An old postcard, this one was postmarked in 1988, but I’m fairly sure it’s much older than that.
Anyone have any memories of this place?
From the back of the card:
NEW FRONTIER MOTEL
Featuring 121 Modern Air-Conditioned Units. T.V., Radio, Telephones, Wall to Wall Broadloom in every room. Furnished in Early American Style. Dining Room and Coffee Shop, Swimming Pool. Banquet Rooms. COnvention Facilities.869 Mill St. at Huron Line.
Located on No. 3 Highway, at foot of Ambassador Bridge
Tel. 254-3771
WINDSOR, Ontario, Canada
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That has to be the one they converted to a University residence! I wouldn't have remembered the name and I'm pretty sure it was called something else in one incarnation. Not even sure if the residence is still there as I haven't been by that way lately. It bordered on the MacDonald's parking lot as I recall.
Clare - you beat me to it! I'm sure you're right.
The residence is gone. I can't remember when it stopped being a motel but I would guess the mid 1970's ???
BTW, Andrew - I saw this card recently on Ebay - did you just buy it?
The Ambassador Bridge acquired the former-motel university residence and the neighboring apartment-building like studednt residence behind it on Mill Street and tore them down several years ago. Maybe as long as five years ago. The vacant lot is used as a dump site for construction rubble from roadwork on the bridge. The property lies in the path of the proposed twin bridge. The Essex Terminal Railway track runs beside the lot and then there is the McDonald's outlet -- once the highest selling McDonalds in Canada.
Pretty sure that my dad told me the place became a residence sometime when he was a student at Windsor, which was about 67-73. It was torn down about 2002 if I recall correctly, but it had stopped functioning as a residence sometime before. I was at the university 95-98 and I think it was empty by the time of my grad. The residence that is across the parking lot is gone too, it was Tecumseh Hall I think and I actually went to daycare there about 30 years ago.
Jane - I did just buy it, but not from eBay. I picked it up at the WINPEX show in Windsor a few weeks ago...
Another example of the bridge company expanding.... which could lead to a rant but I will hold on comments. The former site of this motel/residence is a mess.
That looks very old!
The rumours at the U (I was there 93-99) that the old motel-residence was eventually condemned. I don't know if was part of the general apocryphal stories about the University's sad state from students, or some truth.
The apartment building residence was Tecumseh Hall and the old motel was Huron Hall.