METROPOLITAN NEWS AGENCY - 1248 PEEL ST., MONTREAL - MY ALMA MATER

 

 

THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION

 

 

 

I grew up and received most of my education here,

Working by my father's side from age eleven.

 

I returned to Metro News in the mid-1980's

And worked there until the day it closed on Peel

And moved around the corner to Cypress Street.

 

 

 

My Father, George Rubin, President,

Metropolitan News Agency,
1248 Peel Street,

Montreal, Canada

 

 

METROPOLITAN NEWS AGENCY -
AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/03/metropolitan-news-agency-at-crossroads.html

 

REMEMBERING MY FATHER, GEORGE RUBIN
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/remembering-my-father-george-rubin_768.html

 

GEORGE H. RUBIN
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-h-rubin.html

 

MEMORIES AROUND PARK AVENUE 1940's - 1950's.
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/06/memories-around-park-avenue-montreal_8498.html

 

GERRY RAQUER AT METROPOLITAN NEWS
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2013/11/gerry-raquer-at-metropolitan-new

 

MEMORIES OF METRO NEWS - LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY.
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2013/11/do-you-know-dorothy-elsmore-long-ago.html

 

I REMEMBER PATRICK FARNEY
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-remember-patrick-farney_11.html

 

 

MEMORIES OF METRO NEWS

 

November 5, 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President of the United States.

 

The Montreal Gazette photographed me with my grandfather, Israel Feldman, in the front window of Metropolitan news at 1248 Peel Street, Montreal, selling the first editions - hot off the press ! - of The Gazette with the headline announcing his election. I have the photo somewhere among my albums and files, and it is fixed in my memory.

 

I was a young teenager. I was wearing a sweater that had a deer motif on the front. My grandfather wore a leather cap. One of the customers out in front of us was an American sailor wearing a crisp white "gob?" hat. Another was a Peel Street Regular, one of the Damon Runyon characters who "lived" on Peel Street and were made famous by local novelists.

 

Unless there was a second edition of the newspaper that same day - we usually had three editions per day - the photograph of me and my grandfather appeared on the front page of the newspaper on November 6, 1952.

 

Phyllis Carter