kool maudit
Sep 14, 2023, 10:16 AM
I don't know that there is any era of our country that has vanished quite so absolutely as this mid-20th iteration of Montreal. As the watermark suggests, these are taken from the city's archives, and from a Flickr gallery you can find here (https://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesmontreal/albums/72177720309101935).
A lot of the areas in these photos, which were mostly taken near Bleury Street, have physically vanished. Culturally and spatially, it's all gone, even where you might recognize buildings that are still with us today.
Some of Montreal's new landmarks are being built in this area. Even before that, it saw a lot of very sympathetic infill and public works development in the 2000s, from the construction of Riopelle Square towards Place des Arts.
It is just breathtaking to contemplate how many overlapping realities have inhabited this tiny area of Canada in the short period of a few decades.
https://i.imgur.com/jcFpgRy.png
https://i.imgur.com/rnzShCE.png
https://i.imgur.com/E204Qk6.png
https://i.imgur.com/KGZ5PtE.png
https://i.imgur.com/JjYlAYV.png
https://i.imgur.com/lmVEoQj.png
https://i.imgur.com/eN7Zk5X.png
https://i.imgur.com/r12gh0r.png
https://i.imgur.com/cOsZe3Y.png
https://i.imgur.com/Pk6arpH.png
https://i.imgur.com/KSvzDCZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/Nap0tCx.png
https://i.imgur.com/rjqUSR3.png
https://i.imgur.com/UMrQQOc.png
https://i.imgur.com/KNYFxJl.png
Here, you can see the new city being born.
https://i.imgur.com/wfOz2Lj.png
It's a very good collection of photos and worth a look if you are interested in this sort of thing.
A lot of the areas in these photos, which were mostly taken near Bleury Street, have physically vanished. Culturally and spatially, it's all gone, even where you might recognize buildings that are still with us today.
Some of Montreal's new landmarks are being built in this area. Even before that, it saw a lot of very sympathetic infill and public works development in the 2000s, from the construction of Riopelle Square towards Place des Arts.
It is just breathtaking to contemplate how many overlapping realities have inhabited this tiny area of Canada in the short period of a few decades.
https://i.imgur.com/jcFpgRy.png
https://i.imgur.com/rnzShCE.png
https://i.imgur.com/E204Qk6.png
https://i.imgur.com/KGZ5PtE.png
https://i.imgur.com/JjYlAYV.png
https://i.imgur.com/lmVEoQj.png
https://i.imgur.com/eN7Zk5X.png
https://i.imgur.com/r12gh0r.png
https://i.imgur.com/cOsZe3Y.png
https://i.imgur.com/Pk6arpH.png
https://i.imgur.com/KSvzDCZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/Nap0tCx.png
https://i.imgur.com/rjqUSR3.png
https://i.imgur.com/UMrQQOc.png
https://i.imgur.com/KNYFxJl.png
Here, you can see the new city being born.
https://i.imgur.com/wfOz2Lj.png
It's a very good collection of photos and worth a look if you are interested in this sort of thing.