Parent Place
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Years ago, while out shooting photos with John Stefani, we stumbled across a old cinder block building in an alley. It always seemed strange that the building was located in an alley and not on a road, but a recent discovery of an ad for the company, revealed that the alley was in fact once a road.
Parent Place, appears to have been little more than a glorified alley. Stretching two blocks north from Wyandotte, the old chimney (now demolished – but visible in the aerial photo) must have belonged to a Parent Place Business.
The 1923 directory lists three residential properties as being located on Parent Place.
Parent Place is marked on the photo, while the orange outline marks the location of the Windsor Bedding Company.
These photographs of the Windsor Bedding Company Building were shot in the fall of 2003.
The building was for sale at the time.
And it was demolished shortly after in early 2004.
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It's nice to see that the graffiti on the wall (City Centre Crips) was spelled correctly, AND it was spelled in the British/Canadian way.
Gangsters who paid attention in English class? Only in Windsor.
yup, that is totally an alley! that chimney was right out the back door to changez and i always thought it would fall over while playin gigs at changes. this explains why the alley looked so street like and the homes that were for some reason in the alley!
That's really interesting. I can think of a few other structures like that which are only accessible by alley. One that sticks out in my mind is an mechanic's shop near Howard and Erie ... northwest of the intersection .. it's plainly visible from the pay and display parking lot there. I've always wondered how these businesses end up being located in structures that are only accessible by alley.
Wow....the house that my Grandmother lived in was on Langlois backing on to this building....there was a swimming pool in the backyard right up against it, we could throw a rubber ball against it and it would bounce back in the pool....the walls were always wet from us splashing around it wa so close...as i akid i never knew what this building was because it was the back side of it. i knew instantly from the pic what this was. Cool!
Rob, the west side of that mechanic shop is all a fenced in yard. i'm sure back in the day when service was key, that whole west wall was more then likely service bays and could be accessed either by Erie or the alley that runs behind it....can't think of what the wall looks like right now but i know exactly where you speak of.
hell that 100ft long E-W alley was probly one of these "place" streets
I have found all your infos/story to be really fascinating, keep it up!!!