METROPOLITAN NEWS AGENCY - AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE NATION

I started working at my family's international newspaper store, Metropolitan News after school when I was eleven. At 14, I went to work there full time. It was my second home for decades. My father, George Rubin was the manager, chief cook and bottle washer, day and night, winter and summer, for 37 years. It was our second home and my almamater. 

Almost every member of our family worked there at some time - my father and mother, my maternal grandfather and grandmother, my brother, my sister, cousins, aunts and uncles and all our closest friends. 

Metropolitan  News stood At The Crossroads of The Nation, 1248 Peel Street at the corner of St. Catherine St. in the heart of Montreal, Canada, and people from all over the world visited us there.

Phyllis Carter

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 ;

UNCLE SAM AND THE BESWICK HORSE

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/04/uncle-sam-and-beswick-horse_18.html  

I CAN'T KEEP THIS SECRET ANY LONGER - HOW I LEARNED ABOUT CRIME

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2014/07/i-cant-keep-this-secret-any-longer-how_2.html ;

A THING OF BEAUTY IN AN UGLY WORLD

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/08/thing-of-beauty-in-ugly-world_1756.html

RONNIE MCKELVIE AND LITTLE HELEN REMEMBERED

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/09/ronnie-mckelvie-and-little-helen_22.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.