement. Ontario has absolutely no vision!
Yup, under these PCs we're in decline. Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
Such a cool place. I always loved the rainforest room. Me and my girlfriend went about 4 years ago. Such a cool place
Sorry that was slated to be condos years ago. The new station now makes that land very valuable. This roof issue is a lie.
Yep one panel is very bad the rest are ok. Doug Ford did this
Indeed, a huge lie. And he probably told those inspectors exactly what he wanted to see in their report. He’s so desperate to leave a legacy for his scandal-ridden family name, and his time in office is nearing an end, so the Dookie Ford Science ‘N Buck-A-Beer Kiosk at Ontario Place has to happen asap, before we turf him on the next election. As these things go, if he doesn’t move to tear it all down next week, then maybe there’s a chance of fixing and saving it, at much less cost to the Ontario taxpayer than whatever boondoggle memorial to himself he builds at Ontario Place.
Hate to break the news here but the Weston family who operated the big chunk of the centre, has deferred payments totalling 395m dollars. Shoppers, who sponsored the omnimax also hasn't paid up in years.
Hate to burst your bubble. I'm not a fan of Ford either but this actually isn't his issue.
@@penguin44ca well not on the official books.
@@jebjed3998 no on the official books. Also you should learn that the property is owned by the city of Toronto not the province.
The disrepair has been happening through successive govs over the last 20 years. This is why Weston invested but didn't do anything else.
We haven't had a L like this since we lost Mr.Dressup
Greed and corruption is out of control. What a time to be alive.
Man, I recall Body World Exhibition at Ontario Science Centre. My childhood public school trip place and to be.
I'm so sad I will not walk that blue carpeted bridge walkway (as a child ran down it). Will miss going down the escalator watching out the windows where the trees on the slopes and the recorded sound of finches chirping. The large open spaces to explore and move. I can go on and on. I'm angry now they are saying there is structural issues with the roof! So strategic. Ford with his bright idea to move the Science Centre to Ontario Place so he can have that prime land for what? A true loss. I will keep my memories from my childhood.
Good ol Ontario. Fading away one day at a time.
This is awful news... Fortunately I was made aware of the architect Raymond Moriyama who designed the OSC and many other nostalgic buildings in Ontario. The TVO documentary on him is worth watching if you need some cheering up over this.
Sad news indeed. Money for forever wars but none for cultural necessities that support cultural & social cohesion.😢
I grew up in Lockport, NY near Buffalo and we took a field trip there in 6th grade back in the early 80's. We had a ball there. A shame to hear it closed.
Our provincial government is awful. This is an incredible loss and, worse, they just neglected it and then closed it out of nowhere. Why? It’s prime real estate, and they’re pushing hard to relocate it elsewhere at a much smaller scale. I’m very upset…as a teacher, science lover, and nearby resident. Meanwhile, on the U.S. side you have the FREE power plant experience across the Niagara River.
@@pinlight97 Believe me when I say this country does this same stupid things with property.
@@pinlight97 What free power plant thing? I would go see that.
Such sad, sad, news.
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
A heartbreaking thing to see. I literally grew up at the Science Centre...it defined my life in the 1970's in many ways, along with the planetarium. Still paid it a visit once in a while as a teen and then as an adult. Was there with my young nephew in 2019 and was sad to see that it had become a shadow of what it once was, most of the thoughtful exhibits were gone and replaced with busy-work for small children...the worst being the "take apart old electronics with a pair of scissors and hammers and hang the wreckage on the wall" exhibit. My nephew was utterly bored...when I was his age, you could not stop me, I would have run off into the many exhibits until closing time. Even the gift shop that had been there since the 1970's was gone!
What's going to happen to the Emmet machines? Does the OSC still bring them out every christmas? Old Toronto is truly dead and gone now.
FIX THE ROOF
Well. There is half a billion owed by the galen Weston family still and the board says they won't pay to fix it. It would take almost 2 years to fix maybe 3. By then it will be time to move it to Ontario place thankfully.
@@penguin44ca would you cite a reference on your statement about the Weston’s please?
@@penguin44cathankfully? It’s going to be a fraction of the size and basically inaccessible to most of the GTA. School groups have zero chance of being able to visit it.
Ugh, I’m too mad. Ontario Place should be built into a beautiful park. Sure build a science-related thing there. But, do not move the Science Centre there. It lacks logic.
