#1 - Skyscraper action. '61.
#2 It's even uglier now.
#3 A place you can flush your own!
#4 Nice curves, huh?
#5 It takes a while, 'coz it's almost all gone now.
#6 Um, you tell us.
#7 Don't go looking for the stores on the left.
#8 Hey, speed up a little bit.
#9 Hover for the filename, d'uh.
#10 In a slummin' mood?
#11 Something to do with Montreal and a street, etc.
#12 They say it was a very good year, unless your initials were JFK.
#13 Petula Clark sang about this part of anytown.
#14 The square that kept getting uglier.All made runty for discussion purposes, etc.
Great photos.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find these pics?
ReplyDeleteWow! Thanks. Love those old pics!
ReplyDeletePicture #5 is not taken from Sherbrooke@Peel, but Sherbrooke@Mansfield; Peel street is right behind the huge blind wall building. Redpath street is right before the white house behind the giant broccoli on the lower right of the picture.
Picture #6 totally stumps me. It has plenty of elements that ring bells, but not enough to figure out where it is. I’ve been staring at it for 10 minutes, but to no avail.
The slopy thing above/behind the neogothic single-floor building (WTF???) with the natural gas billboard looks very suspicious; it looks like some lame photoshopping attempt to diguise some giveaway item…
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Ah, I get it now (took me 30 minutes). It’s Square Victoria. I got it when I recognized the old Marcil Trust building, the white building in the back back background on the left. It’s an unusual angle where you don’t see the queen Victoria statue…
The building in the middle reminded me of the old La Patrie building, but there is no square nearby. Of course, it’s all gone now to make way for Gauvin street and Place Victoria…
On #13, you can see that Victoria street went down all the way to Ste-Catherine. Remember that spiralling underground loading dock entrance for Eaton’s, right west of Victoria at Burnside???
Yesssss! The Kon-Tiki! Gotta love it. What memories I have of that place in the old Mount Royal Hotel (now Les Cours Mont Royal). It had a volcano and served big-ass drinks that had fog coming off of them. :) I had forgotten all about it so thanks for the mammaries.
ReplyDeleteAlas, the Kon-Tiki Volcano has been long dormant.
ReplyDeleteI remember having a Southern Comfort and Coke (ugh) in that bar the nite of my hi-school grad dance.
Peabody
Captions? Urrr? You want captions?
ReplyDeleteOoookay. Captions…
#1. A man has his island in the pavement.
#2. From the bordellos street to the street with nothing.
#3. Back then, you could pee under the squares!
#4. The boxes will prevail!
#5. Before the azrielization.
#6. After this, things started to go downhill…
#7. Yes, you could have a beer accross from the station!
#8. Taken for a ride in so many ways…
#9. The beginning of the end for the big-hole.
#10. Griffintown, before the Big-Gutting.
#11. Gutting the golden square mile.
#12. You can’t ride from there anymore.
#13. When you’re alone and life makes you lonely, you can always go to Eaton’s.
#14. How downhill can you get?
All good, Jean. Inspired.
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