TOP TEN RESPONSES FOR OCTOBER:
1- Music 104 111frantic111 Oct. 15
2- Preventive medecine 81 Les-F " 23
3- Old Photos Verdun Boardwalk
59 111frantic111 " 29
4- Books 54 SecondAve " 16
5- Montreal 30 " " 07
6- Somewhere on the River
26 Guy5479 " 31
7- Population of Verdun 24 " " 06
7- Parc Belmont Park 24 " " 09 (tie)
8- All those who went to VCHS
23 Screwballrandy " 12
9- Movies 22 SecondAve " 10
10- Old Stone House 18 Johnmeliving2 " 01
This is an unscientific survey that shows member's interests.
Guy
Interesting Guy,.......the topics have many separate threads,...and most are recounts of Verdun Days Gone By,.............Memories seem to be the driving engine of the VerdunConnections site,............Which is great ,...and we encourage everyone to add any old memory or add old pictures,....etc ec Also as I do every so often,.I suggest that we all take a look through all the Photo Albums that are available,...or checkout some of the many fine 'Links' we have available through here too !............Anything that sparks an old thought or story.or uncovers another old photo,would Really be appreciated by all. .........................................Remember to Have Fun & Remember Verdun (thought I'd forgotten that ,sign off didn't you.............hahahahaha --- ---or hoped I had...............hjahahahahahah)
ReplyDeleteLes-F, I agree that it would be interesting to see more old photos of members taken in Verdun with the story behind it. Come on members, lets see those old photos of what you looked like in your youth. Guy
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ReplyDeleteYes the old bathtubs,.......they got real popular with antique hunters for a few years,...out here you can see some of them in fields,on rural farms (aren't all farms rural.......hahaha) but some like them ,..teh old 'clawfoot tubs' are the popular ones, Also Remember when people tried to 'modernize' there bathrooms in the flats in Verdun,.by building a plywood boz around the old round corners to give it the more modern square-ish tubs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Great old Photo Sandy,........ Incidentally your favourite Prez is going to be here tomorrow night ,BillClinton, I'd like to hear him speak,but the there no tickets available for some time now
ReplyDeleteHere's one, grade 4 St.Thomas Moore. Paul is sitting in 2nd seat in the 2nd row closest to the blackboard. Teacher was Mr. McKeefry. Brian Connolly is sitting in front seat first row furthest from the board.
ReplyDeleteBuying the First Poppy in Verdun: So Buy a Poppy................Contributing my pennies ,at a very young age:
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ReplyDeleteLes. That vet in the picture with you looks very familiar. Probably just a familiar picture.
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ReplyDeleteHello Winston,....the name of the Vet in the picture is J.H.Turnbull,legionnaire of the Verdun branch.......... I imagine this man was a WWI veteran,...........I wonder if any of Our present day members ever go to the Legion on Verdun Avenue,...it would be interesting to see if he is known there,.perhaps he has a plaque on the wall in there?? I wonder if his family would like a copy of this ? I 'd be happy to send them one,.....if anyone knows Mr Turnbull,....or more likely his family,.then it would good to hear from them.Your right though he does have a familiar type face,...it was always quite something as a youngster to meet a soldier,.....they were like superheroes to us as kids.......... I also like the old Poppy Box,with that can with the white label on it,.....Years later I was in Sea Cadets,and also Help Sell Poppy's,........and marched in some rainy .cold weather........hahahahah then we'd get a hot chocolate,after the parade,....hahahahah and those old uniforms were real 'scratchy' and had to be pressed just right,.......it was cool to have a lanyard too...............hahahahah A long time ago..........
ReplyDeleteHi Sandy,..Teresa's friend paid 200 and something,.but she is thrilled to be going,and has some really good seats I guess,....I think the normal tickets do run about a hundred,.....i don't know if the proceeds are for a cause or not,I just thought it would go to the speaker,.......I will have to check into that,maybe there is more than one speaker here too,......but I had thought it was just the Pres. (I even tried to win some tickets through a local radio email thing,but I didn't win,..)
