Caption: A sunny late afternoon finds TTC PCC 4468 (an A7-class car built new for the TTC in 1949) heading westbound along Queen Street near Soho Street, passing some of the small shops and Victorian-era storefronts lining the downtown street.

About Books is just one example of the ever-present secondhand book stores that used to (and still do) dot parts of Toronto, where you could find anything from classic literature such as The Big Sleep, A Clockwork Orange, MacBeth, and Murder on the Orient Express to more modern offerings such as movie novelizations, romantic novels, and dime-store thrillers (and sometimes university texts for one's English literature courses).

Today this store front is occupied by a woman's fashion boutique, a reflection of the gentrification that part of Toronto has gone through a stone's throw away from trendy "West Queen West" - full of chic fashion retailers, sidewalk patio restaurants and cafes, coffee houses and Yoga studios that the young working professionals who live in the area frequent.

Robert D. McMann photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection.