{"id":425,"date":"2007-12-26T23:45:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T03:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=425"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:55","slug":"walking-montreals-streets-in-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/26\/walking-montreals-streets-in-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Montreal&#8217;s streets in 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/326914368\/in\/set-72157594341936003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/144\/326914368_d191c01922.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As much as I like photos of Montreal from 100 years ago, it&#8217;s shots from more recent decades that really pique my interest. Luckily, Flickr has prompted a lot of people to dust off the boxes of slides, prints and negative they&#8217;ve kept in their closets and post their old photos online. That&#8217;s the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/\">Mike Gericke<\/a>, a Montreal native who now lives in Ottawa. He&#8217;s uploaded a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/sets\/72157594341936003\/\">nice set of 37 photos<\/a> that were taken on the streets of Montreal in the late 1980s. Here&#8217;s a few.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/286285687\/in\/set-72157594341936003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/110\/286285687_f9ab9501d6.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Mount Royal Avenue at Chabot<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/286461147\/in\/set-72157594341936003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/107\/286461147_fde7bf139f.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Graffiti in a Plateau alley<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/286555783\/in\/set-72157594341936003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/121\/286555783_353a47dab5.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Sherbrooke Street West in NDG<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikeygottawa\/286497789\/in\/set-72157594341936003\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/107\/286497789_5b7ec5ae36.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>St. Laurent Boulevard<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I like photos of Montreal from 100 years ago, it&#8217;s shots from more recent decades that really pique my interest. Luckily, Flickr has prompted a lot of people to dust off the boxes of slides, prints and negative they&#8217;ve kept in their closets and post their old photos online. That&#8217;s the case<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/26\/walking-montreals-streets-in-1987\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Walking Montreal&#8217;s streets in 1987&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7837,7839],"tags":[14,1585,125,64,153,56,70],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","tag-historical","tag-mike-gericke","tag-montreal","tag-ndg","tag-ottawa","tag-plateau-mont-royal","tag-the-mountain-la-montagne"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walking Montreal&#039;s streets in 1987 - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/26\/walking-montreals-streets-in-1987\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walking Montreal&#039;s streets in 1987 - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As much as I like photos of Montreal from 100 years ago, it&#8217;s shots from more recent decades that really pique my interest. 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