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A wild romp through the streets of Toronto with the Shuffle Demons rapping about their favourite form of public transit. Was a big hit on MuchMusic in Canada and started the band on an international career. More at www.shuffledemons.co m
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Clips of views from the end of an eastbound train on Toronto's Bloor-Danforth subway line, between Spadina station and Woodbine station. Note the newly-installed automated announcements.
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View from the back of a Toronto TTC subway train heading southbound on the Yonge-University-Spa dina subway line between Downsview and St. George stations. (Parts of the video have been sped up to reduce the video duration)
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Automated announcements and ticker on a Toronto TTC streetcar on the Spadina LRT line. Southbound between College Street and Sullivan Street via Chinatown.
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This is the original video I filmed of Toronto cops fighting and punching a man at Queen and Spadina. A lower quality version of the video, which I emailed to CTV, aired on the news twice!
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Skydiggers performing "Maybe It's Just Not Good Enough" live at the Cabana Room in the Spadina Hotel, at a New Year's show from 1989. It's the original line-up, and the start of a 20 year tradition.
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Taking a ride on the spadina streetcar to spadina station. If the video is a bit choppy, it's cause it was being recorded directly on the mini sd card I got. Note The streetcar waiting on the service track.
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A bird's eye view of the neighbourhoods and select landmarks of Toronto's municipal Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina, bounded by Bathurst Street, KoreaTown on Bloor, Christie Street north to the Rail Road tracks, west along the tracks and South down Dovercourt Road to the Canadian National Exhibition and Ontario Place, Fort York and Liberty Village.
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Here's a live performance by Skydiggers from a New Year's show in 1989. This song, "When you walk by" has not turned up on any Skydiggers records. For fans of Toronto's late 80's Queen Street West music scene, this video will take you back 20 years.