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Great video! Cheers from Vancouver ...

It’s painful watching this! The memories are overwhelming! Everything was cheap and fun! Garbage now!

Thank you Morgan! This hurt my heart in more ways than one: not only for nostalgia but also the footage credited to the late great Dana Lee: ruclips.net/video/ZReZPYuiaUs/видео.html

First time I visited Toronto was as a kid in 1989, one of my fondest childhood memories, coming from a city where the tallest building was 20 stories to seeing 70+ story buildings and what was then the tallest freestanding structure on Earth!

Lived this and loved this look back. Thank you. 🤩

Toronto was great back 1980s. Where was your favorite place to get a hamburger?

I remember the summer of '83 when the jays played a doubleheader against the Yankees in August. Winfield threw a baseball into the grandstand and I caught it. I still have that ball.

we used to have nice things.

dad says if he could die and relive this era of Toronto over a thousand times he would in a heart beat

I have very few friends to tell about this amazing video..

Not a shot of a honest to goodness 2024 Encampment back then…

Miss Toronto when it was plain and simple. Cabins and log houses everywhere. No electricity or running water. Those were the good ole days!

Love it, the Toronto everyone loves

I hate 2024. I want to go back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there

The Eaton Centre was never, ever, cool. It was an urban effing mall fer crise-sakes.

Awesome!! Where'd you get that By-way shirt? I want one.

You’ve brought back some very fond memories!

(puts on rose coloured glasses) At the time, Toronto had what was regarded the best transit system in North America, Eaton Center had the largest cinema in the world (?), the city had the Worlds Biggest Bookstore, Ontario Place was fully functional, the Scarborough LRT was shiny and new, the Gardner and Don Valley still seemed like good ideas, the Hoser Parade with Bob and Doug MacKenzie happened, Much Music was getting kick started in the CHUM-City building, the city wasn't amalgamated yet.

Toronto was a much better and a safer city back in the days.

I visited Toronto Back then and we stayed at the Neil Wycik Summer Hotel on Gerrard Street. And Yes Yonge Street was a bit sketchy back then. Kind of like but not as bad as 42nd Street in New York was back then.

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I moved to Toronto in 1980 lived there till 1994 I still go back, but this is the city I remember!

I moved to Toronto from Europe when I was 21 in 1979 and lived there until 1996. Toronto was truly special, it was exciting and full of life, but it was also one of North America's safest large cities. I wish that I could turn back the clock, even for a minute, I lived the best years of my life there. Thanks a million for the memories.

That was awesome, my man! I really miss the 80s Toronto. It was so much better and exciting!

Bring HHOF back to CNE! @11:33

One of the great things about the Carlton Odeon was the organ, and its long-time organist Colin Corbett. Both would rise through the floor in front of the screen to play while customers filed into their seats, and then sink out of sight as the film began.

its cleaner now but lost its soul...especially young street and Yorkville.

I spent my twenties in this Toronto, good times! Thanks for posting!

Everyone looks sane, healthy and happy.

Thanks, enjoyed it. Makes me feel a little dated, I remember them putting up the first TD tower 68/69, the 80's I recall vividly. I just amazed at how much it has changed, I walk thousands of km's of Toronto the last few years and the changes are vast to put it mildly.

Kinda sketchy? Um, maybe a little bit (much more so in the 70s) I'd bet most people older than 55 would prefer to have it back over what Yonge is today. I personally preferred it in the 80s and I know I'm not alone in that feeling. It's soulless now. Really miss Mr. Greenjeans and JJ Muggs in the Eaton Centre and The Hard Rock Cafe across the street. And the planetarium, which Mike Harris closed when it was still profitable. 💔♥️

God the music in the 80s really sucked. Too much Cocaine.

Brought back a lot of memories ! Thank you :-)

I HATE TORONTO WITH A PASSION TORONTO IS MOST SHITY CITY ON THE WORLD

Toronto is no longer what it once was.

Fit in or F off. Now it's ruined.

What a blast from the past.. thanks for posting bro.

Great video😀

I feel for you, Canada, but what you've become is a direct result of not voting and sitting back, while others dictate what life is like for you. Lamenting the past won't change your future unless YOU change your future. You sing "stand on guard for thee!" Then stand on guard. Good luck. Your one election away from saving your country.

Love this!

Thank You for keeping the memory of my city alive.

Biway tshirt!! Man i miss toronto before the wall of condos

This is likely impossible to find but ever found any photos or video of the zen garden water fountain at sherway gardens? Its something I remember and thus far there's no media of it out there (I recall seeing a youtube video a long time ago but no trace of that is left)

Thanks. Lots of memories.

At least back then there weren't those crazy protests and you could walk into your university without being stopped by people who don't even belong there. Also, they never had well over 200 tent cities.

Welcome back Old Toronto Series! We have missed you!!

The many neighborhoods in Scarborough and North York, like Wexford, Agincourt, Maryvale, parkwoods, Donalda and the biggest huhwhat?!? Tam O'Shanter Sullivan. Grew up in these neighborhoods and always had these questions about why are they are call this 😂

The home of William Lyon MacKenzie is noteworthy. I passed by it on a walk in the winter and stood on the sidewalk and looked at it. It was creepy, and I've since learned some of it's history!

And, now it's gone.

lived in Yonge Eglington back then , a big 1 bedroom with a view of CN tower was 1050 a month ! you can buy a big piece of european pastry from Sweet factory on Mt.Pleasant for a 1.00 to go with your Saturday Toronto star. but then the started to dig open the road on 2008 , took 45 minutes to get to Dvp every morning, that's the time I moved..