Three pictures taken by my mom in 1979 while attending a Phil Collins concert. Anyone know what building they were taken from or what the building in the third picture was?
Note: The original photographs were not scanned, rather, I took various shots of them with a digital camera with different settings and under different lighting conditions then edited the best ones in Photoshop.
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Why do I think the last picture is of the Bar B Barn restaurant on the bottom of guy just before Rene Leveque:
http://www.barbbarn.ca
the building in the 3rd photo LOOKS like this strange church-like building i see sometimes when i’m walking to Santropol, so it must be around there, but i can’t remember where… maybe on st. urbain somewhere???
I’m not sure, but it’s definitely not BarBBarn nor is it anywhere near Saint-Urbain. It’s definitely in the west end of downtown… near the Children’s?
Definitely not St-Urbain. This is somewhere on the west end of Downtown.
It was a sea food restaurant called Chez Desjardins on Mackay street, at the corner of René-Lévesque. It’s still there but it’s abandoned now !
Definately looks like Chez Desjardins to me. It’s not BarBBarn – that was/is painted a vile yellow colour. It was at (roughly) 1150 Mackay.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1150+mackay+st+montreal+quebec&sll=45.494541,-73.574409&sspn=0.010002,0.015492&ie=UTF8&ll=45.494849,-73.574801&spn=0.002501,0.003873&t=h&z=18&om=1
There is a high-rise hotel at the corner of Guy and René-Lévesque – if your mom was on the 15th or so floor on the east side of that hotel, then the Desjardins photo makes perfect sense.
Photo #1 is from the same vantage point, but pointed horizontally – you can just see Desjardins’ roof at the bottom. You can also see the Sun Life building in the distance. The large red brick building on the right side is now Concordia – can’t remember what it used to be.
The brick building on the right in photo #1 is on the north side of René-Lévesque between Bishop and Mackay.
Originally, it was Ford’s Hotel. It then, sometime around the beginning of the 1950’s, became the CBC/Radio-Canada building, and served that purpose until the Maison de Radio-Canada was opened in the Seventies.
Google reveals that Chez Desjardins (1175 Mackay – east side of street, odd numbers) was listed in the Mirror’s Best of Montreal as late as 2004.
The high-rise hotel on the NE corner of Guy and René-Lévesque (1155 Guy) is the Maritime, now Maritime Plaza (hotelmaritime.com).
The former CBC/Radio-Canada building (1425 René-Lévesque W) was occupied by the Roche-Bobois furniture store (if I remember correctly) for many years before being taken over by Concordia. The university’s code for the building, quite appropriately, is CB.
WOW! What no potholes back in ’79, it’s definatelly in the west end of the downtown, probablly where the 1250 Rene Levesque stands now., I could be wrong, I didn’t spend alot of time in the west end of downtown back then.