The Berkeley Hotel at 1188 Sherbrooke W. would not put up with him as forced him to leave on August 28, 1962.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
George Lincoln Rockwell, the soon to be assassinated leader of the American Nazi Party in Montreal
The Berkeley Hotel at 1188 Sherbrooke W. would not put up with him as forced him to leave on August 28, 1962.
You couldn't GIVE me a condo downtown or anywhere else for that matter, and I have stated my opinions elsewhere in the website on this topic and of the quality of neighbourhoods in general.
ReplyDeleteWith the world still suffering economic woes and still no relief in sight, the smartest way to go for the average, middle-income person is still renting; a Montreal tradition which has stood the test of time through good times and bad. With a yearly-renwable lease, you can come and go as you please and therefore not ever be stuck trying to unload a condo in a down market or, if the quality of your neighbourhood starts to take a dive and you may be forced to sell at a loss or hang on living there longer than you would like.
Condo "developers" hold all the cards. They know the tricks and don't even have to be resident in Canada, so attempting to track them down for any potential legal reasons may prove time-consuming and problematic. These characters would love to turn Montreal into Vancouver and Toronto with their overpriced dwellings out-of-reach for most.
Anyone willing to sign up for a $200K plus condo needs to look the head guy right in the eye and not his proxy, real-estate flunky who has been trained to fast-talk buyers into committing themselves before they've done their research.
Besides, who wants to live downtown with the noise, air pollution, and crime unless you're a self-centered, party- animal reprobate with wet-dreams of bimbo-collecting, compulsively hitting the nearby bars night after night.
Raise a family in a downtown condo?! I couldn't even imagine perpetrating such an injustice on my kids, living in what would essentially be an "upscale tenement", obliging them to remain indoors most of the time or otherwise have them play in the nearby streets and laneways. Families would be much better off moving to the suburbs.
Then you will also stumble across condos and "lofts" in the most unlikely and even undesirable of locations, often on narrow tracts of land previously occupied by factories and warehouses right up against industrial parks such as along the Outremont sector of Bates Road, for example--a truly dreary and inconvenient place to live unless you don't mind using your car every time you need to visit the pharmacy, supermarket, etc. These are properties that condo developers have snapped up for next-to-nothing and then hopefully sell to the ignorant.
Sure, if you're a high-salaried lawyer or judge required to live within a reasonable distance to the court houses, owning a condo near Old Montreal and Griffintown would obviously be appropriate.
I will end my rant by pointing out that all of these "99 per-centers", pot-bangers, and spoiled, self-righteous students with their misguided parents are targetting the wrong people. Instead of blocking streets and smashing the windows of hard-working, small businesses that are suffering enough, why aren't they protesting in front of condo work-sites instead, taking these deep-pocketed "developer" magnates to task?
These azzholes with their "greed is good" mentality are seemingly "under the radar". It is they, along with the neverending parade of "media thugs" like Rupert Murdock and outrageously-overpaid "professional sports heroes" who threaten to quit their home team unless their multi-million dollar contract demands are met, who seem to be deliberately ignored and escape unscathed whenever the serious issues of our unbalanced society emerge.
"I know for a fact that he hates Commies,'cause he picketed the movie Exodus"
ReplyDeleteGeorge Lincoln Nelson, the soon to be assassinated leader of the American Nazi Party.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Lincoln Rockwell, the soon to be assassinated founder of the American Nazi Party.
ReplyDeleteThe Berkeley Hotel on Sherbrooke Street...there was also a Berkeley Hotel in Ottawa on Slater Street that later became a Howard Johnsons and is now ARC The Hotel On an earlier visit to Montreal, Rockwell was interviewed by the CBC's Norman DePoe, whose sons later had links with Montreal, one becoming the PD at CFQR-FM 92.5 before moving to Bell Media in Ottawa, and the other sitting on the executive of Geoff Kelley's riding association in Jacques-Cartier.
ReplyDeleteYep, Commander Rockwell.
ReplyDeleteKristian, please move my condo opinion comment to the appropriate blog story---the next one down--as it got misdirected here, thanks.
ReplyDeleteInteresting note of trivia here...Rockwell as a Holocaust-denier was often cited as an inspiration by Ernst Zundel. When Rockwell went into the Forces, his wife went to live with her mother (his mother-in-law) in Barrington,RI. The CTV reporter who covered the Ernst Zundel trial, Lin Eleoff, now lives in Barrington,RI
ReplyDeleteEverything in the world goes full circle, nothing is new.