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TAKE A GUESS: name this intersection, March 19th

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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: This intersection is looking east on Danforth at Coxwell.  I have a friendly recommendation for those of you who suggested that we not include the Toronto Archives file number on Spacing Photos so that you cannot use the info to find out the exact location of the picture: show some restraint and not look it up. Have some patience and wait until the answer is revealed.

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22 comments

  1. My guesstimate: King St. looking east from Dufferin. So hit submit, see what happens.

  5. Queen and Connaught, at the Connaught streetcar barn?

    I’ve spent many an hour there, being tossed off in the cold when the car ‘short-turned’.

  6. Danforth at the end of the streetcar line, I think at Victoria Park looking West.

  7. Danforth and Coxwell, looking east. Danforth Carhouse is on right.

    The track pattern rules out Roncy, Russell on Queen the ones I thought of first. Certainly not Wychwood, nor Lansdowne, nor Eglinton. Then I remembered Danforth Carhouse, which was still a garage until the late 1990s. A newer building on the corner where the Coxwell Car is looping threw me off.

    The blurred Highway 5 sign confirmed it.

  8. Looks like Queen at Roncesvalles (looking westward) to me!

  9. Coxwell and Danforth, southeast corner.

  10. You might want to withhold the full photo citation on the page and in the photo filename until you reveal the location. This one was easy to look up (Danforth & Coxwell looking east, January 11, 1935).

    Then again, looking it up was useful to me: I was able to find out my own wild guess was very, very wrong.

  12. Danforth and Coxwell, looking east on Danforth. That must be the old Danforth carhouse on the right.

    I only know this because I cheated. Maybe you shouldn’t mention where the picture is from.

  13. Luttrell & Danforth – end of the Danforth car line
    The TTC loop as ajacent to the Ford Plant.

  14. Looks to me like Queen + Roncesvalles looking west – before the horrid McD’s went in.

  15. Connaught streetcar train yards (Queen+Connaught?)

  19. Looks like the northwest corner of Queen and Roncesvalles to me, looking west along what’s now the Queensway.

  21. Danforth & Coxwell, looking east

  22. For the railfans:

    Note that the streetcar loop on the corner was reconfigured in later years so that cars turned directly out onto Coxwell just south of the sidewalk on Danforth. This eliminated the need for Coxwell cars to turn out into the intersection to make the trip south.

    The loop around the coffee shop at Coxwell and Queen (still extant) was the south end of the line. Paul Christie, former chair of the TTC, worked there in his distant youth when his family owned the restaurant.

    On weekends, the Coxwell car became the Kingston Road / Coxwell car and ran up Kingston Road, originally to Birchmount, later to Bingham. The Coxwell bus still does the same thing.