Friday, 2 March 2012


January 1966 Toronto Ontario

In 1960, I started at the University of Toronto.  I graduated in 1964 with a BA in mathematics. All the time that I was at the university I lived within easy walking distance of the Bloor-Danforth streetcar line.  As a result, I used it extensively.
Sadly there were some bad memories of trips.  One Saturday night, having taken a young lady home to her residence in the Jane-Bloor area, I had to ride the streetcar back to my residence on St. George Street.  Every few minutes, as I rode along, I vomitted out through an open window - something not possible with the sealed windows on the replacement subway.  Boy, did I feel badly the next day.
There was a station at Yonge Street to allow easy access from the Bloor cars to the Yonge subway.  A few months after the picture was taken, the Bloor subway opened and the station and streetcars were no longer needed.

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