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L.A. Young Spring & Wire Corporation - Plant 3

April 16, 2010
Back in April, 2009 we took a look at the former L.A Young Factory on McDougall. During a recent trip to the Home and Leisure Show at the Windsor Expo Centre/Ex-GM Transmission Plant, I was surprised to see a painted sign on the back of this St. Luke Rd. building. The building is old, looking from the 1920’s or 1930’s and is connected to the former Canadian Motor Lamp factory fronting…
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Fountain Unveiling - May 24, 1906

April 12, 2010
Back in December, 2008, I took an in-depth look at the Memorial Fountain that is located in Jackson Park. Included in the coverage was this ad: IN THE MORNING Unveiling of Memorial Fountain erected in the memory of the Essex Soldiers who fell in South Africa. Military…
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Military Drills - 1941

April 9, 2010
Today’s vintage photo takes us back to September 1941 and to the corner of Ouellette and Park, where a photographer from the Detroit Times, captured this image of military drills in downtown Windsor. Keep in mind that at this point the US was still a few months away from the attack on Pearl Harbor and was not involved in WWII. The photo ran in the September 30, 1941 edition of the Detroit…
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Bank Of Commerce - Walkerville

April 7, 2010
So, today is Wednesday… And there was no post this morning… I know. 🙂 I was working on some posts over the weekend, and with Monday being a holiday for me, I totally lost track of the days… Once I got to work this morning, I realized that I forgot to…
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Windsor Waterfront - 1963

April 2, 2010
Happy Friday once again, and this time a long weekend to boot. Today’s photo is another old Detroit News image, this one having been shot from Detroit, in January, 1963. Looks like it ran in the paper Jan. 22, 1963, it features the car ferry “Windsor” making it’s way across the river. The Windsor entered service in 1856. A nice view of many long gone buildings. The…
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Alley Houses

March 31, 2010
First off, sorry for the lousy quality of today’s photos… It was late evening, and a camera phone… 🙂 Now tell me a story… Who knows anything about Alley Houses? I recall during some of my research, reading in articles about “slums&#8221…
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Ouellette Avenue - Early 1950's

March 29, 2010
Car experts, I need your help again on this postcard. Maybe you can help me come up with a date, by ID’ing some of those old cars, parked curbside. OUELLETTE AVE., WINDSOR, CANADA Looking north on one of Windsor’s main throughfares, with Detroit skyline in…