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East Windsor Postcards

April 11, 2011
These cards come to us today from regular reader Vic. These are some great cards, they are new to me as I hadn’t seen either of them before. This postcard shows the s.e. corner of Ontario & Lawrence Road in what was then Ford. Built in 1922, this house was designated by the City in 2000. View Larger Map Here’s the house today. A good write up on the house ran in the Walkerville…
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They'll Roll No More - 1970

April 8, 2011
This one ran in the Free Press, September 30, 1970, and was taken inside the old Michigan/New York/Penn Central Railroad Station that was located near Crawford & Tecumseh. The caption that ran with this photo in the newspaper read as follows: Back in 1929 the trains…
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Rail Slide Show

April 7, 2011
Attention Readers, I have been asked to extend this invitation to all of you by regular reader Tim S. Directions to Action Hobbies can be found on their website -> HERE. It should be an interesting…
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Norton Palmer Hotel

April 6, 2011
Continuing with the postcard theme, here is an undated postcard, probably from the mid 1940’s, showing the Norton Palmer Hotel, which was located at Park and Pelissier. It was built in 1927, and expanded in 1929. Designed by architects Hutton & Souter of Hamilton, who also designed Windsor Assembly, along with the old GM Office Building at Walker and Seminole. It came down in 1975, just…
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Prince Edward Hotel - 1954

April 4, 2011
Happy April everyone! I’m going to declare April postcard month, and we’re even going to venture out into the county this month. I will be the first to admit that I am a pretty urban dude, and I know very little about Essex County in general. So all my readers…
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London Street Car Barns

April 1, 2011
Happy April Fool’s Day! To celebrate we’ll carry on the railroad photos for one last Friday (but don’t get too excited, this is the last one in the set I came across). While we’ve seen many photos on this site over the years of the old Car Barns, this…