An interesting postcard view simply labeled as Wyandotte Street. No cross street is given. Seeing as it is labeled as Windsor and not Walkerville, it must be somewhere in the core area, maybe Victoria, Dougall, Janette? No clues to the direction either. Anyone have any guesses or thoughts?
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Seems quite narrow to be Wyandotte and the houses are fairly set back. I do love how there are flowers and plants on each corner.
Hard to imagine what a pleasant place this once was. Travel Wyandotte today and try to find this. Being 1912 Windsor did not include Sandwich or Walkerville. From the look of the shadows I would say it is looking east. The houses look "turn of the century". but the trees look 20 to 30 years old. South of Wyandotte was still some farming given that there are craftsman style homes in the area.
If that's Dougall (and it could be) that would mean the house on the corner was just recently demolished.
We can only hope to match this photo up with whatever parking lot is at that intersection now...
Interesting looking street lamp, if that is what that red thing is hanging above the corner.
There's just too many houses for it to be Wyandotte I'm thinking it's a side street off Wyandotte someplace
In my humblest opinion, it is of the vacinity of Bruce Avenue and Wyandotte Street. If only there were some majestic Douglas firs in the photograph, my life would be complete.
The red tublar object above the street at left appears to be a “Pendant Arc Lamp”
A similar streetlight from around the 1910s is shown (on the right) here. http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/dating/street_lighting/mast_and_pendant_files/image003.jpg
The image is from a University of Vermont web site about the history of street lighting. The pendant arc lamp remained a trend into the 1920s and early 1930s. More details here http://www.uvm.edu/~eandre/Landscape_Change_Program/Street_Lighting/Mast_and_pendant.htm
@rws: What were pendant arc lamps powered by? Was it natural gas, electricity, or maybe plasma?
Ron, These were electrical lamps in which two carbon rods were energized and held together creating the bright arc. The workings are explained here: http://www.edisontechcenter.org/ArcLamps.html