Another Friday, and another old photo… This one like the one form the other week was shot on July 12, 1930.
Today’s shot is looking west from the air, and shows, just how slow the westside of Windsor was to grow. This area of town, was full of property speculators, who expected to become rich once the bridge was opened, sadly, no one saw the great depression coming… At least the land was put into service after WWII when the returning vets needed places to live.
The photograph has really captured a moment in time. This shot shows the Ambassador Bridge plaza, with the current University of Windsor Campus. At the top of the photo, under the “ropolis” in the watermark is J.L. Forster
The recently demolished Prince of Wales school on Wyandotte St. West.
This shot shows Wilson Park. Adie Knox arena is now located on the front half of the property on Wyandotte Street West.
A country road? Nope, you’re looking at the intersection of Tecumseh Road West and Huron Church. What a difference 80 years makes…
Hard to zoom in on, but this is the Ojibway/Brighton Beach area.
Have a good weekend everyone, enjoy Red Bull, and see you back here Monday.
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Great picture Andrew.
In the University of Windsor portion I see old Assumption College partly obscured by trees , is the building in front of it Dillon Hall or the old St Denis Hall/gym? It looks more like Dillon Hall but the original St Denis Hall was built in 1915 (I’m not sure when Dillon was built).
I think that is Dillon Hall. It is fronting on Patricia, which no longer goes through the university, but that’s just about right.
Is that Forster High School west of the bridge in the second picture?
i love when you zoom in on this stuff we’d never be able to pick out otherwise.
in the adie knox photo we can also see the Canadian Bread place posted a little bit ago.
in ojibway looks like the only things out there are the tin mill (gone) and the canada steel feild fence building which still exists as a blue building off sandwich.i think i see the blast furnaces too..oh and good ol’ Bronsons!
did you know there’s a guy just south of the ec row on Matchette who has the big yellow Bronson’s sign on his garage?! he also has an ex-ETR caboose (#55) in his driveway painted back to it’s original Pensey colours. i’d love to dig thru his garage lol.
also…i can only see one for sure in these, but you ever notice in old aerials, that back then kids made a baseball diamond in just about any open feild no matter how small or what it was next too?! lol
no red bull for me, i’ll be at work. but i can’t wait to hear about people shunning it blah blah waste of gas blah blah blah air quality 😉
VP – right under the “ropolis” top left.