Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/5/2007 1:59 AM | remove |
gulf was taken over by petro canada in 1985. gulf canada stayed around a bit longer as an exploration company. In quebec petro canada was forced by the competition bureau to divest thier downstream assets to ultramar
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Posted by abacab |
3/5/2007 1:17 PM | remove |
Yeah, I remember watching the Gulf tank farm in Ottawa coming down in the summer of '85. In '87 I explored the abandoned office/maintenance building before it was replaced by Superior Propane and later Costco.
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Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/5/2007 4:25 PM | remove |
remember the towers store near the welcominn on st laurent. did it ever become a zellers? the building still resembles the zellers stores on viau in montreal and in chateauguay
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Posted by abacab |
3/6/2007 12:49 AM | remove |
Yep, I worked there shortly after the takeover in 1991. There used to be a Loblaws next to it that partially became a Fabricland. The vacant portion of the Loblaws was secretly part of the lease to Zellers, but no one from head office knew about it. We used to store stuff in it, and whenever I got the keys, I would explore the stockroom wich was all dark and spooky. There were the old changerooms and washrooms for Loblaws back there that hadn't been used in years as well as old fixtures and signs from the 70's and 80's. I was gone by '93, and Value Village took over the entire Loblaws site. Zellers closed after merging with KMart Canada and was transformed into a gov't office with a new tower built in the old parking lot.
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Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/6/2007 4:10 AM | remove |
yeah a friend of mine worked at the one in chateauguay (bonimart post bill 101) it was a consumers distributing/bonimart/IGA (iga was owned by the same company as towers at the time oshawa group) there was one zellers didnt take in st hubert quebec, became a huge flea market and there still was a sign over the door saying "thank you for shopping bonimart"
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Posted by meshif |
4/4/2009 2:53 AM | remove |
I got stuck in the elevator at my former employer last year...tossed a toonie in between the floors where I was stuck for this exact reason...for someone to come along during the abandonment/demo and find it
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