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Laporte Gardens
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created by Mutt
on 4/22/2004 7:46 PM
last modified by Mutt
on 5/23/2004 6:51 PM
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This was a real old school style grocery store. I used to shop here and thought it was quaint.
They had the freshest fruit and veggies in the neighbourhood.
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Type: Building
Status: Abandoned, soon to be leveled ----forget visiting, it was leveled May 21st, 2004
Accessibility: Really hard now that it has been leveled and carted away in bins
Recommendation: Too late, it has been flattened May 21st 2004
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Address
2116 Montreal Rd @ Miss Ottawa (Ogilvie Rd. area)
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Owner: Sold receintly to a local developer
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As a very old grocery store there is employee graffitus on just about every wooden pole in the back rooms. Quite a few broken cash registers and electric scales. If you look around enough you'll find a set of false teeth.
All is now gone...to quote Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi' "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"
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Protected now by a cloak of invisibility
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flashlight
Flashlight only to see in the backroom/basement
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A vivid imagination to think you are actually going through the location while wandering about an empty concrete slab
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This was Laporte Gardens Fruit and Vegatable store and had
been since 1969 until gave it up, and it was sold to Payless
Foods in 2002. They in turn ran it to the ground in less than a
year, it just wasn't Laporte's so people stopped going.
Laportes still operates the large garden centre and green houses
out on the eastern end of St Joseph past Trim Rd, and they
aren't hurting for business.
After the grocery closed down, a civic group, (Kiwanis Club) ran
a Haunted house for the Halloween season called "Haunted
Hamlet" It flopped, it was lame and and at a cost of $2.50 it
wasn't worth it. The property is being leveled shortly for
redevelopment.
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The store and lot, including Mr. Laport's house (vacant & unexplored) have been sold to a developer and will be plowed under shortly to rise as bland row housing much like the places that are growing in the field next door.
As of May 23rd, 2004 the house still stands. If it is still standing on May 31, I'll get pictures of the interior, if not...tough luck
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
nostra-YOUPPI! on 6/16/2006 2:46 PM.
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on Jun 16 06 at 14:46, nostra-YOUPPI! validated this location
on Jul 9 05 at 2:13, Mutt made this location public
on May 24 04 at 0:24, Mutt swapped two pictures
on May 24 04 at 0:23, Mutt swapped two pictures
on May 24 04 at 0:23, Mutt updated a gallery picture
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on May 24 04 at 0:21, Mutt updated a gallery picture
on May 24 04 at 0:21, Mutt updated a gallery picture
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