Last week I had a post about the Boiler Room, but no photo of the building…
Photo c. 2001, Chuck Pike
Regular reader Chuck Pike has come to the rescue! He found this photo in his archives from July, 2001.
I had completely forgotten how it looked, despite driving past it every day for years…
Out of sight, out of mind I suppose, but a big thanks to Chuck for sending along a photo of the place.
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Hard to tell how old the building is with that re-muddled front porch. But it does look it was built before 1920. Great job in finding a picture as I too couldn’t remember what it looked like.
I remember when that place was called the “Howard House”
Kudos to Mr. Pike for providing the photo. Can you imagine if the walls of that joint could have talked?!
I’m sure they’d have stories to tell, with a lot of colourful local language sprinkled in : )
Which reminds me, has there ever been a study about the local Windsor accent/vernacular? Certain sayings are purely Windsor ie (Ford’s Chrysler’s Kmart’s etc) I had a conversation on this subject recently, and the person I was talking to claims that different parts of the city have different accents. West End Windsor accent is slightly Americanized, East Windsor is more Canadian sounding and Downtown has a sort of no accent at all, very generic sounding, etc……. has anyone else noticed this? There definately IS a Windsor accent though, and if you spend time away and talk to people from other parts of Canada, they say we sound “American” which I don’t see at all. We definately have some influence of the Mid Western accent being so close to the American Mid West, but its not that noticeable….
I know it’s sort of an off the wall subject, but I’d really like to know if I’m alone in this haha
yeah i remember that place it was a liquid lunch place for the boys of kelsey hayes
WOW! i was waaaaaaay off on my desciption! thanks a bunch Chuck!
re Brendan vernacular : many examples inluding- plural for toast= toastes do you want one toast or two toastes . Past tenses of many action verbs {east Windsor style) ‘Where did you went’ throw in the ubiquitous ‘me’ and ‘there’ the answer is ‘I goed me there to the for to buy some breads eh’ or the one I like ‘Whats the matter for you – you do not speak no more the french like it should be spoke eh? ‘