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.
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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.