Goin’ Down the Road<\/a> was shot all around Toronto in 1970 and included extensive footage of Yonge Street at the height of its legendary mix of smutty and middle-class establishments. Some quick YouTube searches didn’t produce any clips from the film, but did reveal a full SCTV parody of it (part 1 is above — part 2 below) where John Candy and Joe Flaherty make their way from Atlantic Canada to Toronto. It begins with a disclaimer cautioning “THIS MOVIE CONTAINS SCENES OF EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE, NUDITY AND EXPLICIT FOOTAGE OF YONGE STREET IN TORONTO.” Toronto songs, a mildly offensive selection of Canadian accents and lots of Yonge Street in the early 1980s makes for a fun ten minutes. You can also catch a glimpse of an old PCC streetcar near the end of part 2.
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