An interesting advertisement from December 1949. This one shows the Ottawa Street Tepperman’s store, and also has a nice picture of Nate Tepperman. This is a long time Windsor Business, and it’s good too see them still around. A list of the oldest businesses in town that are still around would be interesting….
The oldest is Windsor Truck and Storage, founded in 1880.
Tepperman’s dates back to the 1920’s (I believe)
Any others you can think of? Leave your comments below…
Crescent Lanes first opened on Ottawa Street in 1944 at 1055 Ottawa Street, opposite Lanspeary…
Above is a photo of the home of Mr & Mrs Oswald Janisse, located at…
in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
Photo from Google Streetview A long time reader sent me an email the other week…
An unremarkable end to a part of Windsor's history. The large vacant house at 841…
One for the lost Windsor files, is this house that once belonged to Joseph Reaume…
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Hi Neighbor Floor Covering @ Wyandotte & McDougall opened in 1939, according to their website.
Veteran Plumbing that used to be across the street from Hi Neighbor was around for a long time also. Not sure why they closed shop or what year it was though.
Don't forget about Hiram Walker & Sons- 1857....
Rich .. Veterans Plumbing is still open I'm pretty sure it's on Dougall kind of hard to find but they are more a specialty plumbing store doing a lot of new construction supplying. I was there a while ago and everybody was dressed alike in uniforms and they were on the snooty side ???
Moir Crane 1890.
/\ Family owned might I add.
Veteran's Plumbing is on Dougall beside the Family First funeral home. They aren't quite like they were downtown though. Hard to just go in and buy something and quite expensive. But still there!
Veteran has indeed evolved into a 'boutique' type store, and right so - the big box stores have cornered the low end market. Why bother? But more importantly you can still walk to the back counter and buy that faucet valve no one else has. And that's what you could always count on them for.
As to this list, which I believe we started on the Cunningham Steel post previously, I would add IXL Cleaners, founded in 1926, on Tecumseh E @ Moy. Same owners since 1969.
Ukrainian Restaurant (also covered here in the past) in 1931 and on its second owner in all those years.
Ouellette Pianos ca. 1940 was for a time the oldest music store in Windsor, but I see it is going out of business. You just don't see pianos or organs in living rooms with the same frequency. Love's Piano still seems to be kicking. Rennie Music has been around a long while too but not quite sure how long.
You gotta give some respect to businesses that have made it through a couple world wars, the great depression, countless recessions, and other hardships.
The Janisse family of the current Windor Chapel Funeral Home has been servicing this community for over 100 years.
According to their website, Freeds has been around for 83 years, so since 1930. Have they been in the same location the whole time?
I don't know if we can count Hiram Walker as it hasn't been locally owned in ages. I think it's currently owned by Pernod Ricard.
I'd say the Essex Terminal Railway Company (incorporated in 1902) would be a good example though.