Archives de Mtl: an ordinary day in 1969
Archives de Montréal has put up a modest photo set from August 25, 1969 on and around Ste-Catherine Street. Some of the views haven’t changed much (although the cut of the dresses and hair has), but there are shots of the fantastic neon signs the street used to have, as well as a shot of one of the sunken cafés that used to exist on the parterre of Place Ville-Marie, spaces long since covered over.
A. 00:42 on 2012/09/02 Permalink
Never thought anything could possibly move me to quote Gaston Miron, but, decades later and thousands of miles away, into my head pops “la grande Ste. Catherine Street galope et claque / dans les mille et une nuits des néons”
Kate 11:03 on 2012/09/02 Permalink
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