'My Parkdale is gone': how gentrification reached the one place that seemed immune
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Le Strip was the greatest strip club in the history of the human race as a teen!! Myself and a couple of friends literally walked in with our high school uniforms on, paid the entrance fee, no ID or questions asked. The mileage from a couple of the gorgeous cougar/MILF type dancers was unbelievable. I know it was a shoe store, whatever became of the historical landmark?Too funny! :biggrin:
Jr.High we hit the arcades --- High School we were a bunch of spray-shorts geek boys ready (horny) to start hitting the Strip Clubs
15 yrs olds playing hooky from school heading downtown to sneak into the 'Le Strip'. Pop'd our cherries on pervy row, girlies shaking ity-bity titty in our pimply virgin faces. Awesomeness.
On the other hand, when I first came to Toronto, after a stint in Munich and New York, I couldn't believe how drab and depressing the city looked. Downtown was a hodgepodge of crappy looking buildings that even the neons couldn't fix at night, all surrounded by neighborhoods of really ugly houses(with few exceptions) and the waterfront ... well we all remember how it use to look. Though the nostalgia gets in the way, we have really made some progress in the last 30 years.
UPTOWN MOVIE THEATRE . . . . . .
TEENIE YEARS, WHERE A LOT OF US GOT OUR FIRST HANDIE'S! :biggrin:
TEENIE YEARS, WHERE A LOT OF US GOT OUR FIRST HANDIE'S! :biggrin:
MOVIE THEATRE OUR DAD'S TOOK US TO SEE 70'S SUMMER BLOCK BUSTERS . . . . . . JAWS, SUPERMAN, STARWARS
'CINEMA 2000' . . . . . . PERVY'S FAV SPOT FOR FILTH! :biggrin:
'METRO' . . . . . . FAV WITH THE 'TRENCH COAT' CROWD! :biggrin:
'METRO' . . . . . . FAV WITH THE 'TRENCH COAT' CROWD! :biggrin:
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I had a friend that worked as an usher there, he would sneak me in for free to see all the restricted movies as I was under 18., good times!
Best seats were the very front row, where you can put your feet up on the stage![/QUOTE]
+1. Yess!!! And you could put your coats and backpacks there too.
Hated delivering to that LCBO on Brock. Loved the employees there, but getting a 48-foot trailer in and out of there was hell. The one by Gerrard Square is almost as bad.
I used to work near Queen and Dufferin twice, once in 1991 and most recently 2012, big difference.
In 1991 it was brutally bad-hookers and direlicts everywhere there was even a mini police station in a portable/trailer type shack in that area and that Mcdonald's at King and Dufferin was/is the slummiest.
In 2012, hipsters every where, lots of cool shops and eateries.
In 1991 it was brutally bad-hookers and direlicts everywhere there was even a mini police station in a portable/trailer type shack in that area and that Mcdonald's at King and Dufferin was/is the slummiest.
In 2012, hipsters every where, lots of cool shops and eateries.
The Toronto gobs of us fondly remember . . . . . . old-school, greasy goodness joints hope never go Bye-Bye :wave:
