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Down By The Main

- EvilGentleman - Thursday, May 17th, 2007 : goo

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This post complements CE's Red Light District article posted earlier today. He has already described a great deal of the following pictures quite well. I suggest you have a look at his article.

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Tattoo Parlor has been around as long as I can remember.

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The Romance sex shop used to have a giant apple over the door that has disappeared in recent times. It used to be kept immaculately clean, but not anymore.

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Boutique Erotika, another sex shop across the street.

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The blank windowpane with the tree reflected in it actually houses the silhouette screen that shows the image of a dancing stripper at night. also sells and rents porn movies.

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For some reason, I like the name . Too bad it's just a sleazy peep show, which in Montreal means a place full of private booths where the raincoat crowd can go to watch movies in peace without missing a stroke.

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A cool mural behind the famous toon building.

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The back of the demolished porn theater that used to be next to

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The view looking north from the entrance to the metro station.

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The view looking south, also previously posted by myself, CE and Hool, and maybe others as well.

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Damned if I can figure out what these orbs are. For some reason, a Sikh temple comes to mind, but I suspect that is not the true answer.

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The eastern end of the building that houses Foufounes Electriques.

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Frank S. Besner: 18th May 2007 - 10:23 GMT

I see they've removed part of Hotel Le Boléro's sign. (the last bit of it remains as the triangular panel in the Superock picture) That's too bad for me, I guess... I'll always asociate that place with my first visits to the city, years ago. I used to actually STAY there, for lack of knowlege of the many decently priced hotels on lower St-Hubert. So what does a night at a hotel that offers "sieste" (nap) rates get you? How about a pimp fight in the middle of the night, a stab mark urrounded by a bloodstain on your mattress and no bible in the night table's drawer.

EvilGentleman: 18th May 2007 - 15:03 GMT

You may have called them bibles, but I think the other customers there called them "rolling papers". I once watched someone prepare a shipment of hashish for the mail by cutting a large square out the center of every page in the bible, thus making a pocket to hide the drugs in. Dictionaries were popular items, as well.

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