Mike Anscombe, Ernie Afaganis, Pat Marsden, Don Chevrier, Peter Gross, Russ Salzberg, Debbie Van Kiekebelt, Fergie Oliver, John Saunders.....
Retro Toronto Thread for Nostalgia Purposes.
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Yes you could open the windows, I remember there was a latch or clip to pull it down and push it up.
Great thread anyone remember Glenn Cochrane from CFTO news
......the incredible CHCH.....Party Game, House of Frightenstein, Billy Van.....when local news really was local......
The Amazing Kreskin.......Definition (Jim Perry)......coming home for lunch to watch Leave It to Beaver or The Flintstones.....
....Rocketship 7 in the morning and Commander Tom in the afternoon.....
When we used to joke about Buffalo's news obsession with fires.....
.....TV was so much better IMO even with just a few channels.... Oh and NO reality tv crap....
CB
The Amazing Kreskin.......Definition (Jim Perry)......coming home for lunch to watch Leave It to Beaver or The Flintstones.....
....Rocketship 7 in the morning and Commander Tom in the afternoon.....
When we used to joke about Buffalo's news obsession with fires.....
.....TV was so much better IMO even with just a few channels.... Oh and NO reality tv crap....
CB
One thing I love and want to do again is take the ferry to and back from Centre Island at night. Those ferry's haven't changed since I was a kid so that bring back some great memories.
Terrific thread, lots of great contributions. Some early sporting memories courtesy of my Dad ...
- Toronto Maple Leaf AAA baseball at Maple Leaf Stadium on the Fleet Street flats at Bathurst and Lakeshore
- Toronto Marlborough OHA hockey at Maple Leaf Gardens on Sunday afternoons vs St. Catharines Blackhawks, Hamilton Red Wings, etc
- Toronto Rifles football team of Continental League at Varsity Stadium
- seeing at least one brawl in the stands at every Toronto Argonaut football home game
- indoor track featuring Olympic athletes at Toronto Star Maple Leaf Indoor Games
- Toronto Maple Leaf AAA baseball at Maple Leaf Stadium on the Fleet Street flats at Bathurst and Lakeshore
- Toronto Marlborough OHA hockey at Maple Leaf Gardens on Sunday afternoons vs St. Catharines Blackhawks, Hamilton Red Wings, etc
- Toronto Rifles football team of Continental League at Varsity Stadium
- seeing at least one brawl in the stands at every Toronto Argonaut football home game
- indoor track featuring Olympic athletes at Toronto Star Maple Leaf Indoor Games
Exactly essguy!!! I remeber going to Yonge and Queen on cool fall/winter days and enjoying the smell and the warmth of those chestnuts. It's funny but when I go there now I still look around like I'm going to find one.
I loved those red carts. Once a year at a church in my area growing up, there some kind of Italian festival. All these Italian guys would come with those red carts that sold caramel apples, candy apples, cotton candy chestnuts, some type of spiraled red candy that was made with the same stuff as the candy apple, and they had few novelty type items they sold. One was this bird whistling thing you put on your tongue. I bought it one year but just couldn't make the whistle noise like the old Italian guys...lol.
I don't know how to post pics, but here's a few pics:
https://www.blogto.com/upload/2015/08/2015821-vendors.jpg
https://www.bing.com/images/search?...07998867270142804&selectedIndex=19&ajaxhist=0
Some of this has already been mentioned but this is a fun read:
https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/08/30_signs_you_grew_up_in_toronto_in_the_1970s/
https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/08/30_signs_you_grew_up_in_toronto_in_the_1970s/
How about if your were a kid going to Canada's Wonderland in the 80's and hearing this song played over and over on the park speakers:
I haven't been in this site for over10 years but this thread brought back a lot of memories. Does anyone recall the Warwick hotel
After Hours Restaurants
The original Lichee Garden on Elizabeth St and Meyer's Deli in Yorkville were open late after bar closing time. Lichee Garden had a white grand piano on a raised center stage and Meyer's Deli had after hours live jazz to go with your smoked meat sandwich.
The waiters at LG were old guys who wore white jackets that looked like tail coats with the tails removed. The place had a sort of Shanghai 1930's look. This was before the move to the Bay St Atrium place.
Around this time I received a prospectus asking me if I wanted to buy a two bedroom condo in the first Harbour Front building for $80,000.
The original Lichee Garden on Elizabeth St and Meyer's Deli in Yorkville were open late after bar closing time. Lichee Garden had a white grand piano on a raised center stage and Meyer's Deli had after hours live jazz to go with your smoked meat sandwich.
The waiters at LG were old guys who wore white jackets that looked like tail coats with the tails removed. The place had a sort of Shanghai 1930's look. This was before the move to the Bay St Atrium place.
Around this time I received a prospectus asking me if I wanted to buy a two bedroom condo in the first Harbour Front building for $80,000.
Don't forget "Ultra Man" on WUTV Buffalo, on a good day the reception came in pretty clear with minimal snow, lol.
and yes , reality shows has ruined TV.
TV was definitely much better with a few channels, only the top shows, so to speak , made the cut, not unlike as an analogy, the original 6 teams in the NHL
My high school's washroom had instead of individual sinks to wash hands, it had one of those circular sprinkler sinks/trough where you had to step on a circular lever to turn the water on, lol
This could apply anywhere not just Toronto, school ditto machines in which the teacher would run off many copies of a test/exam, when you were handed one, you automatically smelled the paper for that addictive chemical smell!! LOL
