Thrill gum,Black Babies, Gregory's smoked meat, Woodland Pizza, Rex's Hot Dogs and Subs.
Steve
THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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black balls, mello roll ice cream, gerds ginger ale , may west cakes, orange crush in brown bottles. patsy
Steinbergs, Dominion's, A&P, Towers, Woolworths, Grovers, Every corner store had a walk in cooler for beer. I was one of those boys that delivered beer on the bicycles with the built in basket!
beer in quart bottles, flat 50 cigarettes that you bought your dad for fathers day. you must be younger than i am because i remember when the first towers opened up it was in the east end montreal. also going to orange julius in the easy end. patsy
YOu know I actually installed an elevator in the Orange Julip on Decarie , still going Jimmy
sponge toffee, red hots candy. 5 cents for a small bag of chips, and 5cents for a small chocolate bar. 12 cents for a small soft drink, 10 cents if you drank it in the store, and gave back the empty bottle. 25 cents for a large bottle 40 0z soft drink.The tiny paper bags for holding the small seperate candy. Mojo's 2 for a cent. Mike
Boys making money carting groceries home from Steinberg's, A&P, etc., for people on their wagons. Putting your chips (french fries) in with your hotdog to eat them together. Maple Leaf potato chips (always stale). Best chips (ffs) to be had: on boardwalk. Best smoked meat after church on Sundays: Gregory's. Cooking your own rotisserie chicken on the back "gallery". Deb
Come on Deb. It wasn't just the guy's who delivered those groceries on the wagons. It was us young gals also. From one who did it and still remembers.
Christine. Tina
Muirs Bakery ( I worked there!), Stillwells Candy, Riverview Pizza, Church Avenue A&W
Sylvester's candy store on Wellington near Church. At Easter they had the biggest (I thought) Bunny I had ever seen. The window was covered with an amber film so the Chocolate would not melt from the sun. Dina Steenhorst Penning
I remember my boyfriend buying me one of those
big
Easter bunnies and we both had fun eating
it.
Margo Allen
There used to be a little store on the south west corner of Bannanyne and Osborne. Gladys (?) Two elderly (or so they seemed at the time) ladies ran it and I seem to remember that they even handed out goodies on Halloween. My favorites there were the little bags of chip crumbs and "flying saucers"! Maggie
I used to buy those little chip bags until I had one with a ciggy butt in it, urgh. My brother actually had an account at the store on Third Ave, until our parents found out. Ouch for him! Dina
RuthArmstrong. Thanks for the note. It is one of my favorite songs. Thank God for the music of the Forties. No matter how incongruously our youthful minds fit into our aging bodies, we can refuse to be old. We can celebrate our youth-----no matter how many decades we've been youthful. Winston Allison
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Welcome Derek. Have fun reading the posts which go back a few years.
Also a number of photos of members and places of interest in Verdun and
the general Montreal area.
Second Avenue.
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings, as something separated from the rest-- a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Dina.....the account your brother had on 3rd avenue, was it at Sankys (or however it's spelled) between bannantyne&verdun ave? Everyone had an open account there and the fun part was for us kids to charge a chocolate bar on the acct and hope your parents overlook it!! good times. cookie
Hi Dianne, we talk again........so you married a
Crawford Parker.....that's where I grew up. Who did you marry? Not
sure that we are in the same age group as you said your younger sister went to
Lasalle, but the guy you married might have had sibblings that I
knew?
I lived on Fayolle......where was your hubby
from? Did he go to Crawford Park School?
Just curious..........it was a small community
within Verdun and most people knew each other. It's always good to hear
something from Crawford!
Chris
Hi Chris:
My husband's name is Paul Nowlan, he lived on Foch. He went to the French Catholic school, then Saint Thomas Moore, then VCH. He has an older sister, Janine. He graduated from VCH in 62, I think. I am sure you must know many of the same people even if we are older than you. I lived in Cote St.Paul, graduated from Marymount High in 64. However, my sister Cynthia is 20 years younger than me and she went through the Protestant School system. That's a story in itself..lol...When she went to LaSalle High she and my parents lived on Dora in LaSalle. I think she graduated around around 83, but not sure. Our maiden name is, or was Rollin. I will pass on the info re: reunion...I am sure she will want to know about it.......thanks...Dianne
Remember the girls wearing these skirts. Steve
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