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Elizabeth Barrer's killer, will he strike again?
This alarming note has been brought to my attention. Apparently written by a close friend of Elizabeth Barrer, the American fugitive recently killed in Ville St. Pierre:This woman says she'sunder...
View ArticleYouppi attains new levels of awfulness on unwatchable kids show
Chimples says that we are guilty of nostalgia on this site.He says that the only antidote is posts like this, showing that the past was, in fact, known most for its limitless attempts to oppress...
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Midway Bar closed for good?
One of the epic longstanding dive bars on the lower Main has closed. But the good news is that the Midway, just south of St. C, will reopen in late June with the same name but under different...
View ArticleNewly-released old-thyme Montreal newsreel items
British Pathe has released a whole slew of new Montreal-related videos. Not a whole ton of forechecking in old time hockey as these images from a 1932 hockey game between the Habs and Rangers and...
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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...
View ArticleGhoulish actor Vincent Price's connection to local art
The Vincent Price collection came to Montreal 50 years ago tomorrow, as the actor-and-art-expert's selection of inexpensive art works chosen by Price went on sale at Simpson's with paintings going for...
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Mystery of a broken monument
For quite some time in the 40s and 50s the John Young Monument statue at the Old Port was known for its Neptune with the amputated left leg. The statue was done in 1895 and placed in Place...
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Toy car over the Orange Julep - who's in?
For a long time I've had a stubborn impulse to see if this would work. You see that remote-controlled toy car in the video above? It can drive along walls and ceilings thanks to a small fan inside...
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Alfie Segal and his strip club
For almost 18 years, the empty lot on Decarie and Kenmore sat silent and empty but for over two decades prior to that, the same geography hosted one of the city's most legendary strip joints, a...
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Mysterious, mould-ridden school demolished
The school at the corner of Oxford and Upper Lachine is no more. The nursing school moved out a couple of years ago after mould was supposedly found in the building. According to city tax records,...
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Shed demolitions and how its legacy is screwing up your garden
Local gardeners might wonder why their backyard digging seems to unearth endless amounts of broken glass and rusty nails. The reason? Some idiot who owned the house you live in now had the shed...
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Montreal's Irish and their early grip on the port
A group of Irish Montrealers has long had a disproportionately large influence at the port of Montreal, which has been manifested in the West End gang's famous ability to sneak drugs into the port....
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All-time most descriptive fire reporting - blaze at a lunatic asylum
Some wildly descriptive reporting from the ever-excellent Montreal Daily Witness from the May, 1890 fire that killed 86 (81 of them women) at a what now the Louis Hyppolite Lafontaine insane asylum...
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'Former Montreal Canadien attacked me with a knife'
Blackburn Former cop, strip club manager and Habs fans Bob Blackburn renounced the Montreal Canadiens for a unique reason: he was stabbed by a former player. "He came at me from behind. I turned to...
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How Montreal could easily, cheaply become a global pioneer in health
A tiny adjustment at City Hall could make our city on the St. Lawrence a world-leader in the combat against one insidious health-eroding phenomenon. The adjustment would require about $100,000...
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The Montreal woman who married a corpse
Here's a lovely story for you on this fine day. It involves a prank undertaken by medical students at the expense of a Miss Mulcahy in 1889. A Mr. Husson, medical student living in a boarding...
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The prison underneath City Hall
Outside the Western exit of Montreal's city hall, tourists admire an alluring northerly vista, scrutinize the bronze statue of Vauquelin and perhaps visualize Charles de Gaulle shouting, "Vive le...
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Montrealers killed by elevators - a list
Many people share a fear of riding elevators and not just because they think Beyonce's sister might attack them. Some believe this fear to be irrational but we at Coolopolis think otherwise. The...
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Taming wild and unruly Lafontaine Park
Jimmy McShane Montreal took over Lafontaine Park - which had been used as a military parade ground - in 1875 but it was hardly the pristine natural space that offers itself to peaceful moments away...
View ArticleYouTube celebrity comes to Montreal for sex change
Mistress Joules, whose real name is Julie Van Vu, is no longer trapped in a man's body thanks to a visit to our fine island city on the raging St. Lawrence River. The Vancouver-based YouTube...
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