OK Whats your best memory of Verdun , better still your 5 best
Lanes
Rooftops
outdoor rinks
Woodland Park (cement downs)
Model School , yes it used to be protestant school in beginning
NEXT Jimmy
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.
Fishing by boat on the Saint Lawrence River long before the seaway was
ReplyDeletedug. Camping on Nun's Island long before the bridge and the housing.
Playing hooky and swimming in the Acky.
Bill
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it.
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What else do we remember , lets see , Streetcars , boardwalk , ave's , sheds , hot cross buns . next
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ReplyDeleteThe Pav Fri Y Park & Churchill Taverns Just over the bridge Willibrord etc River & Nun's Island Gordo
ReplyDeleteHow about the good old Miles for Million's walks, use to raise lots of money
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The little ones collected most as people didn't believe they would complete
the trek, but they would. Right Sis. Always fun rain or shine.
Tiny Tina
Have many best memories. But today I have to say the Best was growing up in
ReplyDeletea large Family. Another was driving around in Jim A. Pink Convertible.
Tiny Tina
Stilwells Humbugs - Shopping on Wellington in summer taking the kids to the park on the boardwalk to the wading pool. Kids going to Dawson or skating outdoor rink on Egan -Kids making first Communion at St. Thomas More.
ReplyDeleteStillwell's Chocolate mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Hockey,Football,Baseball,wife leaving mmmm mmmmmmm Steve (give)
ReplyDeleteSteinbergs and my grocery wagon revels honeymoons blackballs big bottle of KIK
ReplyDeleteThey don't lock you up in small towns, as long as you pay your bill.
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March 1969 going on a date with my future husband at the Savoy and then pizza at the Riverview restaurant on Verdun Ave.
ReplyDeleteGoing on Dates ......with Other People's Future ..Wives.........hahahahaha oh yes & Pizza of course...........hahahah Have Fun & Remember Verdun
ReplyDeleteAre you bragging or complaining....hahahahahah!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLes_F He's the man D'Stud Steve (give)
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ReplyDeleteBest place for fishing was under the boats at VMBC!! Lots of pike and rock bass. When you got aa little older the 4 towers at the aqueduc was the best for big Pike and muskie. Mike
ReplyDeleteWhen bread and milk was delivered at our door and the doctor made house calls. Vous rappelez vous lorsque le pain et le lait étaient livrés à la porte et que le médecin faisais des visites à la maison. Guy
ReplyDeleteI remember when he bought the car and we spent the whole week with the top down. It was March
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Hello HappyDi2.............I'm complaining of course,......cause you can never have Enough, of Good Verdun, Women........what with there constant climbing of those stairs........but I have been able to get by with these Good Westcoast women.........and if Teresa walks in behind me now ,she may have had enough of her Montreal Guy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oooooooowwwwwwwwww ,take it eeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssyyy with that baseball bat.......... ouch.....they grow 'em tough out here................hahahahahahah Have Fun & Remember Verdun
ReplyDeletebytheway jim! then you must also remember had he drove that car, boy if my
ReplyDeletesons drove around with people like that I would've gone nuts on them.
Tiny Tina
Hey Les F......Teresa is lucky to have a Verdun man, I can atteest to that , having one myself, been together for 35 years this August...lol....Dianne
ReplyDeleteI remember milk delivered to the door and how in the winter if you didn't
ReplyDeleteget up early enough to get from the front door, it froze and the cardboard
cover on the top of the bottle would pop off. Later they came up with a
plastic type cover over the cardboard cover. That helped some
roller skates toboggans and slides Flat Rock old power house ice delivered to the door through back lanes by Manufacturers Ice
ReplyDeleteBest Memories???? Some great "junk food"! My first smoked meat sandwich at a little reataurant on the east side of Church Avenue, just north of Verdun Ave. The best sundaes anywhere at Tasse's, corner of 5th Ave and Wellington, not to mention the sponge toffee! Ice Cream, 3 scoops in double cones at the ice cream shop on the boardwalk at first avenue near Leblanc's wharf (can't remember the name), also had my first melo-roll ice cream there (you know! the one that looked like it was wrapped in a toilet paper roll and they would peel off this "tube" and put the ice cream into a cone! All the different candies you could get for a cent-honeymoons, licorice pipes, little wax bottles with flavoured water in them, marshmallow yo-yo's with thread for a string, candy cigarettes with "glowing' red tips,......I could go on, but "taste" is one of the best memory joggers!
ReplyDeleteHey Art, Did you have a younger brother named Ross? Mike
ReplyDeleteKosta's by Riverview School on Bannatyne also had great sponge toffee. A big
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Cherry cokes and french fries there too.
