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ah, saint cum. i do recall.
All of us remember the smell of pizza at the green and orange cross. C'est vraiment l'odeur de Montreal..
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Old Posted Oct 17, 2013, 5:41 PM
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It was $59. I remember it now. Crazy Quebecers subsidized my mind! Crazy sexy Quebecoise wife is to blame!
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Aïe! Le petit gars des prairies qui nous pique nos femmes!!
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Aïe! Le petit gars des prairies qui nous pique nos femmes!!
Vous m'avez coupé l'herbe sous le pied! J'allais justement écrire la même chose, y compris la référence au petit bonhomme des prairies!
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ah, saint cum. i do recall.
better than Police CUM. (Communite Urbaine de Montreal)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communa..._Montr%C3%A9al


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I had forgotten about those arcades that used to be on St. Catherine street...Thanks for the photos! I vaguely remember the Simpson's building when it was empty...Was that in the 80s or 90s?
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^Found it on vanishing montreal.

I have grown to like those types of buildings. Love the glass blocks that compromises much of the 4th floor.


http://www.vanishingmontreal.com/201...1_archive.html

Now, there's just a huge empty land there.

A quick google search tells me that this was the CN bonaventure building, wich was a freight rail terminal.


http://www.imagescn.technomuses.ca/_...l/CN005852.jpg

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My Dad worked here during the 50s. I liked the place, despite its apparent ugliness.

i love the gritty 90s shots, especially those taken at night. Reminds me of Taxi Driver (1976), but with Montreal subbing for the grittastic Manhattan of the 70s.
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Nice to see Montreal doing so well. I left in 1996. It was rough downtown in the early 1990s. Wish I'd bought real estate then, not possible as a student.

My old neighborhood by the Forum has changed, mostly for the better.
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Someone said it was bleak back then.
I would have to disagree.
It did not seem bleak to me, so I went and looked up the definition of "bleak" on m-w.com to see if it was just another millenial dissing the past, like they always seem to love to do.
The best part about getting old and looking at life in the rear view mirror, is that everyone younger will eventually get old too! And then when you are in your 40s, and you start living in the past, some 19 year old punk is going to diss you too. It's part of life... that is if you make it to your 40s. Some people obviously don't.
In any case...
I lived in Montréal as a 26 year old immature stupid and naïve adult from 1993 to 1995, with trips back in 96, 97, and 98. I fell in love with the city from the moment I saw it. It was a love that has lasted until this day.
The city was my mistress and helped me tremendously while I was going through a divorce.
And I have luckily been back to Montréal many times in the 2000s and the 2010s decades to visit as well.
Each time I love it just as much as the last.
I may even retire there. It's on my short list.
Yes, the economy sucked back then (93-95) as the city had not yet rebounded from economic crisis, and there was the 1995 separatist vote that also was tough.
But you know, life is what you make it, and despite the economic problems the city had back then, and the amazing urban grit, I personally had a fantastic time - and I was so broke too - which proves that money doesn't always buy happiness, right?
I think my annual salary was 14K as a full-time retail salesperson downtown with a wife who wasn't working.
The cost of the transport card was 48 dollars/month or somewhere around there.
And the apartments were so cheap. For part of my séjour, I lived in a studio in one of the few low rent places that could be found on Square Saint-Louis for about 200/month. It was on the corner of Laval & Pins.
But rent was cheap like that all over the place.
Amazing rent deals were to be had everywhere you looked, but of course nobody had any money back then.
All neighborhoods had deals.
A lot of anglophones were still moving in droves to other provinces, even if it seemed like I arrived during the "aftermath" of the max exodus.
Many anglophones couldn't understand why I loved the city so much.
Many of them thought I was nuts.
Beautiful time of my life overall.
Re: Sports, the Habs won the Stanley Cup. How could life be so bad when the Habs take the Cup?
I managed to see some Expos games and in fact was part of the whole bandwagon of the Expos in 94, when they finished in first place during the strike shortened season. Many of us thought they could have won it all that year.
For another part of my time there, I rented a room with the wife in Pointe-aux-Trembles, and did the bus-metro thing... 70 minute commute each way to work downtown. That was a real trip.
Yes, there were also a lot of video arcades, XXX shops, and strip joints.
My wife worked at one, when she needed the $$$ after I left her.
As a poor boy, I ate a lot of hot dogs, pizza, and poutine.
The Montréal women were crazy, but fantastic at the same time.
We listened to Tea Party, Our Lady Peace, Moist, Daniel Bélanger, etc.
The gym I went to on Sainte-Catherine let me play Snoop Dog & Dr. Dre for all to hear.
All of us smoked a lot of weed.
Great house parties in Verdun.
Most everybody I knew didn't have a cell phone or internet.
My boss and a few of my wife's friends were hooked on steroids, and had biceps about 2 feet thick.
But I had a blast anyways.
It wasn't that bleak. We made our lives during that time and adapted as we got older.

