{"id":2368,"date":"2007-05-11T19:19:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2007\/05\/11\/gillman-auction-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:30","slug":"gillman-auction-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/gillman-auction-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillman Auction on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve spent any time wandering up and down Duluth Street, you’ve probably spotted what you thought was a deserted store with a bright turquoise-green interior, frozen in time. The story is a little more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

77 rue Duluth was owned by a certain Mr. Gillman<\/a>, who was a fixture of the neighbourhood for many, many years. He supplied local businesses with wholesale goods and sundry sweets until a couple of years ago, when his health took a turn for the worse. He recently passed away and now his space is being transformed, but his memory lives on.<\/p>\n

The new owner, Binky Holleran, will install the second incarnation of her Fuschia caf\u00e9 in the space, but not before celebrating it with artistic interventions and a documentary about P. Gillman’s life (if you knew Mr. Gillman and have some memories to share, she invites you to drop by Fuschia<\/a> Wednesday to Saturday between noon and seven, or drop a note in the mail slot). To help raise funds for this heritage do-gooding, Binky is hosting an auction of the curios left behind, such as the beautifully-package vintage Noxema product pictured below.<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago, Montreal artist Sarah Wendt performed a contemporary dance piece\/living installation of sorts to celebrate the space. After her final performance, there was a fund-raising event with music, of which I snapped a few photos (with my ISO-challenged camera). Click on the pics below for the respective photo sets. Il y a aussi un super compte-rendu \u00e9crit de la soir\u00e9e, et de l’histoire derri\u00e8re tout \u00e7a, ici<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you’ve spent any time wandering up and down Duluth Street, you’ve probably spotted what you thought was a deserted store with a bright turquoise-green interior, frozen in time. The story is a little more complicated than that. 77 rue Duluth was owned by a certain Mr. Gillman, who was a fixture of the neighbourhood… Continue reading Gillman Auction on Saturday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}