International Malls: Unknown Toronto Mall
Unknown shopping mall, Toronto - 1974
Came across these cool vintage mall clips recently and thought I'd share 'em here. Apparently, this is from a short-lived Canadian TV crime series called, The Collaborators. From the uploader's description:
"In this episode of The Collaborators, a robbery has taken place at a bank (CIBC) and a hostage situation has taken place. The robbers take the hostages thru the mall. They walk by St. Clair Paint, Eaton's, Golden Dolphin and Radio Shack."The YouTube member here is unsure of which shopping mall these scenes were actually filmed in, however, but guesses it might be the Scarborough Town Centre, which opened in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
For my part, I have no idea. But I like grooving on old mall footage wherever it's filmed at, so it's still cool to me either way. And yes, William Shatner is the robber.
posted by Keith @ 1/12/2007
6 Comments:
Great footage--whatever mall it is!!
It does look like the Town Centre. I didn't realize it was that old. There's still a lot of the 1970's in that mall.
William Shatner in a Canadian series as a bad guy. Was he not getting work in the 70s?
Groovy mall though whatever it is!
Ummm the Scarborough Town Centre is in Scarborough. William Shatner is a Canadian btw.
i also suspected sherway gardens but a previous poster said all stores had the same signage in that mall back in the day.
to my eye, this looks like scarborough town centre. something about the ceiling and centre areas of the mall recall that mall.
I'm 100% sure that's the Scarborough Town Centre. I used to hang out in that mall in the late 70's and early 80's. I also worked there for a number of years.
The railings of the upper level are the same as are the ceilings, those old benches and I can see the old Eaton's third floor restaurant in the clip.
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