{"id":431,"date":"2007-12-28T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:54","slug":"montreal-in-the-snow-in-february-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/12\/28\/montreal-in-the-snow-in-february-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal in the snow… in February 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPeel Street looking north from Sherbrooke<\/i><\/p>\n

It must be end-of-year nostalgia: after Mike Gericke’s photos of Montreal in 1987<\/a>, I can’t help but revisit some other old photos I came across earlier this year<\/a>. <\/p>\n

February 20, 1972 was a snowy day in Montreal and Colin Rose was there to capture it. His images of early-70s downtown Montreal, scanned from transparencies and as clear as any photo taken yesterday, show a city that is at once completely familiar but also, in some ways, entirely foreign. <\/p>\n

Don’t forget to click on all of these photos to go to their Flickr pages; they’re worth seeing large.<\/p>\n

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\nPeel and La Gaucheti\u00e8re, with Windsor Station on the right<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nDorchester near Dominion Square. Notice the Laurentian hotel on the left, now gone<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nSte. Catherine looking west from University<\/i><\/p>\n

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\nSherbrooke looking east from Stanley<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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