Yes, it is so much fun reliving these special places, times & people that we cared about, loved but sadly only live in our memories now,where they will remain ♥️ forever!
I was born in 1964. Lived in Ville Lasalle first 3 /12 years of my life and then South Shore St. Hubert until late 80s. So many of images in this video resonate with me. Many great memories going downtown with my mother riding those brown STM buses, walking down St. Catherine street, shopping at Eatons' with the big pay off at the lunch counter.
Born in ‘65, raised in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and I remember many of these images too. The buses, the metro, stores with the neons signs, etc…. I wouldn’t go back to live there even if they’d pay me too but I sure would go back to these simpler times.
I know...”Going Downtown” really meant something no matter “what city you lived in, back then!!!” Montreal is such a beautiful city & loved Expo 67. I have visited through the yrs but all the stores that used to exist with very few exceptions, have since sadly disappeared! The malls that made “ going downtown” obsolete have ironically in many cases, been put out of business themselves( so many stores missing in them & many closed) by on line shopping. I miss my grandmother taking me downtown as a little girl to shop, how exciting that used to be & to sit at the Woolworth’s lunch counter. My Nana would order us a hot fudge or strawberry tulip sundae. Later on, as a teenager, going downtown in the mid to late 60’s to a movie theatre or to look at records at Kresge’s five and ten, was huge thrill! I loved to look at the newest records out, with girlfriends & one place( Johnson’s bookstore in Spfld., Ma) even let us go into a special booth to play our favorite 45 record! What fun those days were!
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I was just a kid when my family left Montreal in 1975. We moved back a few times. I'm in my 50s now. There are things I miss about the city. I still get nostalgic about it. Fond memories.
But commercials telling people to smoke the #1 doctor-recommended cigarette. Unrestrained government secretly doing whatever they want, like killing native kids. It wasn't all sunshine and lollipops.
This was when they called it the beautiful province then they started with all of the language laws and then it became ugly. Now the English are treated like third class citizens.
My family was originally from Montreal . I was born there in 1957 . My father moved the family to Ottawa when I was 2 years old . There are so many memories of going back to visit relatives in the 60s and 70s . I was 10 years old when the family went to Expo 67 such a great time . My Uncle died 2 years ago and my aunt 3 years ago in Montreal . The ties to montreal are no longer . I miss the “old Montreal “ . I have had many great memories and still think about time to time . Thanks for sharing your Video !
One day, not so many years ago , I decided to make a clean in a file containing old businesses receipts. It was a history lesson. I throw away cash receipts from : Atlantique Image et Son , Eaton's , Distribution aux Consommateurs , Tip Top ,Cardinal ,Sauvé Frères,Jean C. Leblanc ,AJ Boucher Enrg,International Music Store ,Steinberg , Pascal , KMart , Miracle Mart .....
@@jblackjack Yeah. Dominion, Steinberg, the old Marche Richelieu in QC (before they got bought by Metro.) Heritage, which was like Super C (a warehouse grocery store type) , etc... I remember my mom sending me to the store for a small bottle of Coke and a 10cent Humpty-Dumpty regular bag of chips. And I remember when we switched to metric (grade 2) and when we stopped playing at hiding under our desks pretending it would save us from a nuclear blast ( I lived close to Bagotville, a strategic air force base on the DEW line in the 70s.)
Wow... My childhood just flashed in front of me, living and growing up in downtown Montreal. All those neon signs on Saint Catherine... the new métro, PDA was brand new, Man and His World (Terre des homes) was a huge success... the action, the mass of people on Saint Catherine... I was just a little kid... a downtown kid. Drapeau did such a fine job in introducing Montreal to the world. The street has changed over the years... now, it's a construction zone... a lot of BLING but the "exciting" feeling has diminished from its glory days... without the people. Thanks for the walk down memory lane... Merci/Thanks.
Grew up in Ville LaSalle, shopped at the Steinberg at Place LaSalle, great days in Montreal. Expo 67, Bens smoked meat, the Expos at Jarry Park..ah the memories.
