Photo © the Bernie Drouillard Collection, used with permission, digitized by John Stefani
A neat shot towards the end start of WWII, looking south on Ouellette from just south of Wyandotte Street. As you can see there has been an on street bus terminal there, as long as Windsor has had buses. The corner of the Dominion grocery store is visible on the right side of the photo, while the former Vanity Theatre anchors the left hand side.
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John, you are correct. But Dr. Disc moved a few years ago.
Stephen Fox, I can't get that url to work.
Here's a recent view:
This photo would have to be in the early 1950's. The front bus is an early Twin Coach, a "shorty" in SW&A's 200 number series (230?), compared to the longer Twins in the 300's, 400's and 500's. To the right was the Dominion store where Mom used to drag me grocery shopping with a promise of getting an ice cream treat at Lyttle's up the street at Ouellette and Maiden Lane. I believe this may have been the first Dominion store in Canada. Note the sign directing motorists to highway 2, which ran all the way to Halifax via a route along the St. Lawrence River before it was flooded out for the St. Lawrence Seaway which opened in 1959.
The first Dominion Stores where in Toronto. In 1919 a group from A&P in New York purchased 15 or 20 store from T P Loblaw Co. that was in financial trouble (bankrupt). They renamed these store Dominion, one or more where in downtown Toronto. In later years one of their slogans was Truly Canadian, with a red maple leaf on the D.
In the mid eighties the chain was bought by A&P. an in 2005 bought by Metro from Quebec.