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With the news that John Tory will be heading up the revitalization of Ontario Place<\/a>, let’s revisit a piece I wrote 1.5 years ago, exploring the faded-glory of Ontario Place. Revitalize yes, but just save those hot-pants pods. 1973 vintage photo via the wonderful Not My Father’s Slides<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In one of the photo albums I grew up with, one that contained snapshots of my parents\u2019 lives before I was born, there were a handful of pics taken in 1971 at Ontario Place, the year it opened. They\u2019ve all got the golden tint that photos from that era have acquired \u2014 the troubles of the day seem far away as everything is muted by that gilded patina. One that always stood out is of a polyester-clad choir singing what I imagine is the old Expo \u201967 Ontario anthem \u201cA Place to Stand<\/a>.\u201d It all looked so optimistic and young, the brilliant future of Ontario and Canada.<\/p>\n

The future is old now \u2014 nearly 40 years old \u2014 and it\u2019s easy to drift into nostalgia about a place like Ontario Place, one of those civic spaces that are nostalgia machines. Everybody of a certain not-too-old age has a memory of either romping or working around here or heard stories passed down from a baby-boomer parent of working here in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

Yet as the Ontario government \u2014 it doesn\u2019t seem like it, but this is a public space \u2014 is planning a major redevelopment of the area<\/a>, this is no time for nostalgia. Some of the best buildings in Toronto are at risk of being swept away because the bureaucrats in charge have let Ontario Place slide into irrelevance. No offence to bureaucrats intended, but they may not be good at running things that are, well, supposed to be fun. Anybody who\u2019s visited Ontario Place in the past decade or more knows it needs a major overhaul. It\u2019s boring, neglected and tired. The future isn\u2019t what it once was.<\/p>\n

When it opened in 1971, it was Ontario\u2019s $29 million answer to Montreal\u2019s Expo \u201967, if not in terms of civic pride then in dreams of waterfront and economic stimulus (a Toronto theme that never seems to go away). Designed by Toronto\u2019s Eberhard Zeidler<\/a>, it was constructed on fill dumped into Lake Ontario off the CNE shore, including three old lake freighters that were sunk and filled with sand to act as anchors for the landfill. The five pods that were suspended over the lake are like nothing else in the world, and the Cinesphere had the world\u2019s first permanent IMAX theatre. For those who like to fret about Toronto\u2019s world-class-ness, we\u2019ve got some beauties right here. Once housing exhibits, the pods are only used for wedding and event rentals now. With floor-to-ceiling glass, they have some of the best views of Toronto, and few people get to see them.<\/p>\n

Like Expo \u201967, its opening brought with it a kind of Trudeaumaniacal excitement. If Expo let Canada be sexy, Ontario Place said this historically uptight province could be too. Ads from that first year proclaimed the glories of \u201cThe Girls of Ontario Place<\/a>\u201d claiming \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to see at Ontario Place, and some of the easiest things on the eye are the attractive guides.\u201d The Globe and Mail<\/em> even did a photo spread of said girls, writing, \u201cThe 100 girls who are the hostesses at Ontario Place for the summer\u2026 have hot pants and pantsuits, a midi, a jacket and a stretchy yellow-and-white bubble blouse. Most popular are the hot pants. One girl commented \u2018I\u2019ve just got to shorten them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Ontario Place could use more hot pants. The uniforms (on both sexes) are frumpy and oversized now (though perhaps on account of the deep-fried foods that are served in huge portions \u2014 even the coffee bar is called a \u201cfill station\u201d). On a recent trip there, I spent over $15 just to enter the grounds for a walk that included few free attractions and a lot of either rundown or neglected buildings. On the east side, where the beloved children\u2019s village once was, a dead, mostly paved space called \u201cSouth Beach\u201d is located near the waterslide park. The other older bits that have survived here and there are unloved, and the newer games and attractions seem temporary, as if part of the CNE.<\/p>\n

Ontario Place was never a money-maker, and there are newspaper stories over the decades lamenting this. The only part that is a really profitable is the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, though it came at the cost of losing the Forum, an intimate outdoor concert venue in-the-round (the circular stage even rotated) with open seating under a tent-like roof and grassy areas. Baryshnikov danced here, many Torontonians saw their first symphony on that stage, and in 1980, after 1,000 fans of Teenage Head rioted for four hours when they were turned away from the sold-out show, \u201crock\u201d concerts were banned for some time. The parklike forum has been replaced by high-security amphitheatre with gloved paramilitary-looking security people. The open stage over at Harbourfront has taken on the easy-come-easy-go role of the Forum, but without its bucolic, nearly forest setting.<\/p>\n

When the Forum was torn down in 1994 and chainsaws were taken to over 400 mature trees, architect Zeidler told the Toronto Star<\/em>, \u201cOnce the park image has gone\u2026 it\u2019s Coney Island.\u201d Zeidler\u2019s original design was much more parklike than Expo \u201967, as exhibits were a small part of the experience, as he said in 1974: \u201c[It] wasn\u2019t like Expo\u2026 the key was to create leisure time, space within an urban context and the spaces for exhibitions themselves become only one of many developments.\u201d Last month, when talk of redevelopment went public, he said what happened to Ontario Place is like \u201ca fantastic Jaguar, and you run it into a ditch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ontario Place needs a near-complete rethink. We should bring back the park, make it free and turn it into a great Toronto public space. Build housing in and around it, so it\u2019s a 24-hour neighbourhood, not just alive during the summer daylight hours. As dense communities are growing in nearby Liberty Village and Fort York, putting people in Ontario Place would nearly surround the CNE with life.<\/p>\n

Yet whatever we do with this place, we must retain the hot-pants parts: the pods and sphere. Modernist buildings at this age are at greatest risk. Like awkward teenagers, they are unloved and are routinely disrespected, but parents don\u2019t disown them; they know they\u2019ll come around in a few years. Also at risk is a particular Toronto look that Zeidler gave us at Ontario Place and at his Eaton Centre, itself about to get a $120-million renovation which will likely remove many of the 1970s \u201cfuturistic\u201d Space Shuttle\u2013era details. Because of the age of both these places, and their connections to fun times, it\u2019s easy to dismiss our built heritage as nostalgia.<\/p>\n

But as Jane Jacobs said, new ideas need old buildings, and these buildings are now old, just like now-loved Victorian architecture was when she wrote those words. It\u2019s time to do new things with these fine buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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