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Sunday, May 17, 2020
Instant Recognition
As soon as I saw this shot in today's Gazette , I thought I would share it here for us.
A nice and quick visit to Verdun,.........hope it prompts some good old memories from it.
Wellington Street, looking east from Egan in the Verdun district of Montreal, on Friday, May 15, 2020.Allen McInnis/ Montreal Gazette
4 comments:
BobB
said...
I love that picture. It brings back great memories of Verdun. It was a wonderful place to grow up.
I keep coming back to this picture. It transports me way back to Verdun many years ago. On Church Ave way back in the 60s there was a little music store owned and operated by Marcel Frechette. I bought my first good guitar there....a Fender Telecaster. That was a big event for me. Marcel was a good sax player. Older than my buddies and me. He was a friend. Used to get us gigs around greater Montreal. Once he had us join him at a club somewhere in Montreal.......Sax, organ/piano, guitar and drums. We rehearsed in Marcel’s store after hours. He had a coke machine in the store. When we rehearsed after hours, the coke magically became beer. We had great times. I often wonder what happened to Marcel. He was older than us so I don’t wonder too much. He’s thriving in my memory and my imagination. God bless you Marcell wherever you are. Thanks for the memories.
I grew up on Egan and a Sunday routine was a walk with my parents along Wellington to Church to a restaurant? cafe? where we bought ice creams. I'm 80 now and can still remember a lot of it.
Those memories are wonderful. That’s a memory that many of us can relate to. It is amazing how much meaning these remembrances bring to us. Memories like that become a bookmark in your life. Thanks so much for sharing it.
A nice and quick visit to Verdun,.........hope it prompts some good old memories from it.
4 comments:
I love that picture. It brings back great memories of Verdun. It was a wonderful place to grow up.
BobB
I keep coming back to this picture. It transports me way back to Verdun many years ago. On Church Ave way back in the 60s there was a little music store owned and operated by Marcel Frechette. I bought my first good guitar there....a Fender Telecaster. That was a big event for me. Marcel was a good sax player. Older than my buddies and me. He was a friend. Used to get us gigs around greater Montreal. Once he had us join him at a club somewhere in Montreal.......Sax, organ/piano, guitar and drums. We rehearsed in Marcel’s store after hours. He had a coke machine in the store. When we rehearsed after hours, the coke magically became beer. We had great times. I often wonder what happened to Marcel. He was older than us so I don’t wonder too much. He’s thriving in my memory and my imagination. God bless you Marcell wherever you are. Thanks for the memories.
BobB
I grew up on Egan and a Sunday routine was a walk with my parents along Wellington to Church to a restaurant? cafe? where we bought ice creams. I'm 80 now and can still remember a lot of it.
Hi
Those memories are wonderful. That’s a memory that many of us can relate to. It is amazing how much meaning these remembrances bring to us. Memories like that become a bookmark in your life. Thanks so much for sharing it.
BobB
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