Vintage Toronto
- Thread starter The Oracle
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Too many downtown businesses are now nail salons, weed shops, medical facilities or chain fast food places. Mostly staffed by uninteresting people.
1981
CNE Polar Express
“ Do You Want To Go Faster”
Credit: CNE Archives/CNE Heritage
Thousands of people attempting to get a autograph from Mr.T at Honest Ed’s in 1984 in the rain.
Friar’s Tavern South of Dundas on Yonge in the 1970s. Bob Dylan would meet house-band ‘Levon and the Hawks’ here in September, 1965. He would hire the band full time and play their first show together in Austin, Texas two weeks later. The band would later change its name to.. The Band.
The Old Spaghetti Factory on Esplanade in the 1980s.
Winters back then....there was always snow on the ground all season long, not like these days, people complaining>bunch of wusses!
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1960
Scarborough Drive - In Theatre
Kennedy and Lawrence
Back in the day, if you wanted to look cool bell bottom pants were what to wear and you had to learn how to walk to show them off by strutting your legs. Hard to explain but it was an attention. LOL.
I was there. Damn was it cold!
What Chisox player wore shin guards as snow shoes before the game started?
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1977 salaries for the starting line up in the Blue Jays' first game, per baseball-reference(dot)com:
John Scott LF $19K
Hector Torres SS $27.5K
Doug Ault 1B $19K
Otto Velez DH S30K
Gary Woods CF $19K
Steve Bowling RF $19K
Pedro Garcia 2B $30K
Dave McKay 3B $25K
Rick Cerone C $25K
Bill Singer P $90K
John Scott LF $19K
Hector Torres SS $27.5K
Doug Ault 1B $19K
Otto Velez DH S30K
Gary Woods CF $19K
Steve Bowling RF $19K
Pedro Garcia 2B $30K
Dave McKay 3B $25K
Rick Cerone C $25K
Bill Singer P $90K
In later years, The Band played at the Concord Tavern on Bloor St.featuring Levon Helm and one of the best rock guitarists on the planet, Robbie Robertson who wrote many of their hit songs, and in earlier days they were the back up band for Rompin Ronnie Hawkins.
I'm at a loss then without Googling it. WG is what I vaguely remember but I had forgotten about the incident until you mentioned it. I remember the Zamboni very well, Doug Ault's 2 home runs and biting winds coming off lake. Wind chill was something else. I was seated on the third base side in the new "baseball seats which changed the look of the stadium by closing off one of the ends. Fans in bleacher section (left field) were chanting "we want beer". Sports events in Toronto were dry in those years.
Other than the pitcher - most of these guys were earning upper middle class salaries - not like today... $20,000 to $30,000 in 1977 I believe is approximately equivalent to $100,000 to $150,000 in 2025.
