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.
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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Hey Me your right it would be nice to see those kinds of crowds on ouellette but we will never see that! downtown in the photo again another thing i noticed look at how wide the street was back then now! think abouthow narrow it is now and less parking too the downtown BIA and city council are fools if they think they can get the downtown we had back then
Hi gary. That is what people in Times Square (NY) thought as well and look at it now. I would say they would be fools for not continually trying.
That is not so say that the downtown of the future will be similar to downtown of the past. I am just hoping for the return of the crowds once again. No reason why it couldn't :)
Crowds of people aside... the downtown of the future will never be like the downtown of the past.... will it?
Too bad Windsor doesn't have the kind of political leadership we had back in the 50's and 60's. It's time to for King Eddie and the village idiots on council to pack it in.
May be the down fall of shopping in Windsor dates back to the good old days. Restictive shopping hours, Wed. afternoon closure of grocery stores, only Friday night open till nine pm.
this was the good old days of retail, that spurred Dorwin, and Gateway plaza, Yorktown was there also.
Do not blame the present mayor and council for the death of downtown, the grave was dug before they came. Remember Mile Hurst, my way or no way, and the ones before him.
Lots of mistakes in the past, that not a new phenomonon in Windsor.
Okay folks this is the answer to when was this picture taken.
It was in July of 1953.
How I arrived at this conclusion.
The newest autos in the postcard are a couple of GM products looking like 1951 or 1952,therefore the picture could not have been taken before 1951.
The marque with Marlyn Monroe's name would mean that the movie she started in would have to be
somewhere around 1952.Marilyn's first movies where she received top billing was in 1953.Prior to that other actors were the headliners for movies that she also acted in.
Ms Monroe had two movies out in 1953 that gave her top billing, one was "Niagara" which was released in February of 1953,and seeing that this pic does not have people in cold weather clothes,I would conclude that the pic was not taken in winter.
The other movie was Gentleman Prefer Blondes(and the marque sign does look like it has a longer title than Niagara) and this move had a release date of July 18th 1953.
So my guess would be that it was sometime at the middle or end of July,1953.
sweet jeebus Geo, that's some damn fine P.I. work there!
thanks!
I have long been searching for a photograph showing the corner of Maiden Lane and Oullette Avenue, the west side. This was directly across from the pedestrian exit from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. Specifically, I am searching for a photograph of Lyttle's Bakery, a very popular place in Windsor, Ontario for shoppers, etc. for restaurant food and superior baked goods. Can you help, please?
doug Jeffrey
Doug, did you try this?
http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=641
http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=641