Wyandotte Street – Walkerville – July 2001

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• Does anyone have a photo of what used to be across the street? I can't imagine it was always a dirt lot!

• Windsorshane - I don't have a photo but that lot used to be a block of buildings that burned down in the summer of 2003. Way back in the ancient 1980s, there was an arcade in one of the stores my friends and I went to once. We stopped going because it was pretty rough inside. I remember how odd the old hood looked without it, but now I'm just used to it.

  This picture reminds me of the Walkerville I grew up in, back when it was a working class neighbourhood. The changes in the past ten years have been interesting to see.

• The building that burned down across the street was the one that happened during the blackout of '03. Someone left a pot on the stove and left the burner turned on, so when the power came back on it caught on fire.

  I was working as a security guard for Group 4 Falck, back then and their offices are just a couple of blocks east. We used to take our cars to the garage that still stands across the street and I remember hearing about the apartment fire, and where it was and I was thinking the garage burned down, too. I was in the patrol division and they always worked on our cars, and they were always in bad shape. Maybe that wasn't all the garage's fault, though. Maybe it was our managers that wouldn't pay for anything.

  Anyway, that building was a casualty of the Backout of 2003.