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Rare Visitor

Last week a rare visitor popped by the Windsor Airport. A relic of the cold war, this Russian built Ilyushin Il-76 with a load of cargo on board. According to Airliners.net Development under the design leadership of G V Novozhilov in the late 1960s resulted in the type’s first flight on March 25 1971. Series production commenced in 1975 and the first examples entered Aeroflot service that…
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30th Annual Free Press Marathon

It’s that time of year again, the 30th Annual Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon. 26.2 Miles long, and passing though 2 countres, the Marathon comes over the bridge and back through the tunnel. If you’ve never gone down to see it, do it next year, it’s…
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Greyhound - Part III

Back downstairs. The second floor in the front part of the terminal was only for Greyhound drivers. Transit Windsor drivers had a separate section at the back. The now empty waiting room. A strange little arched doorway. Pay attention, Greyhound employees…
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Greyhound - Part II

The second floor of the station is very small. Holding a small hallway, two bathrooms, and the “terminal office”. Great old banister and terrazzo floor. Inside the Men’s room. Various shades of old green tiles line the walls. The stalls are heavily covered in graffiti. Some of it dating to the late 70’s early 80’s. Were these washrooms once open to the public?
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Greyhound - Part I

A final look back at the now closed Greyhound station. An architectural rendering of the station. From the Bernie Drouillard collection. The station was designed in 1939, by Greyhound architects Bonfield & Cummings along with longtime Windsor Architects Sheppard…
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Windsor 1920 - Part I

Few few years back, I came across and old photo album for sale that was full of photos from around the Great Lakes. It’s full of photos from Belle Isle, Boblo, Buffalo, Detroit, Grayling, Lewiston, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, Put-in-Bay, Toronto and Windsor. All from 1920 & 1921. It’s a great historical record, and I had the Windsor Photos online many years ago. For all the…
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The Gladstone Grill

Located on the Corner of Gladstone and Cataraqui, is one of the few neighbourhood bars in this city. For a city the size of Windsor, there are aren’t more than a handful of bars off the major roads and in the neighbourhoods. This bar was known for a long time as…
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WFCU Centre Open House

Yesterday afternoon, the was an open house at the new Tecumseh East, East Side arena. Located downtownbehind a factory towards the eastern city limits, as far as possible from downtown, another temple to the car is going up. Drive in, drive out. It’s the Windsor…