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Walkerside Dairy

March 24, 2009
Ad from the Border Cities Star – December 31, 1926. This version of the Walker Farms were established around 1904, taking over from the earlier farm that was located at Walker & Tecumseh. As you may recall the manager’s house was demolished a few years back. This farm was located around today’s EC Row and Central area. Part of the farm was severed in 1920 to create the…
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Royal Windsor Apartments

March 20, 2009
From that grand plan, we did get 2/3 of it built, sadly the garage was pulled down some time ago, and only the apartment building survives to this day. An ad for the garage from 1937. The apartment building however, is one of the architecturally pleasing buildings in the…
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Parent Place

March 10, 2009
Years ago, while out shooting photos with John Stefani, we stumbled across a old cinder block building in an alley. It always seemed strange that the building was located in an alley and not on a road, but a recent discovery of an ad for the company, revealed that the alley…
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Return To Boose's

February 2, 2009
In the past, I have covered Boose’s Tourist Camp in Detail, here and here. I recently added an old advertising folder for the park to my collection. The rest of the images on the folder are ones that can be seen on the previous pages, but this is the first time I’ve some across a full version of the camp drawing above. This drawing probably dates to around 1935 or so. For a high…
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Streetcar Friday

January 23, 2009
Continuing our fine sometime tradition of “Streetcar Friday”, I present this ad than ran for the Hydro Electric Railways, June 23, 1928. Interurban service to Amherstburg. When streetcar service was ended, this line to Amherstburg became a bus line. Now, public…
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Those were the days...

December 5, 2008
From January, 1928: Back in the day when Windsor had a quick, modern, efficient public transportation system. Off all the things that this City has destroyed over the last 100 years, there is nothing worse than the choice made in the late 1930’s to rip up and…
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Dresser Electric

November 20, 2008
Another long lost Windsor manufacturer is up today, listed in this 1965 advertisement as “Canada’s fastest growing manufacturer of electrical products”. Just another sad reminder of how far Windsor’s might has fallen. The Dresser Electric building is…