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• I notice Jack Fraser, they had the exclusive right to sell all the boy Scouts clothing, as for that Kings 18, I remember when Riverside Dr west of Ouellette to Sandwich shared that designation, perhaps it extended up Ouellette to the tunnel or highway 3B as it was known.

• Ken,
  You are right. Wny don't our police remove these beggars and obvious drugged up people? It is done in other cities so why not Windsor? Besides I thought itr was against the law to be drunk or on drugs in public? I guess our police have speeders to catch instead?

  As for the rent. I agree. Most of these absentee landlords think that the rent is the same as it should be in other cities. But all is no their fault (except the horrible maintenance). Windsor's tax rates are so high that they HAVE to charge such a high rent in order to recoup the costs. Lower these rates and the landlords can lower the rent and get more business downtown. Eventually everything will level out and the rates can be slowly raised as can the rent. But in Windsor...not a chance!

• In the background it's Windsor in the picture with the kids? I miss the norwich block!! great photo Andrew!

• I posted a Detroit film today from the same era that will be of great interest to Windsor folk:

  http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/06/10/detroit-1965/

• Downtown as we all know started to decline in the mid 60's with the advent of the shopping mall. Downtowns will only be able to reinvent themselves if they find a nice market to tap into. Brevard North Caroliina was a sleepy, almost dilapitated town in the 80's. When Walmart came to the outskirts of town, the downtown merchants who wanted to be near them, relocated.
  With the additon of antique shops and small boutique businesses, it has revamped itself into a trendy little town.
  As a downtown resident, I want a bakery and newstand downtown. We can remember the old days with fondness but that era is gone. Business finds its own level. There is no "they" to reel them in.

• Shawn Micallef,

  Thanks for that! Interesting about the "D" being awarded the bid on the 1969 Olympics. Obviously that didn't work out.

• Sean, great link, and a great period peice.

  Ken, Detroit was acutally the US bid city for nearly every games from the end of WWII.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bids_for_Olympic_Games

• great pics as always andrew! thanks! all those shop signs just make downtown look alive!!!
  and a great shot from detroit as well. i wish i understood/appreciated the arch. of that block before it was gone, but alast..i was too young. still thought the buildings were sweet but didn't really know it's signifigance.
  is the facade of the bank still in storage collecting dust, or have we smashed it up to use as filler in the median on the expressway? you know...the expressway they just tore up a couple years ago...just to tear it up again???

• Aaron, it is still mothballed in storage. I doubt we will ever see it again.

• Yes, still in storage. There have been a couple of proposals for reuse. None of them any good. Most involved tacking the facade on a strip mall.