Friday, June 19, 2009

Crescent St. Set To Party Like It's 1959

Montreal/06/12/03-Moving around was not an easy feat on a jam packed Crescent Street Thursday afternoon for the start of a Grand Prix street festival. Photograph by: Photo by John Kenney.

From The Montreal Gazette:

Birthday bash: '50 years of bringing nightlife to Montreal'.

If the names Casa Pedro, Les Halles, The Boiler Room,

Friars Pub, Flix Cinema, The Bicylette and Carol's Snack Bar bring back waves of nostalgia, you're officially old.

Drinking pitchers of sangria at Casa Pedro's, having fancy French table service at Les Halles or watching Ronnie flip burgers at Carol's well into the wee hours - these are memories from Crescent St., the party block between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Ste. Catherine St.

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