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I have no doubt that @Darts was one of the guys in the crowd yelling "Cartwheels!" at McGill Redmen games. I didn't go to school at McGill, but I lived just down the hill from Molson Stadium in 1980-81, until my apartment building burned down.

The fire was on my floor, in the front of the three story building, built on a steep hill. All apartments in the front of my floor, (#2), were destroyed by fire. All apartments on floor 1 were destroyed by water. All apartments on the 3rd floor were destroyed by smoke and/or fire. A bit of water came under the door into my apartment, (at the back of the building). The guy across the hall had no fire damage whatsoever, but looters stole most of his stuff while tenants were not allowed back into the building.

Fortunately, one of the guys I worked with lived down the street, and had come out to see the fire. He let me sleep on his living room couch for a few days while I looked for a new place.
It must still be traumatizing to see your building on fire.
 

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I have no doubt that @Darts was one of the guys in the crowd yelling "Cartwheels!" at McGill Redmen games.
Hey, that was our secret. LOL!
Molson Stadium is just north of the Reservoir which is just north of the McGill campus. Of course, nobody on this site admits to knowing anything about the Reservoir. Just a bit north of Molson Stadium is the arena where we play hockey.
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Molson Stadium is just north of the Reservoir which is just north of the McGill campus. Of course, nobody on this site admits to knowing anything about the Reservoir. Just a bit north of Molson Stadium is the arena where we play hockey.
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I used to work Peel and st-catherines and I never heard of the Reservoir lol
 

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I used to work Peel and st-catherines and I never heard of the Reservoir lol
You are south and west of the Reservoir. Do you remember the Seagram building?

A bunch of us boys and girls wanted a secluded place, where nobody would bother us, so we could play nude football. I guess the Reservoir was so secluded that nobody here heard of it.
 

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Just to make the geezers on here feel more out of the loop, I’m here to remind them that Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem and Mary J. Blige are all now oldies acts from 20 years ago.
They are all irrelevant to young people today.
 
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Molson Stadium is just north of the Reservoir which is just north of the McGill campus. Of course, nobody on this site admits to knowing anything about the Reservoir. Just a bit north of Molson Stadium is the arena where we play hockey.
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I lived in one apartment on Aylmer south of Milton, two on Durocher, (one each north and south of Prince Arthur, and one on Prince Arthur near Aylmer, summer, 1979 to September, 1984, except for January - June, 1980. Rents were cheap in that area then. Much of that time, I was working at The Metropolitan News Agency near the corner of Peel & St Catherine Streets. I was 18-21 when I worked there, but I got some of the better work assignments. Most of the time, I was the cashier in the afternoon. I had a key to the store, and opened the store on Thursday and Friday mornings in 1981-82. I was sent to the bus station to pick up out of town newspapers - cabbies at the bus station used to fight for my fare, because I tipped them well.

When I worked on legal holidays, (paid day, plus cash under the table for hours worked), I was the guy sent to try to buy rolls of quarters from other places, because the banks were closed. I could have done that and been back in ten minutes by going to a nearby video arcade, but I took the standard 1 1/2 hours to return. If I had returned in ten minutes, the boss would have expected that from other guys doing that assignment. I usually got my quarters from the owner of the Les Filles d'Eve strip club on St Catharine Street, near Crescent. He was happy to exchange quarters for paper money any time. I often stayed for a beer before going back to work.

At Les Filles d'Eve, all of the dancers were also waitresses, and there were no assigned sections. The more popular waitresses spent most of their day dancing, and the less popular ones earned most of the tip money from serving drinks.
 
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I lived there 10yrs. I am born and raised Quebec City.
I grew up in rural Quebec, went to university in Montreal and started my professional work life in Montreal (actually on Greene Avenue in Lower Westmount near the old Montreal Forum).

Other than I am handsome and independently wealthy that is all you need to know about me. LOL! Oh, I am now also a one woman man.
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I lived in one apartment on Aylmer south of Milton, two on Durocher, (one each north and south of Prince Arthur, and one on Prince Arthur near Aylmer, summer, 1979 to September, 1984, except for January - June, 1980. Rents were cheap in that area then.
Yes, we call that area the "Student Ghetto". It is just on the east side of McGill.

Much of that time, I was working at The Metropolitan News Agency near the corner of Peel & St Catherine Streets.
Yes, yes, I know that place. Bought a magazine there call "Playmen" that had nude pics of Jackie Kennedy.

I usually got my quarters from the owner of the Les Filles d'Eve strip club on St Catharine Street, near Crescent. He was happy to exchange quarters for paper money any time. I often stayed for a beer before going back to work.
Yes, yes, I know that SC. They use to have a free buffet. There was also a small SC upstairs next door.

At Les Filles d'Eve, all of the dancers were also waitresses, and there were no assigned sections. The more popular waitresses spent most of their day dancing, and the less popular ones earned most of the tip money from serving drinks.
Yes, the servers and dancers were the same person. I think the servers/dancers were topless.
 

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I grew up in rural Quebec, went to university in Montreal and started my professional work life in Montreal (actually on Greene Avenue in Lower Westmount near the old Montreal Forum).

Other than I am handsome and independently wealthy that is all you need to know about me. LOL! Oh, I am now also a one woman man.
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If it's the lovely lady on the picture you are one lucky man!
 

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It must still be traumatizing to see your building on fire.
Another building I lived in was destroyed by arson in 2004, with one death. The guy who set the fire spent many years in Mental Health hospitals, Penetanguishene and the CAMH on Queen Street East and Ossington.

I saved the life of one of the tenants in the 2004 fire. Global News arrived before the fire department. After a while, I went to the back of the building to see the fire, and I heard coughing - one of the tenants was still inside - meanwhile several fire fighters were standing around in front of the building talking. I let them know that there was someone still in the building, and they quickly got him out through the back window - the fire had started in the room across the hall from his. I never saw that guy again, and he might not know who saved his life; he only heard my voice asking who he was. That guy was very religious, so he probably has his own interpretation of how and why his life was saved.
 

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At Les Filles d'Eve, all of the dancers were also waitresses, and there were no assigned sections. The more popular waitresses spent most of their day dancing, and the less popular ones earned most of the tip money from serving drinks.
Yes, the servers and dancers were the same person. I think the servers/dancers were topless.
Only when they weren't serving drinks.

It was a smart business model; shy guys who didn't have the stones or the cash to buy dances could flirt with their favorite waitress for the cost of tip money. The women who worked there loved the openly gay club owner, and that was one of the few Montreal clubs that had a roster of hotties working the afternoon shift.
 
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This is not the greatest map (below) but you can see Peel and Sherbrooke just a bit west (left on the map) of McGill.

While at university, I befriended a foreign student from a rich Singapore family. He had a two bedroom (one of which became my bedroom) apartment on Sherbrooke. Living so close to McGill was great because no more commute from the south shore. He also had a car but didn't know how to drive in a Montreal Winter so that car became my car.
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