From the Windsor Daily Star – July 31, 1936:
STATION OF NEW MODERNISTIC DESIGN OPENED BY SHELL
This attractive Shell service station at the northwest corner of Ouellette Avenue and Erie Street opened for business today. It is of a modernistic design, entirely fireproof and finished in a neutral shade with red trim. There are five gasoline pumps of a new design. The station is selling Shell sealed gasoline and oil, tires and accessories and is equipped with a Moto-Sway hoist for Shellubriaction. This is the sixth of the chain of Shell stations in Windsor. (By Staff Photographer)
A view of the intersection of Erie and Ouellette from the Bernie Drouillard Collection. The shell station is visible in the rear.
A view of the Fire Insurance Map from 1937.
“shellubrication” lol why are the pumps (if that’s what’s indicated by the rectangles) on the southwest corner of the lot in the fire map? i can’t really picture a gas station fit next to the medical arts building either….which is probly why it lost out and was torn down. but the shape looks like it could’ve been of similar design as the old station at marentette/techumseh.
and i still can’t beleive you can barely see the two huge homes to the north of that station because of all those trees!!!! they look like they’re isolated now and they havn’t moved an inch. also unbeleivable…….i know those garbage cans are STILL out there in this city!
…….or, are those rectangles the underground tanks?
Aaron, since this was a frie insurance map I bet those are the tanks…
That’s a good point, I never thought about what the rectangles were… I would bet those are the location of the tanks.
As for the one next to the Medical Arts. It was probably a Mobil station. It’s hard to see, but in this photo, http://www.rreid.net/OldTrails/old_mobil_gas_3b.jpg you can see the round part behind the canopy.
The one at Tecumsseh and Marentette, like the one at Tecumseh and Church: http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=313 were Fina Sataions. Those stations didn’t come along until the late 1950’s.
I like that photograph. One of the things I noticed was the trash can, as well. I am going to wonder how old one of those is every time I see one from now on! Seeing those streetcars makes me sad for the loss. Too bad the city could not come up with a hybrid solution that would have allowed those streetcars to remain. Oh well…
awwwww….my work is blocking that mobile page because it’s a personal homepage…or somethin’
i know david II, isn’t it a bit depressing looking at pictures like these? everything about this very simple picture is so much more telling of a vibrant, living city. if we made this a then and now……how sad. i don’t understand why we don’t have streetcars either. only every other modern city on the planet has them, so they must not be worth the cost. plus, imagine trying nowadays to run streetcars in the middle of the road and that’s where you get on? people are , for the most part, too pre occupied to look for traffic. that or just plain dumb.
if they DID bring them back here, i don’t know if i’d be happy unless they were reproductions of cars similar to these beauties.
thats crazy i live right by there anf that looks nothing the same. theres a macs there now
I believe this is the north WEST corner which is now a convienience store / gas station.