Caption: TTC PCC 4404 (A7-class, CC&F 1949) heads westbound on Bloor Street West at St. George Street. At the time, this stretch of Bloor was home to the busy Bloor streetcar route, until it was replaced with the newly constructed crosstown Bloor-Danforth subway line in February 1966. The building on the left (NE corner at 135 St. George) is The York Club, a very old social club founded in 1909 and still present there today. In the distance is the large office tower at Bedford (that at one point housed Texaco offices), and beyond are the high rises and stores around Bloor and Avenue Road (including the Park Plaza Hotel). The University of Toronto's sprawling St. George campus to the south is on the doorstep to all of this.

In all my time collecting slides/negatives and looking at old photos, I've never seen a photo of a streetcar taken here, except this one. Most photos in the area tended to have been shot to the east near Bedford due to the appeal of activity around the old streetcar loop, or to the west at Spadina. Having done a stint at UofT in the past, I passed by this intersection daily going to/from the subway, but never grasped a streetcar once stopped here as I waiting for the light to cross. A heartfelt thank you to people like the late John Bromley, Robert McMann, and those older photographers (some still with us) for documenting such scenes of the past.

John F. Bromley photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection negative.