From the Windsor Daily Star – December 31, 1964.
The photo above ran in an advertisement of one of the suppliers for the concrete work, but shows the old Viscount Motor Hotel on Ouellette Avenue.
Here’s the site today.
Anyone have any memories to share?
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That was also Biff's and it opened before the one at the Viscount. I believe it was part of a chain out of Toronto.
my one & only memory of this 17th floor motel/hotel while walking south on Ouellette with no place to "crash" that nite, I heard a girls voice calling my name from a window. It was snowing & when I realized that she was inviting me to her room.
I took her up on her offer & spent 1 warm night in this motel style hotel.Maybe they went outta business because too many people were staying for free.
C P
Geez gary.....I'm not too sure. Could very well be before my time if it was in the same time frame as the Viscount. I was only 6 or 7 when it came down!
Back in the 70's it was a great place to have the prom night afterhour bash and crash ( at one of the rooms ), especially coming in from the county, ee haa!! We thought it was the best place in town with the diff. bars and rooms, all in one building. Later when college days appeared it was the place to bring your hot date to impress her with the view of Windsor and the Detroit skyline from the Top of the Town restaurant and then disco dancing in the lounge. They both shared the top floor. The one item that became the towers' downfall is that it was way out of plumb and leaned like the Tower of Pisa. How much ? someone out there could verify by how much.
In the 70s, Tepperman's had an ongoing "Junior Announcer" contest which my parents enrolled me in. Basically you auditioned to read a commercial script for Teppermans. Kids with bright, cheery voices got the gig. I did not win, but the consolation prizes were still cool. So was the amazing view over Windsor from CKWW's suite on the top floor of the Viscount.
Also, does anyone remember "PLAN A" for this property, after the Viscount was demo'd?
Remember the "Pheonix Condominiums", which they were pre-selling for quite some time before giving up. I'm not sure how much of the condo building was actually built, if anything at all, before the barrier boards came down around the property and it became what it is today - a parking lot for the hospital. I remember my father took some photos during this time period.
Windsor......world leader in the transformation of architecture into......parking lots.
Stan Willimont, then the Director of Recreation for the Parks and Rec Department, rented the Viscount pool and offered private swimming lessons. I worked as his assistant instructor for a season or two in the early '70s.
Kathryn, I took swimming lessons there. Remember the classes well.
Thanks anyway Aaron joe verified that it was also a biffs which proceeded the one at the Viscount....god i'm feling my age