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St. Edmond

January 28, 2008
A pair of old downtown area postcards for today. First up is St. Edmond School. It was located on Tuscarora Ave. just east of Marentette, behind what was then Immaculate Conception Church, in fact, you can catch a glimpse of the church on the left side fo the card. I’m not sure when the school closed, when I first moved to Windsor in 1989, I seem to remember some new kids in school that…
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Walker and Wyandotte

January 25, 2008
I recently paid a visit to the newly leveled Wyandotte St. section just east of Walker Rd. Then Now It sure looks funny to see that underpass gone. However as you can see by the two photos above, your tax dollars are hard at work, and nothing but the highest quality…
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Chanoso's

January 24, 2008
Or at least as it looked, pre-Chanoso’s. Over at the excelent Windsor Blog, Scale Down, Windsor… the other day I was giving Mark Boscariol a hard time over his choice of stucco to reface the buildings that house Chanoso’s and the Sushi Place next door (the…
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1404 Tecumseh Road East

January 22, 2008
This building at Tecumseh Rd and Moy, has a long history as a restaurant, as I recently discovered. As I was looking through an old booklet from 1954, I came across this ad for the Bel-Air Restaurant… Someone along the way bricked in every other window along the side, but it’s still a restaurant. According to some of the long time business owners along that stretch of Tecumseh, the…
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David Maxwell School

January 21, 2008
Located on Francois, between Seminole and Tecumseh Roads, David Maxwell was built in 1928, in what was then known as East Windsor. Ford City was renamed East Windsor when Chrysler Moved in to their new plant at Tecumseh & Walker. The School was designed by the Windsor…
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Old Sandwich Schools

January 18, 2008
Here are a pair of century old postcards (c. 1909) of two schools in Sandwich. The Sandwich Public School, and St. Francis. St. Francis School, built in 1901, was located on the corner of Peter & Detroit. The site today is a parking lot. The Sandwich Public School was…
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Walker Road Underpass

January 17, 2008
As Windsor is crippled by the Walker Road closure, you don’t hear too much about the status of the project these days. With nearly no one around, and Walker Rd. silent, I decided to take a trip down there to see what’s going on. It looks like the tracks have been raised significantly from where the grade crossing was before construction was. The Bridge appears to be partially in…
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McPherson Lounge - Electa Hall

January 16, 2008
Back before Christmas, there was a post on Cody Hall, and in the comment, the discussion turned to McPherson Lounge in Electa Hall. Today’s photos come from regular reader westerntragedy, who visited McPherson Lounge, and happened to have his camera. 🙂 As a side…
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Dougall Avenue School

January 15, 2008
This might bring back some memories for some of my readers. The original Dougall Ave. School was built in 1904, and stood until 1990, when in the name of progress, the School Board smacked her down, for a modern box. The replacement school was opened on the same site in…