ReplyDeleteCrawford Park Queen Elizabeth Park Parents Night 1st row left to right Ken Petit, Dan Green, Les[Crunch]Ranger, John MacKett, David[Tuffy]Coleman 2nd row left to right Suzanne Janelle, Wayne Hanrahan, Jacques Normandin, Rex Turnbull, Pam Stephen, Barbara Begin, Paul Nowlan Missing Jeannie Law, Don Dawson
ReplyDeleteWell here's some info on the thing tomorow,...... it's at Noon for one thing,..seems early?? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ReplyDeleteTUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
PRESS RELEASE A Conversation with the Honorable WILLIAM CLINTON
Friday, November 10th, 2006
Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria
Showtime: 12:30 pm Tickets: Includes GST & Convenience Charge, add $3.00 processing fee per order Price Level 1 (Floor and sections 101, 102, 108, and 109) - $199.87
Price Level 2 (Sections 110 - 116) - $91.62 ..............this sort of bugs me I never thought to look this up ,.......(and I look up everything..........hahahahaha ) but they've been saying for weeks that the show is sold out;
HappyDi2 ,.....that's hilarious,...look at the kids with those 'Beatle Wigs' hahahahahaha ....................Great Picture,....I wonder if that fellow Rex Turnbull,is the son of the old Veteran JHTurnbull in the phot from the newspaper that I posted? .........and that name is very familiar Rex Turnbull (I know the name,but don't know why)........
ReplyDeleteLes...Rex Turnbull was an Alderman in Verdun and that could be his father...Paul isn't too sure on that one. Maybe someone can tell us. Dianne
ReplyDeleteSorry bout that,...I did mena to include the web address to this site' here's the link to The Last Post .............(which coincidentally was supposed to be 'in' the last post..................... http://www.legionmagazine.com/LastPost/browse.asp?alpha=T&offset=3400 It's very easily navigated,..all the pages are at the bottom,and it seems you can search by name,........ This does looklike a useful site,....and we are at the time of year to Remember Them,.............so maybe some out there will be sad,but they also may want to look up some of the people that they Remember:
ReplyDeleteLes....70 is young.....Paul says he was a very nice man. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. dianne
ReplyDeleteRex Turnbull's Father was named William. I had many good conversations with him when he worked as a 'Pop' in Queen Elizabeth Park for two years. I think Bill worked for the Railway.I can't remember if Bill ever mentioned being in the war and I can't remember Rex's younger brother's name even though we went to school together. I seem to remember they lived on Moffat or Manning above Verdun. The other pop at Q.E. Park was John Cosgrove an old Brit who was a veteran of both wars. Ed
ReplyDeleteJust have to read the inscription on the building "Lest We Forget"
ReplyDeleteHere are pictures in my youth circa 1940s when I went to Notre Dame du C챕nacle school. at 4010 Bannantyne. The school was demolished and replaced with an appartment or condo bldg, the same happened to Bannantyne school. .
ReplyDeleteSandy, We had that type of bathtub also on Galt in the 30s, 40s and 50s. The big problem was trying to clean behind the tub, dirt and junk would accumulate there creating an hyegene problem. Guy
ReplyDeletePeople used to paint the outside of the tub, except around the side that was near the wall. Those tubs (in good shape) are worth quite a bit out here.
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ReplyDeleteHere in Nova Scotia there are many heritage homes and people are buying these old tubs and having them refinished so they can be reused as bath tubs. I saw one where they painted the outside black and it look beautiful in the all white bathroom. Dianne
ReplyDeleteYes...refinishing and reusing. Many of them out here were never removed from the houses when renovations took place, so they are in not bad shape. I guess that when they were removed often the fancy feet were lost. On the other hand, I've seen a couple that were out in the farmer's fields as water troughs for cattle!!! Go figure. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteLinda I have seen that here in the Maritimes too! My daughter and her husband have a 200 year old house in Saint John N.B. and they gutted the bathroom and then bought a huge whirl pool tub, I have never seen one so big, they paid a fortune for it and it looks like the old fashioned tubs of yore! Ah, the young! dianne
ReplyDeleteSon of a B..........athtub, Is this the stuff some still aspire to ? Remember when this was the closest thing to a 'hottub'.............hahahahha maybe out on the back gallery ,you had one of these old washtubs.............hahahaha
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ReplyDeleteLes. What are you talking about. I am still using that galvanized tub. But as always, only on Saturday night..... AHHHHHH....for the good old days.
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Winston,........you Are a crazy old character,,,,,...........and we love ya hahahahahaha Don't forget to wash that 'ring from around the tub'.........hahahaha
ReplyDeleteDo you remember when you had to heat the water up on the stove first? this is before hot water tanks.....glad those days are gone, especially since we all like those long showers.....
