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2008 North American International Auto Show

January 23, 2008
It’s that time of year again, time for a visit to Cobo and to the 2008 North American International Auto Show. (Past shows can be found here: 2007 & 2006 First thing you see this year in the lobby is Geely. Geely was the first Chinese Company to exhibit in Detroit, when they showed up in 2006. They were only here for the press preview days, and were like this year, set up in the…
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1404 Tecumseh Road East

January 22, 2008
This building at Tecumseh Rd and Moy, has a long history as a restaurant, as I recently discovered. As I was looking through an old booklet from 1954, I came across this ad for the Bel-Air Restaurant… Someone along the way bricked in every other window along the…
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David Maxwell School

January 21, 2008
Located on Francois, between Seminole and Tecumseh Roads, David Maxwell was built in 1928, in what was then known as East Windsor. Ford City was renamed East Windsor when Chrysler Moved in to their new plant at Tecumseh & Walker. The School was designed by the Windsor…
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News For The Weekend

January 20, 2008
The first round of voting includes all nominees. In 2007, each person gets one vote for their favourite blog, in each category. Unlike 2006, you do not get one vote per day, you just get one per round. If you haven’t done so yet, I would really appreciate your vote for International Metropolisfor a 2007 Canadian Blog Award, in the category of “Best Local Blog”. Click over here…
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Old Sandwich Schools

January 18, 2008
Here are a pair of century old postcards (c. 1909) of two schools in Sandwich. The Sandwich Public School, and St. Francis. St. Francis School, built in 1901, was located on the corner of Peter & Detroit. The site today is a parking lot. The Sandwich Public School was…
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Walker Road Underpass

January 17, 2008
As Windsor is crippled by the Walker Road closure, you don’t hear too much about the status of the project these days. With nearly no one around, and Walker Rd. silent, I decided to take a trip down there to see what’s going on. It looks like the tracks have…
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McPherson Lounge - Electa Hall

January 16, 2008
Back before Christmas, there was a post on Cody Hall, and in the comment, the discussion turned to McPherson Lounge in Electa Hall. Today’s photos come from regular reader westerntragedy, who visited McPherson Lounge, and happened to have his camera. 🙂 As a side note, westerntragedy runs the excellent photoblog Windsor Visuals. A big thanks goes out to westerntragedy for sharing his…
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Dougall Avenue School

January 15, 2008
This might bring back some memories for some of my readers. The original Dougall Ave. School was built in 1904, and stood until 1990, when in the name of progress, the School Board smacked her down, for a modern box. The replacement school was opened on the same site in…
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Canadian Blog Awards - Voting

January 14, 2008
The first round of voting includes all nominees. In 2007, each person gets one vote for their favourite blog, in each category. Unlike 2006, you do not get one vote per day, you just get one per round. Yes, it’s true, International Metropolis has been nominated for a…