Anyone on here from the old daze who remembers Yorkville or Rochdale in Toronto? I would love to reconnect with any old friends from those days.
me...i bought dope from rochdale.. .i used to hate those fucking stairs...and always nervous leaving there...my older brother partied there many times... i think i was 15 the first time i went there.....i should remember that security dudes name...it was plastered all over the building with graffiti saying what a dick he was i was in toronto yesterday...i have no love for the city i grew up in..it does not seem familiar any longer i could not wait to leave i live on an island off kingston now.....
I moved into Rochdale in 68, the building wasn't actually finished and we weren't really supposed to be there...there was no glass in the huge windows beside the elevators (which never worked anyways) and I lived on the 15th floor, so it was a long way up. It would kill me if I had to walk up those stairs nowdays. There was no security to speak of in those days, and nobody knew who was supposed to be living where, it was total chaos. I lived there again in, must have been 1970, and actually had to pay rent! The rent was due on Thursday and I got paid on Friday, so every Thursday night the security used to change my locks. And every Thursday night, my neighbour used to climb from his window into mine and let me in. I lived on the 12th floor then, so it was a totally insane arrangement.
Yes I hung around Yorkville and Rochdale. Mostly the Village though. Remember Pops. Loved that ol' guy. I was there between '67 and '69. In '69 everything was really going downhill fast. lol including me, so I left TO. Had some good times though.
Yep, I remember Pops. Like most young girls in those days, I gave him a wide berth, as he was a bit "handy"! But what a character! He was a Yorkville institution. Yorkville went downhill after the developers moved in and started pulling everything down and rebuilding, it was such a shame, it really killed the place. I went off to San Francisco about that time, but I have great memories of Toronto back in those days.
