Riverside Drive – 1962

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• Gary, I believe Windsorshane was joking...being sarcastic.
  This city has become an embarrassment. From a historic point of view.

• Scott
  I too loved the trees but even without disease, they were doomed. During the cost cutting late nineties, anything that was deemed none value added was chopped...amongst the first to go was the grounds dept.At one point ,driving from Devonshire to Drouillard was like driving thru a botanical wonderland.An oasis in the city !
  lawns were manicured, plants were changed sesonaly, hedges were perfectly square and trees were trimmed regularly and properly.When you drove by you had a sense that whomever was running the show at Walkers, really new their stuff and that Walkers as a corporate citizen, was always a cut above the rest.
  Unfotunately, nice landscaping does not show up on the bottom line and it was eventually all torn up, dug out or covered up..I myself would pay an extra doller per bottle to return this area to its past beauty. Sadly now its just another collection of red brick buildings.

• I wish I could remember a time when the drive from Devonshire to Drouillard was like driving through a botanical garden. Sadly, I'm not old enough to remember that. I don't even really remember the Peabody bridge, but I remember hearing about them tearing it down.

• Newest news from Eddie: Paul Martin building is old and we don't want it.

• Oh yeah he's not interested in renovating the building and putting City Hall there either? Who cares your current City Hall is fine.. if your elevators don't work fix them, it's called renovation. Typical, we obviously have the wrong man for mayor. It's been 10 years can we get real?

• YA i know he's kidding

• They could have taken over a couple floors of the failed Canderal building and made new headquarters for the city there This pay as you go is a bunch of BS

• i wonder if that is the old Ford"s building off in the distance when the drive curves just before Drouillard RD???

• Gary, that pay as you will save my children and their children a lot of money. It isn't BS.

  What is BS is stating that because something is old we need to destroy and build new. That is one of the biggest scams in N. America that keeps going.

• If the governmemt thinks its to expensive to save the Paul Martin building why should Windsor want it? Built in 1933 maybe if the Federal govermemt took care of it there would still be value there, not just an old rundown building.
  Sandwitch post office, Paul Martin building, see a patern Walker Rd. postal building next?