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The Yugoslavian Pavilion at Expo 67.
The Yugoslavian Pavilion as it is today in the Southern Newfoundland town of Grand Bank. It was reassembled here and opened in 1972 as the Southern Newfoundland Seaman's Museum. It also houses North America's only Museum of Soccer - big fans of soccer down that way.
While the building may have escaped the ravages of time it could not escape the ravages of bad taste demonstrated nicely in this photo via cheesy mural and vinyl siding.

Excerpt from Fun Hats/Chapeaux

I was born after Expo 67 had ended but spent the first years of my life completely ignorant of the fact that I had been growing up with a rather large portion of it almost in my back yard. In my hometown of Grand Bank, Newfoundland there is an odd building that looks like a cluster of white triangles juxtaposed in such a way as to create zig-zag of points along its roofline, which was at it’s tallest about 70 feet high. Everyone just called it “the sandwiches” but it was, in fact, the Seaman’s Museum, a facility preserving the maritime heritage of the area. It wasn’t until I was in the 6th grade that a teacher mentioned that this building was the old Yugoslavian pavilion at Expo 67. During Expo it was situated directly across from what is now Casino Montreal. It still seemed a little abstract but to my parents the very mention of Expo 67 seemed very exciting to them but it was a mystery to me. It was then that I became aware that I was not like my parents in that they had a memory I could not possibly have and that their experiences were not mine. Generations are not made just by the time they are born but by their collective experiences. My only connection to their knowledge and experiences of Expo 67 would be relegated to old family photos and super 8 films – and a rather odd building down the street. 

DC Hillier
Montréal, Québec