Just a quick follow up to the massive fire that happened last week. This is the building that fronts Wyandotte St. with the apartments above. Looks like the residents were allowed back in to gather belongings. Hopefully the businesses and their owners on the main floor won’t lose their shirts with the long closure.
One thing that irks me, is the media reporting on this fire. Please look at a map. Wyandotte and Marentette is NOT on the EAST SIDE. Lately the media starts all reports by saying “A massive fire on Windsor’s east side…” This is downtown. The east side IMO is Pillette or Jefferson, heck I’d even accept Central as “East Side”. However this is about as much in the core of the city as you get. AM800, A Channel & The Windsor Star are all guilty of that.
They call it the east side because Ouellette Ave is the east/west boundary. I agree with you though, that the Marentette/Wyandotte area should be considered downtown.
Anything in the general corridor between howard and langlois all the way down to and sometimes past Tecumseh has always been referred to by CKLW news as the “near east side” whenever they are reporting from there, which I am assuming was coined by some newshound at CK from long ago and just stuck. But it still doesn’t make complete sense, as we would then have downtown, a “near east side”, then Walkerville, Ford City, and finally……………the east side?!
Actually anything east of Ouellette Ave. is east side and anything west of Ouellette is the westside always has been like that
Roseanne
Correction: Anything east of Ouellette Ave is the east side, unless it happens to be a shooting in which case Tecumseh Rd E and Howard Avenue become part of “downtown” as happened last year when there was a shooting at Lumberjacks.
Basically the news decides on where the location is depending on the type of news story it is going for.
Well then we can tell the media they don’t have to worry about shootings “downtown” anymore since it just got the Malachi Crunch by the east side and west side.