Silver Snail 1979?

The other day,

while I was casting about on Facebook,

I ran across this photograph.

Tom Stormonth, Ron Van Leeuwen, Mark Askwith and Carlos Outside The Silver Snail at 323 Queen St West in 1979 by Robert Myres

Personally, I would take issue with Robert's memory about when this was taken.  If only for the fact, that I have no memory of Mark Askwith, in connection with the store, until after they moved to 

367 Queen Street West, in 1983.

That was when Mark became the manager and Ron, while still overseeing the store, ran Andromeda Publications, the distribution part of his empire.

So, to clarify my thoughts about the photograph, I am fairly sure that this was probably taken in late 1982 or early 1983.

Does anyone else have a better guess?

Incidentally, Ken Steacy, one of the original, "fan turned pro", frequenters of The Snail, had this to say about the location:

"Were we ever this young?  Right upstairs (above the store) was MARS & CO, a studio that was occupied by Dean Motter, John Allison, Paul Rivoche, Ken Steacy, Cullen and Oueltte.

At the time, we used a local courier service, called Rabbit and we loved to call them up, just to ask,

 "Can you send a Rabbit to MARS?"

We were all, so much younger then.  The days seemed longer and the future seemed brighter.