Today’s post features a view looking east along Sandwich Street (today’s Riverside Drive) from the intersection with what is today Viale Udine (just east of Ouellette).
The streetcar to Amherstburg is visible in the foreground. Amazing how in less than a century we’ve managed to go from progressive regional transit to what we have today.
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in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
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Is the building in the near right the old Windsor Opera House? And what is the building in the near left?
JBM - Yes it's the old Opera House. The building on the left I show on the 1937 Fire Maps as a CN Freight Office.
I believe the building on the left also housed the American Embassy at one time. The Stars & Stripes hung from that flagpole protruding from the building.
i remember when i was akid the canadian pacific ran BUD cars usually 2 per train i don't know where they started their run eastward from maybe the yard on Crawford Ave
yesterday i saw on the detroit news channel the people mover is raising there fare's from 25to 50 cents the first increase since the people mover was put in 20 years ago it's funny hizzoner is trying to sell windsor as a retirement community but then the bus company raises the fare's to $2.50 right across the board so no thought to the seniors on limited incomes`
What is the Detroit news channel? On WXYZ Detroit they said that the fare for the people mover was going up to seventy five cents (75),a twenty five cent increase, the first ever price rise. They also said that even with the new price it will probably close after the auto show in Jan.2012. Since it open in the eightis way over budget, lack of riders limited coverage, it never brokeeven.
Riverside Dr. was named Sandwich St. up until 1934 when the city took in Sandwich town, Ford City and Walkerville as part of greater Windsor.