In dining room & view

There used to be a tea wagon in front of this window and to the left of it a small table for a black rotary telephone. I remember playing there and, as well, that the phone was a party line, shared with several neighbours. This window was at the far end of the dining room, so after you entered the flat you'd be in a foyer and then, directly ahead, was the dining room in which there was a large dining room table in the center of the room with a white lace tablecloth on it. Then, against the wall to the right of the window was a china cabinet. As you stood at the entrance, in the foyer, and faced this window, there was a sideboard against the wall on the right in which were dishes and the top drawer on the far right was where my grandmother kept her eyeglasses in a beaded blue case.

Here's the view from the window in the first photograph. It's a courtyard between the two buildings where there used to be a tree, and then just a bit farther away from the building you have the lane between Girouard and the street to the west. Many of the properties on Girouard have been renovated... alas, 2226 Girouard is not one of them; it's present state gives some idea of what it was like back in the fifties, without furniture.