A neat shot showing the long running GM new look coaches. The last of these weren’t retried until about 4 or 5 years ago.
The old sign at the tunnel entrance is long gone, as is the old GREYHOUND marquee on the old bus station. Along the awning of the bus station, you can make out the S.W. & A lettering. That name remained in use until 1977, when it was renamed Transit Windsor.
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
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Because I’ve had many people asking about it, unfortunately there isn’t going to be an International Metropolis calendar for 2015.
The layout is usually done and sent to press in late September or early October. This year a few projects got in the way, and before I knew it, it was too late to get it done for this year.
So… for everyone looking forward to it, I’m sorry, but I blew it for this year.
Check back this time next year, and look forward to the all new and revived 2016 IM calendar.
I remember the overhead sign encouraging travellers to listen to CKLW while in the tunnel. It must have come slightly later than this photo.
The GM newlooks indeed served this city for many years. It’s odd to think some of the buses I rode to high school in the ’80s were only a few years ago sent out to pasture! The 912 Heritage Bus is apparently at the transportation museum of Heritage Village but likely facing the same fate of neglect as the double decker bus did…..
In the background I think I see the Penobscot building in Detroit. When I was little I pronounced it the “hopscotch” building. I haven’t lived in Windsor since the ’70’s so I love this site and looking at the old pictures of my home town. I still have relatives in Windsor..Walkerville Brewery is owned by my cousin (plug plug)and my sister still lives there. My dad worked in Detroit for 26 years at the Budd plant and before that at the SW&A. Thanks for all the great memories Andrew.
Funny seeing a wood-sided, single-family home in the heart of the downtown in the mid 1970’s.
I think this pic is slightly older than captioned. The flags in the upper left are “Centennial” flags from 1967. Would they still be up and in such good condition 7 years later?
Great picture.
When was the Windsor Opera House torn down? That appears to be it, int he background. And Does anyone know when they covered up the second floor windows of the Greyhound Terminal?
Uzzy the “renovation” to the station was about 1977/78. The opera house I think came down in the middle of the 70s, maybe around 1975?
In 1974, the Tunnel Bus service was still operated by the Detroit and Canada Tunnel Company. Transit Windsor took over the service when the tunnel company declared it to be a money loser and pulled out. That was in the late 1970s, not long after SW&A was renamed Transit Windsor. The GM buses that belonged to the tunnel company were not transferred to Transit Windsor. TW used their own equipment. Any GM buses that were part of the Transit Windsor fleet were ex-SW&A, not DCT.