1404 Tecumseh Road East
January 22, 2008
This building at Tecumseh Rd and Moy, has a long history as a restaurant, as I recently discovered.
As I was looking through an old booklet from 1954, I came across this ad for the Bel-Air Restaurant…
Someone along the way bricked in every other window along the…
Smith's Department Store - 1954
January 10, 2008
Today’s old ad comes from the same booklet that had yesterday’s ad for Routley’s Motel, published in 1954.
Smith’s Department Store on Ouellette Ave. was a long time local fixture. Founded in 1914 as the C.H. Smith Co., the downtown store was expanded…
Chicken Court
December 10, 2007
I’ve seen old advertisments and post cards for the Chicken Court, but never knew much about it. I moved to Windsor in 1989, and I didn’t recall it being open when I first came here.
A full page ad from the 1954 Visitor’s Guide to Windsor and Essex…
A Night On The Town
December 3, 2007
Here are some neat old advertisements I found while looking over some mid 1960s era Newspapers. Just a brief sample of the a few of the nightclub options 40 odd years ago…
The Calcot Hotel is long gone. A google search of the address reveals an Oil Change Shop, a Porn Shop and a Car Rental Place. It was on the west side of Howard Ave. between Eugenie and McDougall. Does anyone out there…
Viscount Hotel
November 17, 2007
Regular reader Darren was kind enough to send along this crop of an image that he took in the early 1980’s.
In it you can see the former Viscount Hotel (marked with a red dot). He apologized for the lousy quality, but any photo is better than none at all. So a big…
Model Home
October 4, 2007
Continuing the building boom in South Windsor that was soon to be squashed by the Great Depression, was this competing ad to yesterday’s entry. While this house isn’t named, it is also on Randolph, this one however is on the north side of Grand Marais.
Other than…