Bernie Drouillard Collection – International Metropolis

Street Car 366 - University Ave - c. 1930

June 10, 2015

© The Bernie Drouillard Collection Here’s a picture of an example of what was known as the Cincinnati Street Car series. This shot was taken on London Street (now University Ave) at Pelissier about 1930. What if I told you one of these cars stayed in the area and has recently been unearthed. Despite being out of service for nearly 70 years, a large part of a similar car still exists&#8230…

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City of Windsor Police - 1988

June 8, 2015

© Photo from the Bernie Drouillard Collection Following up on Friday’s post, here’s another one from Bernie’s collection, this one shot in July 1988, showing an old Chevrolet Caprice Classic Police Car that were once the standard across North America. My…

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Essex Police Department

June 5, 2015

© Photo from the Bernie Drouillard Collection While Bernie Drouillard is better known here for his extensive transit history images, he also once passed along to me a collection of shots from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s of local Police cars. From his…

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Ouellette & Wyandotte - c 1939

January 23, 2015

Photo © the Bernie Drouillard Collection, used with permission, digitized by John Stefani A neat shot towards the end start of WWII, looking south on Ouellette from just south of Wyandotte Street. As you can see there has been an on street bus terminal there, as long as Windsor has had buses. The corner of the Dominion grocery store is visible on the right side of the photo, while the former…

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Sandwich Street - Walkerville - c. 1905

December 1, 2014

Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani A view of Sandwich Street, in front of the Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery. This view is looking west and in the distance, you can make out the hump of the Peabody Bridge. The overhead wires of the…

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Howard & Division c 1928

November 28, 2014

Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani An interesting shot looking south on Howard Avenue, from the intersection with Division road. Today’s shot, once again comes from the Bernie Drouillard collection, and thanks as always to John Stefani for…

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Greyhound Bus Terminal - Ouellette Ave c 1930

November 26, 2014

Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani A shot of the old Greyhound Station, on Ouellette & Park about 1930. I think a similar picture has been posted here previously, but this scan comes to us via John Stefani, who digitized some more of Bernie Drouillard’s collection for us. Thanks as always to those two guys. If there’s anything to add I’m sure…

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S.W. & A Car 407 - Devonshire Rd - 1939

October 6, 2014

Photo © from the Collection of Bernie Drouillard The above photo comes to us from the collection of Bernie Drouillard and digitized for us by John Stefani. As always a big thanks goes out to those two guys for sharing these pictures with all of us. The picture shows car #…

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W.E. & L.S. Railway - Car # 507 - 1939

September 29, 2014

Photo © from the Collection of Bernie Drouillard Back in 2008 in this post, we took a look at the Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Rapid Railway. In that post you can see the cars being shipped out of town. While the other post shows pictures from December, 1939, this one…