Retro Toronto Thread for Nostalgia Purposes.
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Anyone lucky enough to go to Mccartney's "Wings over America" tour at MLG in '76???
This was one I missed out on
This was one I missed out on
Short Circuit 2- filmed in Toronto around 1988, I was there watching the street scene (SW corner of Yonge and Dundas) being shot in the first 10 seconds of this video. This movie has lots of scenes of downtown toronto and the unrenovated Eaton Centre.
Ah yes, essguy, I think that perhaps we were getting drunk there at the same time in the early 80's. At the north end of the DJ's restaurant/pub there there was a separate room called The Smoke Room where I believe the only thing they served was the 8 oz draft glasses. Since the UofT camus was dry in those days, and since most of all of the engineering buildings were nearby on College, DJ's and the Smoke Room became the unofficial drinking hole for engineers.
And as you said, Friday's was 25 cents a glass - order a round of 40 glasses for $10! I remember very well missing a lot of Friday afternoon classes. I seem to remember less well staggering out of there!
Does anyone remember the talking yellow pages? The yellow pages had a number you could call and they different things to listen to on there, and they even had something called "the great game phone". It was like trivia.
I can’t remember if it was from these pages, but in the early days of the adult 1-800 numbers most didn’t warn you that there was a charge per minute that would show up on the bill. Anyway, my colleagues and I stumbled across a number that was like a daily taped diary of a 20 something woman and her daily adventures. Every few minutes, you’d have to press a key to continue. It started out fairly tame but got racier and racier and was so bad it was good (eg: like “I was SO horny I had to do something... uhhhnnnnmmmmmMMMMmmm.” PRESS 9 to continue). Like a solo soft porn soap opera. So for a couple weeks it became an afternoon ritual to call in to get the latest episode sometimes playing it on speaker - it was a source of lots of laughs until it eventually got boring and we moved on to something equally dumb. A couple months later we had to explain why there was an unusually large expense for this 1-800 number!
Anyone remember the free mini concert by R.E.M. at Yonge and Dundas circa 2002? That intersection was packed!
Anyone remember "TalkTV" with Ben Mulroney,-now co host of CTV's Your morning, Seamus O'Reagan,-now the Minister of Indigenous Services, Jennifer Hollett-former muchmusic vj, now a NDPer and Craig Norris-lead singer of "The Kramdens". Show televised from the Masonic Temple.
There was one other member of the show, can't remember her name, she had short black hair.
There was one other member of the show, can't remember her name, she had short black hair.
Not so much a Toronto thing, but does anyone remember that pink popcorn you could by at corner stores. I think it had an elephant as the logo. God that stuff was good...lol.
I just decided to look it up and check it out, you can still buy it...lol.
https://candyfunhouse.ca/products/lucky-elephant-pink-candy-popcorn
Someone gave me a box as a gift not very long ago. It's still like I remember.
Love this thread!......anyone remember any of the stores on the block of Yonge St before the Eaton Centre was built?
I myself remember only the old Eaton's Dept. store building.
I myself remember only the old Eaton's Dept. store building.
I mentioned on page 2 or 3 that I used to skip school and go down to all the head shops. I also loved all the army stores like Hercules.
