tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post4204271185152904861..comments2024-03-23T08:13:12.713-07:00Comments on Growing Up in Verdun ,Montreal & Information: re-Post neat old Verdun Story..Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-66148400631473484312012-05-15T06:40:53.000-07:002012-05-15T06:40:53.000-07:00No didn't know any of those motorcyle guy ex...No didn't know any of those motorcyle guy except Doug cambell & his brother,Andy rockaburn ,Donny Hannon he was on the ruff side I hung around his sister PatSuzanne Olstenhttp://jsangels.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-22899842472050945292012-05-14T21:43:36.000-07:002012-05-14T21:43:36.000-07:00I would have to ask him when I see him. They were ...I would have to ask him when I see him. They were not in the catholic system that I know and later on they were with Roger O'Grady Germain, Gougie Daniels all those motorcycle guysrobert jomphehttp://jumper01.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-83281919083936883832012-05-14T21:35:54.000-07:002012-05-14T21:35:54.000-07:00The name sound familiar did they go to bannantyne ...The name sound familiar did they go to bannantyne school and I use to play baseball and touch football at the park with Norman Simpson and abunch of felows from 3rd and second ave he went to the catholic school??Suzanne Olstenhttp://jsangels.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-11707790582682206732012-05-14T20:12:41.000-07:002012-05-14T20:12:41.000-07:00jsangel knowing that you are 72 did you know Ian a...jsangel knowing that you are 72 did you know Ian and David Gray?robert jomphehttp://jumper01.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-52162211701848996982012-05-14T20:09:48.000-07:002012-05-14T20:09:48.000-07:00I wish I could draw you a picture but from the sky...I wish I could draw you a picture but from the skylight, to the thrird floor window was not that far. As for cheking windows across the lane not imagination but fact. If the Yardley's are on this site they will confirm. I still remember when Pete fell off the roof hit a clothesline got spun and landed on some woman's gallery she came out chasing him nothing but is brain rattled.<br />See how I use gallery as athrough Verdunite. When you say that to Torontonians they look at you strangelyrobert jomphehttp://jumper01.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-84101281273243289432012-05-14T19:42:17.000-07:002012-05-14T19:42:17.000-07:00haha,gee I must have been and I'm 72 and still...haha,gee I must have been and I'm 72 and still love to climb I was five the first time I went up on the roof it seem I always hung around older kids that must be the reason ,,We also used to walk on the second floor banester,and once when I was jumping in asnow pile between the stairs and the steel fenceI miss the pile and got one of the spike enter my leg ,good thing there was a doctor on the corner of 4 th and verdun who came to the house and stitched oit up and left a Quarter on my leg and said I could keep it if I didn't cry while he stitched it ,well I got a quarter at every visit haha what a women will do for a quarter cheers haha cheers SuzanneSuzanne Olstenhttp://jsangels.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-67402373051109916872012-05-14T19:03:37.000-07:002012-05-14T19:03:37.000-07:00I remember making periscopes,but let's face it...I remember making periscopes,but let's face it ,from the 2nd to the 3rd floor ,.........no pun intended but that's a 'stretch'<br />As for the girls undressing,I suspect imagination worked way better in those days,because as you say,those skylite windows were usually painted & besides a bra on the line was almost good enough.........hahahaha ......lol<br /> Walkie Talkies to spot cops,now that is smart in a way, but I remember laughing when cops would spot us on a roof ,by the time they copuld get any of their a$$'s up to a roof,we were running down the lane.It is hard to catch a kid on the run......under gallery's ,over fences .up sheds back to the roof or through someone you know's back gallery & out the front.........hahahahah I'm breaking into a sweat just thinking about it,,,Good One Robert.........................HF&RV - LesLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-61389885931498645172012-05-14T18:52:09.000-07:002012-05-14T18:52:09.000-07:00Come on Lesf we also knew which windows to see gir...Come on Lesf we also knew which windows to see girls undressing and I believe some of them knew we where there. One of my friends was robbed during the day. When they caught the guys they were using walkie talkies to spot the cops and binoculars to spot if the people left with their windows open. I once made a periscope to look in the third floor bathroom windows in the skylight. I believe those skylights were useless they were either painted or very dirty. Some of the girls our age used to go suntan with baby oil and iodine and of course, they told people they would be there so us guys would try to sneak up on them, but they were ready and would cover up. We were so manipulated but the thrill was good.robert jomphehttp://jumper01.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-34897766600803797532012-05-14T18:23:17.000-07:002012-05-14T18:23:17.000-07:00Also remember finding those little round flat piec...Also remember finding those little round flat pieces of tar, that seemed to catch our eye.<br /> Imagine giving a kid a piec of tar to play with,....they would only take it ,if it had an LCD screen in it.....& could connect to the internet. HF&RV - LesLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-80727396777941351342012-05-14T18:21:18.000-07:002012-05-14T18:21:18.000-07:00We use to love playing on the rooftops,and we seem...We use to love playing on the rooftops,and we seemed to know just which lanes & which sheds ,left the hatch cover to the roof unlocked,but we were not above climbing the balcony posts to get there either......hahahahah <br />I can remember sitting on the rooftop,of my own place on Wellington, & using alligator clips to clip on the antenna of my walkie talkies & the other end on the power wires that ran across the roof ,trying to boost our antenna strength......lol <br /> It;'s amazing we are not all dead. (but were working on it).lol <br /> great memory prompt,.Suzanne you must have had a little tom-boy in you, if you were climbing those rooftops too..... Cheers ! - LesLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-11372292496618926202012-05-14T18:04:08.000-07:002012-05-14T18:04:08.000-07:00thinking about the pass,does anyone remember going...thinking about the pass,does anyone remember going on the roof from the sheds in the back lane and climbing to the top witch only had little lats on the side of the wall to climb and then having to swing through the skylite hole and then run on the roof and people on the 3rd floor would hear us and go out on the balcony and yell at us to get off of there cause there plaster ceiling would crack hehe or sun bath up there or knock on the sky light and holler when you heard the toilt flush and say "hey I know what your doing in there" then they would tell my mother and would be punished and have to spend a couple of days on the balcony OK lets hear some more mistchifSuzanne Olstenhttp://jsangels.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-31398837017328876372012-05-14T17:21:49.000-07:002012-05-14T17:21:49.000-07:00Yes it is a good recount of our young lives in Ver...Yes it is a good recount of our young lives in Verdun....... Cheers ! HF&RV - LesLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-4135928340567167742012-05-14T16:42:09.000-07:002012-05-14T16:42:09.000-07:00What a wonderful storyand I did almost all of that...What a wonderful storyand I did almost all of that ,but being a young girl did have to do any coal shoveling and yes we were scared of that snow blower we had a young boy on 4th ave that got cought in that machine was terrible ,do you remember the snow fort we used to build ,cut big piece of snow and buil them up and then have snow ball fights and getting your toung stuck on the mettal railling Ya! those were the days and I still buy smoke meat and make it like they did at Dunns cheers SuzanneSuzanne Olstenhttp://jsangels.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.com