Happy Friday everyone, and Happy Long Weekend! This was the post that was planned for last Friday, but got cancelled due to unplanned downtime. So we’ll try again today.
Today’s old photo is dated, September 12, 1945, the caption on the back reads:
Looks like it was a happening place. I’m not sure if the street was usually this busy, or if it was due to the strike. Note the police or fire call box on the corner, just to the right of the stop sign. Here’s a question for any experts out there, when did stop signs change to the standard white letters on a red background?
The first striker hold a sign that demands – 2 weeks vacation “with pay”. Amazing the things we take for granted today, that were hard fought for, not that long ago.
Here’s a view of the intersection of Whelpton & Drouillard today. Both buildings are still standing although they, along with the view, looks much different.
Have a fun, safe long weekend. See you back here Monday.
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The blue sided building on the right just past that cube van parked on the road, was that there back in the day also ? I think I can see just the edge of the west wall in pictures 1 & 2. I remember this as Spencer Dry Cleaners when I was younger, not sure when or why the owner closed up shop though.
When Ford closed the Whelpton St. gate, it was the end for several Drouillard bars: The Palace,The Temple/Great Western(complete with mechanical bull AND you could cash your paycheck there!)/Mongos and Yesterdays. Before that, Ford restricted Drouillard access at Richmond/Deming which really hurt the East Windsor/Lannys and the Detroit House.
Along with these legit establishments were many other 'offhour' watering holes to wet a workingmans whistle....ie. Donnys,Lizards,Ritas...
I think there was also a restaurant/bar right outside the plant gate on Whelpton called Florida's too. It was a pretty popular watering hole also (especially at break time).
2 weeks paid vacation and other "benefits" are the reason so many employers only hire part timers.
Don't you "socialists" understand that if *YOU* owned a business you could not afford to pay someone to sit on their asses for 2 WEEKS per year especially now that we trade with slave labor countries like CHINA now?
It is amazing how deep the communist infiltration has gone.
http://www.henrymakow.com/000843.html
Wish i could sit on my ass behind a keyboard for a living instead of getting up in the middle of the night to help someone else get rich. But thanks to our infiltrated union i now get paid to stay at home.....former GM trim/transmission employee. Have a nice day.
Ken,
Like I said, if ***YOU*** owned a business, and I guess that is a big ** IF **, you would see how the real world works!
It is not the worker against the employer, it is the worker and employer against the globalists who want to create a world government, but unfortunately you have been BRAINWASHED with unionist/communist propaganda that you have to "eat the rich" when it is the rich who are your real friends.
http://www.henrymakow.com/000843.html
Ken who do you think is paying for you to stay at home retired from your job?
Your CHILDREN and their children will be paying with their labor.
"Retirement" is something new and it is only on the backs of our children that we can do this, but it seems you do not have a basic grasp of economics.
Some social justice that is eh?
Never mind the political argument; I just really enjoy seeing the old photos and the current one together. That corner looks so tranquil now; it's really evocative and interesting to see that it has had such a long and lively history, not only with workingmen and bars but with labour excitement too. And I'll bet the food at the Madison Grill was better than the fast-food chain joints we have nowadays.
Love the then and now pictures. I grew up in Riverside but left Windsor in 1972, but I still enjoy the site. Thanks for an always-interesting look back, and keep up the good work.
Brian
Abu Dhabi
Dear "Socialist" jerk
Get a memory and remember how great the 20th Century was based on that "economic model" of workers' rights. You're foolishly attempting to deny DECADES' worth of evidence that the exact opposite of what you claim is true. Get and education and shut up already. Or go bow before some fat cat and do their clownish bidding. Dance, patsy, dance. And then after you're done that, leave your idiotic, simpleton pontificating to the Windsor Star comments section where you and your other knuckledraggers can play PretendLand to your hearts' content.
"Wish i could sit on my ass behind a keyboard for a living instead of getting up in the middle of the night to help someone else get rich. But thanks to our infiltrated union i now get paid to stay at home…..former GM trim/transmission employee. Have a nice day."
Ken,
Are....are you refering to Andrew in this post? This isn't his job, this is something he shares with us on his own time. Who the hell are you talking to? What do you mean "getting up in the middle of the night"? What..to go to work? Having a job...unless you OWN the buisness, is, in fact, helping someone that is not you, get rich.
Maybe I'm way off. If so I appologize, but if your criticizing Andrew for some reason, I don't get it.