Sunday, June 12, 2011

Remember this View

Remember this view,in Verdun. We grew up with clotheslines ( a rare thing to see today)

Sheds & Clotheslines & Laneways

9 comments:

pauline garneau said...

Sure do every Monday rain or shine the wash must get done. When you came home from school the wringer washer was at the kitchen sink and the sink was full of clothes.One clothesline was coming in and another ready to go but in the mess of clothes all over dinner was always ready on the table.

pauline garneau said...

Did anyone see these gals inVerdun ?


john allison said...

Remember it well. Even the card hanging on the back gallery. Each side had a different price. 15 cents on one side for a small block, and 30 cents for a bigger block. We would watch when the iceman went up the stairs to deliver the ice, and would run over to tha back of his cart to grab a small chunk to put in out mouths and run like crazy. Of course my mother would yell at us to stop taking that ice, otherwise we might get trench mouth....

pauline garneau said...

Never thought where that ice came from ! The St Lawrence was a dumping ground for everything. Mothers were so smart and we should have listened to them more often but as a kid who knew they were so smart.

john allison said...

Going up the Laurentian highway going up towards Val David/Ste Agathe on the right hand side during the summer, there use to be a huge mountain made out of sawdust. It was humungous. They started in the winter getting ice from places like Golden Lake in Val David and storing it there covered in sawdust, and during the summer would gradually remove layer upon layer of this sawdust to uncover the ice. They would then load it on trucks and take it into the city to sell to all the customers. This was before refridgeration. Anyone remember that sawdust pile?

pauline garneau said...



Ice was big business . All these men working just to load it. Then like you said store it. Then deliver it. Wow

pauline garneau said...


All those men working except for a few goofing off.

pauline garneau said...



All that ice was free. I wonder how much they paid down south for a block of ice?

pauline garneau said...

This was pretty much what ours looked like. When it wasn't at the sink in was in the kitchen corner