Old PhotographsWindsor

1118 Drouillard Road - Follow Up

May 3, 2013
Last Friday we took a look at Brown’s at 1118 Drouillard, as some of the metal cladding had come away from the building. Stephen Lynn, Community Development Coordinator of the Ford City Neighbourhood Renewal pointed me towards Chris & Elaine Week’s “500 Ways you know you’re from Windsor“, where the picture at the bottom of this post, of the Rex Hotel at 1118…
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Ojibway - 1919

May 1, 2013
I love looking at old maps of the area, and the layout for Ojibway, the town that never was. This map was made in 1919 by a Detroit property developer. Chappus, Page, Healy, Wright and Broadway streets in the upper right corner was where the Brighton Beach neighbourhood was…
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1405 Erie Street East

April 24, 2013
The picture above was taken in 2006, sometime later, someone thought that this building didn’t look good enough, so what’s one to do?… So this kind grey skim coat went up on the place, I was expecting it to get the stucco treatment, but it never really did… After the skim coat, work wrapped up and this is what it’s been like for the last 2 years at least. It’s…
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Marlborough Park - 1929

April 17, 2013
An interesting look back at the proposed development of Marlborough Park. Planned to fill the space south of old Sandwich Town, and to act as a residential bridge to the anticipated boom coming in Ojibway. It’s neat to note that what is Felix today, was planned as an extension of Wyandotte Street. The bottom rendering by Nichols, Sheppard and Masson, shows the proposed Sandwich Public…
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1044 Howard Avenue - D. Clarke Monuments

April 15, 2013
For years I’ve been meaning to take pictures of this little shop at 1044 Howard, just south of Erie. The business was owned by former city councillor Don Clarke (thanks to Chris Edwards for reminding me of that). This little shop was around forever, really close to…
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Windsor Hydro Company c. 1928

April 12, 2013
A couple of weeks back we took a look at the long gone Windsor Gas Company building on Chatham Street West. In the comments we got discussing how the former Chatham Street Grill/C.H. Streets building was noted as being the Hydro offices. Above is a photo of that building…