City to preserve signs as heritage
Daily Hive has a rather confusing report on a city plan to preserve 19 signs as heritage landmarks. It’s not clear, comparing their report to the city’s own press release, what Ville-Marie has to do with saving signs outside its borders. Plateau borough has already announced a plan to preserve some of its signs.
azrhey 13:54 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
(( Oh! New banner! I like it a lot! Also happy 19th bday! sorry for digression ))
Kate 16:24 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
Thank you!
John B 23:47 on 2020-11-13 Permalink
Here’s the actual list from Ville-Marie: https://montreal.ca/articles/enseignes-dinteret-patrimonial-dans-ville-marie
(Club Super-Sexe is not one of the signs to be preserved).
Bill Binns 12:59 on 2020-11-14 Permalink
The Place Bonaventure sign? Seriously? Oh well. Very happy to see the Northeast Lunch sign on this list. I noticed and photographed that sign shortly after the fire.
I always thought the signs at the Ritz looked cheap and plastic considering they were at the Ritz.
The milk bottle will have to be moved if they want people to actually be able to see it. The last I checked, the only place you could get a good look at it was from the parking lot of the Esso on Mountain St and I believe that station has been recently shuttered.
Chris 14:18 on 2020-11-14 Permalink
Yeah, seriously, Super-Sexe should be on that list.
Uatu 14:28 on 2020-11-14 Permalink
Hunter Thompson wrote about his visit to club super sexe when he came to Montreal so there’s cultural relevance, right?
Michael Black 15:34 on 2020-11-14 Permalink
What year was that?
He spoke at the Student Union building at McGill sometime in the seventies.
dhomas 20:52 on 2020-11-14 Permalink
@Michael Black: 1985 seems likely. He gave a lecture at Concordia that year (https://thelinknewspaper.ca/blogs/entry/fear-and-loathing-at-concordia1) and wrote about his experience at Super Sexe in his 1988 book “Generation of Swine” (see here).