Late, was late... to a very important date ...

[kinzel]

Me, I just hate it when things that are supposed to be automatic... aren't. Can't blame the ftp program, though... it did what I actually told it, instead of what I meant to tell it.

In case you don't know, that means Fledgling, Chapter 27 is up, though it went up about 25 minutes late. At least the teaser got out on time.

Around here: the last of the current day lily blooms burst today ... I'm not expecting any more this year, but last year we had a couple of late ones, after all...

Yes, I have made my hotel reservations for ConCept 2007 .. which means I can scout out Montreal a bit for WorldCon 2009 -- they won the vote and I know they worked hard to do it, having spoke with them at ...a number of cons in the last few years.

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then and now

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Montreal since 1967, when I was . . . much younger than today. Is anything left of the World's Fair installations, or is that all bulldozed into office parks?
We drove from north Texas to Montreal, and stayed several days, and then home via Swarthmore, PA, to see where my brother was about to start college. That visit had been the original motivation of the trip, but it only got one afternoon.
Of the Fair, I remember the USA exhibit that was in a complicated dome (or was that Seattle?), and l'Habitat, a sort of "city-of-tomorrow," and a food stand in the French area that sold the most incredible sausage rolls. Very flaky, very greasy, DELICIOUS! I've never had anything like them. Probably I couldn't digest them now anyway. About the only thing else I remember is that I was very impressed with the clean, quiet Montreal Metro. Even more impressed later when I encountered the New York subway - NOT clean OR quiet.

Abigail

Re: then and now

[(Anonymous)]

Burton from Montreal

Most of the 67 World's Fair installations is gone. After all it's been four decades, much of the exhabits was build for a 5 year lifespan. You might have seen the location of the fair on TV. It's the annual site of several auto races as the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (Formula One Montreal Grand Prix, Nascar currently along with the departed Champcar event). Much of the fair location is converted to parkland with a 6 Flags amusement park on the remainder. The racetrack is on the perimeter of the island fair site.

Your memory didn't fail you. The USA geodesic dome exhibit got gutted by fire, then rebuild as an ecological exhibit. The l'habitat on the waterfront was converted to condos, still fully occupied.

Sadly the Montreal metro isn't so clean or quiet anymore. The portions of the Metro from 67 is over 40 years old. One must expect wear and tear from such long usage. The old portion of the Metro is getting refurbished soon. However the downtown core couldn't function without the Metro, it is still a efficient people mover. Much of the downtown is accessible via the Metro and the surrounding underground passages.

A side note. The current NYC subway's and the Montreal Metro's rolling stock are produced by the Bombardier Group of Montreal (multi-national transportation company)

Montreal have change quite drastically. You wouldn't recognized the city from 10 years ago.