Since our current issue is all about intersections we thought it’d be fun to play a game.
We want you to identify this intersection. Leave your guess in the comments section: we’ll hold on to your opinions until 3pm when we’ll unveil the answer. If you want to see a larger version of the photo check it out on Spacing Photos.
UPDATE at 3pm: The guessing is closed! The intersection is… looking east on St. Clair at Dufferin in 1927.
We’ll do this again each day next week.
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st. clair, east of oakwood?
St Clair & Dufferin?
St. Clair looking east at Dufferin
St. Clair West looking east from Dufferin Street
St. Clair looking east at Dufferin, I think.
If I had to guess, this would be St. Clair and Bathurst, looking east towards Yonge, indeed at the precise location where the St. Clair West station loop is now.
Note that the cars are on private right-of-way, whcih existed on St. Clair Avenue until around 1935.
St. Clair looking east at Dufferin.
I think this is St. Clair and Dufferin!
St. Clair Ave. W west of Bathurst for sure, but how far west is a ? and I don’t have the time to bike up to see so let’s guess near Pinewood/Wychwood on south but it also could be a lot further west near Oakwood
I’d say Spadina, between Dundas and College.
Hrm… actually, no, too hilly. No clue.
St. Clair & Oakwood.
St.Clair and Bathurst, looking west. I think I remember this pic from posts about the ROW.
St.Clair Avenue, looking towards Oakwood Ave. from
Dufferin Street.
I think that is St. Clair.
St. Clair did have a ROW for streetcars in the past, no?
st. clair and dufferin
St. Clair & Dufferin, looking east.
Much tougher than the others…
It’s an extremely wide street, but not Spadina ’cause it doesn’t dip like that.
I guess St. Clair, looking west from Vaughan Rd?
St. Clair and Dufferin.
St. Clair W and [appropriate cross street]?
St. Clair Avenue looking east from Dufferin St.
Looking east on St. Clair Ave. W. from Oakwood Ave.
Contrary to popular belief within the downtown hipster Market Street San Francisco Muni and N Line crowd, this is NOT the Scarborough Rapid Transit line at Ellesmere! Repeat, this is NOT the Scarborough Rapid Transit line…
This ain’t the OLD St. Clair right of way looking east from Dufferin. That would be too obvious.
This isn’t McCaul Street looking north from Queen Street West. That ‘Grange Cafe’ ain’t fooling no one unless they haven’t had their cuppa joe this morning.
This ain’t even your Grandpa jaywalking with your Grandma heading towards Lick’s Homeburgers on Queen Street East in The Beach(es) just west of Waverly.
This is in fact the new Pier W at Pearson International Airport Terminal 1 looking North by North East… Oh sorry, it’s Canadian new music week in T.O. not the nxne thingie in the warmer dog daze of sumer smog days. Scratch that.
My bad.
Being a tad obsessed, but without going up to see it or asking friends not so much first guesstimate, but maybe it’s Christie and St. Clair Ave W., or Ossington and thanks for doing this contest.
Spadina and Sullivan, looking north on Spadina
St clair near dufferin? I can’t figure out if the photo is looking east or west.
I’m guessing St. Clair W at Dufferin looking East. (Note the streetcar right of way.)
It’s harder without a landmark bank… Definitely St. Clair, perhaps near Earlscourt Ave looking west?
That’s the old St Clair ROW isnt it? I’m thinking St Clair and Dufferin area…
St. Clair West of Yonge? (I can’t see any particular intersection here)
St Clair and Dufferin, looking East
A sign says Grange Café, so perhaps College and McCaul. I was going to say St. Clair and Bathurst due to the hills.
I’ll say it’s somewhere on St Clair west. “Grange” cafe evokes Dundas, but it looks too wide and I didn’t think there was a streetcar right of way on Dundas.
This is a tougher one. The slope makes me feel like it’s in the Oakwood area.
This is the Hillcrest part of St. Clair, so around Dufferin. I’d say the view reminds me of looking East, as there was always a slope down to my Apt when I lived at Yonge and St. Clair. When I went for long bike rides west, that last bit on return was nice and easy.
Its either St. Clair and Dufferine looking East or St. Clair and Oakwood looking east.
Imagine… a right a way for streetcars! What an innovative idea!
St. Clair Avenue West looking west. At Rushton?
Does that big sign on the right say “Grange Cafe”? Could this be Dundas + McCaul, look West? (shot in the dark)
Spadina and Dundas? It looks way too downhill for that, but the street is so wide and the cafe is called Grange, which suggests that area to me.
my guess is St. Clair W and Bathurst
Dundas & Spadina, looking south on Spadina.
St Clair facing west at yonge?
My guess: looking east on St. Clair at Dufferin.
That’s a tough one – the only clue I can see is the Grange Cafe, which would imply it’s around Dundas and McCaul. But the street’s double-wide, which would imply University. But gee, I don’t know.
Yonge and St. Clair.
If the frame was to the left a bit, that big church would be in view (I think it was built by ’27) and would have made this an easier guess probably.
It was in front of that church 2 weeks into moving to Toronto in 2000 that a guy jay walking tried to push me off my bike, for some reason. Never happened again (from a pedestrian — cars are a different matter).
I suppose the theme has changed from “Bathurst intersections” to “Pictures out of ‘Fifty Years of Progressive Transit'” (Great book, if not 30 years out of date)
And I thought the theme was “hot Presbyterian flapper chicks.”
Isn’t this interesting!
Today there’s a debate about a streetcar right-of-way for St. Clair Ave.
and here we see that one existed in “the old days.”
What goes around comes around!
James Bow hit it way up top somewhere: St Clair looking east at Bathurst. Look at the shadow falling from the right–that means it can’t be looking west–sun would be wrong side, people. Oh, and those pedestrians are just a couple of early converts to the problem the TTC is still complaining about today: transit users making delays for everyone!