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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I remember Mario's at Ouellette & Tecumseh as well as the one further up Ouellette . The old Colonial was a tavern long before that and it was commonly known as Bull Fielding's owned by the Gilbault (Gilbeau) family. One side of the facility was men only, the other for the mixed crowd! Thanks for the memories. I ,too, grew up in that area.
Oh yes! I definitely remember eating at Mario's when I was a teenager. I can still see the coin-operated juke boxes at each table. I actually seem to recall going there with my boyfriend, now my husband, in 1972 but I think it had changed it's name to Nero's by then.
It was a typical diner with typical diner food and I walked passed it several times each week on my way to Jackson Park. Sometimes my older sister and I sat there drinking a Coke when we were supposed to be attending mass at St. Clare's Church wich was just west of Ouellette. Don't tell my Mom that!!!
Gerry, are you talking about the spot Bull Fielding's) that Meme P. used to tell us about when we were young?
All of Windsor West seems to have changed so much over the years, hasn't it???
I can remember eating there numerous times with my old friend Hogarth during the mid-sixties, when we were in our early-teens. Like Susan, I recall feeding the juke box at the table and flipping the pages to decide what tune to invest in. Ted in Toronto
As a kid riding in the backseat, I remember begging to eat there. My brothers and I loved the box cars and were curious about the interior. My parents, to our dismay, were not as curious.
A lot of names have been mentioned but the last time I went there, besides for an x-ray, it was named something "thrifty" and you had to go to the kitchen and get your own food. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the name, but it was two words and gave the impression of a discount. It was a nick name, like Cheapo Philpo's and Bargain Harolds.
Anyone remember? It's on the tip of my tongue!
Yeah, that's the BBQ place I am thinking of...
Maybe Mr. Cheap or something? I swear there was a Mr. in the name...
I believe the Tecumseh Road Mario's may have been the first restaurant to serve pizza in Windsor. In any case, my introduction to pizza was there in 1956 or 1957.
During the late sixties , everyone from Kennedy ate at the Tecumseh and Ouellette Marios. They served cherry coke, fires and gravy and let us teenagers sit forever. It was the place to go.
The other Marios was where Bentleys is currently. It was a fancy tablecloth restaurant and reserved for special occasions. A notch below the Elmwood but not much!!!!
Mario's was myfirst introduction to paying for lunch with my own funds.....usually hard earned by babysitting. I have fond memories of the place although for the life of me, I can not remember what kind of food they served. I think it may be the first place I ate a dreadful concoction called a pizza burger. When visiting Windsor with my husband and daughter , I tried to relive the good old memories, but whichever of the many establishments it had become, served food that made that pizza burger seem like gourmet food!
Mario's was myfirst introduction to paying for lunch with my own funds.....usually hard earned by babysitting. I have fond memories of the place although for the life of me, I can not remember what kind of food they served. I think it may be the first place I ate a dreadful concoction called a pizza burger. When visiting Windsor with my husband and daughter , I tried to relive the good old memories, but whichever of the many establishments it had become, served food that made that pizza burger seem like gourmet food!
Does anyone know if there is a link between the Mario's Pizza currently out on Walker road and these two original Mario's that were on Ouellette avenue?