"That summer of '67" - Expo 67's Opening Recalled 40 Years Later (Montreal Gazette)

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The Montreal Gazette recalls the opening of Expo '67 frorty years ago in Montreal.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=308be8b4-7df6-41dd-8f9e-2c2597d2dc6b&k=95190

Also read sports columnist Jack Tood who writes under a headline:
"Nos Amours (Montreal Expos) were born out of optimism from Expo 67"

In writes:
"It's an old story. Has to be - the distance between Expo 67 and today's Montreal is exactly the span between the legendary World's Fair and 1927, the peak of the Jazz Age.
Perhaps the oddest thing about the backward gazing of this 40th anniversary is that Expo 67 seems so spectacularly irrelevant to what Montreal is today: worth a bit of nostalgia for the old and the aging who were actually here at the time, perhaps, but of no consequence at all to the young or the tens of thousands of immigrants who have moved to this city since...".

Sadly, he concludes, "Today the party is more than over. The Expos are dead and all but forgotten, the spirit of '67 is a quaint relic, the naive optimism at that time as distant from us now as the last Stanley Cup won by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who in one of the more ironic moments in sports history, won their last Cup by defeating the Montreal Canadiens on the cusp of the summer of '67.
The photos of that forgettable event are, like this entire exercise in nostalgia for a simpler and more optimistic time, in black-and-white".

Interestingly, writes of the origins of the name Expos for the baseball team Apparently it came from New York Daily News sports writer Dick Young and it stuck.

For the whole imteresting column, see:

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=0b562c92-a3a0-4f0f-a1e8-4b3e6a0d6994&k=11745&p=1