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Sulby "Saul" Pazner - 1923 - 2008

August 18, 2008
**Warning – Long Post Alert** In the Windsor Star on Wednesday, the following obituary ran for Sulby “Saul” Panzer: OBIT: ‘Old school’ businessman ran scrap yard Melissa Dunne, The Windsor Star Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Sulby Pazner was a rare breed of businessman: he did not have any fancy letters after his name, his word was as good as any legal…
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A call for help...

August 15, 2008
I got this email a while back from a former resident who is trying to track down his family history, maybe one of the readers out there will be able to help him: Grade 5 – Prince of Wales My name is David Hansen, and I am a Windsor native now living in the Vancouver…
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Rossini Court Parkways

August 14, 2008
Driving out along Tecumseh Road East, at Rossini, you may have noticed them before, or you may not have. At the entrance to this planned community, stands large brick “gates”. This ad ran in the Border Cities Star, March 3, 1923: Make sure you “look for…
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St. Rose Development

August 13, 2008
Continuing along with the look at old Subdivision, we head out to Riverside today. From the Border Cities Star – June 14, 1924: Another ad that ran on June 12, 1924, featured these photos: Sadly, a drive out there didn’t unveil any houses to me that looked to be from the mid 1920’s. Other than the Chruch, and the school that is long gone, it doesn’t appear that too…
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McLaughlin Park

August 12, 2008
For the next few days, we’re going to take a look at some of Windsor’s sub-division history. Up first, is this ad that ran in the Border Cities Star September 24, 1920. Being beside the land that was designated as the General Motors Corporation Subdivision, some…
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Downtown Motor Sales

August 11, 2008
It’s always fun to find out about a buildings past… I stumbled across this ad for Downtown Motor Sales, a Studebaker-Packard dealership from August 1956. It was probably the wrong time to open a new dealership, and this was likely one of the last…
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Hanna Street Hydro Substation

August 8, 2008
A thanks goes out to regular reader Aaron for the suggestion to cover this old Hydro Substation on Hanna St. in his old neighbourhood. I thought I had some information on this one somewhere, but I couldn’t find it anywhere… It was decommissioned around the time the one on Walker Road just north of Richmond was. Maybe around 2002 – 2003… I seem to recall that this one was a…
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Old Service Station

August 7, 2008
Occasionally I can still stumble across a building in this city that I have never seen before. Such is the case with this old gas station at the corner of Shepherd and Elsmere. Likely built in the late 1920’s, this is the only one of its type left in the city that I…
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St. Denis Hall Follow-up

August 6, 2008
As you might remember last Thursday, there was an entry about St. Denis Hall. Jim G remarked that the postcard was printed with a reversed image, and through the magic of Photoshop, I have fixed that error, so the image above is now the correct view. Chris Edwards from…