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Neal Baking Company

February 18, 2009
Located on Salter St. south of University Ave is the former home of the Neal Baking Company. Driving past on University Ave. you can catch a quick glimpse of the red brick factory… Closer inspection reveals painted ghosts from the past… The northern most section of the factory, is despite a few alterations… Nearly the same as it was in 1913. Below are a few historic shots of…
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Keeping the Demolition Derby Alive...

February 17, 2009
The latest victim of 2009. Princess Anne School. Built in the former town of Riverside, Princess Anne was built in 1956 and designed by local architects Johnson & McWhinnie. Another one bites the dust… Maybe not the most important school building, but more local…
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More FINA

February 16, 2009
On Friday Feb 6th, we were discussing the old FINA station on Tecumseh Rd. when Terry pointed me towards the station above on Seminole. I’ve probably driven past it hundreds of times over the years without ever noticing it. The windows are tinted, and there are a few…
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Lear Demolition

February 12, 2009
The death fences are up… …The metal siding has been stripped… … and a trip around back shows that demolition is in full swing. More proof that our manufacturing jobs are gone and never coming back… I suspect acres of parking to be in the…
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Prince of Wales - Part 3

February 11, 2009
The third and final installment. I promise. 🙂 To the basement… A view of one of the basement classrooms. One of the staircases. As we go lower, the water damage becomes more evident. Boiler room… No lights, and not much going on. Although I spy some…
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Prince of Wales - Part 2

February 10, 2009
Today we head up to the top floor… At the top of the stairs in the west staircase. For David’s benefit, note there is some water damage around the window frames. Looking out the windows over a sea of surface lots. This is the 1927 expansion. A view of the classroom in the 1927 wing. The rough wall tiles are visible behind where the chalkboards once stood. A view down the…
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Prince of Wales - Part 1

February 9, 2009
With the Prince of Wales only a memory, let’s take a look around the inside of what used to be. Inside the front lobby looking back towards the front doors. Big heavy old oak doors, they sure don’t build schools like this. At one time the stairs split, with a…
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Old Fina Station

February 6, 2009
While the news that the Yorktown Plaza made the register of historic places in Windsor was on the front page, the news of the other buildings being added were less sexy, like the former FINA station at Tecumseh & Bruce (For the previous discussion of this place, you…