A Danforth Wedding

When digging around through bins and shoeboxes of photos at a flea market, determining a photos origin can be difficult. Sometimes its obvious that the photos are related, and sometimes you're looking at odds and ends from a dozen different estate sales in who knows how many different cities. Thats why I'm always trying to spot details that allow me to identify where a photo was taken, especially if its something local. Two years ago I spied this little wedding album with the photo finisher's address stamped on the cover and I knew I had to grab it.

The photos inside feature a few great period automobiles and the ubiquitous toronto streetcar. Finding the location should be a snap.

the Real Estate agent in the back here has an old telephone exchange listed in his number. OXford is an exchange near main street. 

business names can be a big help, but go far back enough and you're not likely to see many that are still around. "Margaret's foods" is long gone based on a few google searches.

ok, now we're in business...a (sort of) readable destination on the streetcar. Looks like its Jane/Bloor. That would make this street the Danforth, and based on the direction of the streetcar (Jane is the Western end of the line, hence this is a westbound car) we can surmise that this is the north side of the street looking south.  After hopping on street view to look around the Danforth/Main area I hit paydirt right away, as the Real Estate agent's building is still standing right on the corner. 

I found myself out in that neck of the woods today, so i did my best to track down the buildings and snap a few photos with my phone.