A look at the corner of Tecumseh and Ouellette.
I can only assume that this building still exists behind the Medical Imaging Centre. Interesting to see part of the old Driving Park Hotel to the rear. I think this may have lived on as the Colonial House in later years,
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You do not have to assume, My Dear Andrew! The buidings, I am of the thinking that they are one and the same, for it is to the left of them that I do see The Same Chimney. It is at the most starting position of the spaghetti sign in the first and foremost picture and it is there yet again in the most modern of pictures under the sign of the Techumseh Rd! They are One And The Same I do Believe!
Had my first pizza (plain cheese) with cherry coke after probably a Stardust Dance at Kennedy. Later had my first draft at the old Colonial. Inside the door you turned left for the men's side, right for the ladies and escorts side. Also a stairs to rooms above for let. What a fantastic corner.
I believe this was the original Biff's coffee shop and diner and then Mario's. It was done in the old black and yellow diner tiles that were popular way back when. There was another Biff's further down Quellette although much smaller. This building was also the Hacienda station at one time where they had two box cars on rail tracks at the front right side of the building. However, if you went in there to dine in a train environment you didn't get it; they were just long dining rooms and the place seemed very mediocre so of course it didn't last long.
Wow has it ever changed!!!
I'm not sure if I remember this building,i do!! remember the old Colonial House Tavern I had a few beers there when I was younger,what amazes me is the amount of area in front of the building there's actually grass today if you stand on that corner your practically standing in traffic I don't understand why they would build it so close to the corner
It was built a fair distance from the corner, but the corner moved closer thanks to road widening over the years. Nothing ever seems to last there; the medical imaging business being the latest casualty of an optimistic investor.
I had my first pizza there when it first opened in early 1950. It was the only real restaurant for years.
The Thing I am Most Confused about is the corner of the building! How did it go from a most Rounded shape to a most Pointed shape? Is it still rounded on the inside of the building? Or did that Rounded corner suffer a fate most disturbing?
Look at the road sign. #2 was Tecumseh Rd., 98 is now 46, my dad used 98 a lot, and to get to the 401, you took Dougall to the new 3B cutoff where the 401 started. This shot was taken before the Oullette overpass.
I remember when that same corner was an O"Tooles I moved across the street from it in about1989 I think and it was O"Tooles then,i worked for a gentleman that was one of the investors when it was the Hacienda Station and I recall him telling me Gary never invest in a restaurant you'll loose your shirt!!