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More Ward Boundary

April 20, 2009
Seeing as I’m too lazy to type up my own post, I’ll just copy Chris’ post from Scaledown this morning, about today’s Scaledown Radio Show… Listen in at CJAM 91.5 FM from Noon to 1:00 or if you’re outside of the listening area, listen to the live stream online at cjam.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, we will be interviewing Dr. Robert…
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Suburbs Hate Heritage Too!

April 20, 2009
Glad to see it’s not only Windsor who rips down heritage buildings. The Town of Tecumseh, the sleepy bedroom community to the east, proved that they could make short sighted decisions too. The historic Lakewood Golf Course Club House bit the dust late last…
Windsor

759 Mill Street

April 17, 2009
So I took a drive through the Indian Road ghetto the other day. What a mess the city has created over there… But that’s another set of posts…. Indian Road is now almost all boarded up along the east side of the road, from University to Mill…. When I…
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Ward Boundary Review

April 16, 2009
Tonight the City of Windsor is holding two Ward Boundary Review public consultations. I cannot stress how important these meetings are to attend. The City is looking at how the Wards are split and how many councilors represent you at the municipal level. The last change to the system was in 1978, and if the track record holds, this will affect you until 2040. Make sure you attend one of the…
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Windsor

More Parking Lots

April 16, 2009
This past weekend a fire broke out near Caesar’s on Glengarry Avenue. Windsor Visuals was on the scene, and he got some amazing shots of the fire in progress… So click here to check out Owen’s shots. From the Star: Arson cause of blaze in abandoned home BY…
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190 Park Place - Then and Now

April 15, 2009
Back in March, I had a post on Park Place near the University. The house at 190 Park Place, was, as you may remember, featured in the Border Cities Star in 1924. It was the home of Joseph Loikrec, who owned a dry goods store at Wyandotte and Mercer (located today under…
Windsor

Ferguson Glass

April 14, 2009
A slew of buildings along Howard Avenue are looking forward to a future as a temporary roadway around the Howard Avenue grade separation. Among them, is the Ferguson Glass Building. It’s an older cinder block warehouse with an interesting 1970’s office slapped on the front. It’s an interesting, and architecturally different building, with all kinds of interesting angles on…
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L.A. Young Industries

April 9, 2009
Yesterday WRG commented on the Chrysler photo with the following: I looked quickly at Chrysler Canada’s history (again at the allpar) site, and in ’64 Chrysler acquired L. A. Young Spring & Wire Limited and the Walker Metal Products foundry both in…