Up today is another old press photo, this one newer and the first one in colour. This shot taken Jan. 3, 1987 is looking north towards Detroit.
A nice view of the old Epps Facade…
The Bank at Ouellette and University was still open, and sporting the Bank of Commerce Sign.
On the side of the Security Building, check out the old 3 story neon CBC Radio sign (the studios used to be in the Security Building).
Have a safe weekend everyone, see you back here Monday.
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Are those cars parked on Ouellette Ave? Too bad we don’thave that back.
Epp’s! I really do miss that store. The army surplus was great and it is much better than the strip joint there now.
It is weird to think that our downtown was more diverse then than it is today. But the DWBIA is working towards a better balance. Let’s support them!
There was even retail on Chatham St. Looks like Jack Adelman’s Bootery two doors west of EPPS and Sadie Sadd’s lingerie store was between EPPS and the Bootery. Maolone’s Flowers east of EPPS. Maybe even Kresge was still on the corner with the back door leading to Chatham St.
Nice to see the Epps sign after so long. The roatating CBC sign was a regular sight during childhood (my father often parked near the Security while picking up his Sunday New York Times downtown).
Sorry, what was EPPS?
It looks like the sign says “CBE Radio”
Yes, Mike, I think that was the studios for AM540, the French language service of CBC Radio.
I think you will find that CBC radio, french and english operated there until CBC and Baton Brodcasting took over control of channel nine. They jointly operated out of Riverside Drive studios, until CBC took control.
CKLW moved to Ouellette Av. near Tecumseh Rd.
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CBC Radio opened an owned and operated (not just an affiliate) station named CBE in Windsor in 1950. It was run from the Security Building until it and CBEF Radio (Societe Radio-Canada – French), which began its own operations there in 1970, were moved to what is now CBC Place at Riverside Dr. and Crawford Ave. I recognize the office windows which were so familiar to me for 26 years! Epps was our “corner store” for all kinds of delightful and quirky items. Incidentally: there was no parking available. All of us at CBE (now CBC Radio One) had to bounce up and down and feed our parking meters unless we were on the night shift!
The implication was not the radio stations where jointly owned but the tv licence,they took control from RKO General. You could say that was the end of local programing at ch. 9.
I remember the CBC towers out on #3 back in the fifties,I do not know anybody that ever listiened to it.
CKLW was the local CBC affiliate until CBCwent on air,thats when Hockey Night in Canada was Foster Hewet, and Murray Westlake Imperial oil man and the hot stove league.
Notice there’s no Comerica tower in Detroit either.
Good point SBW–no Comerica Tower and no 150 West Jefferson either. Comerica at the time had it’s headquarters in 211 West Fort Street (built for the bank when it was still called Detroit Bank & Trust) while it’s eventual merger partner, Manufacturers National Bank was headquartered at the Renaissance Center. From the “Did You Know?” file – Manufacturers’ executive suite and boardrooms were mothballed after the Comerica merger–and remained intact when GM moved it’s headquarters to the building…GM did little to alter the design and decor of the executive offices, and now has it’s own executive offices and boardroom in the space, designed for the bank in the 1970s.
loyal fan EPPs was a surplus/sporting goods store
we would have parking on ouellette ave if the morons at city hall wouldn’t have decided on the way it is today the DWBIA will never get the core back to the way it was they would have to redesign the entire street just to have parking down each side of ouellette thats what happens when you have people running things that think! they know what their doing
It probably wodont matter if you had free parking on Ouelltte, thiers no place to shop, every body goes elswhere.
I currently reside in the GTA but spent 25 years of my life in Windsor. My parents still live there so I visit the old city fairly frequently. Grew up in Forest Glade (moved there from Essex in 1975) but got married in 1999 and lived my last year in the Dougall and Erie area before moving to the Big Smoke in 2000.
I came across this website while reading “From the Archives” on the Windsor Star Online. So far I’ve spent several hours here just going through old photos and reading stories about the many places I remember growing up in Windsor.
Anyhow, this pic brings back memories. I took a tour of the CBEF studios in the Security Building back in elementary school. I also remember Epps’ Surplus. Bought my first pair of Doc Martens there. I also got a chuckle out of the tagline “We Speak American”.
Back in 76 there was a magazine called Windsor this Month…I was on the March cover. Does anyone remember or know where I could get a copy of the magazine..Are they still in Business?
Thank you
C Morrone Baker