Caption: TTC PCC 4599 operates on a fantrip, making the turn from southbound on Church Street to westbound on Wellington. In the background, another TTC PCC can be seen heading eastbound on King Street. The downtown skyline in this part of town was a little less impressive back then than it is today. 4599 was part of a 52-car group of PCC's acquired secondhand from the Cincinnati Street Railway in 1950. Half were pre-war "air-operated" PCC's built by St. Louis Car in 1939/40, classified as TTC "A10" cars 4575-4601, and the other half were the A9 "all-electric" cars 4550-4574 built in 1947). They operated in Toronto for nearly two decades until most of the A10's were included in part of a group of 100 Toronto PCC's sold to Egypt in 1968 (rendered surplus due to the opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway extensions, that replaced the Bloor and Danforth "shuttle" runs). Six of the remaining A10's were sold to Tampico, Mexico in 1971/72, including car 4599.

The Church/Wellington/Front intersection was at the south end of the old Church streetcar route (they used to loop Front-Scott-Wellington), which ran all the way up to Bloor ending at Asquith Loop. Regular streetcar service had ended in May 1954 (replaced by buses), but the tracks along the southern part of Church between College & Wellington were retained for short-turns and diversions, and remain in use for that purpose to this day.

Mid-century modern bank building at the north-west corner of Church & Wellington has served home to a Toronto Dominion Bank, a Pizza Pizza, and is currently a burger bistro.

Foster Morrison photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.