Well we’ve made it through another year…
Seems like a large number of demolitions this year… Parkway demolition continued in full force, so there are probably some demolitions I missed, if so as always, add ’em in the comments.
Here’s what I came up with, in no particular order at all….
This old manor at the corner of Aylmer and Riverside.
Fred’s Farm Fresh on Huron Church (currently rebuilding at a new site)
The Deluxe Apartments at Monmouth and Ontario in Walkerville
The Ernest Wilby House on Ouellette Avenue
The Riverside Arena on Wyandotte St. E.
The Ada C. Richards School on Ontario near Pilette Road
The Whiski Jack Tavern on Drouillard Road
This old house/car rental office on Tecumseh Rd E.
This old commercial building on Glengarry and University.
This house on Glengarry
This house, right next door on Glengarry
This commercial block on Ouellette Avenue, just south of Park Street
Last but not least… The old Public Health Lab on Huron Church
All the places above bit the dust in 2011.
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Have a safe and Happy New Year everyone!
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Woo you're right Donald! That eyesore Riverside Arena & Wilby House just needed to go! Good riddance to those 'shitholes'!
The city needs to start atleast building things, or attracting business if they're tearing all this stuff down.
The biggest problem is most of the stuff that gets torn down isn't even being replaced by anything.
I kept meaning to write about a house that was demolished on Goyeau, across the street from the hospital entrance and next to the little pharmacy. It might have been 1061, if Google is to be believed. Happened in the last two months, I believe.
My family home was one of those demolished recently on Hwy 3. My parents built that home themselves, and my grandparents next door built theirs. You can't stop progress, but I have wonderful memories of that neighbourhood that will stay with me forever. When we first lived there it was pretty quiet, but with bigger and more powerful trucks using that route to the bridge you couldn't hear yourself think sometimes!
Hope the New Bridge construction starts soon.
If you guys think all the demolition in Windsor is bad, take a trip to Chatham's downtown. A developer keeps buying up property and knocking down century old buildings for a condo project that hasn't seen a shovel in the ground for 2 years now. A whole block on 4th street is slated for demolition including a restaurant which has been in business since 1912. It's absolutely disgusting what is going on. The Chatham downtown BIA sells the downtown as historic downtown Chatham. Well it won't be historic for much longer with the amount of historically significant buildings being torn down for a condo project which may or may not happen.
We built our home on #3 Highway in 1948 and I remember there was only 2 or 3 cars a day that went by. I have been away from Windsor for 25 years and never been back, Love it here in Gravenhurst.