From the Library of Congress site, comes this view of the Walker’s Distillery office. The pergola in the foreground was demolished in the early 1920’s when the offices on the west half of the property were built. Interesting to note the cobblestone street, and streetcar tracks in front along Riverside Drive.
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Unfortunately the new watermark is due to a ton of image theft going on from this site, with images being re-posted without any links or credit. I have always been proud of this site having an unobtrusive watermark.
Last year a reader named Bob forwarded some very cool images he shot of Windsor in the 1970's. Pictures of downtown Windsor, the salt mines and St. Mary's Academy. Unfortunately those images were taken from this site and reposted on Facebook on a page called "500 Ways to know you're from Windsor". A vast majority of this site has been reposted on there.
Bob asked the person who posted it to remove it as he only gave permission for it to be posted on InternationalMetropolis.com. The people on the facebook site doing the reporsting, told him basically to get stuffed, and that it was none of his concern. He informed them he was the original photographer, so they cropped out the internationalmetropolis.com watermark and reposted the image again, mocking him.
As a result, he requested that his images be removed from this site, and I immediately complied. Now sadly there are some holes in this site.
Prior to this facebook group appearing there has never really been any problems that I know of, but the blatant disregard really turned me off.
Not to be a whiner, but I have put close to a decade in this site (and its predecessor) along with thousands of hours of my time, as well as thousands of dollars into acquiring and archiving the material on this site. So for someone to just rip it off and post it elsewhere and not give credit is a bit disheartening. While I do enjoy it, it's really given me pause to consider why I continue to keep the site running. It's a lot of work, with very little return.
wow thats a great old photo of the peabody bridge with the tracks going up and over boy it must have been grand to live back in those days with everything windsor had back then andrew it's unfortunate that these things have happened but i think were very fortunate to have such a great nostalgic site to see how Windsor was in the good old days i for one applaud your efforts good show old man!
I understand Andrew...I was just goofin'. I have seen your pictures in other places as well though. I would ask them to take them down and gave them your IM e-mail as well. I wish I could remember where though.
Hope you keep it up Andrew...we need this stuff.
I've been visiting this website since its embryonic days as "Old Detroit dot com" (going back a bit more than ten years!) and agree with Andrew's position 100%. What was going on at "500 Ways..." is something I was concerned about and could see things getting out of hand. Very sorry to hear how it was handled and the consequences which arose. There was also an incident a couple years ago where a local history website popped up and its ENTIRE photo gallery was unceremoniously lifted from International Metropolis. No please, no thank you. This sort of thing goes on a lot and is not respectful or courteous to the people who contribute their money, time, and items from their personal collections.
Andrew, please keep up the great work. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday wouldn't be the same without these postings!
Thanks guys. I need to find a happy balance, where the watermark can't be cropped out, but is less obtrusive.
Check out tomorrow's image, and let me know if it's any better....
This is a way to make the water mark appear only if the picture is copied from the site. Unfortunately I don't know how.
Your work is appreciated, Andrew!
does it really matter about the water mark??
I don't find the new watermark to be bothersome. The end of IM, on the other hand, would be devastating. Thanks for the crazy amount of time and money you put into this.
To clear up some things about the first street car in Canada was in fact here between Windsor and Walkerville along Sandwich St.(today Riverside Dr.), the trial run was May 24, 1886 with the official opening June 6, 1886. It was not that reliable and horses where used to pull the cars when they had problems.
The street car line that ran along Sandwich St. and over the Peabody bridge was the line to Ford City and on to Tecumseh. This line ran Sandwich St. to Strabane then east on Ottawa St. (today called Wyandotte St.) it ran on the north side of the road, later the tracks where moved to the center when the blvd. where installed, at Edward St. the tracks went to the left on an private ROW (today part is a pathway and part called Clairview)all away to Riverdale where it crossed Little River. At this point the tracks ran on the south side of the canal that was between Riverside Dr. and the tracks, then the tracks turned south at Lesperance Rd. on the west side of the ditch up to the CNR tracks where the cars looped around the station for the return ran to Windsor.
The tracks on Devonshire never came threw to Sandwich St., they only came as far as the PM train station on Devonshire from Wyandotte St.