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Here are few more old transit photos from the Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitzed and passed along by John Stefani. A big thank you is owed to both of them for helping to digitize and share such a massive collection.

Today’s shots are both dated 1975 and were taken around downtown.

First up is a shots of Bus # 747 at the downtown Bus Terminal. Running on the Ottawa line.

This shot of # 724 was taken on University Ave. in front of the late Grace Hospital. It was simply marked “Downtown”. What line was this part of? Perhaps Bernie can chime in.

Andrew

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  • I was just born and not living anywhere near Windsor--so I love seeing these--would love to have a day to go back in time and experience the Windsor of that era.

    Nice peek at the outside of Steinberg's in the first photo--and the Goyeau deck when it still looked 'fresh'.

  • I entered the world at Grace Hospital that summer, so it's interesting to see what it looked like then (especially compared to its current state).

  • I think you are right John.
    I seem to recall that the bus route (now basically 1A/1C) had 2 variations - it ran from the west end to Forest Glade and there was also an option that took you downtown where you could transfer to another route. I can't remember what the name of the route was - although I probably rode it 100's (1000's) of times.

  • Well, the 1B as I remember it was an 'express' version of the 1C. For example, I rode it from Tecumseh/Ouellette to the west end and it took about 30 minutes, whereas the same distance on the 1C took 40 minutes because it made more turns and stops downtown.

  • It is supposed to become a convalescent home with the majority of the parking lot being developed for new houses.
    ...Grace born in 1973. :)

  • The 'newer' bus model that I commented on in a couple of entries before this one, is the bus shown in the first picture above, for the Ottawa route.

    JT I saw you were mentioning Steinbergs in the background in the first picture above. Interesting in that, I remember when that building was built and then opened in the 60s, it was then supposed to be the 'shot in the arm' for downtown Windsor with a new major Dept store/grocery store and sort of bringing downtown connected to the city market. I read on this site that the building has been demolished, so it never got much of a chance to be a short in the arm for Windsor. very sad.

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