The Montreal Pool Room, a greasy Montreal institution, is moving over for EM
36 artists descended upon the ‘Main’ (boulevard Saint-Laurent, entre René-Lévesque et Sainte-Catherine), armed with spray paint, brushes and ink, attacking 365 feet of boarded up facade along the west side of the street.
The EM crew was given the old Montreal Pool Room store front to work on. From a 2009 Gazette story:
“One of the most popular night spots in the 1960s and ’70s was the Montreal Pool Room, at 1200 St. Laurent, where you could score a hot dog steamé and rub shoulders with the likes of a young Leonard Cohen or Michel Tremblay.
“Reeking of patates, steamies and lost innocence, this cheap Red Light institution has hands down the best hot dogs and inhale-the-grease fries,” is how one tourist guidebook writer described the Pool Room.
In spite of the date on the door that claims a Bulgarian immigrant, Filipoff Dakov, opened the Montreal Pool Room in 1912, city archives show Dakov obtained his first licence in 1921.
His was one of three billiards rooms on the block.
The Montreal Pool Room lost much of its legendary underground allure after it was gutted by fire in 1989. When it reopened, things weren’t quite the same.”
This incredible project was realized by le Quartier des spectacles, with des Escales Improbables.
Involving the following artists :
La Paria
Collectif K6A crew
Zeck et Herezy
Oneton
Arpi, DKae, Fleo et Tom Sydor
Péru et Cabin
old Pool Room, boarded up and ready to paint...Rupert in the corner
- raphaelle bard hard at work, despite years of residual grease…
This piece was realized by Jason Botkin, Tim Barnard, Rupert Bottenberg, Raphaele Bard, Lea Heinrich, and Pascal Rodrigue...dream team
um... yum!
PERU...regular EM participant
Frank Lam, Zema, Patrick Avive, and Astro...La Paria killin it! More EM alumni
Chris Dyer...incredible...another favorite
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