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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..and another one bites the dust. But for what I have to ask? More stucco'ed buildings and a parking lot?
The Jokers building was a good one with lots of potential.
Sign.
That should say "Sigh". But it is a sign, too.
I noticed this while driving down Ouellette Saturday night with other family members. One of them couldn't believe something was finally happening with the site, even if it was demolition. I remember the inside of Mothers as dark, though it was probably due to the lighting (zthe only concrete memory I have of the restaurant was that it was the only place my Mom could indulge in cinnamon ice cream).
I never had the chance to visit that particular Mother's--but having been in a handful of other locations I would bet that is still the Mother's wallpaper--it seems to follow the "old- fashioned" decor they had in their restaurants.
On that wallpaper shot you can also see the outline of the ledge that ran around the restaurant. The ledge used to be decorated with antique type stuff like old radios, lamps, etc. Mothers was the place our parents would take us to for birthdays and stuff like that. Great pizza and yes, ice cream too.
and the demoliton continues today (Monday) as the Mother's building is gone.
Anyone have any idea if anything is going to replace this?
I believe a network of yellow painted lines is the most likely candidate.
I have heard both a parking lot and a strip mall... take your pick I suppose...
Did you manage to get a Robinet brick?