While this was first mentioned back in November, 2012, the worlds slowest demolition continues…
This demolition is best viewed from the side as the facade is so overgrown, it’s hard to see the work that’s occurred on the site.
The building is being eaten from the inside out. Catch it before it’s gone.
Built in 1929, the house at 2177 Victoria Avenue was originally numbered 1545 Victoria, pre…
Crescent Lanes first opened on Ottawa Street in 1944 at 1055 Ottawa Street, opposite Lanspeary…
Above is a photo of the home of Mr & Mrs Oswald Janisse, located at…
in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
Photo from Google Streetview A long time reader sent me an email the other week…
An unremarkable end to a part of Windsor's history. The large vacant house at 841…
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you mentioned under one of the above photos the slowest demolition everything in this dam city takes forever to complete there should be a sign facing Seminole that states coming eventually another parking lot
LOL you're too funny Gary!!! But that seems to be the routine or the great plan today in Windsor! While I'm at it....does anyone remember the Remington Rand yellow brick building across the street from this place? It looked similar to the old hydro sub-station down the road from Motor Lamp, with yellowish beige brick and red steel framed windows. I believe the building might have been torn down and is now a parking lot....lol It was between the Thyssen-Krupp building and the building that has 2 trucking docks facing Seminole. I know I wasn't imagining things, my daddy worked there as a volunteer, they were working on the Univac Computers and business machines. It was a one-floor long building with 'Remington Rand' in bold reddish brown letters across the front of it. I WISH I could see a pic of it!!!
I had a summer jobs for a couple of years in that building in the early 80s with the Sun Ray Solar company, since the sign was still up on the front in the last couple of years I assume it was the last tenant. Crappy, minimum wage job, they treated their employees pretty badly.
I worked here aswell when it was Seminole managemant(stamping plant), Sun Ray Solar Systems was at the front of the building and was leased. Lots of memories in this old building
I worked at Sun Ray Solar in the early eighties in this building as well. Sun Ray were the pioneers in the solar industry in Windsor. They manufactured solar panels that heated water, which is much more efficient and less expensive than today's photovoltaic panels.
FRANK i worked in the shipping dept. with DAN B WE SHIPPED THERMOPANE GLASS
Mark, I worked in the office as a Project Manager at Sun Ray Solar Systems from 1982 to 1985. Yes Sun Ray built Thermopane glass units as a secondary source of income along with solar panels in the same factory. We built, shipped and installed hundreds of solar panels for commercial and domestic hot water applications all over Southwest Ontario, some of which are still in operation. We even shipped many panels to Kingston, Jamaica with contracts that we had with the federal government. As I said, we were the leaders in the solar industry here in Windsor long before the companies operating today.