The death of Emmanuel Jacques shocked and saddened you and it was the first time you heard that it was no longer "Toronto the good.". You respected the "no food or drinks allowed" rule on the TTC because it was clean and looked like this. Outdoors Health & Fitness Beauty & Fashion Home Decor Pop Culture Contests Inside Daily Hive. Because they were yellow, you could always spot Metropolitan Toronto Police cars a mile away. Key producers included Bob Ezrin and Jack Richardson. Bloody, bare knuckle brawls erupted regularly at most bars, and ugly bigotry was still rife.

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25 vintage photos of Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 1970s, this Isabella Street haunt was the spot for post-punk and new wave sounds oozing into the city at the time. during a Segarini/Teenage Head concert in 1980. Venue feels really cozy and spacious at the same time. Following the improv troupe’s performances, Aykroyd dropped by the bluesy bar and occasionally blew on the harmonica even though at the time, according to Downchild singer Richard “Hock” Walsh, “he couldn’t play harmonica to save his life.” Aykroyd later cited Downchild’s album Straight Up as an inspiration for the Blues Brothers.

Wrongbar. By the 1970s, it operated a recording studio which drew acts like Alice Cooper and Bob Seger. Takeout. So even as I've written about 1970s Toronto before, here's a big and better photo roundup to address our collective appetite for a version of Toronto that's a little rougher around the edges. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Its demise was spurred by complaints about beer, noise, overcrowding, violence, and vomit—how rock n’ roll is that? June 6, 1970 by Dave Bist,1-Jacket and tie required 2-Reservations required. 29.

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3. Beginning in the early 1960s, 'discothèque' (the French word for 'record library') has been used to designate nightclubs in which recordings, rather than live performers, provide music for dancing. Tony, Albert, David, and Michael Assoon forever altered Toronto’s dance club nightscape with their Twilight Zone, but that venue’s reach was rooted in earlier efforts. Hottest 'Hoods For Condos In Toronto. Seeing double bills at local drive-ins was how you got lucky in the summer. He walked away with a one-year suspended sentence with requirements to continue a rehab program he had entered in New York, report periodically to a probation officer in Toronto, and play a benefit concert for the blind.

26. Toronto’s city landscape is ever changing. Unsubscribe anytime or, Sign up for our free email newsletter so you’re always in the know. Large group friendly.

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Also on HuffPost. Billed as “The Cockroaches” below opening act April Wine, the group’s shows were their first in a club setting in over a decade and gained notoriety due to Keith Richards’s drug bust at the Harbour Castle the week before (see #12 below) and the presence of Margaret Trudeau, who had just separated from the Prime Minister. 28.

Disco. Before the Victory shut down in 1975, it also played host, sans stripteases, to the likes of Peter Frampton, the New York Dolls, and Rush. 27.

Not only have we lost much of our industrial architecture, but the mom and pop signage that tended to make the urban landscape seem like a scramble of unique markers has progressively given way to homogenous corporate branding. Retrontario plumbs the seedy depths of Toronto flea markets, flooded basements, thrift shops and garage sales, mining old VHS and Betamax tapes that less than often contain incredible moments of history that were accidentally recorded but somehow survived the ravages of time. When Richards went to trial in October 1978, the charges were reduced to one count of heroin possession.

They've got a super cool menu with a whole section for vegetarians (I'm not vegetarian…” more, “ scarfing down the delicious hot veal sandwiches from San Francesco's next door, which you're allowed to do). You went to the Zoo when it opened, and it pretty much blew your mind. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. “At the moment, he told the Ryerson Review in September 1977, “we are the only punk rock club in the city because no other managers will tolerate them.” David’s literally went out in a blaze of glory—following a New Year’s concert to ring in 1978, the venue burned under mysterious circumstances, destroying the equipment of bands like The Ugly. The 1970s were a vibrant time in ... Disco dancers at the opening of Daddy Long Legs at the International Plaza Hotel in North Vancouver on July 31, 1979. You remember where you were when the antenna was placed atop the CN Tower, and heard the urban legend about the workers who bolted it on urinating from its top over the city when they were done. Thanks to an indifference to heritage structures, major swaths of the core appear as parking lots during this period. 20. 14.

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Some shows drew better than others: the Police drew only 20 spectators over two nights in November 1978, while overcrowding at “The Last Pogo” punk concert a few weeks later led to a riot when the event was shut down. 1 Nimbus 9 (131 Hazelton Avenue, then 39 Hazelton Avenue)

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Toronto has certainly become a more interesting and diverse place to live in over the last 40+ years, but if there's one thing that it's lost (and this is true of most cities), it's that scrappy, hodgepodge element that a photographer like Patrick Cummins has documented so well. Perhaps it's because our modern downtown was formed during this period, with the birth of Commerce Court West, First Canadian Place, The CN Tower and The Eaton Centre. You were scared but curious of the Yonge Street "Sin Strip" which ran from Bloor to King, especially the grindhouse theatres like the Coronet, the Biltmore and of course the Rio. You treasured the arrival of the Toronto Blue Jays - the breathless reporting from training in Dunedin, the pre-game parade, the snow drenched opening game, the disastrous first season and their disco theme song: All of it, golden.

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Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. Years later, Richards admitted the incident helped him straighten his act (somewhat).