Last week I had photo of the Bruce Baptist Church demolition from 1949. I came across another photo of the area from 1929. Looking east toward Bruce Avenue. The church on the left is the Bruce Baptist Church we saw last week.
Courtesy of Google Streetview here’s the same view today.
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The "Then" picture is what I would vote for. Can you bring it back?
As I recall, the same view in the late 1970s (about the time I bailed out of a fading metropolis) was remarkably similar to the 1929 view. There was a beer parlor masquerading as a veterans club (Canadian Legion?) on the SE corner (beer and stale smoke smell every time I walked by). Pre-chinese greasy spoon (different names over the years - maybe Sofos around this time?)on the NE corner. Service Market also on the north side of University next to the restaurant (They always had a funky bicycle out front with a small front wheel and huge basket for local deliveries - imagine that!). Bethel Pentecostal with its neon "Jesus Saves" cross dominating the northwest corner, and the old commercial block on the SW corner. Can't remember what was in that block. Maybe a drugstore (Ponds? Rexall?) in the corner unit. When did that block go down?
A cataclysm in the last thirty years.
Windsor to me now looks like one of those emaciated survivors of the Nazi death camps.
Windsor-in-exile, and it has been treated as such by elected officials, apathetic administration and by it's own citizens.