Here’s a old post card, and today’s post is better late than never!
I’m sure it was on Riverside Drive, but I’ve never been able to locate much information about this place. It was a good looking building, like so many lost in Windsor over the years…
According to the 1919 Vernon’s City Directory, 115-117 Sandwich Street (Riverside Drive), south side, was occupied by the “Walkerville Bowling Green” and the “Walker, H, & Sons bottling dept.” Two addresses east of this point were Walker Road and the Park-Davis building.
Worked there for the Christmas season, 1959. Definitely on Riv Dr East. There was an odd shaped bldg on corner and this was next to it, between Walker and next street east. One of the best paying jobs for women in those days. I made $65 a week and was happy to get it. Kresge’s paid 25 cents an hour for P/T and grocery stores paid 50 cents to $1. Mostly women in bottling plant with a couple of men to do the heavy slugging. I worked in labelling. labels for all these bottles were put on by hand. This worked fine until the day we did Lemon Gin. By the time the bottles came down the conveyor to where I was, there weren’t too many left on the line. later, when I went to bathroom, the empties were all lined around the walls. Too funny. I and one other were the only sober ones of all the staff that day. Thank goodness no one got injured. HW’s didn’t make any money that day. lol
it got torn down when they moved the corner bldg. And built a new automated Bottling plant at Walker and Riverside.
I’m not sure when it was torn down, but I was cleaning windows at the new bottling plant back in 1984.
I worked in the new bottling plant in ’69 and’70. It was relatively new (certainly less than 10 years old) at that time.
That’s a great story, shirley! Made me LOL.
Sorry, Walker and next street WEST