Does anyone remember a very pretty but sad girl named Diane Bogo. She
may have lived close to the 5th Avenue movie theater which was on
Wellington. I dated her once in the fifties, and then lost touch with
her. We must have been 14 or 15 at the time. I have thought about her
from time to time, hoping she would have had experienced a happy life.
Mystical how memories evolve.
Bill Cooper
"The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music,
and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love."-
Walt Whitman
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.
8 comments:
Hope I didn't confuse anyone with that 'signature' by Walt Whitman. It
was meant for another address. It was Veterans Day last Tuesday in the
US but appropriate for the Canadian armed services as well.
If no one recalls Diane, how about Judy Roy. I believe therapy would
have helped my fragile self, after she rejected me badly after one date
from hell. God bless you Judy where ever you are.
Bill Cooper
I happened to have liked that "signature" very much. By the way, Veteran's Day was the same day as "Remembrance Day" in Canada so it would have fit as well. Luv, Sharon *
Thank you Sharon.
I wish to thank everyone who contacted me privately on my lost loves
of the past. I am surprised anyone remembered these two girls
considering the population of the city.
I should rent a flat on the numbered avenues for a month or two just
to get this nostalgia out of my system. Does anyone have a ballpark
figure on how much a 1 or 2 bedroom flat would cost per month on 2nd
Avenue or thereabouts in today's market? Just curious. I will visit
Montreal in general, to do more genealogy work on my dad's family, who
grew up in Griffintown and Goose Village (Victoria Town). I can only
imagine what that must have been like. My father told me they could
leave their doors unlocked, and it was safe to walk the streets at
night. It seems to me Verdun was very similar in the 40s and 50s.
Verdun was a great neighborhood to grow up in.
Bill Cooper.
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of
value."
0000,0000,FFFF- Albert Einstein
My daughter just moved to second ave. a downstairs 5 1/2 pays around $500.00. Same place back in the 70's you could have got for $100.00.
hey- barry not bad for 500.00 a month, you are lucky to get a broom closet were i live, for that cost
Thanks Barry. My brother who lives on the east coast said he visited
the old homestead, and he said yuppies are moving back from the
suburbs and are refurbishing a few of the flats on 2nd Avenue.
With a few bucks I suppose you could modernize a flat and make a
comfortable home for your family on the avenues. Is parking still
difficult as it was in the late 50s. When I was a child, there may
have been 10 cars parked on Second Avenue at any one time.
I always thought what the avenues needed were trees, trees , trees.
"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."
0000,0000,FFFF- Leo Tolstoy
Here's a post I dug up from the past. Anyone remember those two girls?
Also my brother Bob and I will be visiting Verdun/Montreal in October. I'm sure we will both walk the avenues and lanes for nostalgic reasons.
I read a post while searching back through V.C. and a lady asked if anyone remembered a cobblestone lane. I don't but if there was one, someone must have seen it. Did they cobblestone the streets way back when? They did in other cities.
Second Avenue
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