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Categories: Photo Du JourWindsor

Cock Brothers

While digging through my parents garage last night looking for something, I came across this old claim check nailed to the wall.

Do any old Windsorites have any memories of these guys? 340 Pitt St. E. no longer exists, it was plowed under for the Casino in the early 90’s.

A check of the 1937 Fire Map, shows 340 Pitt E. as being on the north side of the street. The building is listed as: “Flour & Feed Store” It was sandwiched in between Canadian Ice Refrigeration Co. to the west and Canada Fish Distributors to the east.

The yellow dot shows about where the building sat on a current aerial view.

This final view is an aerial shot from 1949 (from the Detroit Edison Archives @ Wayne State). The building is outlined in yellow.

Andrew

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  • It's pretty wild how there used to be all those buildings on Riverside where dieppe park is now. Can see them all lined up in that photo. I've got some old photos of them from the archives. The ones right at Ouellette and Riverside that went all along the street on the river side of the road across from where the norwich block was.

  • Andrew: J.T.Wing Co. was a wholesale / specialty hardware supply company which brings to mind a previous map showing the location of a Jewish school. A larger structure labled "G.G. McKeogh"(spelling?)was also in the wholesale hardware business. My father worked for both in the past.

  • Seems to me I remember the name of the Cock Brothers, a store to buy/sell/repair lawnmowers, chainsaws, sharpening tools, etc. in the mid 1950's. My dad always mentioned them and spoke of 'checking out what they have at Cock Brothers downtown.

  • After moveing from Pitt ST.they where located on the curve of Tecumseh Rd. on the west end of Mathews Lumber. now Home Hardware by CPR tracks.

  • There was also a Cock Bros. store on Tecumseh road. It was on the south side either between Hall and Moy or between Moy and Gladstone. We used to go there for hobby supplies, but they carried other things - perhaps pet supplies. There was also a similar store on Pellisier street between Wyandotte and Maiden lane. This was in the '50s, perhaps into the early '60s.

  • In the late sixties, early seventies there was a hobby shop in that area of Tecumseh Rd. they also had a store on Wyandotte west, south west of KFC. Tecumseh Rd. store closed first, a few years later the one on Wyandotte.

  • That was Janice's (spelling may be wrong). The Tecumseh Road store was originally a slot car track setup before they converted to a hobby shop

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