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Olympic Trials Part II

July 9, 2008
A few more from the meet before we move along… Men’s High Jump Women’s 100m Hurdles. Congratulations to Priscilla Lopes-Schliep who won and qualified for the games… She’s off to Beijing to represent Canada. She demolished the field she ran against in Windsor on Saturday afternoon. However, out of all the events at the meet, I think my favourite to shoot was the…
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2008 Canadian Olympic Trials

July 8, 2008
This past weekend Windsor played host to athletes from across the country, as the Canadian Olympic Trials were held at the University of Windsor Stadium. As far as University athletics go in Windsor, our specialty is Track and Field, and the stadium is a first class…
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Festival Epicure

July 7, 2008
What a weekend… Over at the University the Canadian Olympic Track & Field Trials were taking place (more on that tomorrow…), and down at the riverfront is the excellent Festival Epicure. We went on Sunday afternoon and despite the blazing sun there was a…
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Sandwich West Telephone Exchange

July 4, 2008
As an example of the area’s long history of NIMBY-ism, I present the case of the Sandwich West Telephone Exchange building…. From the Windsor Star – Saturday August 18, 1956 – PHONE FIGURES – The proposed Bell Telephone exchange building for Sandwich West Township will be capable of providing 20,000 homes with telephones. Presently the company’s move to erect…
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Future Parking Lots...

July 3, 2008
Hard to believe that there is anywhere in this City you can’t easily find a parking space, however, as the Council Agenda from a few weeks back showed, there were a couple of applications for demolitions to create parking lots… Although I might be wrong, I doubt…
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The Electric House

July 2, 2008
Built in 1925 by the Reaume Company, Windsor’s pre-eminent developers of the pre World War II era… The showpiece of the the Pillette Road, Ford City sub-division… The Electric House! The Reaume Company ran many ad’s for this subdivision in the…
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So Long It's Been Good To Know Ya...

June 30, 2008
So I have no idea why this demolition went down on a Sunday morning of a long weekend, but it seems awfully stinky to me. The demolition contractor closed the curb lane of southbound Walker, and methinks that they didn’t have a permit to close the street. But hey, that’s what Sunday mornings are for… No pesky City workers around to point out small problems like that… Hey…
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Death Fences

June 27, 2008
A good sign that time’s up for a building comes, once you see the death fences pop up. They appeared magically around the Bank of Montreal Building on Wednesday afternoon. I kept watch on Thursday to see what would happen, and by the end of the day the heavy machinery…
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Hoa Viet

June 26, 2008
This oriental grocery store on Wyandotte St. W. between Bruce and Church is one of those buildings in town with a secret past. As featured in the December 31, 1929 issue of the Windsor Star, the building began life as a Nash Dealership. Other than some relatively small…