| Posted by cjb |
1/11/2005 6:23 AM | remove |
very good gallery, these pictures are very high-quality for old pics! nice job
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| Posted by sleek |
5/7/2005 1:39 AM | remove |
I love you guys my grandparents came to this and took
zero photos :s
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| Posted by nel58 |
9/12/2005 9:59 PM | remove |
Ouf ! I'm moved because I was there the hole time...I was 9 then and it was a revelation...I was surprised not to see my family in those pictures ! We have everything on film,ciné-caméra, and I still have my passport ! Gee I feel old today ! But so priviledge to have been a part of this !
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| Posted by maZe |
9/12/2005 10:29 PM | remove |
Nel, I'm a bit Expo 67 collector! Hehehe, if you want more souvenir, I can show your pics of all sorts of things, mugs, jewelry, scarfs, tickets, passports, movies, maps, you name it about Expo 67!!!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/13/2005 12:50 PM | remove |
maze expo 67 for you is like the parc olympique for me, i even visited schokbeton last year to see where olympic stadium was manufactured!
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| Posted by nel58 |
9/13/2005 4:23 PM | remove |
So another theme party to organize !!!!
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| Posted by maZe |
9/13/2005 5:03 PM | remove |
YES!!!!! only 4 big pieces are missing to my Expo collection : 1) an official Hostess uniform 2) one of the 4-colors ground lights that looked like they were from Sesame Street 3)a monorail train and 4) a ballade.
One day, trust me, I'll have all of these. I promise.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/13/2005 5:10 PM | remove |
as in?? in terms of EXPO67 i also have a modest collection, it was one of drapeaus grand projects that put us on the map. Amazing how montreals glory faded. Drapeau was even on ed sullivan once. His first project the metro, even at 40 years, still looks very good, the MR63 look better today than they did in 1967. then we had expo following shortly after, it was an undeniable success but also a sad example of 1960s civic mentality, lets plow under a "slum" (EGV dont kill me for that comment)to make a parking lot. then in 1969 he got montreal the first Major League Baseball team outside of the united states (he was also working with gerry snyder to get a NFL team) In 1970 we were awarded the olympics, he wanted to have the most modern incredible facilities the olympics ever had, in some ways we did. Olympic stadium was the first olympic facility to have VIDEO boards, it was a totally self contained city, European architecture north american convieniences. Still to this day its a temple to what can be done with pre cast concrete.
Sadly by the 1980s drapeaus shine was starting to tarnish, the olympics while in some ways a success were a financial failure, expo67 while a great event left us with 2 islands in the st lawrence full of rotting buildings that were slowly collapseing and prey to vandals. man and his world flopped. luckily we had a mayor who decided to give us the parc des iles.
People say politicians are no longer visionaries willing to take chances, jean drapeau it was a blessing and a curse, the olympic project proved too costly due to corruption and the like that no politician today would be willing to take such a risk
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/13/2005 5:11 PM | remove |
maze i tell you the 8 minirail trains are still stacked in back of the dragon, and the expo express trains by hawker siddely, 1 survived and is in moscow as a work car in the subway
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| Posted by maZe |
9/13/2005 11:05 PM | remove |
Yeah, I know... But it still does'nt matter even if I have to go to Mars to get this. I will one day own a miniral and an Ballade (you know, those little ones on wheels?!). Although Express train would also be a nice addition to my collection.
But you know what is very funny. Those lights I want so madly. (4 round hat-like boxes one on top of each others that were around in the islands all until hummm 1990 maybe). Well. I've search the universe and I can't find one single picture of them! It's like they never existed!!! Gees... Can you believe that??? Do you even know what I'm talking about??? Man. I really want to find a picture of those things...
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| Posted by maZe |
9/14/2005 12:02 AM | remove |
actually, for you fans and maniacs like me, here are some infos : the Cuban Pavillion can still be visited today, but it's in Cuba. The USSR pavillion is (as far as I know from a few years back) still standing in Moscow today and can be visited as well. The Yougoslave Pavillion is now in Newfoundland and is a museum... and a few other pavillions are still "used/visitable" like that across the planet.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/14/2005 2:20 AM | remove |
maze, la ville a dans un de ses ateliers un "display" de toute sorte de lampadaires, tu sera peut etre aider par les gens sur lumontreal.org
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| Posted by Blawkowski |
9/14/2005 2:42 AM | remove |
Sur l'Ile Notre-Dame, près du Casino et du Pavillon de la Jamaique, il y a encore quelques lampadaires qui datent d'Expo 67 mais je ne sais pas si on parle des mêmes.
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| Posted by Los Franckos |
12/17/2005 4:50 AM | remove |
Vraiment bien ces photos. Comme si on y etait! Merci.
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