Vintage Toronto
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Used to go there and play 78s then decided to buy them or not.
That's right they would let you listen to stuff before you bought it, like HMV did in their 6 floor store, that was a big deal too.
HMV Megastore opened in 1991, the place was huge.
I remember people lining up for the headsets to listen to whatever CD that was at each station, great way to meet girls.
I remember people lining up for the headsets to listen to whatever CD that was at each station, great way to meet girls.
Who didn't spend hours here on a weekend browsing through the magazines and books.
www.thestar.com
‘Going to the World’s Biggest Bookstore was an event.’ 10 years after closing, it still has a grip on former readers
Having everything available at your browsing fingertips felt like a brick-and-mortar Amazon in Toronto, but with smiling staff whose knowledge elevated the experience.
I went to the BMV Books just a few doors down and spent hours there looking at smut magazines at back of store!
So many memories as a child here and then Atlantis nightclub with the spinning dance floor over the water.
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The houses were better than Regent Park, now it's run down and bunch of new condos are being built over Regent Park.
All the trees and grass will be gone for good.
All the trees and grass will be gone for good.
I'm glad you post the above photograph.
It depicts the Toronto downtown and inner core for what it was back in the day and it definitely was not a lively, vibrant, colorful, color infused city full of eventful places.
It actually was drab, gray, morose. Full of parking lot, after parking lot after parking lot. Old industrial buildings, warehouses and empty, barren and abandoned brownfields littered the landscape.
To compare that Toronto, to the Toronto of today and to claim," ah, it was so wonderful back then compared to now:, is the epitome of being stuck in time and space.
I'm not stuck in that time and space of the early years of the O'keefe because I wasn't even born then. lol
I remember it well during the late 80's and 90's and it Toronto was far from "drab and gray".
I'm glad you replied though and let me re-post this great shot of Yonge street though.
