Image from the collection of Scott Hughes
Regular reader Scott Hughes, sent along a great old postcard to share with readers. The card was issued in 1959 by The Greater Windsor Industrial Commission. Above is a crop of the card showing the north side of Wyandotte St. between Ouellette and Goyeau. The building on the corner under construction, is today’s TD Bank, and the only building still standing.
Image from the collection of Scott Hughes
Here is a view of the whole card, a nice view of the central portion of Downtown Windsor. There have been so many changes to Windsor’s skyline in the last 50 years…
Image from the collection of Scott Hughes, red splotches by me 🙂
I thought I would take a stab at pointing them out. Everything in red is something that has been demolished since the photo was taken. I’m also willing to bet that I missed some, especially on the west side of the card.
Wow.
[EDIT] – Scott looked over my red splotches, and found a few I missed! So here’s the most up to date version.
Thanks again to Scott for sending it in!
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May be some pie in the sky idea might work, When looking for a western anchor the plan from the Chicago group got tossed, no arena. The other plans offered then never happened even with arenas in them. The tallest office building west of Toronto shrunk before it was built.
Renovation of Cleary cost 31 million plus, then peddled to St. Clair College. Not bad when the Cleary only cost about 1 million.
The Chicago Navy Yard is a huge succses, may be it would have worked in Windsor, we will never know now. May be some attraction downtown will draw people and retail back, or we can wait till Tecumseh does somethig to scare Windsor again.
@acid ???