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Election Day

Windsorites, get out there and vote! I’m sure that another pathetic and embarrasing display of about 35% of the eligible voters will actually come out and vote. It’s kind of ironic how the vote occurs only two days after Rememberance Day. All those brave men…
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Long Gone...

Today’s post is proof that not every building lost downtown was a gem. Here are a pair of old postcards that show a couple of old Windsor landmarks that were lost in the 1990’s. The plywood palace. The waterfront Holiday inn. It was vacant, and scheduled for demolition when a mysterious fire broke out and the place burned to the ground in 1999. Another beauty was the former Art…
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Never Forget

In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt…
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The Cleary Auditorium - Then and Now

Then, The Cleary Auditorium was the shining jewel in a newly built civic center. It was built in 1957 by local architects Johnson & McWhinnie. Now, A white elephant, stripped of its original design. The City of Windsor loses about a million dollars a year subsidizing…
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Old Photos 1910 - Part I

Some of these I may have posted before, others maybe not… These are from my personal collection, and they date to about 1910-1915… The Canadian Club sign on the docks at Walkerville. It was designed by Albert Kahn. Riverside Dr. (then Sandwich St.) looking…
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Not even Cigars...

As part of the draconian non-smoking laws introduced in Ontario earlier this year, a silly side effect was the banning of any tobacco related words in any advertising. That means that downtown stores that advertise “Cuban Cigars” are liable to be fined. Some…