This oriental grocery store on Wyandotte St. W. between Bruce and Church is one of those buildings in town with a secret past.
As featured in the December 31, 1929 issue of the Windsor Star, the building began life as a Nash Dealership.
Other than some relatively small changes to the fenestration, the building looks remarkably similar to how it did when it was built in 1929.
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that's a very cool building....i can't beleive i've never taken a good look at that place. beautiful.
and look how BIG cars have gotten!!! that '29 whateverthehell is only taking up half that window, i bet that malibu would hardly fit in the whole thing!
and as for NASH.....i think they started making skatboards in the end if i'm not mistaken LOL!
allenparkpete - are you sure about the loop? i was always told it started life as a place where they kept horses and their coaches....hence the name "the coach and horse". and then maybe the upper floors would have been for the drivers or visitors who had parked their horses there.
Aaron - allenparkpete is right. The building that houses the Loop was bult around 1912, and was a Ford Dealership
wow that's crazy. does that include the floor the loop occupies? probly offices,eh? there looks like there used to be an enormous skylight up there at some point.
as always, the info i find on here astounds me. thanks andrew!
Aaron, After the Ford dealership the LOop turned into Baum & Brody's Furniture store...you can still see remains of the painted sign on the east side of the building.
Where was the parking lot for this former Ford dealership now known as the Loop?
Outstanding find. I too walked/rode by this building hundreds of times while growing up in the area - I believe it may have been a cleaners then - without noticing its unique character. Back then it was bikes and girls.
I recall a big open space directly behind, out-of sight of the streets, stretching all the way to the backyards of houses fronting on Elliott. This treeless expanse was dominated by a large down at-the-heels but still imposing structure. I remember a flagpole, balconies... We used to refer to the area as "the bowling green" without knowing why. Obviously it must have been a lawn bowling club at one time and the structure was the clubhouse. Anyone remember this place or know anything of its history?
The before and after is perfect example of what is wrong with our signage bylaws of today. And, like the Nash sign when things used to be better.
Just like the BMO building,(stil standing?) those huge backlit signs have no busines plastered to the face of the building. How many times and how big does a business name need to be repeated on the faced of buildings in the public realm? It degrades the area and streetscape as a whole! What does it take to get this bylaw change?
Back in the late 60's this building was a car museum, an gentleman by the name of Bob Galt used it for a museum, he later moved to an building in LaSalle. I was in it once as I brought some parts from him for an 1940 Ford pickup I was restoring then. The place was packed with parts.
Back in the late 60's this building was a car museum, an gentleman by the name of Bob Galt used it for a museum, he later moved to an building in LaSalle. I was in it once as I brought some parts from him for an 1940 Ford pickup I was restoring then. The place was packed with parts.