Quizzle: Name that intersection

You'd think it was the Millennium Bug or something. Three times the usual contingent of traffic cops were on duty the morning of Friday, September 23, 1966. They were expecting armageddon -- if newspaper reports were to believed. That's the day St. Catherine went one-way-east at seven a.m., except in Westmount. Eight hundred one-way and no-turn signs were unveiled in the overnight hours.

DeMontigny/Burnside/St. Luke went one way, too -- west. (Those strips are called De Maisonneuve now).

But the traffic-fixin' changeover -- just like the big millenium swap almost 34 years later -- was just a disappointment to the hand-wringing worry worts. Barely anybody drove the wrong way, and the new light-synchronization meant that motorists were crossing town in record time.

Const. Gilles Mercier at St. Catherine and Stanley said, "We've never seen it so good!" Only one car went west on his watch, he said.

Question for yuz: What slice of St. Catherine is shown in the Montreal Star picture at top?

Answertime: We have a lucky winner. It is the stretch looking west from Guy. Best guess is it was shot from high up the white block at the southeast corner of Mackay. Way in the distance you can see Alexis Nihon going up. The other two towers are giveaways. The bowling alley never mechanized: teens -- oftentimes truants -- were hired to reset the pins. The Toe Blake Tavern was in there too.