More Night Ride 1986

Here's some more smooth sailing late night style from Global TV crica 1986. This clip has a nice drive around downtown T.O, including another buzz by Sam the Record Man and the legendary A&As.

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Education

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• Global
• TV
• Night
• RIde
• 1986
• Downtown
• Toronto
• Sam
• the
• Record
• Man

[browland1]

If you pause at 0:56, you will see the movie theatre marquee with the movies Tough Enough and Blood Simple being shown. If I'm not mistaken, both films were released in 1983 and, assuming this was a first-run cinema, it accurately dates this footage n 1983.

[Retrontario]

@browland1 It wasn't a first run cinema

[thunderstick604]

At a time when T.O. had its identity, still.

These films are now invaluable pieces of history of a once great metropolis.

Yonge street really was 'fun street'. Back then, anyway. :sigh:

Again, many thanks to retrontario.

[SwozyGustafsson]

Guido Basso! Of course!

I was desperately trying to remember the name of the flugelhorn player. Seriously.

[poltallach]

Bloody brilliant!



[pontifixmax]

@Retrontario I remember that theatre well in the 1980's. It was called the Rio. It was definately not first run. One could pay five dollars to see four films, at least one of which was always a porno. The place was open from 11 or noon unitl 5 AM. Needless to say it attracted alot of degenerates.

[thefungarian]

I remember this show.

I'm sure it also influenced me to go on late night drives when I first got my license (the next year)

Thank you Night Ride.

[FarrahnsMom]

I think we all feel the same. I miss Toronto the way it was.

[Xeper1979]

Sadly you may be right but who knows it may come back

[elchubbo]

@browland1 Yeah that was THE RIO which was famous for recycling faves for years to pleased grindhouse fans in the city...

[jellonasuolaa]

A person enjoying these reporting in... from FINLAND!

This was and is a brilliant idea, Finnish channels just showed blank nothingness after midnight or so.

[manhattan85]

@thunderstick604 Not sure it doesn't now have an identity, or it's no longer a "great metropolis." But this sort of local media is gone forever, that's for sure.

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@TTOMO Nowadays, every big city wants to mimic New York. It's not very original or very creative to say the least. I find the layout of downtown Mississauga to be more interesting, original, and not heavily inspired by some other city's creation.