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Why government should encourage workers to toil from home
Remember the St. Lawrence Seaway? It was a massive dig to allow ships to better bypass Montreal and its rapids by avoiding the Lachine Canal. Man, was that ever a waste: it wrecked lives, killed...
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Montreal cop show 19-2 - gratuitious Montreal location spotting porn
There's a new English-language TV cop show 19-2, a fictional account of the lives of police officers working their beat right here in Montreal. And yeah, I'ma tell you what I think about it. But...
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Quiz - where was this?
Before and after. Answer: Smart! Yes it's 1450ish Mountain taken during the war. It is, of course, just north of Ogilvy's. It was a house of prostitution back then and the photo of the stripper at the...
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Photos prove Montreal, not Paris, invented the bikini
According to conventional wisdom, the bikini - ie: two piece bathing suit - was invented by Louis Reard at a fashion show in Paris on July 5, 1946. However, these photos suggest that such suits were...
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Pollack's - why this Quebec City store was a gamechanger
Pollacks was a massive department store in Quebec City, so it's okay if you've never heard of it. Maurice Pollack was born in Russia and made a ton of dough selling his wares in Quebec City and...
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Legends of Beaubien
Cruise down Beaubien from Park..shift over one block south to stay on the strip... an oft-overflowing brasserie east of the Main...Depanneur PIF... church double-spired vista from St. Denis......
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Montrealer's 30-year-quest to get long lost salad dressing recipe
Who remembers the Rib Tickler? The rib joint on Decarie sat where Tasty Foods is now installed and was popular in the 80s. Indeed the place was so popular that they even sold their own labelled...
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Larry Bailey - a hustler who hauled mayonnaise
We had sent out a call for information on a legendary local hustler named Larry Bailey, who apparently ran a ton of different scams from drug importation to real estate swindles. But instead a...
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John Garland, Westmount's Mr. Hockey
John Garland, or Johnny, as we called him, was a lifelong bachelor WWII vet who ran the Westmount Recreation department for 34 years. Garland died in June 2012 aged around 82 or more. His name...
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Quiz - why did this house in Snowdon make headlines in 1967?
What unusual construction work at this home made headlines 47 years ago?
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The Montrealer who kept the city running on time
Montrealer Henry Dubois tended the Canadian Pacific's clocks from 1918 until his retirement in February 1964. That tasks involved keeping 3,200 station clocks, including the big master clocks in...
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Montreal mind control guy still going strong
Which one of you devious Coolopolis readers can identify the mind control guy who has been active in this city since at least 1953, as seen in a photo of him taken in 1958? He had his operation at...
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Banned in Quebec until at least 1960 - what was it?
Photo recreation Adrien Dulude, 36, was fined $200 upon his arrival in Montreal by train in Windsor station from Toronto on Nov. 6, 1959 for possessing 12 units of a substance that you probably...
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Upcoming skyscrapers on Dorch
Here's some new photos of a bunch of new buildings going up around my old stomping grounds at Dorch and Drummond. A number of condo projects are not just being hyped around that corner, they're...
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Why we need to narrow our sidewalks
The pic at left of pedestrians navigating cheek-to-jowl on a downtown Montreal street in the six-Ts (can anybody recognize where?) proves that even the most banal moment is rendered exciting on a...
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Redpath Mansion - once on the cutting edge of high-tech
Legendarie local preservationist Mike Fish has been whipping together a little history of the lovely old Redpath Mansion in the Golden Square Mile. It's now slated for demolition by the family which...
View ArticleMontreal musician salutes kid with autism
Autistic people don't get in the news all that often but Montrealer Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu - who is described as such - and also has Aspergers and bipolarity, is an exception. First he made news...
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The Fast and the Furry Horse: Mtl street racers busted in 1914
Photo re-enactment of police busting street racers in 1914 A longstanding local tradition of street racing in the West End disappeared 100 years ago this month when cops started cracking down on the...
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Demolition upcoming on Stanley St.
These two homey little buildings at 2067 and 2063 Stanley will be demolished soon for a high-rise building and gone will be the memories people had of their time therein.Future building Both now...
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