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Caption: People go about their day on a Winter afternoon as TTC PCC 4399 (the last of the A6-class of PCC's, 4300-4399, built by CC&F in 1947-48) sneaks through the intersection on a yellow, turning eastbound off McCaul Street onto Dundas Street West while operating on the Harbord route on the trip from St. Clarens Loop (Davenport near Lansdowne) to Lipton Loop in the city's east end (Pape near Danforth). The zig-zagging Harbord streetcar route would be nixed in a few years when the Bloor-Danforth subway opened in February 1966, but 4399 would go on to serve nearly three more decades prowling Toronto streets, becoming the last A6 car in service when it was retired in 1990.
McCaul, an often overlooked street, still has streetcar tracks today that connect College-Dundas-Queen, as well as McCaul Loop (north of Queen) used for short turning 502 Downtowner (former Kingston Road) streetcars. At the time of this photo, S&M Super Market occupied the NW corner, Fox-Taylor Pharmacy the NE corner, and a Toronto Dominion Bank on the SW corner (that was demolished at some point in the 70's for an extension of the Art Gallery of Ontario).
John Freyseng photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection (this one was a badly cyan-shifted EATONS processed Ektachrome(?) slide, with quite a bit of colour adjustment and editing performed).
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Hi Dan, thank you for sharing this picture and doing the colour correction on this slide. This is one of the earliest 35mm slides taken by John Freyseng, and the very first roll of film was Ektachrome. TTC slide numbers 12 (McCaul at College) and 13 (McCaul north of Dundas) were taken on a Sat in February when he was on his way to study at UofT Library . This could very well be slide 13. The first railway slides were not taken until early May after exams were finished.
Thanks railwayguy for the background info from John! Looking at the slide mount, this one is numbered slide 15, and noted as “McCaul & Dundas, S to E”. There’s also no exact date noted, just a processing date for February 1962 stamped on the mount.
Was it common for photographers back then to have their slides developed at department stores like Eatons (who presumably had their own camera departments that did that sort of thing) rather than, say, Kodak themselves? I know the Kodachromes for one had special processing and chemical requirements.
Thanks for further info and confirmation of slide number. Was working my way south on McCaul from College St to Dundas. Can’t remember slide no.14, but this shot being slide no.15 certainly makes sense. I can’t answer about Eaton’s doing the developing. Kodak 35mm film box included a mailer for processing by Kodak or you could drop it off at the Mt Dennis plant (future Mt Dennis Eglinton X-Town LRT Station ). Maybe Bob Sandusky remembers who did Ektachrome developing. Are you up to “colour correcting” a few more Ektachromes ?
railwayguy, I could probably do a few colour corrections if you need some done. Send me a message through the contact option.