Comments on: My Old Apartment http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher DeWolf http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-268597 Christopher DeWolf Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:44:11 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-268597 Sorry, Carrie. I didn't mean to offend you. I certainly didn't mean to imply that you somehow aren't a Montrealer. Sorry, Carrie. I didn’t mean to offend you. I certainly didn’t mean to imply that you somehow aren’t a Montrealer.

]]> By: carrie http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-266946 carrie Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:32:22 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-266946 'shy couple from Alberta'? I've been called a lot of things before, but that is just so.....ugh. Even a fellow former Albertan referring to me as an Albertan..... once an Albertan, never a Montrealer. O Canadian regionalist attitudes, how you vex me. how about 'archivist/writer and photographer/filmmaker'? But maybe you didn't know we write things and make movies. oh, well. Or, maybe I'll put "one half of shy couple from alberta" on my business cards. More interesting than what they say now..... ‘shy couple from Alberta’? I’ve been called a lot of things before, but that is just so…..ugh.

Even a fellow former Albertan referring to me as an Albertan….. once an Albertan, never a Montrealer. O Canadian regionalist attitudes, how you vex me.

how about ‘archivist/writer and photographer/filmmaker’? But maybe you didn’t know we write things and make movies. oh, well.

Or, maybe I’ll put “one half of shy couple from alberta” on my business cards. More interesting than what they say now…..

]]> By: David Maloney http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-264249 David Maloney Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:49:03 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-264249 Very interesting read. Who lives in the apartment now I wonder? Kate, I too live on Drolet. I just bought a small apartment down by the Square. I was told it used to be the location of the horse stables of the adjacent Victorian house that faces Square Saint-Louis. It's an odd little place and building I'm in. The mail that gets sent here is for this guy from France that lived here previous to me, who has since gone back to France from what I can understand, and also this woman with a Spanish name. Most of the neighbours are francophone from what I can tell. Very interesting read. Who lives in the apartment now I wonder?

Kate, I too live on Drolet. I just bought a small apartment down by the Square. I was told it used to be the location of the horse stables of the adjacent Victorian house that faces Square Saint-Louis. It’s an odd little place and building I’m in.

The mail that gets sent here is for this guy from France that lived here previous to me, who has since gone back to France from what I can understand, and also this woman with a Spanish name. Most of the neighbours are francophone from what I can tell.

]]> By: AJ http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-262544 AJ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:56:08 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-262544 I think Chas would have been an abbreviation for Charles, as was common custom in tightly-spaced directories and address books. I think Chas would have been an abbreviation for Charles, as was common custom in tightly-spaced directories and address books.

]]> By: Kate M. http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-262493 Kate M. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:36:18 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-262493 Which reminds me, one day when I was leaving my Drolet Street flat, some rather prosperous looking strangers were about to knock on the door. Turned out the older members of the family, who were with them, had lived there something like 50 years earlier, were back in town (from the U.S., I think) and wanted a look at their old neighbourhood. They were Jewish and anglo, which bore out what I'd been told about the neighbourhood (e.g., the old synagogue on Duluth, which has been an apartment building for decades because the community it served had moved away). The son, himself now middle-aged, seemed a little embarrassed about the ebullience of his mother and aunt at rediscovering their old digs. (Another thing - a Plateau flat that seemed about the right size for myself and my cat had indeed, at one time, been regarded as big enough for an entire family.) Which reminds me, one day when I was leaving my Drolet Street flat, some rather prosperous looking strangers were about to knock on the door. Turned out the older members of the family, who were with them, had lived there something like 50 years earlier, were back in town (from the U.S., I think) and wanted a look at their old neighbourhood. They were Jewish and anglo, which bore out what I’d been told about the neighbourhood (e.g., the old synagogue on Duluth, which has been an apartment building for decades because the community it served had moved away). The son, himself now middle-aged, seemed a little embarrassed about the ebullience of his mother and aunt at rediscovering their old digs. (Another thing – a Plateau flat that seemed about the right size for myself and my cat had indeed, at one time, been regarded as big enough for an entire family.)

]]> By: Kate M. http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/comment-page-1/#comment-262492 Kate M. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:31:38 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/01/31/my-old-apartment/#comment-262492 Wonderful idea. I can see I'll be spending a few hours soon looking up who lived in this flat, and maybe the flat I had in the Plateau for a long time too. Wonderful idea. I can see I’ll be spending a few hours soon looking up who lived in this flat, and maybe the flat I had in the Plateau for a long time too.

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