Riverside Drive – c. 1910

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• Further to D. hand's comment about your logo across the pictures - there might be some justification if international metropolis were the owner/originator of the material. However, since you are just "borrowing" much of the imagery, a more appropriate identifier would be to return to your old format- a discrete logo in a top or bottom corner which would not detract from the image.

• Agreed......it's really messing up my wallpaper LOL!

• Devonshire still has cobblestones underneath the asphalt. I remember it well before the city paved it around 2000 or so. Most cobblestones last longer than crappy asphalt ever will, yet.....we still cover it up. *sigh*

• yes Aaron my bad your right it's Assumption i was thinking of i was at 920 Ouellette this morning to visit a friend and on the wall near the elevators they have a couple prints one is the train station in windsor and the other is the corner of ouellette and Wyandotte street there's a street car in the painting and it put me in mind of this right away i think it said the first street cars in this area not in canada i'm assuming the street car track must have ran north/south up devonshire then continued up wyandotte can't see it going over the peabody bridge as far as the tracks running down Lesperance rd that makes sense with houses far from the road i had a girlfriend that lived on Lesperance and behind her house was a ditch /canal that ran n/s to the river just before that curve in the drive before Lesperance just past the old rendevous tavern thanks for the posting Aaron

• It did go over the Peabody bridge I have a copy of a photo showing it at the top of the Peabody bridge. I will try to find it so I can referance were it came from !!!

• mike is right gary. The streetcars did travel over the peabody bridge on the north side of it. Let's see if this works......
  [IMG]http://postmediawindsorstar.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/1256.peabody2.jpg[/IMG]

  if it didn't:

  http://postmediawindsorstar.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/1256.peabody2.jpg

• What I don't think it did was go thru the PM/C&O subway. Although a map of the system I have has "wyandotte street diversion" marked in it. But then the line just ends there.
  On the part that shows where it turns off Strabane, there is a wye....and would appear to link up to the subway.

  I don't know.

• And for cobbelstone....I remember as a kid, I grew up at the corner of Hanna and Elsmere during the 80's. There was some asphalt missing on Hanna and I remember seeing something.
  I don't know if it would be classified as cobbelstone, but it was like a concrete maybe with very large stones in it.

  VERY similar to this, but the stones wern't raised up so high....more flushed then that. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-31845247/stock-photo-cobblestone-street-pavement-texture.html

• If you go to International Metropolis, March 4 2011 there is some reference to it. Saying riders would get off sometimes till the car crossed the bridge then get back on. Also the Windsor Star Photos from the Vault, go to page 29 then back to 27 and there are 4 pic's including the one shown above + a ton of very interesting photos of Windsors past ,I like to go there on crappy days and look through their pictures.

• The watermark across your images is a bummer. It seriously diminishes my enjoyment of this site. Its your baby and you can do what you want but to me its a step in the wrong direction, further evidence of the insidious creep and corruption of advertising. My two cents.......