I grew up in Toronto. I was born in 1961, and many of these places were very familiar to me. Got waves of nostalgia watching this video. Please slow down the pace of the next series, so details can be observed more easily. Thank you!

Toronto of my father. How I miss!!!

I did live back then & cry when I watch these old photos as I know how lucky I was to be living in cabbage town as I kid & later in my 20's .

This will ALWAYS be my “kids-eye-view” of Toronto! Brings tears to my 66 year old eyes! Peace - from BC’s Okanagan Valley!

Just discovered this video but...better late than never!?I was in my twenties during those years and I remember some of these places quite well! Ah! Those were the good old days in...' Toronto the Good '😍

My mother worked at Steele's Tavern ( 2:30 ) in the early '60s and through her I got to know Mr. Steele , Sam & Sid Snyderman of "Sam The Record Man" and also met Gordon Lightfoot who played upstairs at Steele's in those days . I also worked part time at SAM'S during Christmas '66 .

I got a bunch of old photographs of Toronto in 1973 from my grandparents. Pictures of the streets, a carnival ride and even the CN tower during construction.

I remember it all! Thanks.

Very nice. Would love to see it slowed down and be able to spend more time enjoying each photo. They are special.

Toronto has come a long way since the 1960s! Just before I watched this video, I watched another one shot in April 2024. Downtown Toronto nowadays looks so beautiful and so ultra-modern! (I lived in Toronto from 1975 to 1995. I have a lot of happy memories of the time I spent in Canada.)

It was good to see Bassel's restaurant again. My family went there many Sundays and the food was 'out of this world'. Such good memories 🙂

I wish I lived back then

Ahhhhh, my Toronto - Born in the East End in late 40`s - left for overseas in 1980.

Outside of the downtown core,there was a lot of run down places,like 928-938 Dufferin. Looking at the train tracks,this was still in the latter stages of the industrial age in the city. Yonge Street,with all the taverns and bars concentrated in that area,was a pretty rough and tumble area,especially in the summer and on weekends. This was the era when the likes of Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins performed nightly at those taverns.

Nice shots. Yonge from Queen to Gerrard had more life to it back then. Then it went all sex, drugs and lowlifes in the 70s as most of the retail moved into the Eaton Centre. That patch has never recovered.

You can reduce the playback by using the settings icon in the upper right of the screen

I never knew about a subway fire in the 60's. Just the Christie station subway fire in the early 70's.

I would love to see Sixties pics of Queen Street East and Shopper's World.

Please keep still-pictures still, instead of zooming in all the time.

Hard to take it all in when it moves so quickly. Slow it down.

Before the devil took over the world.

Nice photos but the caption panel covers up too much

Way too fast, slow the pictures and text, what is the rush?

Was very developed I taught otherwise

where is part 2 ?

How many shootings,stabbings,muggings,and lootings during this time i wonder? What happened any guesses?😂

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