and "here they are"..Jack Stephens was the racecaller who used those lines................o and of course we went across the street to drink beer at the Old Orchard Park Tavern
Retro Toronto Thread for Nostalgia Purposes.
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That place was great. Like Paul Simon's The Boxer." I do declare. There were times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there"
TV repairmen and TV repair shops.
Ever had your TV hauled away for a few days to get fixed?
Also, those trucks that would deliver Mio and Brio pop by the case in Italian neighbourhoods.
Same neighbourhoods, the piles of manure that used to get delivered in the spring so they could fertilize their vegetable garden in the backyard.
And the piles of wood left over from the crates that were delivered in the fall full of grapes so they could make wine.
Smells that are long gone.
CB
Ever had your TV hauled away for a few days to get fixed?
Also, those trucks that would deliver Mio and Brio pop by the case in Italian neighbourhoods.
Same neighbourhoods, the piles of manure that used to get delivered in the spring so they could fertilize their vegetable garden in the backyard.
And the piles of wood left over from the crates that were delivered in the fall full of grapes so they could make wine.
Smells that are long gone.
CB
Gotta tell ya, I thought this would resonate with everyone a little more. Ya'll must not have went to Wonderland as a kid...lol.
Anyone remember the Lancaster bomber and the tank on the lake shore? I was obsessed with that tank when I was an 8 year old wannabe warmonger kid. I used to try and figure out ways of getting inside it and starting it up, but it was welded shut.
Many fond memories on a Sunday afternoon playing around there.
The bomber is in long-term storage somewhere in Toronto.
Recall hearing this while skating at Nathan Phillip's or at the Ryerson rink.
Yes!!! They used it as a promo for them too, but as I kid I had season's passes for Wonderland the memories of that song playing all the time is definitely fond.
How about those television tube testing machines in convenience stores to replace a tube that was burnt out!
Anyone remember those?????
In a previous life remember these commercials..."there are two ways to work on a construction site....the right way...and the WRONG way..." then the guy getting his hand crushed in the concrete tubing, or by the crane, or the hammer falling on the guys head....
Anyone ever got the "Strap" in elementary school for misbehaving???? lol
I came close, never got it.
I came close, never got it.
ha! I remember those! I remember also one clip a piece of nail flings into the guys eye or something.
Smoking. (Maybe it wasn't such a good idea....).....
Being able to smoke inside. In movie theatres. At work. STRIP JOINTS and bars.......
Then the coffee shops built those smoker's rooms.
Also, cigarette machines.
CB
Being able to smoke inside. In movie theatres. At work. STRIP JOINTS and bars.......
Then the coffee shops built those smoker's rooms.
Also, cigarette machines.
CB
When condoms were JUST a form of birth control. Not a way to stay alive.
I know that's not Retro Toronto but what the hell. I miss that, too.
CB
I know that's not Retro Toronto but what the hell. I miss that, too.
CB
The blokes in those ads let put realistic type screams to it all as well really caught my young eye....the guy who steps on the nail ...wow...they were the talk of the school yard lol...
