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KiK signs were everywhere also a brand called Corona seemed to work out of the KiK company it was btwn Bannatyne and Verdun av facing the entrance to the tunnel almost quite close to the waterworks property on St Joseph maybe .another sign seen alot in Verdun was IT shoe polish sign and Black Cat cigarettes
I remember that KIK COLA Plant it was a small place I think that was maybe on Atwater ,I don't know for sure but since it did run from Verun Av (not far from where Lasalle blvd met up on the angle near Verdun Av, and Bannatyne then Joseph. You were right the Montreal Waterworks was on Joseph and it had little hills on the property were actually the berm earth sides to the Acqueduct that would provide a place where people could take there kids to slide on after a snowstorm. You would see all the kids and slides and tobogans having a ball . If you took the 108 Bannatyne Bus from in front of the Forum where the bus terminus was or the 107 which ran along Verdun Av all of them had to travel in front of that area where the KiK store was .
Thanksfor surfing by (anonymous) and sharing your memories with us.Cheers ! LesF
a common sight trucks loaded with wooden crates full of kik cola and the rollers the driverd would set up to deliver case after case sliding along those rollers then stacked in a pile and wheeled in on a cart to the store. remember beer delivery trucks too molson trucks labatt trucks .the soft drink trucks delevring coca cola or 7up or pepsi there were lots of trucks running around montreal for sure, good memorys for sure
That is true Anonymous, there were many trucks delivering all the time around Montreal and certainly around Verdun. The Beer trucks or the Cocal Cola ,Pepsi,Kik trucks were a very familiar sight indeed. I think as young kids we would see the truck in the neighbourhood and run over to the store to watch the cases just flying down those rolling ramps ,sometimes certain stores at a basement window big enough for the cases to go right into their basemnet of the store and the employee in there would be non stop grabbing a wooden case and piling in the basement for storage. Some of the stores that we later referred to as "Deps" would have the beer into their walk-in coolers as fast as they came off the trucks.
Btw: Thanks to all who surf by,and comment.
Cheers LesF
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