This Shell building at 10501 Sherbrooke East caught my eye, although I suppose any kind of architecture stands out amid the sea of smokestacks and petroleum tanks that make up most of Montréal-Est. This Shell Refinery is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
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This reminds me: are there any other old guys out there who remember, as I do, that the building at the northeast corner of Cathcart and University used to be called the Shell Tower? My mom used to work there.
Used to be some sort of illuminated tower on the roof that was a kind of thermometer or barometer, too, as I hazily recall. If you wanted to know the weather, you’d turn your gaze to the Shell Tower roof and see how it was lit up….
After 1956, but, before the Metro, on the East side of Atwater Terminus where the 102-104 bus and the 144 Pine bus arrived there was a HUGE illuminated Shell sign on the building opposite.
It had all sorts of lights which flashed on and off in a pattern similar to those on a theatre marquee.
Something to look at while your ears froze on a Montreal winter day.
Somewhere in the vicinity? was another large sign which puffed steam from a smoker’s mouth.
I think the smoker was at Peel and Ste. Catherine.
Here is what I believe to be the weather tower (which I barely remember myself).
http://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal.asp?picid=240925
And here is one of PVM being built with “Shell Tower” in background.
http://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal.asp?picid=226118