Montreal in the 1990s

[MTLskyline]

Interesting video from 1990

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[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

Interesting video from 1990

• Video Link

Can't be 1990. I watched the 1000 de La Gauchetière skyscraper being built from my vantage point at Concordia Universit, and it is featured right at the beginning as completed (it was not completed until 1992). several other buildings featured in the video were built after 1990, e.g., 1250 Rene Levesque. Looks like about 1994.

Nevertheless a great video of Canada's most interesting city.

[MolsonExport]

Shameless thread bump. This one is really good for us nostalgic types.

[ozzy]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Shameless thread bump. This one is really good for us nostalgic types.

Ce qui est dommage c’est que tous les Montréalais sont partis du côté de MTLURB au lieu comme tous de contribuer ici.

Ce serait intéressant que vous partagiez les bons coups et l’histoire de Montréal au travers de ce Forum comme le font l’ensemble de la communauté mondiale.

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

This is maybe the most enjoyable of Canadian city pictures threads I've come across yet.

Canadian Cities in the 1990s would make a very good thread.


The late 80's to the early, mid 90's aesthetic is my favourite time period, followed by the 60's, the rest of the 80's, and then maybe all the way back to the vast, Art Deco "era" before that... and I guess the 50's were pretty aesthetically awesome too.

Still, I feel like shows and movies are just automatically more enjoyable if they're set in, or were actually filmed in, the late 80's or early 90's. It's amazing seeing movies and TV shows in HD from back that were actually filmed and not taped, as it's like seeing it again for the first time, or for the first time in HD since their theatrical releases. Season 1 of the X Files is a really good example of this, along with Seinfeld, and the earliest seasons of Friends... everything just look so amazing back then.


I guess the only time I've seen the Montreal of the era in this thread was in the 1989 film Jesus of Montreal.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by ozzy

Ce qui est dommage c’est que tous les Montréalais sont partis du côté de MTLURB au lieu comme tous de contribuer ici.

Ce serait intéressant que vous partagiez les bons coups et l’histoire de Montréal au travers de ce Forum comme le font l’ensemble de la communauté mondiale.

c'est vraiment dommage que la plupart des forumeurs Montréalais ne participent plus sur SSP.

[MTLskyline]

Montreal Jazzfestival 1998 by Michael, on Flickr

Montréal by Miquel Lázaro, on Flickr

Montréal by Miquel Lázaro, on Flickr

Montréal - Vieux-Montréal: Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

Montréal by Miquel Lázaro, on Flickr

Montreal by h willome, on Flickr

Montreal Olympiastadion by Michael, on Flickr

Montreal Olympiastadion by Michael, on Flickr

Montreal Training Expos by Michael, on Flickr

Montreal Schwimmstadion by Michael, on Flickr

Montréal - Hochelaga-Maisonneuve: Le Stade Olympique de Montréal by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

Montréal - Biodome by pydum, on Flickr

Montreal skyline, 1992 by Infrogmation of New Orleans, on Flickr

1300 15/05/92 by Barry Adams, on Flickr

Montreal - Vieux-Montréal: Vieux-Port de Montréal - Comeaudoc by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

Montréal - Downtown Montréal: Centre Molson by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

Montréal: Le quartier chinois de Montréal by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

Montréal - Vieux-Montréal: Marché Bonsecours by Wally Gobetz, on Flickr

A Dodge Caravan Montreal Police van. by Steve Brandon, on Flickr

Montreal's 1-2 Watch, CFCF-12. (Montreal's One to Watch.) by Steve Brandon, on Flickr

Montreal by Joe Shlabotnik, on Flickr

Montreal Quebec, August 1992 by Infrogmation of New Orleans, on Flickr

End of an Era by Big Swede Guy, on Flickr

Montreal by Michael, on Flickr

Montreal by Michael, on Flickr

224_29 by liverpolitan., on Flickr

Montreal Place d'Armes 01 by Joost de Vries, on Flickr

20081012170200.pdf017 by Eddie, on Flickr

street side by duluoz cats, on Flickr

Montréal, QC by Moacir de Sa Pereira, on Flickr

20081012170200.pdf004 by Eddie, on Flickr

[MTLskyline]

Interesting video from 1991 about Montreal - it is well shot and gives a good perspective to how the city looked then

https://www.onf.ca/film/amoureux_de_montreal/

[MolsonExport]

^great time machine!

[Docere]

Gino Vannelli and The Box on the soundtrack.

[MolsonExport]

"when I think about those nights in Montreal...."

-Gino Vanelli, I Just Wanna Stop