Olympic Stadium, built for the 1976 Olynmpics, featured a retractable roof that would rise high in the air on the big spire you can see in this shot from a nearby hill. The roof, however, had stopped retracting years ago and was permanently stuck shut. Toward the end of the Expos era the crowds were so sparse they just closed off the upper deck. First game: April, 2000. I drove my daughters Caitlin and Kara to Montreal during April school vacation. They were both taking French in school and wanted to try out their accents on some actual French-speaking people. … Continue reading Olympic Stadium