Few few years back, I came across and old photo album for sale that was full of photos from around the Great Lakes. It’s full of photos from Belle Isle, Boblo, Buffalo, Detroit, Grayling, Lewiston, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Put-in-Bay, Toronto and Windsor. All from 1920 & 1921. It’s a great historical record, and I had the Windsor Photos online many years ago. For all the new readers, here we are. A tour through Windsor 1920. Part II will follow tomorrow. Captions are as they appear in the album.
Heintzman & Co. (Pianos)
St. Alphonsus Nunnery (my correction -> St Mary’s Academy)
Pitt St. looking east.
Wyandotte St. looking E. from Ouellette Ave.
Windsor Collegiate Institute
Windsor Collegiate Institute Annex
Windsor Ave., as seen from City Hall. All Saints Church (right)
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Gee, what Windsor "used" to look like compared to now. The downtown was much bigger and the bulidings absolutely incredible. What a shame it looks so much like a 1970's turd today.
I take it that Windsor Collegiate became Patterson Collegiate?
Is it me or do the roads on Pitt, University and Wyandotte St. look a lot wider in those pictures? It almost seems like you could get two lanes of cars each way plus street parking.
he he he. A 1970's turd!
What is a 70s turd? In particular?
Downtown Windsor is a lot more p-lot now, so seems empty.
"What is a 70s turd? In particular?"
A: 'Muskrat Love' by Captain & Tennille, 45rpm.
Me - Windsor Collegiate did become Patterson, before meeting the wrecking ball and becoming an A&P currently Dirt Basics.
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Daivd, the streets are the same witdth they always were. Don't forget cars in 1920 were much thinner than today's cars. That's probably why they look bigger.
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John, that's one of many...
I'm guessing that St. Alphonsus Nunnery was next to St. Alphonsus Church on Park (where the Tunnel exit is now). That's depressing. They should have saved it and moved the tunnel somewhere else. It reminds me of Detroit's former city hall and could have made an awesome city hall, not like the piece of crap looking city hall we have now.
The Nunnery was actually on Ouellette. When it had to move because of the tunnel. We ended up with the South WIndsor St. Mary's. That's the building we never should have lost.
You can blame Mike Hurst and His Holiness Kenny Lewenza for the mess Windsor has become. We had a vibrant, interesting downtown through the 1970's and 1980's that attracted American consumers' in droves. Today, downtown Windsor has become a ghost town not unlike Detroit during the reign of Big Daddy Coleman Young. Mike Hurst's anti-business administration, generously supported by the CAW, treated entrepreneurs like a virus to be eradicated and tried to put private developers out of business by using taxpayers' money to finance the new construction. When Charles Mady offered to sell the 500 block of Ouellette to the city for less than it cost to build a new welfare office, King Mike put his foot down and we ended up with a giant glass turd next to city hall.
i wanted to enter a contest for blues tickets but the contest email came on the 5 and ended on the 7 i was gone for the week end and got home at 4:00 pm and the contest is over and i can't email windsor ontario .net this is bull shit i will not visit your site or theirs again and i will till everyone i email who is about 168 people.
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