{"id":967,"date":"2006-07-10T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T04:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:04","slug":"the-77b-on-the-ttc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/10\/the-77b-on-the-ttc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;the 77B on the TTC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KZnLjRi_g9o\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KZnLjRi_g9o\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago we posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=927\">&#8220;Romantic Traffic&#8221; video by the Spoons<\/a> that was filmed on the TTC subway lines. Today, we found &#8220;The Spadina Bus&#8221; video by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuffledemons.com\/\">Shuffle Demons<\/a>. Urban legend has it that the TTC wouldn&#8217;t allow the rapping jazz beatniks onto the bus to film because the tall foreheads didn&#8217;t like the lines &#8220;I went down to the station\/ I didn&#8217;t scream or fuss\/ but I didn&#8217;t have lots of patience\/ waiting for that bus\/ I reached into my pocket\/ to try and find some coin\/ but much to my chagrin\/ all I found was my groin!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video was filmed up and down Spadina Avenue in 1986 and directed by John Gunn and Rob Fresco. The Spadina streetcar LRT was still a decade away from opening (<a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/streetcar\/4108.shtml\">go here<\/a> for a brief history of the Spadina line). There are some good shots at Spadina and Dundas and outside the CIBC branch at Queen and Spadina. There is a brief glimpse of a streetcar which looks like the old <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/streetcar\/4709.shtml\">Peter Witt car<\/a>. I wish the TTC would still use some of <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/images\/bus-8000-00.jpg\">those old buses<\/a> with their gold and maroon colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago we posted the &#8220;Romantic Traffic&#8221; video by the Spoons that was filmed on the TTC subway lines. Today, we found &#8220;The Spadina Bus&#8221; video by the Shuffle Demons. 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