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TAKE A GUESS: name this intersection, March 12th

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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 picks 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: You guys and gals are good. Looking west on Danforth at Pape in 1931. We’ll make them a tad more challenging as the week goes on.

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38 comments

  1. Danforth and Pape, looking west.

  5. Danforth near Pape(?). I recognize that church bell tower.

  6. Danforth and Pape, looking west. The building on the northwest corner looked very familiar, but it was the distinctive steeple on Holy Name Church that confirmed it for me.

  7. I’m going out on limb here and say Pape and Danforth looking west.

  8. Pape and Danforth! Looking West on Danforth.

  9. Danforth & Pape, looking west.

  10. The cupola of that church looks familiar. Danforth and Pape, looking east on Danforth?

  11. I’d say, Pape and Danforth, looking west.

  14. It’s looking west on the Danforth at Pape – the bank on the corner at the right is quite distinctive but I couldn’t quite place it (it’s a Royal Bank and now has a modern RBC sign over the doorway that somehow distracts from appreciation of the interesting detailing of the building) – it’s the tower that is most distinctive and really gives it away, but I had to search around the web to confirm that it was indeed the Holy Name Catholic church, from an angle where the even more distinctive body and facade of the church is not visible.

  18. Pape and Danforth looking west (with yet another bank, although they are hard to avoid in Toronto street shots).

  19. Queen E & Parliament?

    I don’t think that can be right – the church in the background is throwing me off.

  20. Is it Mount Pleasant and Eglinton. Looking North on Eglinton. Stab in the dark really. I love the type on Dentist sign in lower right. Kung Fu dentistry “A karate chop to your choppers!” 😉

  23. Danforth Ave., looking west from Pape Ave.

  27. That’d be Pape and Danforth, looking west. The bank and church are still there, and the rest is still pretty recognizable.

  29. looking west on Danforth at Pape

  33. North side of Danforth looking west from Pape.

  34. That’s the Danforth, looking west from Pape. Y’know, apart from the 1920s cars, that view really hasn’t changed all that much in the last 80 or so years!

  35. Not that long ago but longer than we think,
    An urbane proper gentleman of the orange order
    felt like a souvlaki with taziki sauce.

    He hunted far and wide and ventured as far east
    as one could go without leaving older than old toronto
    without entering the hinterland of east york.

    it was after crossing the street onto the north
    east corner of pape and danforth that our closet
    connoisseur of mediterranean food fair turned around
    looked west and decided that here, yes here
    he would open up the world’s first donut shop
    which sold souvlaki and gyros.

    to mark this moment in toronto history,
    he took a photo of the danforth looking west
    from pape.

    that day has long been forgotten as ‘nibble on the danforth friday’.

  36. The distinctive church tower is a pretty clear indictation, but there’s another more subtle one: the width of the street. Other than the Danforth, were there any other early Toronto streets with streetcar tracks and significant length of six-lane road (four lanes plus 2 parking lanes)?

  37. On the south side – immediately across from the Holy Name Church – was the Iola cinema where I first experienced films in the 1940s for the admission of $0.12 for the Sat. matinee.
    I’ve been searching for a photo of the Iola for many years but without success. Does anyone have such a photo?
    I think the Iola was also called the Ace and/or the Ideal at other times.

  38. well by reading all these comments I know for sure its pape and danforth. I was hoping someone who is more expeirenced could tell me how the space and structure of buildings of pape and danforth has changed since 1930s and now 2008? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks