He paid $75 a month and paid for two months in July 1967 with money he reportedly acquired by robbing a brothel.
The apartment building was located on 2585 Notre Dame. E. (listed as 2589) which would have stood next to the vacant old Mocambo nightclub at the NW corner that closed about three years earlier after about a decade as a showbar.
The building, and all other buildings on that strip, were demolished somewhere along the way.
A photo of the outside of the Mocambo would likely offer a glimpse of the Har-K apartments too.
Another article incorrectly reported that Ray was living across the street at 2598 Notre Dame E., an address that corresponds to George Durst's old prop warehouse.The problem with that is that it does not come up in the Lovells listings from the time.
FIRE HOUSE BY THE PARC CHAMPETRE RIPPIN'OFF MY BUDD, FRANKIE L. WRIGHT.
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MICHAEL FROM NJ
Yeah def FLW; and it's a joint fire house and cop-shop, was it done by Cormier?
ReplyDeleteAlso - questions are oddly worded; hard to tell what the query is.
First one - no idea; E. Howard Hunt?
From Memory.
ReplyDeleteThe building on the right was for the fire department, as mentioned, and incorporated a training centre for new firemen.
Constructed around 1940?
Before the fire department training centre, I understand that this was once the location of Dominion Park, a streetcar park where people traveled out and back by streetcar and were there entertained by various rides and other attractions similar to Belmont Park at Cartierville.
The Morgan family used yo have a country estate out that way, and George Durst used to house his junk collection in that building until the mysterious fire.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of James Earl Ray. It seems he had a 'mentor' of some sort in Montreal. A certain 'Raoul', if I'm not mistaking.
ReplyDeleteRay also lived in Toronto. Uh, is my Ontario showing?
ReplyDeleteKing's son visited Ray in prison. Ray said he didn't do it, and King's son said he believed him.
ReplyDeleteFurther details about this fire station and other public buildings in Montreal can be found in the excellent "Les Edifices Publics" published in 1981. Catalogue Number
ReplyDeleteISBN 2-920925-00-4.
The station's address is 485 Letourneux, corner Notre Dame East. Inaugurated Oct. 21, 1915, renovated in 1963, but closed decades later.