{"id":2681,"date":"2008-01-18T19:53:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T00:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2008-01-19T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T22:00:56","slug":"test-which-year-was-this-photo-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/18\/test-which-year-was-this-photo-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"TEST: Which year was this photo taken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gencat.eloquent-systems.com\/webcat\/systems\/toronto.arch\/resource\/fo1567%5Cser648%5Cs0648_fl0194_id0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gencat.eloquent-systems.com\/webcat\/systems\/toronto.arch\/resource\/fo1567%5Cser648%5Cs0648_fl0194_id0011.jpg\" height=\"512\" width=\"499\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have wasted many late nights on the web bumping around the Toronto Archives photo database. I&#8217;m particularly interested in TTC photos as they often show the unique and interesting stuff about the city in the background of those photos.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, we ran a little contest on Spacing Toronto encouraging readers to guess intersections from Toronto&#8217;s distant past. <strong>Today, we&#8217;re challenging you to guess the year in which the photo was taken<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/gencat.eloquent-systems.com\/webcat\/systems\/toronto.arch\/resource\/fo1567%5Cser648%5Cs0648_fl0194_id0011.jpg\">click on photo<\/a> to view it larger). There are lots of hints of when the photo was taken. We will reveal the answer some time over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Try to answer the question first before looking at other readers&#8217; comments.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/poll.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" saveembedtags=\"true\" flashvars=\"p=240250\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"beta3\" salign=\"tl\" scale=\"autoscale\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"330\" width=\"252\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wasted many late nights on the web bumping around the Toronto Archives photo database. I&#8217;m particularly interested in TTC photos as they often show the unique and interesting stuff about the city in the background of those photos. Last summer, we ran a little contest on Spacing Toronto encouraging readers to guess intersections<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/18\/test-which-year-was-this-photo-taken\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;TEST: Which year was this photo taken?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[19,7890],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-toronto","tag-web-bumping"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TEST: Which year was this photo taken? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/18\/test-which-year-was-this-photo-taken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TEST: Which year was this photo taken? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have wasted many late nights on the web bumping around the Toronto Archives photo database. 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