If you've seen this sign, you're already over 50 years old.
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When this was the only way to buy your beer.
They've been resurrected over the years, but the 1970's was the heyday for the Pop Shoppe.
Everybody in Quebec knows that the ship on the old Molson Export Ale bottle is an armadillo when you turn it sideways:
but lots of people in Ontario are unfamiliar with this.
but lots of people in Ontario are unfamiliar with this.
Thanks for the post, but unfortunately that;s not it. The one I'm referring to was a rectangular cardboard with a backpiece to stand on a table. The cardboard had slits cut into it where you place the rocks, and the name of the rock was printed below. I think it was put out by a geological organization or the government. It wasn't sold as a toy.
Night Walk (TV series) - Wikipedia
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I remember this well on Global TV. As a teenager living in the rural sticks at the time, I thought the nighttime scenes of Toronto were so urban and sophisticated, and especially the accompanying jazz music which was new to me. Several of these episodes are on You Tube, listed as Night Walk, Night Ride, and Night Moves. Fun trying to identify Toronto from the mid 80’s.
At the foot of Bathurst.
I used to go on Father's Day every year when they'd hand out real bats to every kid who came in with their fathers. Our dads never came so we used to ask men who were by themselves if they could be our surrogate father as we passed the gate so we could get a bat.
Cash registers and credit card readers before the digital era. Visa was still called Chargex. I suprisingly used the latter a few months ago when a restaurant's system was down. I had to show the restaurant staffer how to use it.
Cigartte vending machines
Monorail at the Toronto Zoo
"Red rocket" TTC streetcars
TTC trolley buses
Garden Bros Circus at The Gardens
Steak and Burger
Mother's Pizza
Mr. Greenjeans
Ed's Warehouse
Honest Ed's
Simpson's
Consumer's Distributing
Coles Bookstore
World's Biggest Jean Store
World's Biggest Bookstore
IMAX movies at The Cinesphere
Walking to the top of Wonder Mountain at Canada's Wonderland
CHiPS
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Love Boat
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Muppet Show
Monorail at the Toronto Zoo
"Red rocket" TTC streetcars
TTC trolley buses
Garden Bros Circus at The Gardens
Steak and Burger
Mother's Pizza
Mr. Greenjeans
Ed's Warehouse
Honest Ed's
Simpson's
Consumer's Distributing
Coles Bookstore
World's Biggest Jean Store
World's Biggest Bookstore
IMAX movies at The Cinesphere
Walking to the top of Wonder Mountain at Canada's Wonderland
CHiPS
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Love Boat
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Muppet Show
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Jarry Park in Montreal. I was at this game, (opening day, 1970). I can tell because I recognize Bob Gibson on the mound for St Louis, (his delivery follow through was unique), and the line score on the scoreboard matches with the box score for that game at baseball-reference(dot)com.
Rusty Staub at bat, with Ron Fairly in the on deck circle.
I was sitting about 40 feet to the left of the lower left corner. I remember a guy in front of me was looking at the field through binoculars, then he unscrewed one of the lenses and drank from it.
What qualified as locally produced television, to satisfy the CRTC license conditions, if barely so.Night Walk (TV series) - Wikipedia
I remember this well on Global TV. As a teenager living in the rural sticks at the time, I thought the nighttime scenes of Toronto were so urban and sophisticated, and especially the accompanying jazz music which was new to me. Several of these episodes are on You Tube, listed as Night Walk, Night Ride, and Night Moves. Fun trying to identify Toronto from the mid 80’s.