Also, if this roof b.s. is even partially legit then, hey, another place in Ontario had that same issue. It closed, got repaired, and reopened. That’s why the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa is still going strong. On its own away from all the tourist bustle part of Ottawa. Y’know, where school groups prefer to go.
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
Why it's moving to Ontario place
Grew up in Flemington and we'd often go to the Science Center whenever it was free. I have fond memories when the "Sports" section was first opened. I really love the displays and the toboggan simulator, and my brothers would always line up to test their throwing speed at the pitching mound.
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
Your voice would be welcomed.
We came all the way from Detroit to see that. 1974. I ask my parents if I could go another day and they said YES! I had the handmade paper with dandylions in it for almost 45 years which I made there. Time won in the End end.
I'll always have my memories of OSC, one of the great cornerstones of my childhood.
Very sad.
I went there several times as a child.
I thoroughly enjoyed it every time I went.
☮
Nostalgia engaged. ❤
Doug Ford wanted The Science Centre to close and he found a way.
Back in the mid to late 70's, I went there so often, I had a collection of tickets. When I arrived for my next visit, I would look ahead to see what the "color of the day" was and I showed the appropriate ticket to gain entrance for free. I loved that place and I never got tired of seeing the same stuff over and over again.
I’ve been there plenty of times as a kid+teen…saw the IOA (islands of adventure) preview in 99, several class field trips+OMNIMAX movies, special exhibits throughout the years, and seeing a video game exhibits which was the best time I ever visited the centre. I honour the legacy of this great facility in the names of Miss Frizzle & Bill Nye the Science guy, I will never forget this incredible place where science truly came alive!
I was the visitor that went to that video game experience and cleaned all the mouse track balls. 😂
@@pinlight97 Great job! I'm glad you had fun!
Three generations of good memories there for my family.
I don’t want to see it go .
I imagine it will be turned into jeet hives.
I loved the Science Center!
As an American I must ask- "jeet hives"?
@saganandroid4175 the mass migration from India....... it's all Indians everywhere in canada now
I went to a rave here in 1999...... it was awesome!
That was such a fucking crazy experience!!!
@@collectibleasmr oh yeah!...... it was probably the coolest one I've been to!
That was back in the day of the unknown venue....... the science center was never a surprise venue if I remember correctly.
It's upsetting to me to hear it's closing!
I remember going there for field trips when I was a kid. I wanted to go back one last time….😢😢😢
Thanks Doug Ford... one horrible mistake after another !!!! More worried about "A Buck A Beer" than keeping this maintained. This was an awesome place!!!! I loved all the levels!
RIP, OSC!
So many great memories of that place...glad our son got to go with his class just over ten yrs ago.
COFFEE, CO-FEEE, CAH-FEE, CA-FEEE, CUH-FFEE, CU-FEEE, CUFEE, CUFEE!!
Lol I remember that.
I have the electronics schematics for that exhibit on a shelf in my office!
Good memories going there as a kid in the late 70s early 80s. I remember bird songs on the escalator?
yes, yes, yes I just wrote that in a comment.
When I hear the White-throated Sparrow, it still reminds me of the Science Centre.@canar7
And how about the always-unoccupied ham shack that was part way between the escalators.
@@kevinfisher5492 🙂
Great times there during school field trips, sad loss
Please Create an Ontario Science Centre Playlist so it can be shared online!
AGREED!
My fav memory was back in 2008 my partner then threw a late night rave at the science centre, DJs and all the exhibits were turned on just for our party
I was there!! It was wild how there were staff there patiently explaining eeveryhing to kids tripping balls
@@Barnaclebeard XD thats awesome small world dude glad you could make it!
@@Absolynth Where do you go for raves now??
Oh no, this breaks my heart! We are doomed!
Oh no! I love this place. I almost got a job there! I wish I could remember the fellow’s name who I was interviewing with, but he was the guy who managed setting up and designing certain of the displays (which was what I was supposed to help with). This was in the late 80, probably 88 or 89. Anyway, I didn’t take the job, instead I think that’s when I joined Alias Research instead. Anyway, I’m greatly saddened to hear about this closure.
Went there in early childhood, this will be deeply missed. Remember the food quiz sent to a machine back in the day. 😢
Please consider joining in protest against this. We made him back off selling our Greenbelt, maybe we can stop him here!
What a classic and nostalgic place for many Canadians. Doesn’t seem right how it was so abruptly and unceremoniously closed the other day. Shame on our politicians. It went through years of neglected maintenance. Shame.
