MONTRÉAL :: Photos

MTLskyline · #1 Posted **Jan 20, 2013, 5:38 AM**

Publier des photos que vous avez trouvé ou pris ici. S'il vous plaît indiquer la source de toutes les photos qui ne sont pas les vôtres.

Post pictures you found or took here. Please provide the source of any photos that are not your own.

Quelques sources/A few sources: (N'hésitez pas à suggérer plus / Don't hesitate to suggest more)

Aujourd'hui
http://www.flickr.com/photos/husseinabdallah/
http://montrealinpictures.com/

Historique
http://www.flickr.com/photos/archivesmontreal/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbexplo/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museemccordmuseum/

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1968

Montreal Circa 1968 b by astrojhet, on Flickr

Montreal circa 1968 a by astrojhet, on Flickr

Montreal 1968 by astrojhet, on Flickr

Dirt_Devil · #2 Posted **Jan 20, 2013, 6:12 PM**

Très belle photos merci.

Une chose que je remarque: regardez les rues, elles sont toutes intactes. Que s'est-il passé!

MTLskyline · #3 Posted **Jan 21, 2013, 3:01 AM**

1960-2011

Vers 1960-2011 by guil3433, on Flickr

1900-2012

Vers 1900-2011 by guil3433, on Flickr

1960-2009

1960-2009 by guil3433, on Flickr

1942-2012

1942-2012 by guil3433, on Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #4 Posted **Jan 21, 2013, 5:52 AM**

THis city has been butchered beyond recognition. Montreal certainly isn't as pretty as it once was. Our downtown core especially is an eyesore.

MTLskyline · #5 Posted **Jan 23, 2013, 2:04 AM**

Sunrise Montreal by Bernard and Myrtha Garon, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mblne1/...l-1036907@N25/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarcx/...ol-1036907@N25

Montréal #105 by Vancayzeele Olivier - Happy New Year 2013, on Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #6 Posted **Jan 23, 2013, 2:06 AM**

love love love that selection. very eclectic and layered choices

davidivivid · #7 Posted **Jan 23, 2013, 6:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

love love love that selection. very eclectic and layered choices

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Martin Mtl · #8 Posted **Jan 23, 2013, 10:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

THis city has been butchered beyond recognition. Montreal certainly isn't as pretty as it once was. Our downtown core especially is an eyesore.

I have to disagree with you. Yes, we have lost many, many beautiful buildings, but the massacre was in the 1950's through the 1970's. In the 70's and 80's, Montreal was at its most ugly: full of surface parking lots everywhere it looked like a bombed city, very depressing. Today, the city is much improved compare to 30 years ago and it never stops to beautify itself (quartier International, restoration of Old Montreal, Quartier des spectacles, échangeur des Pins, DeMaisonneuve, Saint-Laurent, square Dorchester, Amherst, Old Port, Griffintown, Canal Lachine, Place d'Armes, Square Victoria, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quartier Concordia, etc. It goes on and on.

Rico Rommheim · #9 Posted **Jan 23, 2013, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

I have to disagree with you. Yes, we have lost many, many beautiful buildings, but the massacre was in the 1950's through the 1970's. In the 70's and 80's, Montreal was at its most ugly: full of surface parking lots everywhere it looked like a bombed city, very depressing. Today, the city is much improved compare to 30 years ago and it never stops to beautify itself (quartier International, restoration of Old Montreal, Quartier des spectacles, échangeur des Pins, DeMaisonneuve, Saint-Laurent, square Dorchester, Amherst, Old Port, Griffintown, Canal Lachine, Place d'Armes, Square Victoria, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quartier Concordia, etc. It goes on and on.

Oh I fully agree with the examples you brought up, but for me Victorian Montreal and up until the 1940's was the city at its finest. The beginning of the new city in the 1950's ended this period forever.

Martin Mtl · #10 Posted **Jan 25, 2013, 4:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Oh I fully agree with the examples you brought up, but for me Victorian Montreal and up until the 1940's was the city at its finest. The beginning of the new city in the 1950's ended this period forever.

Agreed. Back in the forties, René-Lévesque (or rather Dorchester) street was narrow and lined with victorian mansions. It's all been destroyed to enlarge the street. It's sad, but we have to look ahead and not repeat the same mistake. Montreal lost a lot, but it had a lot to begin with, so we still have much much more historic buildings than any other city in Canada. And we still have Old Montreal, and that's a blessing.