Comments on: 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 downtown 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 Dundas 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. J. Bryce Lee photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide. More old school Dundas Square: Pre-square era, 1970: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39305 Time Machine set to 2008: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=16283

By: Driver8666

Driver8666 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:47:11 +0000

Can’t get over the amount of land yachts in this picture.

Especially since none of this exists today.