It’s funny how things end up coming full circle. Over in the Ford City district of Windsor we find this:
Today it is the home of the “New Song Church”…
But in 1937 it was the “Temple Hotel & Beverage Room”. From a bar to a church.
The “Temple” name has always had me curious, across the street was Temple Theatre. Around the corner was the Ford City Synagogue, maybe that was the reason for the Temple moniker being applied to so many things?
According to an eighth grade local history lesson taught at the now defunct Holy Rosary, this was once one of the busiest nightclubs in Canada.
We knew it back in the 80s as Mongo Murphs… smelled like piss. It was an absolutely huge bar that seemed even bigger because it typically only had 2-3 customers.
The International Tavern, Mongo Murphs, the Union Diner, the East Windsor, Lanny’s … and there was one more bar in the 3-block strip of Drouillard Road. Plus, there was Trisha’s, the strip bar located right next door to our elementary school.
Yes, a strip club one door down from an elementary school.
Talk about timing. I was just in the New Song Church for the first time yesterday and was wondering what it had been before this. I mentioned this to a friend who goes to meetings there quite a bit apparently. She’d been told by someone there that it was also a bank for a brief period but she didn’t know when. Any info on this?
The building on the corner was definitly a National Bank of Canada, you can read it’s name on the old deposit box on the wall. http://goo.gl/maps/TCyg5
Looks like it was built to be a bank, and may have been so for a long time.
Oh I see it now. I was looking at and was in the other section, the part right on the corner. We came up Whelpton and never got around to the Drouillard side. It seems to be almost a separate building attached at the back.
Thank you for the info.