I'm told that the producers of the locally shot program about the porn-industry showed the outside of this house at DeBullion and City Councillors as an exterior shot of the home of one of the city's top porn performers or dominatrixes or something. I'm not sure who that is, so don't ask.
This ongoing empty building at DeBullion and La Gauch is owned by 100511 CANADA INC., a blight on an otherwise hot and popular area.
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I would LOVE to get into those underground passages too. Oh boy.
ReplyDeleteThe white building used to be Kenneth Leung's HQ, iirc. But I think he's no longer with us.
There's also a tunnel that runs from the former police HQ at 750 Bonsecours to Montreal City Hall. I visited it many times, the entrance was close to where our dept. car was parked.
ReplyDeleteCreepy tunnel lit by bare bulbs, containing steam heating pipes and electrical wires.
Story circulating around HQ was that it could be used as a safe escape route for the politicians should the citizenry ever get too rowdy.
You're really holding out on your photos Harold. I'm pretty sure you've got thousands of amazing Montreal shots you're not sharing.
ReplyDeleteStill have 1000's of photo negatives to scan and sort. It's a very long, tedious and boring process. Luckily. my wife regularly "reminds" me to continue. I'm easily distracted by dog walks and naps.
ReplyDeleteRegarding tunnels, I heard over the years about a downtown underground roadway network, connecting all the major buildings. I've never seen it. Apparently, its use is as access for maintenance and service vehicles. Anybody know more, or is it just an urban myth?
@ haroldro:
ReplyDeleteThere is the CCUM network of steam tunnels; part of which actually runs above ground. I've heard rumors of a tunnel going from a sub-basement of the Sunlife bldg. to somewhere under Dominion Square. I've also heard of a possible WWII command center in a sub-basement of Ma Bell's HQ at 1050 Beaver Hall.
The downtown underground roadway network is called Le métro de Montréal. :-)
ReplyDeleteHere'a an interesting look at the CCUM network. I've seen a small part of it myself:
ReplyDeletehttp://uem.minimanga.com/underground/ccum/
I'm told there's a tunnel from the Sun Life building directly to Central Station. Supposedly to the door at the bottom of the Mansfield escalators. Old maps indicate there was another tunnel under Mansfield at the north end of the Sun Life, back when it had a boiler plant at Cathcart and Mansfield.
There'a also a tunnel from Beaudry (south of the Ville-Marie) to the docks. You can visit it if you're slender enough, but the port end has been blocked off.