I'm trying to picture the building with the columns in front. At first thought, maybe the Pickwick Arms apts. at Sherbrooke and Claremont (but the street is too narrow to be Sherbrooke).
The car parked to the left with the canvas on it's rad front appears to have those stick-on frost shields on the inner surface of the windshield.
My Father still used these on the front side windows of his 1958 Pontiac in the Sixties, and used to get the shields at the-then ONLY Canadian Tire in Montreal way over on Jean Talon??
The car in the photo with license 38591 has only one windshield wiper above the driver's side, as do several other vehicles.
Many wipers in this era were still hand-operated by the driver.
A nice dent in it's left front fender.
It has a dog mascot on the front of it's rad, would this Marque be a 'Whippet'??
The street surface looks as if it has recently, or maybe not so recently, has been dug up and back filled for sewer or water work. Pot holes were around before cars. Hmmm.
Piles of snow on the sidewalk. A cold damp Montreal winter/early spring day.
I have not driven many cars from the Thirties or Forties, but, some of them could be a hand full.
Usually 3-speed cane shift. Starter button to right above gas pedal.
Later came the 'three on the tree' column shift which allowed a bench seat up front. Some British cars had a four on the column shift and often were right hand drive.
I got my driver's license on a 3 speed column shift.
No power steering nor power brakes. Poor heaters, cold, drafty. Windshield wipers, if vacuum, would stop when you needed them the most as you tromped on the gas to pass as throttle plate in the carburetor opened wide killing the vacuum.
On older cars into the Fifties, the headlights would bright and dim according to engine speed as the 6 Volt DC generator ( before Alternators ) could not keep up to electrical load with all the lights, radio ( AM only ) and the heater motor were on full.
12 Volt electrics were introduced in the Fifties.
Various cars had a second set of seats OUTSIDE in where the 'trunk' would be, these were called 'Rumble Seats' and these passengers sat in the weather similar to a convertible with the top down.
Little round steps were on the rear fenders to get in and out.
When closed, the Rumble Seat looked like a trunk lid, the compartment could be used to hold luggage.
In the Fifties many autos had a 'rope' on the rear of the front seats to hang a thick blanket on, called a 'car rug??' which the rear seat passengers would use to snuggle under in cold weather.
Kids in the back would tug and play on the rope until the parents up front would finally get mad and start yelling.
Altho' none show here, cars with 4-Wheel Brakes had a triangle with these words on the left rear fender to advise drivers behind which may have had only 2-Wheel Brakes that the car ahead had greater stopping ability.
Brake lights on both rear sides came in the early Thirties, and Hydraulic brakes were a boon to safe driving, not needing as much adjustment as the shoes wore.
Into the Fifties many motorists parked their cars in the fall and walked or took Transit as snow clearing, especially on side streets was not a major issue and parking terrible.
Delivery wagons with horses switched to sleighs, so the snow was not a problem for them, fire trucks at some stations had tire chains mounted all winter.
The first Autobuses in the morning on School/Ecoliers routes ( These buses had a Yellow sign indicating this fact on the rear ) would have tire chains and could be heard clanking along which advised the child still cozy in bed that a trudge to school was in the offing, and snow shoveling awaited on the return home in the afternoon.
Certain MTC buses had 'sanders' ahead of the rear wheels for Mountain routes. Can Car Brill coaches had poor driving traction until non slip differentials applied in later years.
Its all in the photo. Pot holes, congestion, cars of various styles and condition.
The Depression ending, another World War in the offing.
Thank You to Mr. Ro and Mr. Gravenor for bringing these slices of the past to us.
I love this stuff. I have no idea who MP is but he should write a book. Amazing details of times long ago. If you look closely at the photo it appears that a building has wooden supports keeping the 3rd floor exterior wall from crumbling. There were buildings in London, England that had these kind of supports still in place as late as 1960 beacuse of the aerial bombing in WW2. Write a book MP! You have an unique memory.
This is tough, my best geuss is that this is Peel street, that building witht he columns is the center building of Cours Mont Royal and the other wing currently there were added after this picture was taken.
The grainy building on the far right could be St Catherine and Peel and H&M is?
What really throws me off is the grainy building far off on the left side of the street which looks like Place de la Cathedral or the Eaton center which it obviously is not.
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I'm trying to picture the building with the columns in front. At first thought, maybe the Pickwick Arms apts. at Sherbrooke and Claremont (but the street is too narrow to be Sherbrooke).
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Sherbrooke looking west from just west of Stanley with the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the next block on the left.
ReplyDelete2025 Peel street
ReplyDeleteThere is something very familiar about those buildings. Is it Sherbrooke looking west near Guy?
ReplyDeletePeel Street looking south toward Dominion Square?
ReplyDeleteOnce again I cannot readily identify the photo.
ReplyDeleteThe car parked to the left with the canvas on it's rad front appears to have those stick-on frost shields on the inner surface of the windshield.
