Caption: I guess one can call this the "Malaise Era" of Dundas Square: low-rise retail with seedy establishments and parking lots. Before the heavily commercialized, high-rise, prime commercial real estate downtown square of today.

TTC PCC 4391 (A6-class, CC&F 1948) trundles eastbound on the Dundas route, crossing Victoria Street just to the east of Yonge. To the right is the old Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (pre-University, pre-TMU) parking lot (pre-parking garage, pre-10 Dundas East) . In the distance is part of Sam The Record Man's large store at Yonge and Gould (they took over the CIBC at the corner, I think what's visible is the "Sam The Tape Man" annex. The back alleys of various Yonge Street businesses are visible, including one marked "Disney", what appears to be a burger tavern, and "Cinema 2000 - Adult Films". The Toronto Star billboard is hocking papers at the corner of Yonge and Dundas, and several downtown high-rises are starting to take shape in the near vicinity, harbingers of changes to come in the coming decades.

J. Bryce Lee photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

More old school Dundas Square:
Wayback to 1967: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47401
Pre-square era, 1970: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39305
Brown Derby Tavern era, 1974: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=38026
Fast Food and Film, 1976: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31453
Time Machine set to 2008: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16283