I am very disappointed that the blue line never did get extended all the way into the eastern neighborhoods. They had been projecting that thing even back then. And the level of corruption hasn't changed either, it's just as bad now as it ever was in the past.

In conclusion, from an Urban Planning/Urban Fabric standpoint, to me it's like anything that I analyze in the past compared to present. Some things about Montréal I like better back then and some things I like better now. It's like that with me on almost everything. That's how life goes, and I am sure many feel the same way. People older than me could say the same thing regarding the huge swath of old historical apartment blocks that Jean Drapeau destroyed in the 60s and 70s, that I never got to see. I was sure that this kind of disrespect for history and historical architecture would never happen again in Montréal, but helas I was wrong. Some of the new condo developments remind me of Miami condos (not really a compliment), another great & interesting city where I lived from 2008-2013.
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Reviving this as I came across it in a search. I spent some childhood in Montreal West '89-'93 and wondering if the OP or others may have photos from around that time in that area or NDG. I remember the seediness as well even though I was very young at the time. A comic book shop I used to go to regularly on Sherbrooke in NDG, as well as arcades etc. and finding it very hard to find snapshots from that time / area. Thanks!
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^ Haven't found a ton of photos from NDG, but I'll keep looking.

Found these of Montreal, 1990 (source is Blork's excellent 1989-1992 photo album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blork/...16252505/page1)

Rue Ontario (at Alexandre-DeSève), Montreal, circa 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Pine-Park interchange, 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and Clark, looking south, 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Maison Rodier,1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Roy street and sewer repairs, near de Bullion. 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Roy; Leibovitch Poultry, circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Roy; Leibovitch Poultry and Waldman, circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

SQ Headquarters and rue Ste. Catherine E., 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Decarie Boul. at Paré, looking south, 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Prince Arthur, circa 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Bens, circa 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue McGill and rue des Récollets, circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Colisée du livre! Circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Incinérateur des Carrières, Petite-Patrie, long view, day. 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and Jeanne-Mance, circa 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and Union, winter 1991. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and Peel (looking east), circa 1990. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Guilbault E. from the Main (Montrea) circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

The Main (Montreal) Street festival, circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Fire on the Main, 1991 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Fire on the Main, 1991 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Da Giovanni, Ste-Catherine E., circa 1990 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Eric Television; 5017 Ave. du Parc, 1991. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Parc & Villeneuve, 1991 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Bonus - 1989

Rue Ste-Catherine and St-Marc, looking east. 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and St-Mathieu, 1989. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Ave. Mont-Royal and de Bullion, looking west, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

St-Antoine and construction of World Trade Centre, circa 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rachel bike path at Boyer, looking east, circa 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Violin busker on rue Ste-Catherine O., 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Hare Krishnas on rue Ste-Catherine O., near Metcalf, Montreal. 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

O'Keefe Blimp over Montreal, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

112 Mont-Royal E., near de Bullion, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Mont-Royal E. and de Bullion, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Mont-Royal E. and Coloniale, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Mont-Royal E. at Laval, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

118-116 Mont-Royal E., near de Bullion, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Queens Hotel, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

StJacques and Gauvin, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

St-Antoine at Bleury/St-Pierre, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Pub Saint James/St-Jacques, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

St-Antoine at Berri, looking east, 1989. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Place d'armes, 1989 by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Royal George, rue Bishop, 1989. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine and Ste-Dominique, circa 1989. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr

Rue Ste-Catherine Strip Club, circa 1989. by Ed Hawco, on Flickr
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Great finds!

Clearly, this city has come a long way. The 90's were bleak, man. I remember.
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Belles photos...!

Avez-vous déjà porté attention à la qualité générale de l'asphalte des rues de Montréal sur les anciennes photos versus celles des années 2000 et 2010?

Les rues étaient tellement en meilleur état (en général) dans le temps!
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Great finds!

Clearly, this city has come a long way. The 90's were bleak, man. I remember.
Yeah, it's funny how usually with nostalgia you expect to remember the old times fondly, like things were better then. Montreal obviously wasn't a bad place in those days, but I think it would be generally accepted that things are better today.

Awesome photos, MTLSkyline.
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Wow, great set. Montreal was gritty back then. I did a few comparisons of the 1990 intersections with the 2016 Google Earth. I'll post them here if I have time.
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Wow, great set. Montreal was gritty back then. I did a few comparisons of the 1990 intersections with the 2016 Google Earth. I'll post them here if I have time.
That should be interesting. Most of these areas have changed a lot since 1990 (has it been 27 years already?!? geez time flies)
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Bittersweet memories of Montreal during her shabby years. These were my haunts.
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