Get in the time machine...
April 12, 2006
We’re going all the way back to 2001….
Ford Field under construction.
There was lots of activity here. Work being done to the Hudson’s site, and the Compuware site.
Seems like so long ago that there was parking on one side of Washington.
Looking north…
Dominion Forge
April 6, 2006
On Seminole across the street from the former Motor Lamp factory is the massive Dominion Forge Complex. Once home to giant stamping presses that fabricated parts for the automotive industry, the complex today is used as a warehouse. Stories have it that the presses were so…
East Windsor Steam Bath
April 5, 2006
The other day, I was cruising around the Ford casting plant that is due to close, looking for a good spot to get a photo of it. Across the street was this mysterious little place.
There was a closed sign on the door, yet no listing on-line or in the Phone Book for this…
Check this out...
April 4, 2006
There is this photographer name Katie West, and apparently she’s from or lives in Windsor, or whatever…
Anyhow, I like her stuff, she’s incredibly talented. Usually I’m not too fond of people pictures, but she has a way of capturing a certain…
Irony
April 4, 2006
It’s funny how things end up coming full circle. Over in the Ford City district of Windsor we find this:
Today it is the home of the “New Song Church”…
But in 1937 it was the “Temple Hotel & Beverage Room”. From a bar to a church.
The “Temple” name has always had me curious, across the street was Temple Theatre. Around the corner was the Ford…
Alicia Mason Vocational School
April 3, 2006
Located in Windsor’s near west side, on the corner of University and Cameron is this school building. Designed by Windsor’s pre-eminent mid-century architecture firm Johnson & McWhinnie, Alicia Mason Vocational School was built in 1957. It had been closed…