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Downtown Windsor – 1987

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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Andrew

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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).

  • 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.

    w

  • 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.

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