Parent Place

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• Windsor Bedding moved from this location to a small operation on Tecumseh Road East which still stands today. It was active until well into the 1980s.

• what are the parallel streets?

• Rich - Parent is the closest street, while Langlois would be the one beyond it.

• Rich, for reference the taller brick building on the right is Champs at Wyandotte and Parent.

• I wish they were still around. This city could use a little "Assured Prosperity" right about now...

• At least we still have Monarch Mattress. :)

• This "street" has a least 1 piece of notoriety attached to it. A murder occured in 1991(or 92)near the brown area(east side of street) at the right center of the map. I was lucky enough to be on the jury.

• Also many late night wanders down Parent Place in the middle 90s to get to Changez, the bar on Wyndotte...

• What does this "notoriety" mean? What kind of murder was this? Man or woman? Hooker or drug dealer? Was this person beaten, stabbed or shot to death? Was this a failed mugging attempt gone bad? Was this from a fight that started at Changez? Did the killer know the victim for a long time or was this random? People walk down streets late at night all the time. Are you saying this is the worst area in Windsor to walk down late at night now? Murders happen all over the city. Good and bad areas. More facts PLEASE!

• OK David, here's the facts in a nutshell: This was the outcome of a dispute over car bodyworking tools between 2 men who knew each other--(insert your favorite 'life sure is cheap' thought here).
  The killer parked his car in the brown area on the map,placed a loaded twin barrelled shotgun under the car(within handy reach) and sat on the trunk of the car waiting for the victim to emerge from a nearby garage.

  The victim emerged,verbal(NOT physical) exchange ensued, killer pulled out loaded shotgun, victim yelled "Whattya gonna do? Shoot me??" ....KABLAAM with both barrels. The shot entered the victim in the armpit area(he'd raised his arm as an instinctive protection move) and the blast obliterated his aorta, coroner/pathologist says he was dead in seconds.

  At the trial, the accused admitted to the shooting, offered no real defense and the Crown had a number of witnesses testify to the fact that the victim, while no choirboy, was never known to use physical violence or to have ever owned/used a weapon. The victim was also much smaller in stature than the killer,so no physical threat.
  The killer got 12 yrs. without chance of parole(so he's probably out now)
  The whole process was fascinating study in human nature....

  that's the short version...