^What a breath of fresh air! Until I saw this picture I never realized how "old" this part of the city looks like. Might as well be the mid 80's!
Pardon me for the 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 quality of this one, the skies were shite and my telephoto lend has yet to arrive. But here is our beloved V as seen from St-Henri. You can barely make out the crane at the right of le 1250.

Downtown Montreal from Canada Malting III by rico rommheim
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