Riverside Drive - 1962
April 8, 2013
From the Department of Public Works section of the 1962 City of Windsor Annual Report comes this photograph shown above.
Riverside Drive, east of the C.N.R. Overpass, has been rebuilt. Curbs and sidewalks were moved back and re-aligned to permit a pavement width of at least…
W.D. Lowe - 1919
April 5, 2013
I always find it interesting to uncover photographs of prominent citizens, and it’s always interesting to put a face to the name. Today is a picture of W.D. Lowe, whom the school on Gilles was once named after. This image is from the “Border Cities Era”…
Windsor From The Transfer Steamer - 1882
April 3, 2013
The engraving above appeared in the book “Picturesque Canada” published in 1882.
While the engraving doesn’t indicate what boat it was, the “transfer steamers” were the rail ferries. Some of the earlier ones were well equipped to moved passengers as well as cargo. The ship as it appears in the engraving was probably very similar to, if not in fact the Great Western…
Windsor Gas Company - c. 1923
March 27, 2013
Another great old shot of downtown Windsor. This one dates from the early 1920’s. It shows the old Windsor Gas Company office building on Chatham Street West. Long gone of course.
Here the 1937 fire insurance map showing the layout of the block (the Gas building is…
Studebaker Factory - Then and Now
March 25, 2013
Above is a view of the Studebaker Factory that once graced the area just north east of Walker and Wyandotte. This picture above was taken in 1913 and is looking south at the factory from the rail tracks.
By 1937, the Studebaker factory is listed as “Silent and Mostly…
527-533 Chatham Street East
March 22, 2013
Last night driving towards downtown, I noticed that the decrepit old duplex at 527-533 Chatham Street East was kaput. Vanished into the landfill… 515-523 next door may be the next one to go… I’ve never understood how this area between downtown and Walkerville, right off the river has never “gentrified” for lack of a better word. Sadly the Casino’s presence has…
Elmwood Casino - c. 1959
March 20, 2013
© John Stefani Collection
I believe that this postcard was posted once on this site a long time ago. It’s a neat postcard, and a copy was recently sent along by John Stefani, so I thought there was no time like the present to repost this one.
A neat shot from above…