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 at the right hand side of the photo.
A pair of street scenes. Most of the houses in the photos are still standing. Walkerville is truly one of the best preseved areas of Windsor.
I hope you enjoyed this trip to the past.
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I worked in the bottling plant in late 59 , long since torn down, at the same time as that little office building at the corner. Truthfully, except for clothes, didn't look all that different. In the days of conveyor belts, we were still applying labels by hand. I think the day we labelled Lemon Gin, the labels were pretty crooked. haha. I recall being one of the only 2 who were sober. Can't stand lemon gin.
Really enjoyed your pics and effort expended to provide same . Do you have any of Ford City Bathing Beach (George and Riverside Dr)?? Again thanx so much
~ I think this Hiram Walker/Walkerville series is my favourite of all your postings.
Thanks for this Andrew
What beautiful photos these are! I particularly remember the Walkerville station of Hiram Walker's Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway which, over the years, morphed into Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio ownership. It seems to be of similar design to the one that survives in Kingsville. Windsor had beautiful stations and of them, this had to be the best! Sad to see great architecture disappear, especially when it's not replaced with more good stuff.