Hi everybody, I wonder how many of you remember the Great Antonio always pulling buses at the Atwater bus station. He died this past week. I think he lived in Verdun at one time when I was a kid on Ethel Street. He pulled four buses full of people down St.Catherine and wresled fourty people at the same time and won. Was on Johnny Carson. He was quite the caracter. There are articals on the net about him. Dannyb
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From: Dannyb--1 (Original Message) Sent: 9/15/2003 8:28 AM Hi everybody, I wonder how many of you remember the Great Antonio always pulling buses at the Atwater bus station. He died this past week. I think he lived in Verdun at one time when I was a kid on Ethel Street. He pulled four buses full of people down St.Catherine and wresled fourty people at the same time and won. Was on Johnny Carson. He was quite the caracter. There are articals on the net about him. Dannyb and How about DannyB,......always reminding us of a Verdun fact or two,.......like the Great Antonio (Ok Montrealer) ,.....but how about when he reminded us of the 'Pope of Verdun'.............always full of neat info ...... Now I've gone over the message boards twice now,.....and more thoroughly this last shot,....but I'm going to take a break,....but first I will go as far back as I can and see where the beginning is,........ Now I can't mentione every member,.althoguh I would like to,......but maybe you can peruse the old message's again,....and it will revive some old memory that you can expand upon,......We've got the Bettyloo's ,...the JMH's ,....the Guy5479's,.....the COACH BIMS,.....the papa3times's,.......and on & On ..........So if your all still out there reading then feel free to jump in and carry the ball,....You've all worked off that Turkey Dinner,......start typing...........hahahahaha Have Fun & Remember Verdun
i remember him pulling a bus in front of the Aud
The Great Antonio passed away in 2003 !!!
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>9/15/2003 8:28 AM Hi everybody, I wonder how many of you remember the
>Great Antonio always pulling buses at the Atwater bus station. He died this
>past week. I think he lived in Verdun at one time when I was a kid on Ethel
>Street. He pulled four buses full of people down St.Catherine and wresled
>fourty people at the same time and won. Was on Johnny Carson. He was quite
>the caracter. There are articals on the net about him. Dannyb
>and How about DannyB,......always reminding us of a Verdun fact or
>two,.......like the Great Antonio (Ok Montrealer) ,.....but how about when
>he reminded us of the 'Pope of Verdun'.............always full of neat info
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>Now I've gone over the message boards twice now,.....and more thoroughly
>this last shot,....but I'm going to take a break,....but first I will go as
>far back as I can and see where the beginning is,........ Now I can't
>mentione every member,.althoguh I would like to,......but maybe you can
>peruse the old message's again,....and it will revive some old memory that
>you can expand upon,......We've got the Bettyloo's ,...the JMH's ,....the
>Guy5479's,.....the COACH BIMS,.....the papa3times's,.......and on & On
>..........So if your all still out there reading then feel free to jump in
>and carry the ball,....You've all worked off that Turkey Dinner,......start
>typing...........hahahahaha
> Have Fun & Remember Verdun
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Is the the fellow who was claimed to be able to open the windows of the
St. Catherine St. streetcars? Which were impossible to open in my day.
Second Avenue.
"Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and
have a definite object in life outside themselves and their own
personal happiness."
- Leo Tolstoy
I had the ''pleasure'' of meeting the Great Antonio when I worked at a copy centre on deMaisonneuve 8 years ago. He was quite an interesting character.... ...he would get copies made of old pictures and newspaper clippings of his ''feats'' that hw would either give or sell to anyone interested. He used to play ''hockey'' with his long pony tail while he was waiting for his copies. mpu
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