Why spend the $350M needed to repair and upgrade he OSC when you can waste $1.2B in tax dollars to break the beer store contract one year early just to get beer (which will be significantly more expensive) into corner stores instead of waiting that 1 year when you could do it FOR FREE?
Sad, sad, sad news indeed. 😢
Some more fine work by the Ford government....
It's been figured out. Don't just shut places down instantly before you let your "friends" take over the property. Better plan. Don't maintain it for a few years, and then just shrug and say OOPS.
Ontario Place? OOPS. Science centre. OOPS again.
Uh oh, I’ve been out of touch with Toronto happenings for quite some time. What happened to Ontario Place? 😢
I've been telling my wife for years we needed to go here when I got the chance to go back home...
This is awful.
Trust me, it wasn't like you were remembering. I took my nephew there in 2019 and it was terrible. Most of the science exhibits had been turned into the equivalent of a children's indoor park. My nephew who is a big science fan was very bored. And remembering what it USED to be like, I was disgusted by what it had become. The Science Centre, like Ontario Place, is from an Ontario that no longer exists.
All I can say is I hate Ford. I remember going to the Science Centre many times as a kid. Closing it in the dark of the night in a figurative sense is a load of bollocks and a real shame.
This is the only way Doug Ford operates. Do something everyone hates, then flip flop and backtrack, although I doubt that will happen here because his wealthy contractor paymasters have been pushing him hard for some big-ticket projects after the Greenbelt scandal exposed him (again) for the turncoat-to-the-highest-bidder he’s always been.
He didn't close it. The board did. The Weston family owes almost 400m dollars in back payment.
@@penguin44ca .... Don't defend him. He and his contractor friends have been trying to cut a swathe through Ontario for years.
Is the building in need of upkeep? Yes but it'd be far cheaper to upkeep the Ontario Science Centre rather than the nebulous prospect of some building by Ontario Place.
@@penguin44ca Doug's been after something, ANYTHING he can slap his disgraceful family name on in Toronto. They already renamed an arena after his crack-head brother, and now Doug wants a legacy too, and after having to cancel his greenbelt plans after being exposed, he had Ontario Place as a back-up plan, with the Science Centre as a bonus deal. Blaming "the board" (or the Westons) is ridiculous: Ford has enough influence to make the board see things his way despite what the public wanted. Same for Ontario Place. NO ONE was asking for a spa there, and few people besides a few wannabes and elites will actually use it, so we'll be stuck with his legacy if he actually gets it built. IF we turf him in the next election, perhaps we can reverse these shameless decisions that benefit his wealthiest donors (contractors) and not the public who pays him.
Damn, such a loss. I only in recent times went to an archery range near the Science Center but didn't bother going inside myself. I was thinking of doing just that for nostalgic purposes recently but now this.
I remember the peak days of my childhood of going there a ton as a kid. I remember playing with my late brother as we spooked each other in that cave exhibit. I even think the lobby had some memorial to my late grandmother too. The Omnimax Theater was kind of scary as a kid from how loud it was, yet awe-inspiring at the same time.
But I guess all things, like the loved ones I lost must perish to the sands of time... Every now and then I like trying to take a mental memory tour of places like these as I lay in bed. Sometimes it's more interesting than actually going to the place itself provided it still exists.
Right there at the start: 180 acres in the centre of the city for Doug'$ Bud$
I wonder how many condos units they’ll build on that spot
We won’t let it go without a fight.
Sad: We need practical museums.
Sadder prediction: There'll be several condominium buildings on this site within 3 years.
See kids? This is how great things were when your parents were your age, many decades ago. When governments actually gave a shit about the public sphere. This is what a something that is in state of good repair looks like. No well run public spaces for you though. That’s too much to ask.
Why are all the fun things and great things being removed and destroyed? Its like they dont want people to have fun or to go anywhere any more. All the places that existed when I was a kid are all gone.
Canada has some of the best mining, oil & natural gas, and technology companies in the world. Top notch all the way. A fair amount of European and American companies operate in Canada. Perhaps they would be willing to sponson a re-launch of this facility.
Best place for kids in winter in Toronto, unlike ROM and AGO, kids could run around and touch anything, very sorry to lose this historic but still useful place
Shame on this and you think this could use tender loving care. There Shoppers Drug mart Omimax theatre was amazing too. There was a room I remember where you stand and the voices fade away and you only hear yourselfs. I remember the keyboard and the bubbles rose up and the black hole with the balls starting slow and going faster and faster. Lots of unique things there I’m so glad I got to go again visiting Toronto you think they could renovate or something. Science is so much fun and a Bummer for Toronto. What are they Thinking. I’m sure a lot of kids and Adults in Toronto are ticked off.
