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Stucco Friday

Today’s entry was sent in by regular reader Urbanrat. His email to me read as follows: I know how much you love stucco! I found this stucco palace at 809 Bruce. The house is vacant, it must be the place the stucco boys of Windsor apprenticed! The last photograph is of the rear of the building, look to the unfinished stucco work on the centre wall, they didn’t even use a square or a…
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Ghosts on Signs

Reader Tom V. sent along the photos in today’s entry. He says: “These two pics were taken on County Rd. 20 (formerly Highway 18), just east of Harrow.” White Rose Gasoline, was produced in Canada by the Canadian Division of the National Refining Co. of…
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Downtown Chevrolet Oldsmobile

The photo above is from 1929, and shows the new garage of Easton-Edwards Chevrolet. The description said it was on Goyeau near Tuscarora. I always thought it was an interesting looking place, and wondered what happened to it. Then in a newspaper from 1952, I stumbled across…
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Local Amenities

At the last Windsor-Essex Blogger Meeting, there was an idea to make a post today about your neighbourhood, and its amenities or lack there of. You could post about something your neighbourhood has, that you like, or something that you wish you had that you…
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National Auto Radiator

If last week was tour week, then this week is old ad’s/then and now week… From December 1952: National Auto Radiator, better known as the Narmco Group today. Look at the little tiny factory… It’s still there on Airport Rd., only there has been an…