In the Kresgies store on St Catherine St in the fifties era they had fountain Pepsi at the lunch counter on the main floor and also at the basement lunch counter. The basement lunch counter was run by a really nice woman. She would put as much Pepsi syrup as you wanted plus add vanilla or cherry syrup or both if you desired. It was like drinking pancake syrup with fizz-but it tasted fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI remember going to Eaton's at Christmas time with my brother and riding on the train and seeing santa clause and then mom would take us to Kresgies for a coke at the lunch counter..what a treat that was....Dianne
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, ging to Eaton's was a ritual at Christmas, we used to have a hot dog at the lunch counter in the basement , was like having a million dollars, and our coats piled up everywhere, no one seemed to steal in those days. Santa Clause parade , train, toys on 7th floor , geez our parents were great to get us there and back Jimmy
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ReplyDeleteBest cheery cokes were at Tasses' during the summer and then
hot chocolate with cookies after skating at woodland park in the
winter or after the FRY Y dances on a Friday nite.
Margo
Hi Margo.....which Y did you go to, was it the one on Gordon Ave or the the one on Lasalle Blvd? I was a day camper at the Y on Gordon for a couple of years way back in the late 50's, was about 10 years old or so. Then when I was a teen ager went to the Y dances on Lasalle Blvd. My husband Paul and his friend Brian ran those dances. I did not meet Paul till years later, had a lot of fun in those days at both Y's. Paul was on the Board for the Y back in late 60's and early 70's until we moved to Nova Scotia.....Cheers..Dianne
ReplyDeleteLook at the pictures on my site.Those cones come from Leblanc's you refer to. Guy
ReplyDeleteNot a brother, but a cousin.
ReplyDeleteHi Ralph, Ross was in my class at VHS. I think he went on to teach and then a principal somewhere. Mike
ReplyDeleteRoss Dawe was my grade 9 teacher at VHS in 73/74. He later moved to Chatham, Ontario. He did become the principal there and retired at the end of the 2004 school year.
ReplyDeletesnakes and cows on nuns island riding on back of buses horses delivering groceries snow pushed to the side of roads, no young ones, they did not take it away , just pushed it to the sides, wow , talk about high snow banks forts and snow ball fights
ReplyDeletePlaying in the DIL fields tall grass and keeping an eye out for the security guard.Had to know where the hole was under the fence or the posts to climb over.
ReplyDeleteHow about the smokemeat at Dunn's on St.Catherine , the beer and food at The Rymark Tavern on Peel St. Bert was the waiter he never wrote anything down and you were never overcharged. Steve
ReplyDeleteRymark's Tavern on Peel Street just south of Ste Catherine - now there's a memory (or should I say a beer-faded one). During the late 60s and early 70s when we (The Black Velvet Band) played at the Hunter's Horn, most nights between sets we'd head to Rymark's (two doors south) for a few beers. If I remember correctly, most nights Bert (didn't he have a raspy voice) was our waiter. We were such regulars that we'd hardly be in the door and he'd already have 2 glasses of draft each ready at our favourite table. I also seem to recall that either the Star or the Gazette did an article on him sometime during the 70s. He was a bit of a celebrity in his own right.
ReplyDeleteHey Bill You used to time your sets at the Horny Hunter to coincide with the periods of the Habs games so that we could hit the Rymarks TVs for play to begin. I am surprised you have ANY memory left with as much suds as we would consume.. Most of our brain cells should have beedn deceased just from our birthday bashes at the Stanley Tav alone. What was it we celebrated ten B'Days a year not including the one's we borrowed from anyone just for the excuse to drink. Since I worked from '65 to '68 at Stanley & St Cath the Stanley Tav and the one that was 16 steps from rear entrance to Sir George were very familiar. Hey :Les the patented "finger wave/gesture to get more beers absolutely fascinated my local friend here when we visited Mtl's taverns a few years back...
ReplyDeleteHey banjo
ReplyDeleteYour right he was my uncle Bert Wattie .
He left the Rymark to open his own kitchen
in a Tavern on Wellington West of Migill on
the North side .
Steve
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ReplyDeleteThat was the Weekend Star in the
slipy section . I think it was two
or three pages . Wasn't that hanging on the
wall at the Tavern .
Steve
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Ruth, I don't know if you remember me but I think you were in
ReplyDeletemy class at Riverview. And my memory of you is that you were a very good student
who was always willing to help anyone, me included.
Regards,
Bob Archibald
straps to hold on to in streetcars playing marbles in the spring like bunny in the hole or stick Stando played with tennis ball Looking down skylights from roof tops opening that trap door in shed to get out onto the roof
ReplyDeleteWe used to Sunbathe on the roof - we had a ladder and the trap door actually was two trap doors since it was in the ceiling of a bedroom inner and then a huge covered in tin then went on from the roof top so no water or snow could leak in and wreck the ceiling.
ReplyDeleteHot cross buns Kresges , woolworths eatons no longer there gone no fear of stairs always seemed to be climbing stairs Roxy's fish and chips on wellington between 3rd and 2nd south side fastball games
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