From the back of the card:
Only 4 minutes from the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
exit, on Highway 3B, leading to Highway 401.
Dining room with excellent cuisine. Banquet
facilities. Pool. All inside corridors. Carpeted
throughout. Direct dial telephone. Bath tub and
shower. Individually controlled electric heat and
air-conditioners.
Today this site is home to a Howard Johnson, the former Royal Marquis hotel.
Anyone remember this place?
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Eugenie and Ouellette Place was not much of a corner until the Jackson Park Overpass connected 401 traffic on Dougall with the main street. Madrid opened about this time (1960). Taking the traffic off Dougall somewhat "killed" the then new Dorwin Centre but never brought prosperity to Ouellette.
I don't know about that, Uzzy. Maybe the motel part in the back that is separate, but I have my doubts about the structure pictured here. I doubt you could build a second level on that thing anyways. I think it just sits in basically the same spot.
Comparing a 1967 aerial and one from today, I just don't see it. You could be correct, of course. lol
No, you couldn't build a second level. But not all of is 2 levels. I'm pretty sure the single story section to the north is what is pictured here, and the much larger 2-story building you see today was a large add-on at a later date.
Hmm. I think I can kind of see it. What we need is someone who actually saw this thing getting built.
The Madrid banquet area was in operation in 1975 when I attended a wedding reception there.
Yes this was the Marquis Plaza Hotel up until recently.
It only recently became a Howard Johnson.
The other one on Howard that is a retirement home was the Royal Marquis.
I only know this because I stayed in both (before they changed over within the last 10 years)
This was the GRAND Marquis. I always got the two confused as well.
The pic above is of the 'Dining Room' section only. I believe there was a taller section, kind of 'boxy' that housed the hotel office, this would be to the left side of the dining room section, past the decorative cement fence.....I could be 'confused?'...hehe
ohh as I recall as well....after looking at the google map....the Madrid sat well back from Dougall Ave., not as close to the road as the present Howard Johnson, so....perhaps the present building is new altogether. I see behind, the original hotel/motel room part....I guess I'll have to take a drive there and see exactly what is behind the Howard Johnson and if any of the buildings could have been the original Madrid, as the pic above...
Jay, it's on Ouellette, not Dougall. And I'm pretty sure that section of Ouellette is a lot wider than it used to be. It's 6 lanes, plus median right in front of the hotel. It was probably 4 lanes back then. It's almost certainly the same structure will add-ons.