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• The current Palace is nearly identical to the one in Kitchener -- so Famous Players just repeated the design in various places.

• andrew could you find pics of when devonshire mall was first built or what it looked like in the early years?

• Funny enough... I was just at the food court at the Vaughan Mills mall today and a few paintings of the King Edward and a few other heritage buildings from Windsor are suspended from the ceiling.

• Are you guys absolutely positive the old Palace was demolished?? I asked a friend who used to work for the Post Office this and this guy has a photographic memory of the city. I can give him any address of a historical building in the city and he can describe to me in great detail what the building looks like or what changes were made.. He said he never saw the building being demolished. He said all he remembers seeing was the front being redone. He said that if you were to remove the stucco, you'd see parts of the building still there.

• Perhaps, someone checking with the city to see if a demolition permit was issued would clarify the issue.

• David, 100% sure they are not the same building. The footprint was much smaller, as there was a 4 or 5 story building that was also demolished immediatley north of the palace. That was the Heintzman Building originally, and it was on the corner of University and Ouellette. Both structures were demolished to make way for the new palace.

• Maybe your postie friend is thinking of Frankencleary. It was semi-torn apart and put back together using parts of the original as well as additions.

• David I watched them demolish the old Palace The only thing that was left of the old Palace by early 1986 was a hole in the ground. The new Palace theater was built by Chuck Mady and opened with much fanfare in the fall of 1987.

• The bus No 358 was actually a Faegol Twin Coach which actually had two engines!!! On in the rear and of course, one in the front. They were used exclusively on the Ottawa St route. The other older bus was a GM precursor to the 'fishbowl' models which only had a two speed automatic gearbox which made for a noisy ride. The GM buses for some odd reason were used only on Sundays. I reckon the faegols were from the early 50's and the GM's mid to late 50's.

  I can recall the Palace Theatre being damaged by the use of , 'Sensurround' sound system during a showing of The Battle of Midway in 1976. This system used huge loud speakers to simulate low frequency sounds like airplanes taking off. The extreme low-frequencies damaged the fabric of the building and things began to fall off the walls.

• i love all the flags out front of the norton palmer something that isn't present on the ouellette of today