| Posted by Mystic |
5/30/2007 11:29 PM | remove |
Wow what great historical photos. A great find, and it's amazing that it still looks pretty much the same today as it did when it was built. Except it's missing that giant flashing red ball!
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| Posted by snowman323 |
5/31/2007 12:08 AM | remove |
Oh my yes, the big red ball! I was always scared of that thing when I was a kid...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/31/2007 1:04 AM | remove |
i remember the old scoreboard that was mechanical, my dad would take me down there when the would reset the board now and then
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| Posted by nel58 |
5/31/2007 4:18 AM | remove |
Well there was a time where it was not so glamourous...when the dunkin donut was in the alley for the Queen Elizabeth and when every once in a while you would suffocate when a train was arriving or leaving...filling the whole place with deadly smoke !! Even then I liked the place...it was my short cut from downtown to home sweet home.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/31/2007 5:01 AM | remove |
yeah, i remember, they used to allow trains to enter locomotive first
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/31/2007 5:01 AM | remove |
and remember september 3 1984?
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| Posted by nel58 |
5/31/2007 2:30 PM | remove |
Oh a bomb no ? For the pope visit ? It's blurry in my memory...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/31/2007 2:41 PM | remove |
yeah, they put a bomb in a locker it killed 3, it was a week before the popes visit but the note claimed the pope was the target
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| Posted by snowman323 |
5/31/2007 3:09 PM | remove |
From wikipedia:
September 3, 1984 - Montreal's Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada.
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| Posted by snowman323 |
5/31/2007 3:54 PM | remove |
From CBC Archives:
Just a week before the Pope's arrival in Canada a bomb at the Central station in Montreal killed three people and injured 41 others, sending papal organizers into a high state of alert. When asked about the incident, the Pope simply replied, "I am in the hands of the Providence of God, everywhere."
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| Posted by Mystic |
5/31/2007 6:42 PM | remove |
I used to wait with my family for my grandmother to come back from her trips to Toronto, and I knew when the train would arrive because I could smell the diesel smoke and feel the heavy rumble of the building shaking.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
6/1/2007 1:56 AM | remove |
the worst was when via was still running those old CN alcos, if they didnt smoke they didnt run
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| Posted by Mak |
7/11/2007 8:47 PM | remove |
I was in the station when that bomb went off. Walked right past the lockers where it was planted not 30 sec before it exploded. To this day I can't walk by those types of lockers without shuddring
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
7/11/2007 10:02 PM | remove |
my father had walked past 20 minutes prior as well
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/26/2008 1:06 AM | remove |
Or maybe he is just drinking again?
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