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Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

More pics:

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Spadina/Dundas
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Bathurst Station Concourse
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M1 at Rosedale (note original vitrolite tiles)
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Opening Day, 1966 (Lester Pearson behind one 48th Highlander, Premier John Robarts behind Pearson)
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Queen subway rendering
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Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

Amazing is right. Super pictures!

Who is that standing directly beside Lester Pearson on that escalator? Is that Phil Givins, or do I have my timeframe wrong?
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

Amazing how the Bathurst 7 only went to Sheppard, instead of Steeles. Likely because there was nothing north of Sheppard!
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

Though it was 7*C*. Might it have been only that particular line that short-turned at Sheppard?
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

The 7C was the name for the main Bathurst branch going up to the 1990s. I remember looking at the ride guides and seeing 7C go all the way to Steeles, and thinking "is there anything except the 7C (apart from the 7E SCW-Wilson)?" It took a long while before it was simplified to 7.

Again, great pics. I love how clean, modern and consistant the subway system looks (right down to the universal use of the subway font, even on the rollsigns). Even in the 1980s, when I can remember my first times on the subway, I was amazed.
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

An archived TTC map from 1966 on the transittoronto website indicates route 7 going all the way from Bloor up to Steeles. 7C was a branch going from Bloor up to Sheppard, then west to Wilson Heights. This was before the Spadina subway, of course. An archived map from 1973 shows the same, except that the 7C looped around a couple of streets north of Sheppard before returning to Bloor.

Most of the development around Bathurst and Steeles dates from the early 1960s(on the Toronto side of Steeles).
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

I don't see a 7C in either of those maps, just 7B (loop at Lawrence), 7E (loop at Overbrook/Wilmington). The 7 goes all the way. After Spadina opened, the 7 resembles present 160 (except not going into Vaughan), the 7A now ran Steeles-Bathurst Station, and the 7B looking like today's 7E. By 1985, 7A became 7C, 7B becoming 7E.

Weird route numbering history.
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

sp: You prompted me to look again. There has been a bit of a strange history as you say. A 1965 map does not show any route numbered 7C. The 1966 map shows 7C extending along Sheppard west from Bathurst to Wilson Heights, as I had said, where it apparently ended at a small loop. A rush hour route called 7E also looped from this point north via Overbrook.

By 1973 the 7C branch had disappeared and the loop via Overbrook had become an all-day route, numbered 7E. I misread this earlier.

This info would help to date the photo posted by fiendish. It must have been taken between 1965 and 1973.

Interesting trivia!
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

I'm quite certain that picture of the Bathurst bus is from 1966. The photos in the series don't run later than that. The other clue is the fact that the bus in the photo is a 3500 series model, a bus my dad drove into the late 1970s, so it would have been a fairly new bus in that photo.

edit: If it's okay with the mods, I'll post one more series of photos. I went through them again last night and I missed some great ones.
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

^ That Scotia looked far better then than it does now.
 
Re: Bloor Danforth subway 1966

Indeed, and there's no sidewalk clutter.
 
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