Montreal's disrespected landmark file:The Hotel Colonnade, that's it on the right with the big windows.
One of the city's great buildings sat at the southeast corner of Crescent and Dorch but Internet whack-jobs, red-eyed taxi drivers, crackheads, Tourettes-afflicted vagrants and others of their ilk think that it should be an object of derision.
The Hot Colonnade, as the burnt-out lighted E and L would have you call it, was around from the 60s until the late 80s when it was replaced by a faceless office tower.
The beaut was designed by legendary Montreal personality, friend of Coolopolis and former architect Michael Fish. Sometimes walking east on Dorch you could see people wandering naked in front of their windows or not really but if they did you would.
In 84 the hotel failed to pay its bills and someone else took it over and rechristened it boring old Hotel Crescent and it was demolished a few years later.