Love Montreal, grew up there in the sixties before leaving for Southern California. So many memories growing up in St. Laurent, I truly miss my childhood. 57 now and Canada is calling me back.
I presently live in Montreal and also 57. Lived here since the age of 7, originally from France. Montreal is a very nostalgic, predominantly french-speaking city. Downtown has lost its appeal since the pandemic. So Sad. Worked downtown Place Ville Marie all my life. Wish we could turn back time.
Similar story. Born and raised in Sherbrooke but lived, studied and worked in Mtl at different occasions. Left Canada in ‘99 and have started thinking about moving back in the near future. Getting old makes you nostalgic
Ah the memories. We see Michelle Richard, a young Michelle Richard who was one of Expo'67 poster ladies if not THE poster lady. We all remember her song 'Un jour, un jour...' which was the official Expo'67 tune in French. I see several comments about Steinberg (formerly Steinberg's). How can we forget Dominion's jingle? (... Mainly because of the meat) Nice to see Toe Blake's picture. If you were a hockey fan in the 60's (when the NHL consisted of only six teams ... until 67-68), you either loved Toe Blake or loved Punch Imlach. The both won four Stanley cups in the '60s. Granted, Toe won four more in the 50's leading to a record of five consecutive cups. A picture of a young Rogie Vachon and another of Jean Beliveau, a class act, in the Stanley Cup parade. He was involved in a few of those, ten in all. (No, not a record. The Pocket Rocket has his name on eleven). Then The Plaza St-Hubert when it was fashionable to be seen amid all those nice shops and restaurants. I tried them all, although to be fair, some after the 60's. Today the Plaza looks more like a long string of Value Village outlets... Nice to reminisce TY
@@GordonEngels Only saw the dome from the outside! I grew up in Chicago, but while i was still in high school we moved to Phoenix. For reasons that I won't go into, I ended up studying in Montreal. Wow! What a fantastic place! I had never seen anything like it... even back then. The Metro alone was like something out of the future. And the steam rising from the St. Lawrence in winter! And 500 year-old churches! Used to listen to CKGM, a fun station in the 70's. It was an exciting time to be in Montreal. I was there when the Rene Levesque's P.Q. was elected in 1976. Had lots of good conversations with a separatist friend of mine (I asked a lot of questions but really had no right to have an opinion). Good stuff!
@@timward3116 Yes that was a great time for Montreal it was world class. I left in 1980, the city sort of stagnated for awhile after that it seems. Maybe it was an early victim of identity politics because the EN/FR divide was not good.
@@GordonEngels I was living in Longueuil and going to Concordia (Loyola) at the time. One of the best times in my life in a lot of ways. Yet, for some reason, I would not trade now for then. I think that wherever we are is where we're usually supposed to be. But I still love Montreal. I took a bit of it with me and left a piece of me there. Given the span of my life, I say that I'm about 2/63rds Montrealer! Have a great night. Pray for us down here. This country is falling apart (too many crooks and stupid people).
Je me r'appelle d'un Steinberg sur le Boulevard La Canardiere, Giffard, Quebec. Steinberg is no longer there and the name of the town has morphed into another city. Je manque cette belle epoque. We left for the States in 1977, haven't been back since 2008. I don't know if I'll ever make it back with the borders closed. Hang in there, ma belle province.
I used to live in Montreal in 7 different locations. Steinbergs, Dunns smoked meat, the movie theatres on St Catherine street The metro was brand new, the World fair, Drapeau was mayor Went to Montreal High School, lived on Dorchester in the 70's It was much nicer in the 50's before all the new crap.
Yes, at that time , unbelievable , there was not even one graffiti in Montreal's metro ( subway ) and as we walked in downtown , we could see Place Ville Marie . Today , buildings around hide its beauty .BUT , good times will be back soon.
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Alain Robert Lived in the Montreal area from 1958 until 2011. I sure do miss the city and everything it had to offer, including some of the best food in the world. And having traveled extensively in a career in aviation, I can safely say that’s an accurate assessment.