My Father still used these on the front side windows of his 1958 Pontiac in the Sixties, and used to get the shields at the-then ONLY Canadian Tire in Montreal way over on Jean Talon??
The car in the photo with license 38591 has only one windshield wiper above the driver's side, as do several other vehicles.
Many wipers in this era were still hand-operated by the driver.
A nice dent in it's left front fender.
It has a dog mascot on the front of it's rad, would this Marque be a 'Whippet'??
The street surface looks as if it has recently, or maybe not so recently, has been dug up and back filled for sewer or water work. Pot holes were around before cars. Hmmm.
Piles of snow on the sidewalk. A cold damp Montreal winter/early spring day.
I have not driven many cars from the Thirties or Forties, but, some of them could be a hand full.
Usually 3-speed cane shift. Starter button to right above gas pedal.
Later came the 'three on the tree' column shift which allowed a bench seat up front. Some British cars had a four on the column shift and often were right hand drive.
I got my driver's license on a 3 speed column shift.
No power steering nor power brakes. Poor heaters, cold, drafty. Windshield wipers, if vacuum, would stop when you needed them the most as you tromped on the gas to pass as throttle plate in the carburetor opened wide killing the vacuum.
On older cars into the Fifties, the headlights would bright and dim according to engine speed as the 6 Volt DC generator ( before Alternators ) could not keep up to electrical load with all the lights, radio ( AM only ) and the heater motor were on full.
12 Volt electrics were introduced in the Fifties.
Various cars had a second set of seats OUTSIDE in where the 'trunk' would be, these were called 'Rumble Seats' and these passengers sat in the weather similar to a convertible with the top down.
Little round steps were on the rear fenders to get in and out.
When closed, the Rumble Seat looked like a trunk lid, the compartment could be used to hold luggage.
In the Fifties many autos had a 'rope' on the rear of the front seats to hang a thick blanket on, called a 'car rug??' which the rear seat passengers would use to snuggle under in cold weather.
Kids in the back would tug and play on the rope until the parents up front
would finally get mad and start yelling.
Altho' none show here, cars with 4-Wheel Brakes had a triangle with these words on the left rear fender to advise drivers behind which may have had only 2-Wheel Brakes that the car ahead had greater stopping ability.
Brake lights on both rear sides came in the early Thirties, and Hydraulic brakes were a boon to safe driving, not needing as much adjustment as the shoes wore.
Into the Fifties many motorists parked their cars in the fall and walked or took Transit as snow clearing, especially on side streets was not a major issue and parking terrible.
Delivery wagons with horses switched to sleighs, so the snow was not a problem for them, fire trucks at some stations had tire chains mounted all winter.
The first Autobuses in the morning on School/Ecoliers routes ( These buses had a Yellow sign indicating this fact on the rear ) would have tire chains and could be heard clanking along which advised the child still cozy in bed that a trudge to school was in the offing, and snow shoveling awaited on the return home in the afternoon.
Certain MTC buses had 'sanders' ahead of the rear wheels for Mountain routes. Can Car Brill coaches had poor driving traction until non slip differentials applied in later years.
Its all in the photo. Pot holes, congestion, cars of various styles and condition.
The Depression ending, another World War in the offing.
Thank You to Mr. Ro and Mr. Gravenor for bringing these slices of the past to us.
I love this stuff. I have no idea who MP is but he should write a book. Amazing details of times long ago. If you look closely at the photo it appears that a building has wooden supports keeping the 3rd floor exterior wall from crumbling. There were buildings in London, England that had these kind of supports still in place as late as 1960 beacuse of the aerial bombing in WW2.
ReplyDeleteWrite a book MP! You have an unique memory.
This is tough, my best geuss is that this is Peel street, that building witht he columns is the center building of Cours Mont Royal and the other wing currently there were added after this picture was taken.
ReplyDeleteThe grainy building on the far right could be St Catherine and Peel and H&M is?
What really throws me off is the grainy building far off on the left side of the street which looks like Place de la Cathedral or the Eaton center which it obviously is not.
Doh! Peel Street looking south from just north of today's De Maisonneuve with the old Mount Royal Hotel in the next block on the left.
ReplyDeleteI only later realized the Ritz didn't have those columns.
Would Mount Royal Hotel be what is now dubbed Cours Mont Royal? Definitely Peel just north of Maisonneuve, looking south.
ReplyDeleteI think the rugged surface is just lots of ice.
Cool pic. Love this stuff!
Dead centre of the picture is The Bank of Montreal at 2015 peel with the 2 big columns
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.ca/maps/place/2015+Peel+St,+Montreal,+QC+H3A+1T8/@45.5012054,-73.5752413,3a,75y,45.54h,93.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svZyPKoTPIHk36o3hdv8Brw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cc91a4147417715:0x1cfe086f32d5d03b!8m2!3d45.5011811!4d-73.5748981
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