We have a right answer. It's shot from St. Catherine and Grosvenor in Westmount gazing eastward at Landsdowne/The Glen and St. Catherine and towards the sloped field behind Westmount Arena and on the right where the Pom Bakery lofts now sit . I've passed by there so many times it's not funny, literally, um .. I mean it's literally not funny... not that I was trying to be funny... although one might accuse my coloring efforts as unintentionally comical.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
eezie-kwiss - where was this?
We have a right answer. It's shot from St. Catherine and Grosvenor in Westmount gazing eastward at Landsdowne/The Glen and St. Catherine and towards the sloped field behind Westmount Arena and on the right where the Pom Bakery lofts now sit . I've passed by there so many times it's not funny, literally, um .. I mean it's literally not funny... not that I was trying to be funny... although one might accuse my coloring efforts as unintentionally comical.
corner ste-catherine and glen
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure it's not what I think it is but it does sort of kind of resembles the old, old Wellington overpass you know, going into the Point right before Bridge St.? I'm sure it's something much simpler than that and I'm going to feel moronish about not knowing; after all, I'm the guy that didn't know that the stairs going down at Phillip's Square were going to bathrooms. :)
ReplyDeleteThe first version of the Park-Pine interchange??!!
ReplyDeleteI'll take a guess here and say it is the corner where Ste-Catherine West intersects with Glen Road in Westmount.
ReplyDeleteThis is one I THINK I might have actually gotten, had I not read the answer. There's something so unique about the rolling landscape at that corner.
ReplyDeleteSo would this have been just before the POM bakery was built at left?
BTW, that's one other thing you could have added to your wonderful Mirror article on bygone Montreal: POM bakery trucks and their goodies therein-- although in truth they had probably vanished by the mid-80s -- and how the old Stuart bakery building made Laurier Street smell like May Wests.
Merry Christmas, all, from one who doesn't celebrate.
The little peaked-roof shack on the corner was, I believe, a toll gate, of which there were many circa 1905 at certain locations in the city.
ReplyDeletePresumably, horse carriages were required to stop, and not the attendent having to flag you down in order to collect whatever the going rate was.
Needless to say, in those days there were only a very few automobiles in existence--the first of which is (or was) on display in the Chateau de Ramezay.