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Prince of Wales - Part 3

February 11, 2009
The third and final installment. I promise. 🙂 To the basement… A view of one of the basement classrooms. One of the staircases. As we go lower, the water damage becomes more evident. Boiler room… No lights, and not much going on. Although I spy some yummy asbestos on the duct work… This is the set of stair I referenced in part one. This phantom staircase would have lead…
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Prince of Wales - Part 2

February 10, 2009
Today we head up to the top floor… At the top of the stairs in the west staircase. For David’s benefit, note there is some water damage around the window frames. Looking out the windows over a sea of surface lots. This is the 1927 expansion. A view of the…
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Prince of Wales - Part 1

February 9, 2009
With the Prince of Wales only a memory, let’s take a look around the inside of what used to be. Inside the front lobby looking back towards the front doors. Big heavy old oak doors, they sure don’t build schools like this. At one time the stairs split, with a…
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Old Fina Station

February 6, 2009
While the news that the Yorktown Plaza made the register of historic places in Windsor was on the front page, the news of the other buildings being added were less sexy, like the former FINA station at Tecumseh & Bruce (For the previous discussion of this place, you want this post from Feb. 2007) . There was some discussion of if the building is worthy of inclusion or not at the heritage…
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More Stuff That's Gone

February 5, 2009
I was going through some old photos, (these were taken in July 2002) when I stumbled across these shots of a small cluster of houses in the City Centre West lands that were long ago demolished. True to the Windsor way, the lands today remain vacant… These houses were…
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The Return

February 4, 2009
I have to give credit where it’s due. King Eddie made the return happen. Red Bull is back in town, only this time Windsor is the base. The planes will be using Windsor Airport as the home airport. The event is scheduled for June 13 – 14. Hopefully not too many…
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Jackson Park Band Shell

February 3, 2009
I got an email from reader Mark F. who asked about the band shell at Jackson Park, that’s tucked behind Windsor Stadium. You can see it in the Google Earth Map above. I dug into the history of the band shell, while working on the Windsor Modern book. This band shell was built in 1959, and designed by Windsor Architects Johnson & McWhinnie. It replaced an earlier band shell that was…
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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…
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Reminder - Special Olympics Icewine Event

January 30, 2009
Don’t forget tomorrow – January 31st, the Special Olympics is holding an event at the Roundhouse…. Get out there and check it out, it should be good! Here’s the website: http://specialolympicswindsor2009.com/ Here’s the blog…