For those that knew him Peter Rinder has passed away. Please see the notice in the Montreal Gazette may 14,2005
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I knew Peter Rinder. We played on the same hockey team in Mosquito the leafs and knew him in High School. VHS So sorry to hear he passed away. JohnnyO
ReplyDeleteSteve I recognize your name. Your brother Brian was in most of my classes all though school. My maiden name was Brenda Bennett. If you remember me please reply
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Muppet9696!
ReplyDeleteBy chance are you related to the late Ronnie Bennett who use to live in
the Apt's on the corner of Willibroad and LaSalle Blvd.
Have Fun and Keep
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Tina
I knew Pete well, may he rest in peace. He and my ex-husband Mike Stuart and Mike's brother Kenny were close friends for years. Kenny actually did Pete's eulogy at the funeral. Pete's humor and excellent carpentry work will always be his legacy...as will his friendly nature. It's always sad when someone is taken way before their time....
ReplyDeleteTina, as you know, Ron Bennett was my uncle - my Mom's younger brother. I used to spend a LOT of time at their apartment on the third floor on that corner, I babysat my Uncle Ronnie and Aunti Sherry's 3 kids, Jimmy, Tracey and Sheila...I think you and Maggie babysat for them too, didn't you? My Aunt Elaine and Uncle Barry also lived in the apartment in the same building right across the hall from my aunt and uncle. Nora lived on the second floor... The Collins' used to live on the bottom flat of those apartments too, remember? Here's a pic I took of the small side balcony of what used to be the Collins' flat. Those apartments aren't at all how I remember them from when I was younger...I remember all the balconies being of wood and painted grey (railings were even wood too). Those apartments were not your traditional apartments either...they were really BIG inside and each upper flat had THREE balconies, remember that? One in the front of the house (off a front bedroom), one on the side of the house (off the kitchen) and another one at the back that had the stairway that went out to the street, onto Willibrord from the flats right at the corner and the back of the apartments in the center of the block on Lasalle Blvd. exited into that BIG communal backyard/parking lot. Each of the 2 apartment buildings only had 6 apartments too, 2 on each of the 3 floors. Oh man the memories are all still there, they just needed some stirring! Don't ask me what I ate for breakfast yesterday tho haha. Anyway here's the pic...There's even a sign telling you what house it is: 4513 (Lasalle Blvd.) #1.
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon'
ReplyDeleteYup did quite a bit of sitting for them,also remember halloween parties
at thier place as your Aunt wouldn't let the kids go door to door with us.
So are you related to Brenda then?
HF & KY
Tiny Tina
yeah I remember the Halloween parties they had too. Big metal tub filled with water and apples floating in it that you HAD to bob for and get to get a prize haha. I am no relation to Brenda Bennett that I know of tho...that's who you meant, right?
ReplyDeleteHello Sharon!
ReplyDeleteYes that is who I meant. And in regards to the other post where are all
the cab drivers? Won't you come out and tell us where the Ponitiac Office
was on Wellington?
HF & KY
Tiny Tina
I Remember a Pontiac Taxi dispatch office being in the basement of a building at Wellington & Desmarchais.....( on the river side of Wellington ,and btwn Desmarchais & 6th av) ..........also Remember the weightlifting Gym at wellington & Desmarchais....with the large sign with a weightlifter on it......I think it was once used as Dollard StLaurent's insurance office ...............anyone Remember that......... ?? HF&RV
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ReplyDeleteI difinetly remember Dollards' office where all the
Montreal Canadiens hung out.
Margo