Retro Toronto Thread for Nostalgia Purposes.

[unassuming]

The old very narrow Yonge and Bloor subway platform, that was scary during rush hour, it was so crowded that commuters would be standing right at the edge of the platform as the train pulled in.

 

[essguy_]

Hope this isn’t a duplicate post but here’s a CityTV, Queen street memory:

 

[black booty lover]

Back in grad school remember taking a roadie to toronto....Back in the mid 80's...we found ourselves in some place with the word Brunswick in it....Brunswick house maybe? I remember long tables, waitresses bringing trays of individual beers rather than jugs/pitchers. And beer pretty much everywhere. It seemed full of yobbos turning into longshoremen just as eager to have a laugh as a go but in a weird, hockey kinda way. We had a blast, and my Montreal mate kept whinging about no smoked meat places to hit after beering up. LOL

Yes that would have been the Brunswick House.

 

[black booty lover]

Hope this isn’t a duplicate post but here’s a CityTV, Queen street memory:

Well that one doesn't have to be a memory because it's still there.

 

[JackBurton]

Yes that would have been the Brunswick House.

Ahhh the Brunny. Lots of good times spent there with my shoes sticky from spilled beer and old friends. Can’t remember if their food was any good but it was the perfect location to meet with buddies in college.

 

[kherg007]

Ahhh the Brunny. Lots of good times spent there with my shoes sticky from spilled beer and old friends. Can’t remember if their food was any good but it was the perfect location to meet with buddies in college.

Yep that sounds like it. Really enjoyed it still yabber on about that roadie w my mates. It was the first time i got an inkling into the particular awesomeness ebony canadian ladies....And thanks Jack brother BBL for the confirmation.

 

[black booty lover]

Yep that sounds like it. Really enjoyed it still yabber on about that roadie w my mates. It was the first time i got an inkling into the particular awesomeness ebony canadian ladies....And thanks Jack brother BBL for the confirmation.

Kherg, did you see the links that f1fanatic posted of those construction commercials you were talking about? Fucking hilarious

 

[kherg007]

Kherg, did you see the links that f1fanatic posted of those construction commercials you were talking about? Fucking hilarious

Yep some missing the guy groaning or screaming...like the guy who gets his hands crushed on the cement pipes lol. We'd reenact them and make each other laugh...but you did a great service BBL...that was great and thanks!!!

 

[unassuming]

Ahhhhh, Toronto's Darling Carling

 

[unassuming]

When "The Beer Store" was known as "Brewer's Retail"

 

[shack]

When "The Beer Store" was known as "Brewer's Retail"

I think it was right beside "Consumer's Distributing". You'd order something from a catalogue and then they'd bring it out for you.

 

[unassuming]

I think it was right beside "Consumer's Distributing". You'd order something from a catalogue and then they'd bring it out for you.

Most of their products were cheap and crappy, also known as "Consumer Jobbers" lol

 

[unassuming]

I used to work at a part time job near Yonge and Bloor during the early to mid 80's , so I frequented "The Brothers" restaurant on the west side of Yonge and "Alfred's Fish and Chips" on the east side of Yonge, anyone else remember those two establishments?

 

[tml]

Cinema 2000 and Stoppers books on Yonge St. I couldn't wait until I was old enough to go in there and look at the porn.

 

[unassuming]

When the Sony Center for Performing Arts was known as "The O'keefe Centre", I only saw one event there, Sheena Easton, back around 82, she was a cutie!

 

[shack]

When the Sony Center for Performing Arts was known as "The O'keefe Centre", I only saw one event there, Sheena Easton, back around 82, she was a cutie!

I saw Fiddler On the Roof at the O'keefe as well as The Clash.

 

[unassuming]

There was a time when you could insult a fellow classmate, co worker etc....by insinuating that their address is "999 Queen St, West"

 

[black booty lover]

There was a time when you could insult a fellow classmate, co worker etc....by insinuating that their address is "999 Queen St, West"

Was that where the mental hospital was?"

 

[unassuming]

Was that where the mental hospital was?"

Yes, it was at 999 Queen St w, its new home is at 1001 Queen st west, saying "one thousand-one" just doesn't have the right ring to it as saying "nine-nine-nine", LOL

 

[unassuming]

Sue Johanson" sex talk show on Q107 in the late 70's. In high school all the guys thought her voice absolutely sexy and assumed she was hot looking, LMAO!