| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/11/2004 2:30 AM | remove |
it is not the same swinging bridge, this one is the now not-a-swinging-one next to the Silos No5 in the port.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/11/2004 3:06 AM | remove |
the bridge was built in the anticipation of the canal re opening, it was kinda funny since here was this bridge over dry land for a while
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
5/11/2004 3:56 AM | remove |
I wasn't 100% sure if it was the same one... but it at least illustrates how it worked....
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/11/2004 10:49 PM | remove |
In anycase, I always like to see historical pics!
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
7/30/2004 2:46 AM | remove |
That is one dee-licious old Montreal pic! Thanks, EGV. Where d'ya rustle this one up from anyway?
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
8/22/2004 6:33 AM | remove |
I think (from the caption at least) it is from the CN collection.
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| Posted by mewthree |
12/16/2006 7:04 AM | remove |
beautiful pic of silo#1 I believe it is...
also that killer steam engine
but check out those bad ass cars cruisin around... they didn't know that they were driving the best looking cars back then and that in the year 2000 there wouldn't be floating cars but rather ugly ass toyota echos and smart cars etc..
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
12/22/2006 6:01 AM | remove |
you mean toyota yarris.... eurk.
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| Posted by mewthree |
12/22/2006 2:06 PM | remove |
those too...
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
12/23/2006 12:10 AM | remove |
short cut from Goose Village to Old Montreal?
And when did they start calling it "old" Montreal?
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
12/23/2006 2:10 AM | remove |
I think it was around the early 60s, when the preservation effort first took hold. Thanks to the city's plan to run an elevated expressway along rue de la Commune.
Good thing we didn't wind up like Toronto, huh?
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
12/23/2006 5:48 AM | remove |
Yea, but Toronto this year celebrated 35 Years Without The Spadina Expressway which would have been their answer to Decarie Expressway. Toronto is still, however, trying to figure out what to do with the Gardner.
Think of the 50's and "progress". A lot of the older buildings we love today would have been destroyed as old dirty eyesores if someone hadn't one day walked along and suddenly realised, "Duh, but these old dirty eyesores are the only unique things we have in comparison to other North American cities!" And so it goes, tourism saves us once again, LOL!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
12/23/2006 6:09 AM | remove |
charlie, look at how we are destoying our 1960s heritage like they did back in the 50s, we are no better today
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
12/30/2006 7:44 AM | remove |
oh, Absolutely! Montreal actually has a terrible record on preserving buildings despite the fact that we still have a lot of old stuff. It s like the green space issue. The international average for green space within a city is 8% but in Montreal the average is about 3%. Sad!
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