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Two gems from Montréal’s gastronomic golden age, on display in the McCord Stewart Museum’s hit exhibition On the Menu – Montreal: A Restaurant Story (Nov 2025–Oct 2026). Left: Menu: Le Monde de la Gastronomie / The World of Fine Dining (c. 1964) — a 75¢ compilation of 40 actual restaurant menus featuring Montréal showcase spots like Moishe’s, Ruby Foo’s, La Crêpe Bretonne, and many more, plus directories for New York, Chicago, etc. Right: Montréal à table (1976, 2nd edition by Bernard Moscovitz & Clare Taylor) — the definitive gourmet guide to 40 top restaurants, with 120 chefs’ secret recipes, souvenir menus, and a city map. Part of the museum’s Menus and Gastronomy Collection, these capture the city’s vibrant fine-dining scene just before the 1976 Olympics.
McCord Stewart Museum of Canadian History, Montréal, Quebec.
Cover of Grok Magazine #2, 2002. Published by the Curtin Student Guild. The cover is a photograph taken in Northbridge, Perth Western Australia.
scene from the fictional book "I Served the King of Persia" (an allusion to the book "I Served the King of England")
- featuring a white furry Persian cat dressed as the King of Persia, and a black fluffy Pomeranian Spitz dressed as the "Minister of Defense"
Created by Grok AI (just to improve the mood of the family), posted by Jan Helebrant
(sorry, no higher resolution available)
license CC0 Public Domain Dedication
here is grok’s desc of the one building. This is almost certainly the main building of a historic public school (likely a junior high or high school) from the early-to-mid 20th century in the United States.
Architectural Style and Identification
The building shows classic Beaux-Arts or Renaissance Revival features, which were extremely popular for American schools and other institutional buildings between roughly 1900 and 1935. Key matching elements include:
* Strong symmetry with a prominent central section flanked by matching wings.
* A grand central entrance with three arched doorways (a very common school design for student flow).
* Dozens of large, regularly spaced windows — typical for maximizing natural light in classrooms before widespread electric lighting.
* A decorative semi-circular fan or sunburst (radiating rays) motif in the pediment/gable at the very top center — a distinctive ornamental touch seen on some historic schools and institutional buildings of this era.
* Overall grand, imposing scale and classical detailing.
The snowy setting points to a northern U.S. state (Midwest, Northeast, or Pacific Northwest) or possibly Canada. The number 8380 visible near the entrance is almost certainly the street address.
Why It’s Hard to Pinpoint the Exact Building
Many schools from this period were built with very similar designs (architects often used standard plans or popular styles). Without more context — such as the city/state, the approximate year the photo was taken, or any visible school name/signage — an exact match is difficult. It strongly resembles buildings documented in historic registers and local archives across the U.S.
Similar examples exist in places like Seattle (e.g., John Marshall Junior High, built 1927 in Renaissance Revival style with a central arched entrance), various Michigan and Midwest schools, and other northern cities.