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Greyhound - Part III

October 19, 2007
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 only… The back room, looks like a cargo holding area. Still some open seats in the restaurant. It’s tough to describe how…
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Greyhound - Part II

October 18, 2007
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…
Bernie Drouillard CollectionPhoto Du JourWindsor

Greyhound - Part I

October 17, 2007
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

October 10, 2007
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…
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The Gladstone Grill

October 9, 2007
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

October 5, 2007
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 Way. As you walk down the service drive from the Lear plant parking lot, the beast rises. The not-arena part is coming along…
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Model Home

October 4, 2007
Continuing the building boom in South Windsor that was soon to be squashed by the Great Depression, was this competing ad to yesterday’s entry. While this house isn’t named, it is also on Randolph, this one however is on the north side of Grand Marais. Other than…
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The Collegiate

October 3, 2007
From December 1928: …Drive out Dougall to Grand Marais Road, west on Grand Marais to Randolph – The “Collegiate” is on Randolph, Just south of Grand Marais, in SOUTH WINDSOR So I did. Now I’m not sure if Randolph once crossed “the…