There are a couple of clues in the shot for you hawkeyes. Here are a couple more: It's downtown. The Victorian row homes on the left-hand side are long gone and the models are standing outside a now defunct (de-funked, more like it) nightspot called the Speak Easy. So where was this picture taken in the fall of 1972?Update: Dave guessed correctly. It's Drummond Street, south of St. Catherine and looking towards Dorchester Blvd. The homes on the left were destroyed for parking. The sign that says Angel is not shown completely. The complete name of that establishment was the Blue Angel, which was a legendary country-and-western bar until closed in the fall of 1992. Oh yeah, one more thing. the big, square building on the side of the street opposite the models is the parking garage that replaced the Victoria Rink, site of the world's first recognized-and-organized ice-hockey game about 130 years ago.
Hm. I was thinking St. Antoine?
ReplyDeleteNope. Next?
ReplyDeleteI see something called Angel in the background.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there was any establishment in Montreal with the title Angel in it....
Looks like Park Ave to me.
ReplyDeleteNot Park. But the land on which those now-demolished houses stand has since been set aside for parking.
ReplyDeleteBlue Angel on Drummond St?
ReplyDeleteWe have a winner! Dave -- you have the bar, the lamented Blue Angel (now an Arabic fast-foodery; their rear sign that overlooks a parking lot on Mountain is the old Blue Angel rear sign, repainted.)
ReplyDelete