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Originally Posted by Andy6
The Royal Bank Building has just opened, ushering in the modern era of big buildings and small crowds on Portage Avenue. Ten years later the street was looking tattier. The middle-class shoppers were still there, but less and less often, leaving poorer people and the die-hard old ladies who would never give up on Eaton's. Twenty years later the stores that were left were just going through the motions. Thirty years later, it was almost all gone.
Interestingly the upper floors of the Affleck Block are still there (above O Calcutta). They were lost to fire not long afterward, as was the St. Boniface Basilica just two years later.
Eaton's is decked out in union jacks and England flags. Can anyone guess why? Hint: it's the summer of 1966.
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Right around my birth time too.
They say that the Top song at that time was The Beatles' Paperback Writer, but I much prefer Frank Sinatra's Strangers In The Night, Sunshine Superman, and Bus Stop by The Hollies.