Watch the video in the first comment window,,,,,, Cheers HF&RV (it's a slow Montreal/Verdun stuff news day,gang ,so your getting this)............lol
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.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Remember these when you were growing up-Every house seemed to have one.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sign's Sign's ,Everywhere Are Signs.......
Checkout the Montreal Sign site,......navigate through the site ,it's somewhat interesting ,although there are noticeable absences' of historic old relics ,that (imho) should be included ...However here you go http://signs.concordia.ca/ 
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Cheers !!! ...............................................>> HF&RV
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Verdun 500 Club
"Club Was Started During War" as recalled by former 500 member George Drummond,who was Station Master at Windsor Station.
"It started,he recalled,during the First World War at which time a group of friends gathered regularly on Third Ave..Verdun to play cards-------and the game they invariably played was '500' ,what else ?
There was a dock at Third Ave. and Lasalle Blvd. at the time & when summer came the card-playing group would thro duck boards over the shoreline so they could walk out to the water and swim.
This big city version of the old swimming hole attracted quite a few Verdunites. So many ,in fact,that the place got crowded and so it was decided to organise a club called ,of course the '500'
Later came a small shack and still later,lumber to build a deck. Then a boom was put out to protect the swimmers and the club was a great success.
A swimming meet was staged annually and a trophy donated for the winner of a race from the 500 Club to LaTortue wharf, which Mr Drummond reminds us was out near where the Natatorium is today.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Cheers !! HF&RV
-----------want to read the complete story from the Gazette (besides I'm tired of typing this).....hahahaha ------then Click on the Link ......read the full story there.
"Don't Think Twice it's Alright" ----------Suze Rotolo dies @ 67
Bob Dylan's muse Suze Rotolo dies at 67Feb. 27, 2011, 5:40 PM EST
Andy Greene
RollingStone.com
Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's girlfriend in the early-Sixties, who walked arm-in-arm with the songwriter on the iconic cover of "The Freehweelin' Bob Dylan," died Feb. 24 after a long illness. She was 67.
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Rotolo was the muse behind many of Dylan's early love songs, including "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Boots of Spanish Leather" and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time." She was just 17 when they began dating in 1961, shortly after Dylan arrived in New York City. "I once loved a woman, a child I'm told," he wrote in "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." "I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul
"So long Honey Babe" Where I'm bound I can't tell, Goodbye is to good a word Babe,.........So I'll just say 'Fare thee Well' --Bob Dylan RIP Suze (the muse)
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