I grew up here and it was wonderful. Especially once I was old enough to explore the city on my own once I was a teenager (13 year olds could at that time just jump on the Metro and go wherever they pleased without concern). I remember spending days and days at Expo 67, commuting to and from McGill on the Metro, and eating fabulous food at all of the restaurants downtown. Remember Rockhead's Paradise, the Rising Sun? The St. James Pub? Pines Pizza? Even flash in the pan night clubs like Yakity Yak? I remember those brown buses that took me to school, the proliferation of Terre Des Hommes blue signs all over the place, Johnny Jellybean, fantastic shops selling surplus military and industrial goods on St. Antoine St. (I'm an engineer so that was my hobby as a teen). The aroma of the Labatt Brewery in La Salle as I walked (WALKED!) to and from elementary school. Pontiac Parisiennes all over the place. Cruising Crescent Street in a '69 Camaro? Chinatown as it once was? I lived in St. Laurent, Pointe-Aux-Trembles, St. Lambert, Dollard des Ormeaux and La Salle, as well as Centre-Ville after my graduation, every place was a world unto itself, and full of culture and wonder, a place to grow and experience the joy of life (and the sadness, too). The Montreal of the 60's and 70's was an amazing place. I hope it hasn't changed too much since I left 40 years ago.
I attended expo 67 with my Dad, I was 8, my Dad would have been 90 this week, he passed away in 2016,we had fun, Thanks for the memories 53 years ago nearly 👍🙏
Sorry for the loss of your dad! I list my own beloved mother on October 27th, 2018 & that pain in our hearts just never goes away! My mom would have turned 91 on Jan 5th. How wonderful that you went to Expo 67 with your dear father! I went with a girlfriend back then! Once again, May your father Rest In Peace!♥️
@@karenstrycharz1499 thank you, and sorry about Mom as well my friend, we both lost our parent in Oct, and Dad was also born in Jan 18, that's a nice similarity , god bless you sister
Petula Clark Downtown was my very first « 45 tour » I purchased back then for a 1 dollar and 8 cents TX , Was 13 then,, not long after made more buying of the Beatles and various Québec artists,, Thanks for the memories
Great song choice! For some reason "Downtown" is burned into my memory. I remember coming back to Montreal in the evening from the Laurentiens, going along the Metropilitan and seeing the Continental Can billboard lights, and hearing that song - Ahhh, the 60's! :)
Before the 1980s, management positions in Quebec tended to be dominated by English speakers. However, after the separatist Parti Québécois came to power in 1976, many English speakers left the province. Since then the gap between the two groups has narrowed substantially. Today the French Canadian middle class occupies a prominent position in industry, finance, and other key economic areas. French Canadians work in government and the professions and own small businesses.
After Parade nights at the Black Watch, a bunch of us would go over to Ben's and the staff always had a table reserved for us. We spent hours talking and laughing. When Ben's closed and the place sold, Montreal lost some of it's history.
What a great video & so loved the photos but hearing Petulia Clark sing 🎶 “DOWNTOWN” was a sheer joy( & so appropriate for theme of video!!!)! Loved all the music & photos were the best!
Funny because the last time I was driving into Montreal on the Victoria Bridge, the radio was playing the exact same song in French, which Pet Clark sang: "Dans le temps."
Vous souvenez -vous du restaurant LE GOBELET sur Saint-Laurent , des serveurs avec leur ceinture fléchée,de l'assiette québécoise , de leur tarte au sucre ?
Wow that was fun to watch, brings back lots of memories. I remember shopping at Steinbergs all the time. Going to all the clubs Yakkity Yak, The Limelight, P.J.s The Moustache etc. Montreal is great, I still live here😊
Agree with many who grew up in Montreal in the 60’s and continued to live in this growing and impactful city. Whispered the name Montreal and people the world over knew of it. However after having tried to create a mega Metropolis Montreal has become stagnant and not growing in any positive way. Since the 76 Olympics what can we associate with Montreal? There was night life, dance clubs, submarine joints and restaurants ready to feed the late party goers opened til 2 am, Belmont Park and the Zoo at Park Lafontaine. Now the mMontreal skyline is being changed with the multitudes of half empty condos waiting for tenants. Orange cones stand like permanent sculptures on streets and sidewalks. So glad to have lived and experienced a Montreal that the present generations will never know about. I’m sure many cities have seen these changes too but I grew up in a Montreal that I loved and miss greatly.
