The two young fellas in the foreground at 6:48 had no idea that I'd be watching them 90+ years later. Wonder where their lives took them?
@careyleroux3784
2 жыл бұрын
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@OldTorontoSeries
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@andywood5699
Ай бұрын
My dad's gone now but he would have been a young boy and would have gone to the EX in '29. Funny how the CNE is such a part of family life over the generations.
@richystar2001
2 жыл бұрын
So many children ...now no more. Sad😥
@good_teanice_house6789
2 жыл бұрын
So strange even the children are most likely gone.
@jdm1505
Ай бұрын
I don't see why it's sad. Most of them lived full lives. The only thing that's sad is that some of them (mostly boys) may have died in the war.
@Corbit
2 жыл бұрын
Everyone is dress so fine!
@babababuck
2 жыл бұрын
You can tell that McDonalds hadn't been invented yet. Almost 9 minutes of film and you can count the number of overweight people on one hand. 🙄
@matak99
2 жыл бұрын
Is there anything in this film that is still standing? A building, patch of grass or slab of concrete? The only thing I can imagine is still there is perhaps a tree.
@Jamie-1985
2 жыл бұрын
Might be the Coliseum in background @ 5:33 ?
@georgejetson1025
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe a human, approaching 100 if shown as an infant here
@matak99
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jamie-1985 Yes, or at least portions of it. The Royal Winter Fair still convenes there.
@Hamzakhan-dt3gv
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@roseyposey7368
2 жыл бұрын
If this is during the CNE, why were people wearing coats coming off the streetcar?
@OldTorontoSeries
2 жыл бұрын
If you look closely all of the children are wearing shorts and dresses. Women in dresses and only men in pants. Also mentions the Exhibition being on throughout.
@jdm1505
Ай бұрын
A suit and tie was standard attire for men, even in the summer. Most of the women and children are in summer clothes. A few of the women are wearing light coats - perhaps it was a cool late summer day.
@evemarie1605
Жыл бұрын
This film was made by the TTC in 1928 on the 50th anniversary of the CNE. It's clearly "Children's Day" on a Saturday when children were admitted free if accompanied by a parent and the TTC possibly also allowed children to travel free to the CNE on that day. There certainly are a lot of children "mugging" for the camera. Prior to 1950 people tended to attend dressed semi-formally although some children were a bit more casual like the little girl at 0.07 wearing her school gym "bloomers" but that was very "progressive" and just barely acceptable socially even in the "Roaring Twenties". At 0.28 you can see the old GE factory in the background which apparently still stands although extensively renovated into an apartment building. At 3:16 you can see a "Dovercourt" car turning into Dufferin Loop but it "slipped its trolley" and the TTC traffic director ran back to restore it to the overhead cable. In the background you can see #10 Fort Rouille St which is still there although much modified since 1928. The "Dovercourt" car is an old wooden TSR car followed by a "Queen" Witt train and then a "Dundas" Witt train. At 3:45 you can see a Toronto police constable in his "Bobby" helmet directing pedestrians. Yes, only men wore pants and only women wore dresses in that era but the "flat look" and the "boyish look" for women was very fashionable at that time and it was quite easy for an effeminate male or a masculine female to cross-dress passably and you can occasionally see adults of ambiguous gender appearance and manner. At 4:40 more children "mugging" outrageously for the camera. At 8:01 you can see a 12-yr old Italian boy giving us a "Salut!". There were fewer than 15,000 Italians in Toronto back then and they were a minor ethnic group who tended to be greengrocers, barbers, restaurateurs, tailors, and otherwise self-employed:- some were also skilled masons but very few worked in construction which was actually dominated by Irish Catholics. The "stars" of this film were actually the people of Toronto which is what the TTC intended in an era when the TTC was a very well-managed "rock-solid" organization which took a very decrepit public-transit system and completely renovated it in less than 5 years with no subsidies:- it really was the "pride" of Toronto and its citizens at that time but now not so much. There was very much more civic spirit back then unlike now when Toronto has been flooded by swarms of self-centered egocentric immigrants from everywhere with no civic spirit and no civic competence and Toronto is becoming a totally wretched Third-World city which can't get even little things done anymore.
@DucatiKozak
7 ай бұрын
Tha ks for your insight, but that got dark quickly.
@DucatiKozak
7 ай бұрын
That billboard at 3:00 behind the streetcar is for PUSSYFOOT 😮😝
@gregoryworth84
2 жыл бұрын
Not so much of Toronto's CNE, rather than streetcars arriving at the Dufferin Gates and leaving the CNE
@paulr4190
2 жыл бұрын
1929 you say. Doesn't look like much of a depression to me. In fact everyone is dressed up to the nines. Unless the depression only hit the States and Canada beat it somehow.
@OldTorontoSeries
2 жыл бұрын
Video is Sept 1929. Stock market crash was the following month.
@paulr4190
2 жыл бұрын
@@OldTorontoSeries Wow what difference a month makes. Can you believe it.
@robandrews4925
20 күн бұрын
the good old days before "diversity" became our strength🤢
@OldTorontoSeries
13 күн бұрын
You think the Irish and Italian not being allowed in were a good “diversity” stopped?
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