We have some bright kids in this class. Yep it's Berri and De Montigny in 1964, as the metro was being built. That building is the old roller rink at the corner of Berri and Demaisonneuve that has since become the Big Library.
We have some bright kids in this class. Yep it's Berri and De Montigny in 1964, as the metro was being built. That building is the old roller rink at the corner of Berri and Demaisonneuve that has since become the Big Library.
Guy and Dorchester?
ReplyDeleteNo. The big building in the photo survived until a coupla years ago and has since been replaced by another.
ReplyDeleteBerri and Western streets?
ReplyDeleteBerri and Sherbrooke? I'm guessing this has to do with the construction of the metro... the building on the top left became a used book store and skate park until it was finally torn down, to be replaced with that big provincial library.
ReplyDeleteBerri and what was then called de Montigny, now de Maisonneuve.
ReplyDeleteThe Palladium building on the NW corner, now the site of the Bibliotheque Nationale, had, at this point in time, an A&P Supermarket (remember the Ann Parker frosted spice cakes?), later also a Thrifty Car Rental franchise on the ground floor next to the used book dealer.
Great shot. So they just dug up both streets. I never knew that.
ReplyDeleteThe lovely classic building in foreground is gone, right? Wonder what it was.
The "Palais de Commerce" - alias the "Show Mart". Used as Montreal's main convention centre before there were any alternatives.
ReplyDeleteRadio station CJMS had its studio at the north end. It was glass-enclosed until too many protests took their toll and they were covered up.
Facing it across Berri was a small inter-city bus terminus (the main one at the time was on Dorchester and Stanley (Drummond? Mountain?) until 1970. I took a bus from it the day it closed.)
It is the oldest building that is totally remodel and use it again.
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