ReplyDeleteHere's a good one, we were 3 kids so when bathtime came around we used to fill the tub and leave the water for the next one when we were finished!!! I only shudder what the water must have been like by 3rd kid. But we were lucky as we had a bath every night. We had friends who only had a bath once a week. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteYes I recall the heating the kettle up first ,....to ad to the tub,..........hahahaha and we all had a huge silver kettle with the bottom as blach as (remember this Toby's ass).............hahahahahahah The kettle was always heated up on the Gas Stove and the bottom was black: Remeber how the bottom of those old pots & ketlles got black,.....Look at this old stove and te pans on it,.........I just like this old picture,and have no idea who the old character in it is.....Do You ? Sure looks like a real old Montreal/Verdun/Quebec style kitchen doesn't it? .......................Have Fun & Remember.............................................
ReplyDeleteLes those old stoves are very much in demand today....they can be rewired and they are adapted to code etc..... Linda...I hope no one did a number 1 in the bath water...!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDianne, Bea and I got our bath first and second, and my poor brother got the bath last as he was the youngest and we just knew he peed in the tub (grossed us out, but isn't that just like younger brothers....pests!!!). Cheers.
ReplyDeleteLook at the spitoon in the kitchen picture...and I might add....in a prominent place. Geez, didn't little kids crawl around on the floor and get into that nasty stuff? Cheers.
ReplyDeleteOnly if you missed........................................hahahahahah and you were always warned when you were a kid Not to put your hands in your mouth.................. pssssst but it was Ok later on in life to put your foot in your mouth......hahah
ReplyDeleteLinda...I am sitting laughing ....yes little brothers were pests, and I had two of them....Yuck...a spitoon....I wonder who the lucky person was who cleaned that thing .... di
ReplyDeleteWell now Mom45,.........just to get even with you first & second bathers,....some of us youngeeer brothers,.....just may have 'warmed up' your bath water for you,.....before you think we p'eed in ours,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteLes_F Did you have an older sister????? Bet you did, eh????? Because you sure seem to know the tricks of how to get us "older sisters" irritated. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteIrritated,.......................I thought I was just getting you warmed up hahahahahah............careful how you treat us younger brothers,we may have seen more than you think we did.............hahahahahah Now who was that first boyfriend you had visit in the front room,..??
ReplyDeleteMy brother was 10 years younger than me, so he was usually in bed by the time my "suitors" came courting, lol. But I remember sitting on the front gallery with my boyfriend, light on of course, and when my mom used to come out rattling the glass milk bottles (with the milk ticket stuck in the neck of the bottle) I knew it was time to say salut to the boyfriend. Cheers.
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ReplyDeleteMothers cleaned those spitoons, who else. Guy
ReplyDeleteWinston....this one's for you!!!!! A bath tub shot. Now just don't get too excited, I know how you Verdun guys are. You can stop laughing now. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you were "put out" with the bath water. LOL
ReplyDeleteYou mean my mom "threw" me out with the bathwater???? and she told me that it was my own private swimming pool, and I believed her! Can't blame the dirty bathwater my other two siblings, as they hadn't come along yet. Cheers
ReplyDeleteMom1945linda, Now there is a nice picture depicting life in Verdun in the past. Keep them coming. Guy
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ReplyDeleteSandy....One of the things I learned with those bathrooms with the skylights is that you better not be fooling around in that bathroom. I did one time and one time only, and the neighbors heard everything. Winston Allison
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ReplyDeleteHere you go Winston, please enjoy. This may be X-Rated as there is both a male and female in the tub together..... Cheers.
ReplyDeleteAnother one, this one with a little leg showing. You'd think I was in the New York City Rockettes. That's me center stage. You gals out there can laugh, but you probably all have pictures from your dance class performance ....on stage, in front of a big audience (alright...a small audience). Imagine the poor parents having to sit through an evening of this!!!! Cheers.
ReplyDeleteYup Mom your right the parents sitting through all those school shows,very tedious,...just to see your own kid,..........hahahah Hours and hours of Ukes,.....then Choir,....and those plays.......... ....................and we wouldn't change a thing..........hahahaha Great pictures to have,Mom45..............Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteVery nice Linda. It looks like it may have been taken in a back yard or in the country somewhere. I guess you were just practicing for when you got older. Well all I can say, is keep it up... Winston
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ReplyDeleteLinda that is great that you have all those pictures. Thanks for sharing...
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