Back over to Ouellette and Elliott where the building eaters went to work Friday afternoon.
They started on the south side of the building on the old Mother’s Pizza side, smashing though the middle. This photo is from about 4:00 pm Friday.
I paid a retun visit Saturday afternoon, to check on the status. No one was around, but they kept working Friday after I left, demolising the entire front portion of the building.
I always liked the brickwork on the former Joker’s night club building.
Upon closer inspection, the bricks are an optical illusion, meant to look like Flemish Bond bircks with darker headers, the look is acheived though use of regular bricks with a raised texture in the middle of the brick.
Next door at the Mother’s buiding, intersting bricks can also be found…
Another view…
While we were out shooting, a gentelman on Pelissier offered to let us up on his balcony to shoot a few elevated photos.
A view form the south side.
A relic from the past, a brick from the the Jules Robinet Brickyards of Sandwich. The Robinet brickyard went out of business during the depression.
Those intersting bricks on the Joker’s building were brought light as the earlier building came down. They were manuafactured by the Brazil Clay Company of Brazil, IN.
The north side of the building revealed a small glimpse of an old painted sign. Too bad the Joker’s building didn’t come down first, then we would have had a chance to see the old sign…
A final view of the interior of the Mother’s Building. Is this still the old Mother’s decor? If you look closeley you can even see where the pictures were hung on the wall.
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No Rich, there was no one on site, and the fence was a little too secure.. :)
Seeing that interior of the Mothers Pizza brings back memeries of one of the first pizza joints I ate at as a kid more than 20 years ago, was the mothers building vacant all these years after it closed or was it used for somthing else??
The owners of Jokers purchased the old Mother's building with intent to open a restaurant.The city fathers denied them a business permit with claims that Joker's was going to annex the building for expansion.
I am one of Jules Robinet's great grandchildren and am interested in obtaining some of his old bricks. Who can I contact to retrieve some of these?
I am Annette "A.P" Robinet's granddaughter......my parents, aunts/uncles have a few of the bricks from various demo's within the windsor area. Unfortunately I am not sure how they got them but I wll ask around for you. Who are you related to in the family?
I am Annette "A.P" Robinet's granddaughter......my parents, aunts/uncles have a few of the bricks from various demo's within the windsor area. Unfortunately I am not sure how they got them but I wll ask around for you. Who are you related to in the family?
If you find out how to get a hold of a few Robinet bricks please let me know. I am a great-great grandchild. One of Germaine's grandchildren. Ellen's eldest son.
I am Julia Robinet (Jacquot)'s granddaughter. Julia was Jules' daughter.
im a great grand son,my dad is laurier,son of wilfred. there are plenty of bricks still around ,some never used id youd like one gimme a ring , and leave a message. it makes me very happy to see the amount of people interested in my family heritage. Jeremie 519 890 5498. i would also like to learn more too.
I am also a great grandson of Jules Robinet, Jules is my grand mother Lucille Becigneul(Robinet)father. and my mother Antoinette's grand father, she is a Becigneul. I am interested in obtaining a few Robinet bricks, I have see several that said "Robinet" on the brick, I would love to get a couple of these. The ones I have only have "JR" on them. In fact in 1999 I built the house I am currently living in, I had the mason lay a "JR" brick near the front door. If anyone has some please contact me. arta48220@yahoo.com 248-640-1616