OK, so who out there remembers this Mario’s location? This is at Tecumseh and Ouellettte, in the X-Ray clinic that can’t keep a restaurant open. If we were to peel away all the layers is this underneath? This is from the 1948 Visitor’s Guide. The location is still featured in the 1954 guide book as well.
Tomorrow, we’ll look at the Ouellette Ave. location.
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The Juke Box cost 10 cents a tune or 3 for 25 cents!
Something else that has come to mind from those times so long ago are the ice cream cones that were available in all the corner stores...like Red & White on Bruce St. that came in two parts...the ice cream was kept in the freezer and was wrapped in paper...shaped like a cone, and the actual cone was behind the counter...remember "grab bags"? I think they were 5 cents. Boy, how times have changed! Popcicles were 5 cents!
Andrew, it was Joe Bone's Bar-B-Q!
That's been buggin' me ALL DAY. :)
That's it Scotty! Thanks, it was bugging me too...
Hey T in T O who'se car were you drivin' or did the folks take you there.
RWS and I have the same memory as Mario's was the first pizza I had ever tasted. My folks took me there, and I swear there has never been a tastier pizza ever since. I have tried for decades to find that original taste, and have never found a pizza so good.
And to Allenparkpete, the Wings were 26th out of 26 teams, & you couldn't GIVE Red Wings tickets away.On any other team Jimmy Rutherford could have gone to the Cup, but with the team he had in front of him, fuggitaboutit He would stop 40 out of 43 shots.
You could never get a Jewish person to eat at the Hacienda, as I was told
Andrew. According to my father they raced their 2 grey hounds ( Jack Benny & Sandy ) for 2 years at Devonshire. It was a dog track between 43 and 45. He also told me that Man O War raced there when it was a horse track.
As an FYI ,he grew up in your old neighbourhood at the corner of Cataraqui and Louis. Across the street from the Modern Cleaners.
As for Mario's location at Tec and Ouellette and being hard to get to from south Windsor. Ouellette stopped at Tec. The overpass went up in the 60's. They extended Ouellette to meet up with Dougall. That was because it was to hard to get to south Windsor from the city center and it was becoming the suburb of choice back then.
Thanks Gary, I'll have to dig around and see what I can find about the dog years...
As for Man O' War, he actually raced across the street at Kenilworth in 1920.
I've been meaning to post about that for a long while now, I actually have a bunch of material about it. Look for that one soon...
I am looking forward to it. As usual
cpike, I know that Hacienda joke. go easy! as for that Jimmy D. meet up, that must've been around 1981 or 1982. I never recalled going to Pit Martin's being of the proper drinking age! Then again, my brother was a busboy there and all the other workers were his friends so they let it slide. Those were the days.
Just thought of something else too. Didn't former city councillors Don Clark and Roy Battagello have a fistfight at the old Mario's/Hacienda site back in the day? Seems to me they settled things the old fashioned way rather than e-mails, video and bleating to the media as we have today.
Given how many name changes this spot has gone through over the years (the only incarnation I dimly remember going to was the Hacienda as a kid, my family usually made fun of the other names the place bore), I've often wondered what the most cursed spot for a restaurant in Windsor is/was. The southwest corner of Howard and Cabana had a steady turnover in the 80s and early 90s...