Some right propa Montrealers are organizing the first-ever branch of the Canadian Churchill Society. It costs $60 a year and you get invited to conferences (I believe that the grandson is coming to Montreal soon) and you get a quad-yearly newsletter.
I don't know if it's by invitation or what but if anybody is keen on Churchill contact me at megaforce on the gee mail. BTW, my dad told me that when Churchill came to Montreal during the war, my father came to take photos at a press conference. To get the best possible shot he climbed up on a precarious ledge. Churchill interrupted his discourse and looked over at him and yelled "get the hell down from there."
A faithful Coolopolis devotee has repeatedly asked me to try to figure this out. somewhere on the North side of St. Catherine downtown sat a store with a facade in the shape of a double-decker bus. My reader is quite frantic to know if anybody can remember where or what it was.
A faithful Coolopolis devotee has repeatedly asked me to try to figure this out. somewhere on the North side of St. Catherine downtown sat a store with a facade in the shape of a double-decker bus. My reader is quite frantic to know if anybody can remember where or what it was.
Nice Churchillian anecdote...a quotable quote
ReplyDelete2x Decker may have been a bluejean emporium of some sort. To aid your frantic reader, here are a few names, called up under hypnosis...Pant City, Pant-O-Rama, The Great Canadian Jean Machine... whatever...
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I'm vaguely recalling something to that effect on the north side of Ste-Cat in the neighbourhood of Les Terrasses (where the Eaton Center is now), but it hurts my brain to recall the '80s. Send opiates and I'll try again.
ReplyDeleteI distinctly remember that store, which also had half a Brill/Can-Car bus on it’s facade. For some reason, the Brill struck me more than the Routemaster — perhaps because there were a lot on the streets back then.
ReplyDeleteIt was on the north side of Ste-Catherine between Stanley and Peel, about where the Mexx store is currently located ± 1 store (but I am positive it wasn’t on the corner of Stanley, as the façade was deep-set from the street).
(Click on my name for GSV of the spot).
I'm the one who asked about the store, and I can't believe I didn't remember the other bus, other than the double decker. I only saw the store once, in the
ReplyDelete70s. Perhaps back then it only had one bus? No, I bet it's my memory to blame. Speaking of jean stores, there's La Ouerasse. I recently thought, "How clever, it sounds like Wearhouse." Then I read that that was the idea. So, 30 years later, I get the joke. But keep in mind I haven't lived in Mtl in 28 years.
The only thing I know is that Churchill is the name of our 2-dollar coin bear.
ReplyDeleteOur government spent a year and 2 million dollars to figure out this name.
Why wouldn't they just ask an opinion of the Churchill's son?