Caption: Two lads on a bicycle meet TTC PCC 4280 (A5-class car, built by CC&F in 1945), operating on an eastbound King run heading northbound up Broadview Avenue at Bain. The streetcar is passing by the new Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (completed a year earlier). Rollsigns up front read "King" (route) and "Subway" (destination), with a yellow card on the dash likely reading "Broadview Station" (the rollsigns on older cars facing retirement may not have been updated with the new subway terminus names in 1966).
The end for many of the TTC's early air-electric PCC streetcars was days away: 4280 would be one of the old air-electric PCCs rendered surplus a few days later by the opening of the Bloor-Danforth extensions in 1968 (eliminating the Bloor and Danforth "shuttle" runs operated with streetcars since 1966), and subsequently end up as one of the cars sold to Alexandria, Egypt in 1968 (there had also been a culling in 1966 when the original Bloor-Danforth subway line opened).
Robert D. McMann photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
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