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Over the last 10 to 15 years, many of our old bakeries, delis, neighbourhood stores and restaurants have disappeared as traditionally working class neighbourhoods undergo gentrification and elderly owners retire.

Fortunately, Montreal is still full of places that have survived the passage of time. Gibeau Orange Julep, the Montreal Pool Room, Moishes, Beauty’s, the Snowdon Deli, the Greenspot, Chalet Bar-B-Q, and La Binerie continue to thrive, in part, because they are time capsules and they make us feel nostalgic.

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Studies conducted by researchers at the University of Southampton in England have shown that nostalgia has a positive psychological effect on us. Nostalgia makes people feel closer to each other and behave more generously with each other. And it makes life feel more meaningful. In one experiment, scientists from the University of Yat-Sen in China demonstrated that nostalgia even made people in a cold room believe they were warmer than they really were.