From the Department of Public Works section of the 1962 City of Windsor Annual Report comes this photograph shown above.
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The C.N.R. Overpass, aka the Peabody Bridge, was a fixture for how many years?
So, that is the corner of Riverside Dr. and Devonshire, looking East, right?
Correct Uzzy.
I think that the only building still standing in this photograph is the building just peeking out to the right, behind the flat iron building that was moved around to corner to Devonshire.
And of course the Ford power building stacks in the background.
Don't forget the Hiram Walker building peeking out from the top left. That's still there too.
The buildings on the left side of rhe picture are still there and in use. The original offices of Hiram Walker are in the second building on the left, (blocked by building) is open for public tours and imformation about Canadian Club.
Richard, I took the tour in January. It's so awesome. I already want to do it again. Everybody should go! But that main building on the left, that you say is blocking the offices, looking at street view, I don't think that's there, but the routing of the street and intersection could have changed somewhat, and put that building, west of the old main office further back from the road.
Its a good thing they tore all this down... i much prefer the vacant lots.
Great photo Andrew. That long row of White Elm "Ulmus americana" on the left along the curb are long gone as well.... They were well cared for by Hiram Walker grounds keepers until the very end, when they were eventually hit by Dutch Elm Disease. They would still, no doubt, be there to this day if not for that fungi. I remember those trees while driving by the area when I was a young boy. They shaded the buildings in the dead of summer, imagine the cooling effect they had on those stone and brick buildings. Thanks for posting!
This picture brings back a lot of memories for me. My first job at Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd. was in the Duplicating Department running an offset printing press. The department was located on the first floor of the flatiron building. The window in the rounded section was where the supervisor's office was located. My area was in the space with the 3 windows.
windsorshane that corner looks like sh#@$*now with all those empty lots at least the corner in the photo had character more and more the city is turning into a praire with all these dam empty spaces the windsor from the past is dying from genocide