Happy Wednesday everyone, and also the last post of April. Today’s shot is looking west [urrrr… thanks for pointing that error out Tom] East along Tecumseh Road from the intersection of Pelissier (Victoria Ave is the boulevard in the extreme foreground). This shot from September 1929, shows the recently built Kennedy CI on the grounds of the old Windsor Jockey Club. The old horse track is still visible, and Jackson Park has yet to be created. At the spot where the Jackson Park Gates are today, you can see the streetcar turn-around loop.
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That row of trees appears to border a street--possibly Ouelette? I am puzzled, as my understanding was Ouellette used to end in a turn a round just south of Tecumseh. Before my time. Can anyone out there clarify this for me?
No Dave.I guessed that the smaller track behind Kennedy was to be the eventual Windsor Stadium. I was reffering to the very small portion of a dark roof at the far right end of the photograph which looks as if it would be directly across from the stadium. Did the grandstand face east ?
You're right "Ex-Pat", it did end in a turn-around south of Tecumseh. The Boer War monument (now in the sunken gardens) was moved from the old post office downtown and placed on the turn-around facing towards Tecumseh. It was moved to the gardens to make way for the Ouelette overpass. If you walked past the monument, you'd see the bandstand as you walked along the treed path shown in the pic.
what year did they finally extend Ouellette Ave south to the way it is now??
I took the bus home from St. Mary's Aca at that corner for many many years in the 30s and 40s. Nice to see it again as it was.
I don't remember the turn around. The bus turned the corner at Ouellete and Tecumseh and went on its way.
Gary, they began the footings over the railroad tracks and through Woodall's little pitch and putt course not long after the grandstand burned down, which was around '57 or '58?
Here is a good view of the intersection in 1915 looking North in 1915... courtesy of the Windsor Star.
http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2011/03/15/rail-lines-on-ouellette/
Gary, it was done by 1962... http://internationalmetropolis.com/2013/04/10/jackson-park-overpass-1962/
WED sorry, I see where you are referring to now. I would believe those would be the ones because they were still standing at this time.
WED, my guess is that it is likely the grandstand facing east... the afternoon sun would not be shining in the eyes of the spectators. Every racetrack I have seen has this orientation... but there may be exceptions.