Happy Wednesday everyone! A neat shot looking east down Pitt Street towards Ouellette. The street car at the end of the shot is on the other side of Ouellette and was the W.E. & L.S. car to the county. The closest building on the left beside the car is the real estate office of George Lawton. Lawton was a designer and builder of many homes around Windsor and the Border Cities, his most famous house being Devonshire Lodge or as it’s better known today, the Low-Martin house.
In true Windsor fashion, nearly everything you can see here has been demolished.
Makes me a little bit ill to think this is pretty much all gone. It’s upsetting.
Windsor planning throughout the years should be more than ashamed of itself.
The only thing that might still be standing (if it was even built then. Can’t see it clearly here) would be the former White Star, current Tequila Bob’s on Pitt St. E. Everything else in view is certainly gone.
The 1919-20 Vernon’s City of Windsor, Sandwich, Walkerville and Ford Directory (pp.92 & 93) lists the occupants of those buildings visible on the north and south sides of Pitt St. W.:
http://www.archive.org/stream/vernonswindsor00vernuoft#page/92/mode/2up
i’m thinking that store that has the wall paper sign hanging over head was a paint store it would have been in the block where that dammed white elephant the Chrysler parking garage is now I recall seeing it in the late 60’s early 70’s
judging by how dirty the cars are the streets must have been a hell of a mess on wet days
Our view today…………..
http://goo.gl/maps/0AMXC
The present street view gives the impression of a modern vibrant city, as opposed to dirt road streets. Even if the present shot isn’t accurate it makes Windsor a nice clean city, hopefully.