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Montreal's 150-year-old costume store leaves Old Montreal
Canada's oldest costume store - right here in the Muchy-Hall is no more... well, it's no longer at its longstanding spot anyway. Ponton Costumes (aka Joseph Ponton Costumes) was located in the...
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Streaking in Montreal: Some highlights
How big was the mid-70s streaking fad in Montreal? Big enough for one downtown restaurant to build an ad around the concept in '74. You'll note the downtown location of the Steak & Burger was...
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Montreal shisha pipe cafe customers fined because owner doesn't have special...
About five customers smoking Turkish water pipes at the Lux cafe at 1401 Mackay, just north of St. Catherine, were handed $90 tickets by police Thursday night. Police ticketed those who they saw...
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Degradation and addiction: life at Atwater and St. Catherine
Derelicts leave mess inside Atwater metro at Alexis Nihon A van belonging to an organization designated to help Montreal-based Inuits recently pulled up outside the depanneur on St. Catherine just...
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Montreal Children's Hospital: could we get a baseball stadium there?
Children's site is something like 190m x 220 mCould the soon-to-be vacated Montreal Children's Hospital at Atwater and Dorch work as a site for a future downtown baseball stadium? We popped this into...
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April photo news from Montreal
Demolition on Selby A beautiful greystone on Selby west of Greene has been demolished and the one pictured here will be going down too. Sam Roberts used to live there and a city councillor owned it....
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Secret shantytown in St. Henri?
Coolopolis received a florid description of a possible shantytown in the heart of St. Henry's. Writing to see if you had any idea about the history or origins of this bizarre community based on St...
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View ArticleMontreal entertainment trivia from the '30s and '40s
A common mondegreen from the 1930s involved Montreal. The 1929 hit "I'm a dreamer aren't we all?" was commonly transformed into "I'm a Dreamer Montreal." The Marx Brothers used this quip in their film...
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Calvet House - one of Montreal's oldest buildings - on sale now for just $9.5...
This house, one of the city's oldest, is now on sale in Olde Montreale for $9.5 million. This glorious fieldstone shack at 401 de Bonsecours - adjacent to Montreal's nicest vista - is still standing...
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Another neighbourhood peeler joint bites the dust, are such places on the way...
The Dice Club, a cozy neighbourhood peeler joint on Papineau near Beaubien, appears to have has died just days after turning 20. The bar had been ordered shut for 45 days on January 7 after an under...
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Dunkin' Donuts ordered to pay $11 million to former franchisees
An appeals court has confirmed that Dunkin' Donuts will have to pay off franchisees for lack of support during the wipe-out years that saw the number of franchises dwindle from about 250 to 12 in...
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Bull Pub - run by Cock'n'Bull management - closes for good, blames Sergakis
Bull Pub closed Wed. evening. (Pic Esteban Vargas)Commercial landlord Peter Sergakis has pulled the plug on a popular bar on St. Catherine just east of Atwater, as he has terminated an agreement with...
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The legend of Mike French, a killer biker from Westmount
There are dark corners in the otherwise-sparkling and wealthy Montreal suburb of Westmount and one such place was at the Weredale House boys' home at the Souteastern corner of the city, which...
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Sunday news on Coolopolis:
Cool house for sale The Bombardier family was so impressed with the Cuba pavilion at Expo 67 that the got star architect Jacques de Blois to build them a three-bedroom home in the countryside across...
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Montreal admits that their parking stickers don't stick
Sticker parking is exploding in Montreal and until the fine day we get rid of cars and just have electric robot taxis to share, those geographical-revealing decals will remain a de rigeur boastastical...
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Van Horne Hardware closes after 60 years
Van Horne Hardware - which has sold paint, copied keys and supplied all your fix-it needs since Max Schneiderman opened the place near Victoria and Van Horne in 1955 - has closed. Co-owner Karen...
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Fifty years of pull top beer cans in Quebec
Time to celebrate 50 years of pull top beer cans! The device came to Quebec on May 10, 1965. Prior to that you needed a can opener to get at your canned brew. Ontario didn't even have canned beer...
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The bucolic home to Italian hit men visiting Montreal in the 70s
The Inn was a hospitable landmark in St. Sauveur until it burned down in 1973. But what most do not know is that the Irish-Canadian owner had a deal to welcome Mafia hit men flown into town from...
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Tribute to the great old Hot Colonnade on Crescent and Dorch
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...
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