#toronto in the 1980s

[fruitcage]

[dozydawn]

“Skating along: Yesterday's rain forced Cheryl Elstone to wear skates and an umbrella to shop on Yonge St. and there's more rain predicted today.”

Photographed by Dick Loek.

08 August 1986.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Sigmund Freud - Freud's Interpretation of Dreams - Coles - 1980

[phantom-of-the-apartment]

[terebifunhouse]

if you want some 80s-90s anime cels for your very own, get yourself over to Toronto's The Beguiling ASAP

[nostalgia-eh52]

Vintage Toronto 1980

Cruising around town in a Cadillac

[juliakristeva]

Glad Day Bookshop, the oldest LGBTQIA+ bookshop in North America, c. 1989.

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

August 30th, 1980 - Queen Story!

Queen perform at the C.N.E, Toronto, Canada, during 'The Game World Tour'

[yearningforunity]

A photo of King Culture Record Co. in Toronto’s Little Jamaica. Founded by Jamaican expat, King Culture (aka Everett Cooper), the Record Co. was one of many new music businesses that opened in the 1970s and 1980s Toronto as part of the booming Jamaican music industry in the city.  

Courtesy of Beth Lesser

[thejcube]

Cyndi Lauper.

October 20, 2024

Toronto

Pics are my own

[fruitcage]

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 12, 1986, Sid and Nancy was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

[storytellingsiregararchives]

The subway train that David, Paz, Hassan, Dana, Hector, and Stella are fully familiar with

[saresmusings]

Phone booth Toronto, 1984

Photo by: Avard Woolaver

[avardwoolaver]

The Flyer, Exhibition Place, Toronto, 1982

-from the photo book: "Toronto Flashback (1980-1986)" available at Blurb Books.

https://www.blurb.ca/b/7276218-toronto-flashback-1980-1986

[nostalgia-eh52]

Vintage Toronto 1980

Henry's Camera store at 119 Church Street