Charlie Chaplan can't be very far.
Guy
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.
More of same. Guy
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ReplyDeleteHere is a more currant model. Guy
ReplyDeleteI notice it says that the black police cars were changed in 1965 to blue and white. I think that black seemed so much more official and demanded more respect than the blue and white. I remember thinking how terrible the new colours looked.
ReplyDeleteVerdun's Police Cars were Green & White ,.except for the Detective cars that were always Black that I can Remember,....... but generally I had occasion to know only the Interior Colours.......hahahah but when the MUC came into play they did switch to the more readily known Blue & White.......................... the Lasall e police cars were ................................never mind ......hahahahah Have Fun & Remember Verdun .....Remember when I was a kid most of my friends & myself were Honor Students,...cause quite frequently all we ever said was "Yes Your Honour, ...No Your Honor"......................................or so the story goes... hahahahhaha Have Fun& Remember Verdun
ReplyDeleteIs Paddy Wagon a racial slur?
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i always thought my name was jesus christ till i was 10 years old
ReplyDeleteBill, New York City Irish writer Pete Hamill goes bullistic when he hears someone mention Paddy Wagon. Pete Hamill went after a lot of reporters in the New York Press after they had mentioned Paddy Wagon. Since I have been reading Pete Hamill's books and articles for forty years I have come to the point where I do not like hearing Paddy Wagon. That said the term Paddy Wagon gets used so often that you can't get cranked up about it all the time-Walter
ReplyDeleteIn our house the term used was "Black Mariah".
ReplyDeleteGood one Popdog-Fresco
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't uncommon to have more than one old friend away from Verdun , getting a 'striped sunburn'............................hahahahha from weredale,stvallieres ,or shawbridge .....that took care of the youthful exuberance,.......hahahahahah HF&RV
ReplyDeleteHi Les The cars in Lasalle were blue and remember the Police Ambulances? I remember the blue ones because I would see them driving around..... I do remember the green ones in Verdun... Myself and a friend of mine whose grandfather had just lost re-election as Mayor in Verdun will remain nameless. Cut in front of one and got stopped. I of course expressed how I felt....at that time they gave out $5 tickets I think.You also had to go to youth court at the City Hall....this went over real good at home....hahahahha.. Guess I should have kept my opinions to myself.... Good Times Lad Honour students good one...
ReplyDeleteYes I've had occasion to tour the inner confines of the Verdun City Hall 4th floor ( I think) nice wood decor,................hahahahahah and the Judge was always very intimidating,...............Lasalle also had Black Unmarked Detective cars 1970ish,.this would be prior to the MUC coming into being , I had a ride in a couple of those too,..........hahahahaha and your right I do Remember later that the Lasalle Police Ambulance was a Van ,in blue & white, been stopped by them too!............. hahahahaha HF&RV
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ReplyDeletesome reason i always had to sit in the back seat
in that cop car, there was no air conditioning
in those cop cars back then, for some reason they had the rear window crank removed, it was hot with those vinyl seats
in back of the cop car going to the police station
at the front desk they wanted all your stuff, even your shoe laces
even at times they had the body search in the cell
looking very close for those missing items??
Popdog, It wouldn't surprise me if some of these cops are working for you now and that they are sorry they ever gave you a rough time back in the good old days-Fresco
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ReplyDeletethey weren't all bad, some were good cops
back then in verdun, we as little verduners drank
molson, smoked cig's at the early age of 10 years old.
along the boardwalk, the cops drove along the boardwalk
stop ask us what we were doing??
nothing much we would replie, the cop would replie
don't get drunk , or i'll take you in and drive away.
one time a cop car stopped and asked if he could
bum a smoke of us, sure we replied.
later in years some cops even sat with us and drank a beer with us, hard to understand today but it's verdun.
Popdog, was there a cop nicknamed Red during your time? In the 50s he was well liked by the kids. Some police were cruising the neighbourhood by bicycle. My very angry father had to go down to the police station on LaSalle to pick me up once. Ouch!
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Just Once........................You lucky Bast^*%# .,hahahahahhaah My oldman made the trip a few times,.............and like he said ( I think he was studying to be a Detective),......but his observation was that after his car was being stolen 2 or 3 times a week,.....He began to think it was an inside job..................................hahahahahahha HF&RV
ReplyDeletebiking us little verduners were trouble makers, in the 60's, we stole bikes at the nat we needed parts for the choppers, sold firecrackers, drank molson beer and smoked sportsman cigs, fighting with other little verdun gangs then become buddies the cops were fed up of us, at times some of the trouble makers stayed in the cell hoping someone will get them out?? even some of the parents just gave up, i can write a book on the stuipd stuff about us little verduners. walking along the boardwalk, those wooden benches with the names carved in all still there, its a question of time they will be replaced.
ReplyDeleteI can Remember another style of park bench,.otherthan the one captured in metalmans picture,.....Remember the older ones that were not cemented into the ground,.but had a Cement Rounded Concrete end which was connected withe those old green boards & a metal rod down the center, We use to take them from under the Redtops and gather them together & then pile them up (stacking them kind of) two sets in one direction,.then lift two more sets in another direction,.......etc etc ,......... these were the really old benches that the city of Verdun would gather up & put away in the winter................ I have a picture somewhere of this type of bench,....they were used all over Montreal in all the public parks,.........the others came into play as a 'fixed bench' that stayed there all year,........less wood used in them,.and of course no need to move them ,.since they were fixed in place,..........the old type could be moved around relatively easily,....... HF&RV
ReplyDeleteles here's the boardwalk again, changed alot since the landfill
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