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Welcome to Yorktown Square

August 10, 2006
Located in South Windsor, this relic from the 1950’s still lights up the parking lot at Yorktown Square (as the dates below show, the Yorktown store that was first to open, did so in 1953). Thanks to John and Mike for the heads up that the old sign still lights up. At one time the plaza was anchored by The N & D Yorktown Store. N & D was a Windsor “chain” supermarket…
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Lifetime Warranty

August 9, 2006
The deathfences are up, and time has run out for the old Veteran Plumbing store on Wyandotte St @ McDougall. The store was a long time downtown fixture, and in the last few years, packed up and headed to the south end of the city near the Sprawl-Mart. I used to head…
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More HDR

August 8, 2006
It was a long weekend on the Canadian side of the river this weekend. Most of mine was spent painting. Here is my house, with a mix of colors going up on the lower level bay window, in glorious HDR. Still messing around, I took this HDR shot of looking west along my…
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HDR & lots of work...

August 5, 2006
So I’m just messing around with HDR. I think I’ve finally got a little grasp of the whole process…. The photo above is my house. The scaffolding is up, and that means scraping and painting, and cleaning out and stabilizing rotted wood… What a joyous treat. I think it’s been about 25 years since anyone did anything in the way of maintenace to the front facade. The…
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The Hammer

August 2, 2006
Yesterday I was in Hamilton. Visiting factories as a function of my job tends to take me into older parts of many cities. Hamilton is Canada’s Steel City, the Canadian eqivalent of Pittsburgh, however there are parts of Hamilton that remind me of Detroit. An older…
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Fisher Body - Fort & Livernois

July 28, 2006
To the corner of Fort & Livernois for today’s P.D.J. This handsome peice of automotive history was built in 1928 The same artist who painted the windows at the U.A. prior to its superbowl wash also did the former offices of Fisher Body. Does anyone know the…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part III

July 26, 2006
Today is the thrid and final installment. An interior view of one of the warehouses. This one claimed to hold 20,000 barrels A view of the bottling line. Must have been comfortable to work all dressed up 🙂 A view of the train station (demolished), the Jubilee Fountain…