331 Ouellette Avenue

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• Single headlights. Maybe a Studebaker product, VP?

• In the early 1950`s Red Robins` had an xray machine used to determine the proper fit of kids shoes .I remember standing in front of a rectangular boxy structure while my mother discussed the fit of a pair of "Buster Browns" for me... imagine that !!! Years later , when I was 16 I worked there in the childrens` department parttime for 50 cents an hour . I also worked for Ponds Drug store (the same year) at the corner of Wyandotte & Ouellette ...also for 50 cents an hour !!! Those were the days when a student could have several parttime jobs at a time !!!
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  Caroel Anne

• If you enlarge the picture it could be a Packard, the hood ornamemt looks like theirs. I think they where still built into the late fifties.

• I remeber the Red robin store but don't recall the good house keeping store i think wilkinsons was next door to the north i knowmy mom shopped at red robins and i think i was the owner of a couple pairs of buster brown shoes with the picture of the kid with the sailor suit red hat and dog in the heal of each shoe whoa!!! thats a long time ago

• According to my mother, my grandmother worked at Red Robin in the late 1940's to the beginning of the 1950's.

• I think the original top part of the Red Robin building has been removed, compare the pics of the original and the Mandarin House pic. I need to go in there, the Mandarin House, if it's still open, just to see if it has the same 'atmosphere feel' to it as Chanosos and the Loose Goose buildings. Not much left of the old Windsor from the '30's -'60's

• Jay Thompson Ricard, I'm not sure what top part, you're referring to. They added a window, but other than that, it seems to be identical.