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August 11, 2006
From today’s Windsor Star… Mystery shrouds woman’s injuries Dalson Chen, Windsor Star Published: Friday, August 11, 2006 Windsor police are treating a downtown apartment as a crime scene after they had to smash open a patio door to remove a critically injured woman Thursday afternoon. Responding to a call, officers arrived at the north side of the Brighton Apartments building…
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Going... Going...

August 11, 2006
So I drove by the Veteran Plumbing site yesterday morning on the way to work. The older two story building was half demolished already. A giant hole is appearing in the streetscape. The building eater is poised ready to get back to work destroying things. I drove by again…
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Welcome to Yorktown Square

August 10, 2006
Located in South Windsor, this relic from the 1950’s still lights up the parking lot at Yorktown Square (as the dates below show, the Yorktown store that was first to open, did so in 1953). Thanks to John and Mike for the heads up that the old sign still lights up. At…
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Lifetime Warranty

August 9, 2006
The deathfences are up, and time has run out for the old Veteran Plumbing store on Wyandotte St @ McDougall. The store was a long time downtown fixture, and in the last few years, packed up and headed to the south end of the city near the Sprawl-Mart. I used to head frequently to Veteran Plumbing during plumbing projects. Once they moved, I tried to go there once, and found them closed. I never…
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More HDR

August 8, 2006
It was a long weekend on the Canadian side of the river this weekend. Most of mine was spent painting. Here is my house, with a mix of colors going up on the lower level bay window, in glorious HDR. Still messing around, I took this HDR shot of looking west along my…
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HDR & lots of work...

August 5, 2006
So I’m just messing around with HDR. I think I’ve finally got a little grasp of the whole process…. The photo above is my house. The scaffolding is up, and that means scraping and painting, and cleaning out and stabilizing rotted wood… What a joyous…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part III

July 26, 2006
Today is the thrid and final installment. An interior view of one of the warehouses. This one claimed to hold 20,000 barrels A view of the bottling line. Must have been comfortable to work all dressed up 🙂 A view of the train station (demolished), the Jubilee Fountain (erected in 1887, now in Willistead Park, moved in the 1950’s) and if you look closely you can see the ferry to Detroit…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part II

July 25, 2006
Continuing the tour, today is part II… The Directors lunch room. Looks almost the same, and is today the corporate art gallery. A few views of the hallways of the offices. The animal heads are however gone. A view looking towards the river. The buildings on the…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part I

July 24, 2006
Into the time machine today. We’re heading back to 1899, back when Walkerville was still a separate town. Out of this town came this little promotional booklet… PERHAPS very few small places are so widely known in every country of the civilized world as this…