Here’s an older postcard view of the Ford Factory I recently added to my collection, it has a very strange green tint to it for some reason….
The postcard dates to the late 30’s early 40’s, and I have no idea what that huge expanse of land is in the lower right hand corner.
It’s not the test track, as this photo shows the area north of Seminole. The Fire Insurance Map from the same era, doesn’t make any notation of the land. In fact, there is a large building south of the factory (in the lower left corner), that doesn’t show up on the map. So that would help date the card to after 1937… Cards prior to 1935 also noted the area as Ford City (until 1929) or East Windsor (1930-1935), this one denotes the plant as being in Windsor.
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[faints]
Thank God for that. I was whole heartedly expecting that the planning department was going to let them build a giant turd next to it seeing all the post-modern garbage and spartan structures Toronto now allows next to heritage buildings like that giant turd next to the ROM. Glad I don't work in Toronto anymore.
Yeah, it's a postmodern and spartan wasteland up here. Wait...how can it be both?
They are both a subset of the great turd, while the ideals can be mutually exclusive. Should I draw you a Venn diagram?? The AGW is an example of one of Windsor's pm instead of keeping the historical brewery building as the AGW, which would have made the AGW a world class gallery. Does anyone have any pictures of what the press gallery looked looked like in the brewery building?
The historical brewery building?
The new AGO is one of the finest art gallery buildings around. I could do without the p-lots around it, but that's Windsor, not the building.
Here's the old Art Gallery:
http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=248
Indeed, I have fond memories of that old art gallery (first dates, early primary school field trips) but those memories don't make the building "historic" -- it served its purpose alright, but now there is a purpose-built gallery, with magnificent river views, that is a fine (and rare) recent addition to Windsor.
By the time the casino moved out your historical brewery was literally history. After working 10 years with the people who loved and cherished the 3 years they had there (at the interm casino) I've heard countless horror stories about how bad that building was by the time it was left behind. There was nothing left to salvage.
My favourite example is where so much pop and beverages were spilt in the same area that the floor was literally held together by the carpet, known to every porter as "soft spots."
Really? I never heard those stories. If that were the case, all you need to do is screw on new spruce floorboards. Easy. A lot easier and cheaper than maintaining the roof. I don't think it justified seeing that beautiful historical building being torn down.
Beautiful, Historic?
Did you see this? http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=248
It was a brick box.