The photo is dated April 22, 1948 the caption reads:
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Entrance to second floor offices of Labor Progressive Party which 500 youths wrecked after breaking up speech by Tim Buck.
Tim Buck, was the leader of the Labour Progressive Party, the LPP was the name that the Communist Party of Canada went by in the 1940’s & 1950’s. A quick google search didn’t reveal anything specific about the Windsor incident, however I suspect that mini-riots like this were common when Tim Buck came to many towns.
The photo however does reveal a nice view of the storefronts on the Equity Chambers building. (Old posts on the building can be found here & here)
This side belonged to Ford’s Furs clothing shop.
This half to Remington Typewriters, look at those great old fixtures!
Both sides were for a long time home to Ye Olde Steakhouse, and today are home to the Pour House.
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Man thanks for see this… I worked at Ye Olde Steakhouse back in 99/2000, and I always wondered what it looked like before I worked there… Thanks for sharing this…
Great picture of the old building. The first thing that caught my eye in the second pic were those sweet looking fixtures.
I and thousands of other young people took piano lessons from Miss Irene Prince (later Mrs. Howard Hugill) on the second floor of the Equity Chambers for many years in the 1950s. I always wondered how the other tenants in the building endured the constant and often discordant piano playing (especially mine!) all day long and sometimes late into the night. Look up at the southeast peak of the outer top floor of the building and you’ll see a corner of brickwork that looks relatively “new”. That’s repair from when lightning struck the building one afternoon in the early 50s. Regardless….Miss Prince gathered herself together and carried on teaching, despite pieces of brick lying in the alleyway below. No one was hurt. Maybe someone was trying to tell me something! Those were wonderful, formative years. Wish I’d practiced more diligently. Bless you, Irene Prince-Hugill!