Nobody, however, guessed that the first was the Parasol Chinois at 325 Henri Bourassa E., which still seems to be in operation, so you have somewhere cool to go tonight for New Year's Eve.
The second location was the Dow beer company lounge at Peel and Notre Dame.
And the third is the art deco decor of the room outside the Eaton's ninth-floor Tea room.
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Kon-Tiki Club, Mount Royal Hotel. Just a guess.
I'm pretty sure the bottom one is part of Eaton's 9th Floor
Picture 3 with the streamlined modernity of aluminum reminds me of the Sheraton Laurentien on the SW corner of Peel and Dorchester
That's Not fair.
If I had to guess I would have said the Bonaventure Hotel, but since the only clue seems to be the tiki restaurant I have to go with Le Sheraton Mont Royal.
Kon Tiki Polynesian Restaurant at the old Sheraton on Peel.
I'm no eatery expert, but I do believe that photo 3 shows the lobby just outside Eaton's ninth-floor art-deco restaurant which replicated the one on the ocean liner Ile de France.
Sadly, it has been shuttered for many years. Why some smart developer doesn't re-open it is a mystery.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton's_Ninth_Floor
Kon Tiki restaurant. Sheraton Hotel peel street.
Submitted by Graham Smith
Jaybee NDG
Top looks like The Kon Tiki in the old Mount Royal Hotel and the bottom pic is of Eaton's beautiful art deco 9th floor restaurant. Super treat after the Santa Claus parade.
The middle pic....(shrug)
I'm going to venture a guess....the top 2 photos are from the Kon-Tiki in the Mount Royal hotel.
That's all I know
While I wouldn't stake anything major on my guesses, you might be in the hotel category for this one.
The top photo looks to be a corner of the Kon Tiki at the old Mount Royal Hotel.
The middle colour photo looks to be the lobby of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in the 1950s.
The bottom photo might be the lobby of the old Ford Hotel on Dorchester that would later become the CBC building. The furniture certainly appears to fit the 1930s.
Another guess for the bottom black and white photo would be the lobby of the old Laurentian Hotel at Peel Windsor) and Dorchester (Rene Levesque).
Both art deco or art moderne furnishings would still fit when the hotel opened in 1948.
No odea about nos 1 and 3, but at middle photo was the reception/beer swilling lounge at Dow Brewery!
Onkel Charlie
Congrats Onkel Charlie...right you are. I just saw a postcard of the place showing that very view. I use to pass the building every day while going to and from work.
the third photo is DEF Eaton's 9th floor restaurant!
I used to go there to eat when I used to work and shop downtown in the late 90's before it shut down in 1999. the food was good there (I always got club sandwiches) and sitting there in that big room with the high Art Deco ceilings was eerie as the music they had playing was drowned out by the waterfall inside the room but you could hear the faint music floating up to the ceiling.
It was wonderful.
Does anyone know who is responsible for that currently-mothballed 9th floor restaurant in the former Eaton's?
It was closed suddenly and apparently without much outcry from anyone, and even the employees didn't seem to kick up as much as a fuss as did those at the former Ben's deli/restaurant which was replaced virtually overnight by a hotel.
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