| Posted by cjb |
10/12/2004 6:35 PM | remove |
the track isn't finished yet!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/7/2006 3:32 PM | remove |
you mean the track was already pulled up, the port authority ended the lease on cite du havre after expo, so the trains went from place des nations to laronde
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/8/2006 3:59 AM | remove |
I wonder how Habitat has stood the test of time as in how does the relationship of the cubes work after almost 40 Montreal winters?
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/8/2006 12:17 PM | remove |
thats a good question, i was reading an article about pre cast concrete buildings and how some stand up while some dont, look at place bonaventure the way parts were falling off a few years back
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/9/2006 12:31 AM | remove |
right, of course if the Olympic Stadium starts to crumble no one blames it on age LOL
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/9/2006 2:16 AM | remove |
well the big owe was one of the buildings that has stood up well, but hell they covered it completely with epoxy in the 80s cus of the asbestos
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/9/2006 3:14 AM | remove |
and remember it was designed to be heated yet still withstood 10 winters without a roof!
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| Posted by maZe |
9/9/2006 4:20 AM | remove |
Habitat project was special though. It was made on site, each box was pre-built before being installed. In the 80's the place was crumbling into pieces and rubbles though. Don't be fooled. Some units were even unoccupied. It's only sice the V de Mtl turned it into private condos that people have invested good money to keep their units in good shape and the place is now trendy.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/9/2006 1:39 PM | remove |
yeah, olympic stadium was cast in st eustache at shokbeton and shokbeton has always taken pride in the fact that of all olympic stadiums failures concrete failure was never one of them, the beam that fell was because they didnt use enough glue to hold it on.
maze wasnt the concrete casting for habitat done in goose village, i know it was the same plant used for the autostade (read that somewhere)
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| Posted by Blawkowski |
9/9/2006 5:37 PM | remove |
Y a-t-il des photos de l'autostade? Qu'est-il arrivé avec celui-ci? A-t-il été domolie immédiatement après l'Expo ou quelques années plus tard?
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
9/9/2006 6:12 PM | remove |
It lasted well into the 70s. I remember hanging around the place during high school waiting for my dad to get off work. It was falling apart.
Pictures of it are hard to come by. Here's the only decent one I've found:
http://football.ballparks.com/CFL/Montreal/oldindex.htm
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/9/2006 7:28 PM | remove |
yeah it was like a bunch of concrete bleachers in an oval, large chunks were moved to verdun and used as the verdun stadium into the 90s, actually verdun stadium was 6 sections. they demolished it to build les brises du fleuve. the sections of the autostade that were moved didnt hold up well
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/9/2006 8:42 PM | remove |
ok, A few sections of Verdun Stadium can still be seen at Concordia's Loyola campus. Was sold for a buck. The south side stands at Verdun were built on site.
The Autostade was not good for football as the 50 yard line seats were, like the end zones, the furthest from the playing field. Ideal seats were around the 25 yard line at each end.
I went to 2 concerts there. One was Pink Floyd and it was mind boggling. The other was an all day festival that had groups like Jethro Tull playing though I can barely remember LOL!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/9/2006 8:44 PM | remove |
Actuall you could say that the Autostade - built for Expo 67 - was very much like the Olympic Stadium in that neither was built primarily for the sports that would "take over" after the primary event.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/10/2006 9:01 PM | remove |
exactly, the auto stade also had a slight (haha) shadfly problem, as tony proudfoot said "when you had to wear a breathing mask we know the stadium was in the wrong place. also some of the autostade is now stade eloi viau in lasalle home of the lbeq lasalle cards
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/11/2006 12:54 AM | remove |
but it did say something about the fans as attendance was pretty good for a few years at what had to be the most awkwardly located venue in the history of the city-- remember it was built on the old Goose Village site, not a place anyone who could afford pro sports tickets was likely to know where it even was!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2006 1:58 AM | remove |
exactly, tony proudfoot though said the shad flies would be even worse if the impact built on the technoparc cus football gets the end of shadfly season, soccer is right in the middle!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/11/2006 3:04 AM | remove |
true and every now and then you could get a wicked grasshopper year though I haven't noticed one in a long time, LOL>
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2006 1:08 PM | remove |
well tony proudfoot could always find a solution to anyproblem though, thats why his nickname is staplegun!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/11/2006 6:47 PM | remove |
lol, I watched that game in Vancouver -- it was very tres sweet! The Montreal/Edmonton rivalry still had some pretty good intensity in '77? Of course then there was the agony of 2005, good ol CFL LOL!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/11/2006 7:15 PM | remove |
tony proudfoot still has the staplegun that helped them that day, best part of that was the field was still set up for football 2 days before the 78 expos home opener, they had to use steam to get the turf apart to set up the baseball field
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| Posted by Hirnduebel |
7/13/2008 2:15 AM | remove |
This looks exactly like something from one of the few lucid dream I've experienced yet.
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