Another intersting old Windsor photo from the Virtual Motor City Collection:
This aerial view is dated July 1971.
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Very interesting photo, so different from today. It looks like there is a building on the southeast corner of Riverside and Ouellette. Anyone know what that was?
Err...sorry, I meant the northeast corner, actually....
that was a hotel but I can not recall the name of it though
Was it the 'British-American Hotel' maybe?
Windsor, intact, before the full ravages of the car and bad decisions could take its toll.
Windsor's population boomed from about 130,000 in the mid 1960s to over 200,000 by the early 70's. Everybody was moving here.
Yes, it was the British American Hotel.
The foundation is still there along with a plaque about the hotel.
Where was the Holiday Inn? Was it the same building and they just changed the name? I heard it was also on the North Side of Riverside Dr. somewhere around there.
Not the same building David.
The Holiday Inn was located further west, closer to Pumping Station at Caron Ave.
The British American Hotel was the last building in the downtown core (except for the Holiday Inn) to fall to the wreckers ball. I think it was demolished in the mid 1970's.
No requiem for the Plywood Palace, huh? ;)