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Aug 26, 2024 · The Blue Jays championships, Electric Circus, the club district — here are 10 things that defined Toronto in the ’90s. Updated Aug. 26, 2024 at 5:02 p.m. Aug. 26, 2024
Feb 19, 2022 · Toronto in the 1990s was a time before the internet became a thing, before iPhones and Instagram. It was a very different place, an era when the megacity came into existence, the SkyDome was still ...
May 13, 2023 · The Shuffle Demons at Yonge and Bloor. Toronto was much less polished back in the 1980s. It was a grittier city, but in some ways also a friendlier and less cynical place. It was a city with ...
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- Your Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992. And then again, the following year, and you wondered how anything could possibly ever top that.
- You or someone you knew owned the Barenaked Ladies yellow tape.
- You dropped a lot of change into Streetfighter II arcades, which luckily could be found in most Pizza Pizza locations.
- You thought PJ "Phresh" Phil was the coolest guy on TV, and as you watched him daily on YTV's The Zone and hoped one day you might be 1/1000th as awesome as he was.
- Toronto was known to everyone as the "T.Dot". There was none of this "The 6ix" nonsense.
- Watching Speaker's Corner religiously was a popular activity for Torontonians. Everyone wanted to see if their $1 recorded message ever made it to air.
- PJ "Phresh" Phil was everybody's unofficial homie. Which automatically made YTV's The Zone everybody's unofficial guilty pleasure.
- Tarzan Dan of Hit List was also everyone's fave. He had people staying hip by keeping them updated with the pop music of the time. Photo cred - centralnostalgia.
Mar 10, 2014 · Here, 15 signs you grew up in Toronto in the 1980s. 1. You crammed onto the Spadina Bus while singing “Spadina Bus”. The old Spadina 77 buses seemed to come every five seconds, yet they were ...
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Yep. I could easily pick up a temp job anytime that paid $12-13/hr, about $20 today. Most permanent/career type jobs paid much better. You could live with roommates for $300-400 month. Of course, even in the early 90s people were sounding the alarm about affordable housing, but that was mostly re: low-income people.