Another great old shot of downtown Windsor. This one dates from the early 1920’s. It shows the old Windsor Gas Company office building on Chatham Street West. Long gone of course.
Here the 1937 fire insurance map showing the layout of the block (the Gas building is marked in yellow). The Terrace houses covered here previously can be seen immediately west of the Gas building. I bet you’ll never guess what’s there today?
It’s the Easter long weekend. Good Friday and Easter Monday there will be no post. See you back here a week from now! Have a safe weekend.
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JBM, Your list of businesses and occupants appears to also include William Costello Kennedy,
a local member of parliament. He was a remarkable minister of railways and canals, known for his leadership in the amalgamation of railways into the Canadian National Railway.
http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=42355
rws, you are correct; I was wondering if anyone would notice!
rws, this is where W.C. Kennedy is laid to rest:
http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/620607
The inscriptions reads as follows:
http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/620608
This building was around still in the early 70's, because I remember going with my mother down there to pay a bill.Then it moved to across the library on Ouelette.
Wish the city was still awash in neon and signs like this. Does this city not have signage bylaws because most of what is out there is absoulutely atrocious. But then again you need tenants before you worry about signage I guess.