I lived in Côte Saint-Luc and N.D.G. until 2014 when I had to move to Toronto for work and have lived here since. I have bittersweet memories of the city. Some of its landmarks were...and still are...amazing, though. I used to live near a Steinberg's supermarket, the logo is still familiar after all these years ;--)
My sole visit to Montreal was to attend Expo 67 with my family. In spite of my limited knowledge, I do wonder why two songs in English instead of French were used in this video...maybe because Montreal was still using a lot of English at the time.
I loved Downtown by Petula Clark too & how appropriate for this whole video ( the other song was great too but loved “Downtown” playing as photos rolled. Absolutely perfect music for this video!
Everybody here who's commiserating the deterioration of the world, but at least you guys had the chance to experience the 60s. For me and my generation, this is the good old days...
From what I've heard from older Montrealers is that the 40's and 50's was when Montreal was the Canadian NY City. There were night clubs everywhere with top acts of the day. It was an exciting time even though it was not yet what was to become Montreal in the 60's which for me was my time. The only thing I hated was when the mayor decided to close many establishments like The Esquire Show Bar. But all in all it was a great era. Great everywhere but Montreal in those days was special. Now? Not so sure it has the vibrance or personality it once had. But then what Canadian city does today anyway? I still love this city and province.
3:35 I think that's rue St.-Hubert, not Ste.-Catherine, used to love St.-Hubert BBQ, wish we had some here in Vancouver... another childhood favourite was Ruby Foo's on Decarie, yummy exotic deep fried won-ton, and Magic Tom doing tricks at your table...
Les pancartes de stationement a 4:05 : "Defense de stationner"... Simple, direct... Calisse... Pas de "Entre 9h-17h, Lun-Mer, Ven. fev. a avril - 10h-18h, mar. a nov., jour impaire"
I saw the Expos play at Jarry Park, watched the Habs at the old Forum, and rode the metro to Expo '67. Thanks for the look back. Oh, and the Montreal metro built in 1967 is 10x better than Ottawa's POS LRT built in 2019.
Excellent montage photo! On y voit la rue St-Hubert avant l'apparition du trottoir couvert ( Roi du Smoked Meat qui a survécu), honte à ceux qui ont tué cette artère magnifique.
À exactement 3:30, l'image de la Place des Arts ne date pas des années soixantes: on y voit en arrière plan le pavillon des sciences de l'UQAM construit quelque part entre 1995 et 2000, et surtout, les belles marches toutes fraîchement refaites menant à la Place des Spectacles, construites aux alentours de 2010!!!!!!!!
On y voit également la marquise sous laquelle un écran LED géant a été installé lors de sa construction vers 2010. Rien à voir avec ce qui se faisant au niveau technologique dans les années 60. J’aime aussi l’attention que l’auteur de la video a porté en modifiant la photo vers le noir et blanc...
Sure was different world back then! i was not here, i was born in 1970, and my parents were in their 20's in the 1960's not from the city, but from the country.
I live in Victoria now. They have crosswalks out here. They are slowly introduce flashing lights at these things because too many people were getting killed. I don't recall as many when I lived in Montreal. You expect to see people in the intersection in Montreal regardless of who had the right of way. Nobody ever died!
Back when global existential threats, such as plastic in the food chain and climate change weren't looming.... ah the years of promise; it's always brightest before dusk
M. Robert, votre collection est superbe. J'ai cru reconnaître mon grand-père dans une de vos photos, celle du Métro avec une dame et deux employés de la STM. J'aimerais trouver l'origine de cette photo. C' est tellement cool! Merci
All this nostalgia and not a single exploded mailbox or stock exchange courtesy of the FLQ? No “night of terror” riot from ‘69? Too dark? I agree! On the other hand, it must have been an exciting time just because of the Quiet Revolution. Let alone Expo ‘67 (..one, little two, little three Canadians..) Let’s look at the pretty pictures and listen to ‘ol Pet.
