Giles and Ouellette – 1932

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• This location is on the west side where Riverside Dr. becomes Sandwich St. and intersects with the west end of University Ave.

• there was a Supertest station at Seminole and Pillete where the Macs milk is i don't think the store is the original building though

• Nah, that's a totally generic Mac's building, Gary.

  And thanks, John. The last two I really didn't think were Supertest stations...they just make me wonder is all. :)

• I remember the Supertest station at Pillette and Seminole. I lived 4 houses away from the early 60's to the late 80's. It is still the original building, but from my earliest recollection it never had the same style roof as shown in the photo. It always had a flat roof. I remember as a small boy, my brother and I riding our bikes by the auto repair bays and the mechanics would give us STP stickers that we plastered all over our bikes.

• The Supertest ( Pillette & Seminole ) was called Corchis's I'm not sure of the spelling but I was in the same class at school with Billy Corchis and was always at the garage. I think Bills's dad was also Bill. I remember filling our bicycle tires with free air and how the device rang each time a pound of air was added to the tire. But still many a time we blew up a tube inside the tire watching the pump and not the tire itself ???

• Thanks for the info Dan B. Upon closer inspection, you can actually see the difference in colour in bricks where the garage bay doors were!

  Guess it looked something like this when you were a kid...only a little longer.

  http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=pillette+and+seminole+windsor&hl=en&ll=42.312346,-82.994242&spn=0.000004,0.005659&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=34.86214,92.724609&vpsrc=6&z=18&layer=c&cbll=42.312461,-82.994313&panoid=5utMdbOB8dd19k_mGZ5uJg&cbp=12,258.32,,1,3.54

  This is at Seminole and Drouillard

• Dan do you remember when the AA corner grill was Fraser's dairy bar? i'm trying to remember what was on the corner where that little strip mall is and the back in the 50's the lot where the apartment building is was used to sell christmas trees i grew up on the 800 blk of Raymo rd i remember one christmas my mom and myself bought a tree there and carried it back down to Raymo

• @ Gary, I think it was Dorner's Grocery Store or Meat market. Dorner's something

• Shirley i think your right it seems to me there was a drug store in that area as well thanks!!

• In the sixties there was a druge store at the north end of the parking lot, and a grocery stoe at the south end, probably the only stores there.