From the collection of the Windsor Municipal Archives
Today’s photo comes from the collection of the Windsor Municipal Archives. It shows the corner of Windsor & Chatham (looking east along Chatham) in the what I’m guessing to be the late 1940’s. Along Chatham, you can see Mossmans Fruit Market on the corner, with the Chatham Meat Market to the rear, and Hy’s Fish Market beyond that.
From the 1937 Fire Map, here’s a view of the block above.
It’s a shame that Windsor’s lost it’s urban density in the core.
The area today is under the new Caesar’s Coliseum.
Great Picture Andrew !!!! Can you find more of them?? wow i used to go there every sunday….unreal!!! So sad to see it gone !! wow thanks for posting that!!!!! you made my day!!
I remember shopping at the city market with my parents in the late forties and fifties. We’d finish up with canned goods and such at “Consumers” which was kind of a “big box” or warehouse store of its day and was somewhere right near the market, like across a street.
In the seventies, I began shopping the market again, buying other-than-fresh stuff at Steinberg’s/Miracle Mart between Goyeau and Windsor, Chatham and Pitt. Did that for many years, very early Saturday mornings, sometimes with my girlfriend. I always went to Hy’s Fish Market (in the alley side of the market by then and she was remembering the other day seeing for the first time whole fish (with heads) sold there and nearly getting sick.
Hopefully the urban village does get built and we can have some of that density back. It would be great to actually get to purchase goods downtown, take a stroll with kids and visit a children’s destination.
Let the diversifying begin.
we did not lose downtown urban density, we gave it away..to interests that had nothing to do with people, only profits….
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Another outstanding find Andrew. I remember going there with my dad in the mid and late fifties for grocery shopping. It was a maze of narrow laneways and shops, crowded, teeming with exotic smells and sounds and pulsing with life. The razing of this block in the early sixties to make way for the new Steinbergs was an act of unforgivable vandalism.
Is there any chance any of you remember a restaurant called Florida Lunch? My Grandfather owned and operated it until about 1950 when in its location was the Nassr Fruit Co. His name was Alex Brumaroff.
I am trying to track down any photo’s where you may be able to see it.
ME don’t hold your breath hoping for the urban village at the rate this city gets projects going you might be old and gray before that happens