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These Fascinating Photos Capture the Everyday Life of Toronto in the 1960s
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<blockquote data-quote="$lave" data-source="post: 1430" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/mindseyemag.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/68CF7997-69BB-4AFC-BA27-76BD59F5D03B.jpeg?fit=736%2C468&ssl=1" alt="These Fascinating Photos Capture the Everyday Life of Toronto in the 1960s" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/toronto-photos-1960s.jpg?resize=640%2C422&ssl=1" alt="These Fascinating Photos Capture the Everyday Life of Toronto in the 1960s" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>One of the most captivating ways to delve into Toronto’s bygone days is through this remarkable collection of photographs that chronicle the everyday life of the city in the 1960s.</p><p>These images, taken by <strong>gcosserat</strong> on Flickr, offer a unique glimpse into a bygone era, showcasing the people, places, and moments that defined the city during this transformative decade.</p><p>As the 1960s began, Toronto’s skyline comprised a collection of buildings tinted with sepia tones, featuring banks, hotels, and church steeples.</p><p>In comparison to the bustling metropolis we know today, it was a considerably quieter and more conservative city.</p><p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/3.bp.blogspot.com/-8Y5WHqoHdOs/WwePxZHD67I/AAAAAAABa8U/vw_f6nMMW2glaPCB1ir-tJNyK8s5j4eTACLcBGAs/s1600/Toronto%2Bin%2Bthe%2BEarly%2B1960s%2B%25282%2529.jpg?resize=640%2C237&ssl=1" alt="Old Photo of Toronto from the 1960s" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Brentwood Towers, Toronto</p><p>During this decade, Toronto’s downtown core was rebuilt with new, taller, skyscrapers.</p><p>A new Toronto City Hall was opened; the Eaton Centre shopping and office complex; four new bank towers were built at the intersection of Bay and King Streets, the “MINT corners” and new towers along University Avenue.</p><p>This was causing havoc with the city’s old television and radio towers which were simply not tall enough to serve the city, so engineers and politicians decided that something had to be built taller than any other building in the city or anything that would probably ever be built.</p><p>They decided to build a super-tall massive television and radio tower (the CN Tower), which was completed in 1976 on the railway lands south of downtown.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/these-fascinating-photos-capture-the-everyday-life-of-toronto-in-the-1960s/" target="_blank"><strong><em>Read More</em></strong></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="$lave, post: 1430, member: 1"] [IMG alt="These Fascinating Photos Capture the Everyday Life of Toronto in the 1960s"]https://i0.wp.com/mindseyemag.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/68CF7997-69BB-4AFC-BA27-76BD59F5D03B.jpeg?fit=736%2C468&ssl=1[/IMG] [IMG alt="These Fascinating Photos Capture the Everyday Life of Toronto in the 1960s"]https://i0.wp.com/rarehistoricalphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/toronto-photos-1960s.jpg?resize=640%2C422&ssl=1[/IMG] One of the most captivating ways to delve into Toronto’s bygone days is through this remarkable collection of photographs that chronicle the everyday life of the city in the 1960s. These images, taken by [B]gcosserat[/B] on Flickr, offer a unique glimpse into a bygone era, showcasing the people, places, and moments that defined the city during this transformative decade. As the 1960s began, Toronto’s skyline comprised a collection of buildings tinted with sepia tones, featuring banks, hotels, and church steeples. In comparison to the bustling metropolis we know today, it was a considerably quieter and more conservative city. [IMG alt="Old Photo of Toronto from the 1960s"]https://i0.wp.com/3.bp.blogspot.com/-8Y5WHqoHdOs/WwePxZHD67I/AAAAAAABa8U/vw_f6nMMW2glaPCB1ir-tJNyK8s5j4eTACLcBGAs/s1600/Toronto%2Bin%2Bthe%2BEarly%2B1960s%2B%25282%2529.jpg?resize=640%2C237&ssl=1[/IMG] Brentwood Towers, Toronto During this decade, Toronto’s downtown core was rebuilt with new, taller, skyscrapers. A new Toronto City Hall was opened; the Eaton Centre shopping and office complex; four new bank towers were built at the intersection of Bay and King Streets, the “MINT corners” and new towers along University Avenue. This was causing havoc with the city’s old television and radio towers which were simply not tall enough to serve the city, so engineers and politicians decided that something had to be built taller than any other building in the city or anything that would probably ever be built. They decided to build a super-tall massive television and radio tower (the CN Tower), which was completed in 1976 on the railway lands south of downtown. [URL='https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/these-fascinating-photos-capture-the-everyday-life-of-toronto-in-the-1960s/'][B][I]Read More[/I][/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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