{"id":2394,"date":"2009-05-02T05:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T09:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/05\/02\/photo-du-jour-twin-chimneys\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:33:08","slug":"photo-du-jour-twin-chimneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/02\/photo-du-jour-twin-chimneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour : Twin Chimneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3264\/3162280190_56a807c71d.jpg?v=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Des Carri\u00e8res incinerator was originally built on this site in 1931 because, as population density increased in the area, household burning was becoming suffocating and the stench of the landfill was no better.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, a new building with even taller smokestacks was erected on the same site, apparently with the intention of selling steam to manufacturers. But the city never managed to break even (let alone make it profitable) and, despite the towering smokestacks, the air pollution just would be whisked away from the densely populated neighbourhood. The incinerator was shut down in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The twin chimneys still loom over rue De Br\u00e9beuf in the Plateau. As hideous as it may be, I have a soft spot for this behemoth, which turned up in the backdrop of the film <em>Crazy<\/em>. At one time they contemplated putting the Taz Mahal skate park here, but it ended up near the TOHU instead.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing Montreal contributor Thomas Bernard Kenniff took a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/10\/01\/une-balade-pittoresque-a-lincinerateur-des-carrieres\/\">stroll around the site<\/a> back in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Spacing Montreal flickr pooler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30419828@N03\/\">Stellar.centurion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Des Carri\u00e8res incinerator was originally built on this site in 1931 because, as population density increased in the area, household burning was becoming suffocating and the stench of the landfill was no better. 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