Montage du jour : Stationnement intérieur, intersection des rues Notre-Dame et Saint-Jean

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1. Back in the Fifties a ‘Pigeon Hole Parking’ garage opened in Montreal.

   http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/pigeonhole-parking-lot/

   In which you parked your car on the arrivals side of the building and got out, locking the doors.

   A large freight elevator then arrived and a roller arm slid out from the elevator and pivotting rollers swung out from the arm, clasped the car under the wheels and pulled it into the elevator cage.

   The elevator operator then took the car up and deposited it in a ‘Pigeon Hole.’

   An observation window in the lobby allowed patrons to watch the elevator in it’s cycling.

   The client received a chit for his auto, and upon return from shopping or whatever, you presented the chit and the elevator went and retrieved your auto from it’s hole, presenting it on the departure side of the building.

   I now cannot remember the street this garage was on, but it was North/South oriented.

   Years later I saw a late night film featuring a Pigeon Hole Parking building, and, altho’ names were changed for effects, I suspect it was the one in Montreal.

   Unlike the garage in the photo, the building in Montreal was totally enclosed.

2. Doors? To nowhere? Aieee!

3. Il y en avait un autre du même type sur la rue Stanley, au coin de Cypress, qui a été démoli lui-aussi.

4. Thank You Mr. Naimard.

   Until you comment I was not aware there were two parking garages of this sort.

   The one I do remember was the one uptown on Stanley.

   However, the one shown above I did not know about until this article came out.

   The colour photo above resembles the parking garage used in the movie that was on television a few years back.

   Thank you again for informing me that there were two separate structures.