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Ouellette Avenue – Early 1950’s

Car experts, I need your help again on this postcard. Maybe you can help me come up with a date, by ID’ing some of those old cars, parked curbside.

    OUELLETTE AVE., WINDSOR, CANADA
    Looking north on one of Windsor’s main throughfares,
    with Detroit skyline in centre background.

    Photo by Bob McDonald


A great shot of the Palace Marquee, something starring Marylin Monroe is playing… Look at the crowd of people out on the sidewalks…

A view up the west side of Ouellette, many storefronts with Neon signs out front.

These old post cards of Ouellette at the height of its dominance as a retail centre are sad too see. Decades of poor planing and lousy zoning have brought us to the point where we are today. Heck even the Freedom Festival is packin’ up and heading out to the edge of town. Construction or not… That’s lousy.

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Andrew

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  • me neither, got a mish-mash of 40's and 50's in there. I think Scott is right.
    in the 2nd picture, the vehicle coming towards the camera looks like it could be a 1950 GMC pick up. i can't help ya anymore than that. John will probly be able to get this for you i'm sure.

    a great, and yes sad, shot of windsor's past.

    nice post Andrew, thanks!

  • With Marylin Monroe getting star billing you would have to see when she made it big and go from there.That might help a little on narrowing it down close to a date.I'm not a movie buff but I'm thinking maybe 55 56

  • I see a slight bit of white on the flag over the Martin Building - It's really hard to see, If it is a new flag, that came into use in 1965. Can anyone else see it?

  • I agree with M.O.M. I think late 1940s.

    Wow! Look at the traffic, crowds, on street parking ;) and all of the awnings. It sure would be nice today....

  • I'm with Scotty on the date. I see at least one ca. 1952 vehicle parked. Bernie could certainly give a date aperture as well based on that Twin Coach bus.

  • I would also say around 1952/53, I have a post card that must have been taken around the same time but at a different location south of the Prince Edward Hotel looking north on Ouellette Ave. In fact that Twin Coach bus is about the same location in it and the newest cars are 1951 Ford's. I also have one taken in 1958, will get them scanned for you Andrew.

  • I think that flag must be something else - not the Maple Leaf. The official Canadian flag would be flying on top of the building and the flag you can see here flying from the roof, is definitely not the red and white. If the picture was from 1965 there would be at least some late 1950's to mid '60's cars - tail fins and all. There are none in the photo. I'd say 1953, at the very latest.

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