Here’s another then and now left over from the other week…
1952
2008
This one is located on Walker Road, just north of Tecumseh Road. Look at the front window, probably one of the few times, that glass block was removed and replaced with windows, as opposed to the opposite. 
I’ve always wondered about this building. You can barely see the business name from years back on the top of the bulding from the other side (from Turner).
how remarkably intact!!!!! that’s a really nice building.
the awning is ugly.
Interesting! I always liked that building and wondered about it!
Incidentally there is a letter in today’s paper about the downtown parking situation. “$15 ticket a costly way to end downtown trip.” (I know we have to read signs more clearly but…
Sorry for blank message – tried to post a hyperlink but it didn’t work out. Here goes again, if anyone is interested in reading the letter VP refers to –
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/letters/story.html?id=8a5b97b2-f707-459a-922e-114d8775a5a2
Hahaha, I read that in the paper earlier today and was thinking of doing the same thing. It’s so true–free parking at the mall pretty much sums it up. What is bylaw 9023 as amended, section 53 anyway?
The Parking Enforcement Unit provides enforcement of Parking By-law 9023 from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, Monday to Saturday for:
* All municipally owned surface lots
* Specific private property locations
* Street meters
* Residential permit parking areas
* All regulated roads in the City of Windsor
* Private Property where the Owner meets Officer and signs a Private Property Form
I like the glass brick in the original building. You can see a big difference when glass block is part of an original design plan rather than just slapped in later. Speaking of which, I walked past that former nightclub on Chilver just off Wyandotte the other day (was it called the Complex?) and some work was being done on it to turn it into office lofts. There were several panels of styrofoam insulation on the front of the building that came flush with the exterior bricks. Do you think they’re going to stucco? This was several days ago so it might even be finished already, but I don’t go by there very often.
Patrick ORyan’s to be demolished, in the paper today as well. Sad. To bad he didn’t purchase that building. Its a nice one. The Royal Bank on the other hand can go.
Oh, and just to add to the discussion of parking downtown: in Athens GA, where I just finished grad school, it costs twenty-five cents an hour to park at a meter downtown. If your time runs out you’ll receive a three dollar ticket. Of course this means that it’s hell trying to find parking downtown in evenings or on weekends, but you can bet your arse that the downtown’s packed with people all the time.
Concerning the former Complex site at Chilver and Wyandotte (also the original venue for Brentwood and the first world headquarters of Walkerville Publishing, among other things)- looks like stucco and siding to me with some brick exposure, based on what is happening to the sides of the building. Business lofts going in there- good for the hood….
Thanks Chris. However as soon as Rosatti’s sign went up on the building I knew a stucco shit storm was the destiny of the buildng.
Look no further than the affront to humanity they are responsible for on the old Tepperman’s Building on Ottawa St.
They loves them some stucco!
As a side note, Western Tragedy also sent me an email that the crescent manor apartments under construction at Ottawa & Parent are getting prepped for a craptastic layer of stucco too…
^^So much for an nice pleasing addition to that streetscape with that crap stuck to the side of the building.