Metro Stations

Man, has the metro changed. I remember the days when you could hear the metro leaving, but the song the metro tires made

hmmm HMMM HUMMMMM!

They've started renaming stations also

- Berri-UQAM was Berri-deMontrigny

- Jean Drapeau was Ile St.Helene

- Longueuil -Universite de Sherbrooke was Longueuil

That's all of the 3 stations on the Yellow Line

- Guy Concordia was Guy

I don't think I am forgetting any, but let me know if you remeber something.

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Peel Pub

Peel Pub used to be the cheap place to go in Montreal to have alot of beer and fun with the friends. There used to be 5 of them in Montreal.

Peel & St.Catherine

Peel & DeMaisonneuve

Old Montreal

Park Avenue

One near the Bell Center on de la Montagne (which burned down in February 2010)

They also opened one in Ottawa and one in Toronto (I don't know if they are still open)

Now there is only one left, on Peel Below St.Catherine, and it just isn't the same.

It was cool in the day, you could get $.99 spaghetti daily and $.08 chicken wings on Sunday. You would wait in line down the stairs, for a bouncer to decide if you should bet in.

There was a sign in the bathroom (graffiti, that said "Flush twice, it is a long way to the kitchen"

They had wet t-shirt contests, and NTN Online Trivia. Young adults playing quarters and other drinking games were quite common to see there.

Boy did we spend a lot of money there, but also had lots of fun.

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The Big 3

In later blogs, I will be going into some of the big forgotten buildings in Montreal, that are still there, but are no longer what they used to be. Here is a brief summary of upcoming blogs

Stores
Simpsons
Eatons
Kresges

Cinemas
Palace
Loews
Atwater Theatre
The Seville
Cinema de Paris (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Cinema 9 at 2001 Universite

The Forum

The strip mall in front of church on St.Catherine near Park Avenue (which everyone thought was a Satanic church)

Peel Pub
...Peel
...DeMaisonneuve
...Park
...Old Montreal

The metro stations that changed names
... Berri
... Guy
... Ile St-Helene



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Will update soon

Belmont Park

Hi All

I feel that all the "unimportant" history of Montreal is being forgotten, so I choose to immortalize it in my blog. This blog is about Belmont Park.

Anyone remember that Big White Wooden rollercoaster (the Cyclone) that was the symbol of Belmont Park?

It was located in Cartierville.

It opened in 1923 and closed 60 years later in 1983 (I guess LaRonde finally put it out of business).

I remember, very, very vaguely, going into the Haunted Mansion, and falling through a trap door, but that seems very unreal to me, as it could be extremely dangerous.

And wasn't the Cyclone a blast?

Belmont Park also had an authentic carousel.

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Les Terrasses "Better on every level"

I was walking through the McGill metro station and found myself trying to remember where the shopping mall Les Terraces was, from way back in the 80s.

I seem to think it was where the Eaton Center is currently. Anyone can remember, please let me know. I know when you stepped outside, you were across the street from where the Palace cinema was.

Anyways, Les Terrasse had the weirdest layout, many different partial levels, all color coded. It felt as if you were in a weird video game, where if you walked too far, you would fall off the RED level and land on the YELLOW level.

They had a catchy TV commercial tune
"Blue floor
Green floor
Yellow floor
Red
Les Terrasses is where its at
Les Terrasses, Les Terrasses, ooooooh....
Better on every level"

Found more information on Les Terrasses from Wikipedia, so here it is

"The Montreal Eaton Center was originally Les Terrasses, which officially opened in 1976 and closed in 1987.

The Mall layout was a triangular spiral, with gradually rising interconnected floors, approximately 45 feet high in total. At each point of the triangle, patrons could walk to the top of the mall. It housed 140 stores, and earch store faced the center of the triangle."

For all of you that remember, please feel free to share your memories.

For more pictures please see Mike Rivest Picassa Album @ https://picasaweb.google.com/rivest266/LeTerrassesBetterOnEveryLevel#

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