Around 1073 Prudhomme. Houses were demolished in the mid-1960s for the Decarie Expressway
The Pulcini family in front of 941 Minto, a home - and street - demolished in 1964 for the Decarie Expressway.
985 Addington, Peter Ponzi's mother and granny in front of a home demolished for the Decarie Expressway, along with the rest of the buildings on the east side of Addington, all of Minto and the west side of Prudhomme.
Addington below Upper Lachine, before the east side, on the right, was demolished for the Decarie motor vehicle trench. Photo Peter Ponzi, featuring his mom and uncle from the USA.
Italian women on Minto Ave. in the 1950s, now totally demolished on both sides.
Addington 1950s, buildings on right later demolished
970 Addington prior to the demolitions which claimed the opposite side of the street. Friends and family were split with the wrecking ball. Photo features Peter Ponzi's grandmother who performed her evil eye removal and nervo chavalato, and other medical healing magic on anybody willing to put up with it.
Peter Ponzi's father on Addington, in the area demolished for the expressway.
NDG Curling and Bowling, demolished for the expressway. It sat just north of Sherbrooke in the middle of where the Expressway now sits.
Gilson School at 1020 Harvard, was built in 1918, as a temporary structure for 133 students taught by three teachers, during a time when the area was full of apple trees and not much else. It was reinforced with additions in 1924, 1926, 1930 and 1949. About 340 pupils attended in the years following World War II. It was demolished in 1966, not long after the massive demolitions a few blocks east.
Shirley Anderson at the now-demolished Brodie farmhouse structure at the south side of Oxford Park, 1954. The Brodie family sold their farm to the City of Montreal in 1949 for $75,000. They asked that the city turn the building into a community facility but the city demolished the venerable structure instead. The building sat on the south side of the park not far from St. James.
West End Motel, now demolished 6700 Upper Lachine, aka St. James
Glen Yards, demolished and replaced by the superhospital
Motel Raphael - Ste. Anne de Bellevue Street, or Montreal-Toronto Blvd, just west of where the McDonald's now stands. Left abandoned for many years before finally being dismantled and removed a few years back.
St Raymond's school on Old Orchard, closed around 2000, building now used as an adult learning center
Oxford Park once had a baseball field inhabited by fearless young people unfazed by curveballs and brushback pitches. The park is still there but the baseball infrastructure removed. This pic shows the Oxford Park Community Association Senior baseball team, champions of 1932. All lived in NDG. Back: Pat Patterson, Bob Flegg and Alf Connolly. Center: Fernand Dalpe, Ken Stewart, Ernie Healy, Bert Mosdell Front: Des McGuire, Hal Connolly, Ed Murray and Mascot Willis Mosdell. George (Percy) Miller, Buster Creighton and Coach Ernie Mosdell not shown.