It should be restored using all the money Doug Ford has stolen/embezzeled.
Aww, that's a cute comment. Come back with some facts instead of whatever CBC fed you this morning.
@@bobbyrutz9402 stop sucking ford's dick, he doesnt care about you
@@bobbyrutz9402 Keep licking DoFo's boot.
@@bobbyrutz9402 Aww, does it sting when someone speaks the truth about your idol? We don’t need the CBC to tell us what a scheming sleaze he is - ALL the media have been doing it for years. And this is just another bonanza for his developer pals, who’ve been itching for him to make them even richer with some juicy contracts ever since the Dougie got caught lying (as usual) about protecting the Greenbelt. The roof of the science centre would’ve cost a LOT less than the new Dookie Ford Science n’ Buck-a-Beer Kiosk at Ontario Place, slapped next to the elitist spa that no one in Ontario wants or will use (except the wives of Dougie and his wealthy pals). Yay conservatives, friends of big business!
RECALL Ford
Wow. I went there in 6th grade (1982). So sad!!
And all this so Ford could get some more money and do something else there instead. The Science Centre was literally THE PLACE TO GO for all kids in Toronto.
A place where everything interesting was fun. You’re telling me I was learning? Farewell to the educational ShowBiz Pizza Place.
Another piece of my childhood-gone. This one is a bit of a gut punch.
😢
Nooooooooo!
God this province is pathetic.
Ford is.
I really wish I wanted to move to Montreal or America like NYC, Texas or Nashville perhaps.
This is what happens when morons vote conservative.
@@KyleRuggles And every single fucker who didn't vote in the last TWO elections and probably won't vote in the next one
Isn't this where an episode of Battlestar Galactica was filmed?
I think so!
I will never forgive Doug Ford for his crimes against healthcare and education.
It's horrible, but still doesn't come close to what has been done in New Brunswick.
he sold it off to make a quick buck. Just so a private hot spa could be built
Good. We don't want you.
What crimes would they be again?
@@bobsobie678 Careful. It's an election year, CZcams is deleting comments. Two of mine on this thread alone are gone.
R.I.P.
...formerly of CITY-TV, Greg Rist got his start at the Science Centre, after he graduated from Rye High...
I really hope they don’t close it.
P.S....Does anyone remember seeing Rick Green from "The Frantics" (and the Red Green Show) doing the laser show in the 1970's? He worked there!
Please tell me more!??
I guess the interactive LSD exhibit went too far. 😔
Great job electing DoFo, Ontario. "But he gave me a rebate for my license plate!" So narrow minded.
Who remembers the "popcorn" machine?
How about the "Coffee" machine?
I really need to stop looking at/thinking about things pertaining directly to my childhood. It's beginning to ruin me.
When nobody shows up to vote, this is what you get.. Doug Ford
Doug Ford and his contractor buddies locking thier lips.
Trust me bro.
Um no but just believe the cbc without you know, looking up for yourself.
What makes you say that
@@jamess3417 I've commented a few times on this thread, I can't see any of them. Can you? Other than this one and 'trust me bro?'
@@jamess3417 Doug Ford has a record now of giving construction contracts to his buddies.
Many good memories of this place though to be honest I never learned anything there.
Should I be seeing a Retro Ontario video 53 min after it's released showing the 1970's and giving current NEWS. I feel like I broke something to do with the Order of Time.
Now I can actually swim in that fountain who goes there for science
Ford's legacy!
Anyone go to a rave there?
Doug couldn't get the green belt so he is taking this. Bet some developer lined his pockets up.
What a waste. Pure corruption.
The problem is the past governments let the place deteriorate just like Ontario Place. This is what a lack of investment and vision results in. I went here as a kid and little has changed in decades
Ontario Cartoon Museum (Instead of Ontario Science Centre)
Another Phatz Ford disaster.
I am so angry. Another reason to hate Doug fords conservatives.
I had sex in the science center
I went to a rave at the science center
I delivered Amazon packages to the science center
I was fascinated by the science center
R.I.P
Thanks for the memories
If it wasnt so pricey id go more
you could've just got free tickets from the library
Out with old, in with the new.
Spend less money on immigration and more on preserving our Ontario cultural institutions.
It was an outdated dump.
Thanks for nothing, Doug Ford