This postcard from 1938, shows Windsor’s Norton-Palmer hotel, as well as the sister hotel acorss the river in Detroit, the Hotel Norton.
The back of the card reads:
NORTON-PALMER HOTEL
NORTON HOTEL
Winsdor, Ont. – Detroit, Mich.
MODERN – FIREPROOFSituated in the centre of down-town
district overlooking the beautiful Detroit
River and convenient to all roads of
transportation. Cafeteria, Grill, Golf,
Fishing, Boating, Hunting.Preston D. Norton, Manager.
Rates from $1.50
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My Grand-Father, Alfred Jackson was the chief interior decorator of the Norton Palmer Hotel for years. He once took me on the roof of the building, when I was just a child. It was a magnificent building in its day, and it is too bad it was torn down.