Essex CountyPhoto Du Jour

Boblo Island - 2007 - Part II

October 16, 2007
A couple of views of Albert Kahn’s Pavilion. Other than the rust on the facade, it appears to still be in great shape. One of the washroom buildings. Ruins of the Mini-Golf course. The view you would get leaving the ferry and entering the park The ruins of the fountain just outside the ferry tunnel. The entrance to the ferry docks. Two choices: Amherstburg or Gibraltar. A few final…
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Essex CountyPhoto Du Jour

Boblo Island - 2007 - Part I

October 15, 2007
A big thanks to reader AB. who sent along these current photos of Boblo, he figured the readers of this site would be interested in seeing the current state of the island. This is the building that was labeled as the “Souvenir Hall” in the 1920 photos. Aaron…
Old PhotographsPhoto Du JourWindsor

Windsor 1920 - Part I

October 10, 2007
Few few years back, I came across and old photo album for sale that was full of photos from around the Great Lakes. It’s full of photos from Belle Isle, Boblo, Buffalo, Detroit, Grayling, Lewiston, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Put-in-Bay, Toronto and Windsor. All…
Photo Du JourWindsor

The Gladstone Grill

October 9, 2007
Located on the Corner of Gladstone and Cataraqui, is one of the few neighbourhood bars in this city. For a city the size of Windsor, there are aren’t more than a handful of bars off the major roads and in the neighbourhoods. This bar was known for a long time as…
Photo Du JourWindsor

WFCU Centre Open House

October 5, 2007
Yesterday afternoon, the was an open house at the new Tecumseh East, East Side arena. Located downtownbehind a factory towards the eastern city limits, as far as possible from downtown, another temple to the car is going up. Drive in, drive out. It’s the Windsor Way. As you walk down the service drive from the Lear plant parking lot, the beast rises. The not-arena part is coming along…
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Old AdsPhoto Du JourWindsor

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…
Old AdsPhoto Du JourWindsor

The Collegiate

October 3, 2007
From December 1928: …Drive out Dougall to Grand Marais Road, west on Grand Marais to Randolph – The “Collegiate” is on Randolph, Just south of Grand Marais, in SOUTH WINDSOR So I did. Now I’m not sure if Randolph once crossed “the…