Looks like LCC, not sure when. The thing of note is the caretaker clad all out in Habs gear on the right.
Dany Villaneuva's tattoo of his younger brother, Fredy who was killed in an altercation with Montreal police.
A photo that Kate took on Mount Royal some time ago. One of my faves.
This photo found on the mind-bending site
internetkhole.com
No idea of where this was taken but I'm deciding that maybe it's Montreal.
Same as above. 
Darren Becker, press attache to Mayor Tremblay. Good guy.
One of the apartments I owned in Verdun. Put some effort into dolling it up, but then a friend persuaded me to rent to his friend who turned out to be a prostitute running her operations out of the building. Then the janitor allegedly stole $400 from the apartment just as I was kicking her out. Total headache Verdun, everything about the place.
Some sorta fashion thing that happened in Montreal.
NDG's Frank Orsini with his dad shoveling after that famous 1971 snowstorm.
Chris Nilan apparently stirring things up at Momesso's, I'm thinking this is late 86.
Frontenac looking south from Sherbrooke 1952.
Former Montreal artist Monty Cantsin's artwork. 
A nude shot by Conrad Poirier 75 years ago almost to the date. 
St. Catherine St. in the 1950s.
The couple that mysteriously drove their car into the river from the south shore. 
Woman who was attacked by a pit bull not far from Montreal. Did I mention that I don't like pit bulls?
Molson Cam beer. I might've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Cam Connor recently told an Edmonton radio station that during his time in Montreal Molson's would deliver complimentary beer to every player, something like a case a day. Wondering if they still do it.
The first is definetly not LCC.
ReplyDeleteRe: the boy on the bicycle, it is "Boys in Brooklyn", 1974, by Danny Lyon. William :)
ReplyDeleteThe shot of the seniors brings back a ton of memories. My grandfather would always spend his days there talking with his friends. They always made sure to dress in their best.
ReplyDeleteFirst pick is Centennial Academy
ReplyDeleteMy photo of the party of older Portuguese folks is in Jeanne-Mance Park or, if you prefer, Fletcher's Field. It's a slide, but it's not as old a picture as some have thought. What year was the new stone path and stairs added to the park leading from Rachel to the Cartier monument? It was taken since then - you can see the stone paving at the bottom of the photo.
ReplyDeleteIn the shot of Frontenac stret, is that thing with the checkerboard markings a water tower?
ReplyDeleteI know it was demolished at least 30 years ago.
The 'Thing' with the checkerboard paint scheme ( Red/White squares with a multitude of flashing red lights on top at night ) is/was a 'Gas Holder' storage container for coal gas produced at Montreal Light, Heat and Power's, ( later LaSalle Coke,) coke plant on St. Patrick adjacent to the Lachine Canal.
ReplyDeleteIn season, coal was brought in by ship, the unloading crane still on the shore of the Lachine Canal. Coke, retorted from coal, was moved by rail along St. Patrick St. to CPR LaSalle and was switched from the south end of the coke plant on the LaSalle Loop Line.
In the fifties, LaSalle Coke had it's own 660 HP Diesel Electric Switcher built at Montreal Locomotive Works on Dickson in the east end.
It was sent to a locomotive remanfacturing plant on the CNR Cartierville electric line north of CNR Val Royal station.
There was a steam/electric generating plant, Poste LaSalle, adjacent to MLH&P's plant whose electricity was transmitted high up over the Lachine Canal ( to clear the masts of passing canallers ) up to a tower south of St. James/Upper Lachine/St. Jacques Rd. to the rear of Rose Bowl Lanes at Cavendish.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/sia/29.1/images/desloges_fig06b.jpg
Coal gas was replace by Natural Gas from the west in the mid-fifties.
The gas produced was carried beneath the streets of the city in Gas Mains to storage tanks where it was held until required for heating, and, at one time, lighting.
Around 1900, before the construction of the Checkerboard Gas Holder, there was a smaller Gas Holder enclosed in a round brick structure near the streetcar terminus at Frontenac and it appears in photos of the era.
Other versions of Gas Holders were constructed in metal with telescoping segments which rose and fell in succession depending on the amount of gas contained within.
The checkerboard Gas Holder was 'solid' and did not rise and fall.
It was land mark of the east end day or night thru the fifties, visible far onto the South Shore, and, as children, always looked for it when traveling to Bout de L'Ile.
( There were smaller Gas Holders in the Mile End district in the first part of the 1900s. )
Streetcars on Frontenac were replaced by Trolley Buses in June 1952.
Thank You.
Thanks for introducing me to that site: internetkhole.com. Hard to believe 30 years ago those pictures were just ''normal'' !
ReplyDeleteThe photo of the girl serving ice cream was taken in New Brighton, England, by Martin Parr.
ReplyDeleteDefinitley not LCC. It was all boys in that era. gds I suspect is correct , DOC (Centennial Academy)
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