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Hoa Viet - Part II

July 8, 2009
*This is a follow up to a post about this building that appeared in June, 2008. Today is this building’s birthday. 80 years young, as it opened to the public Monday July 8, 1929. While browsing the microfilm at the library looking for something else, I stumbled across this article about the opening: From the Border Cities Star – Saturday July 6, 1929: SALES AND SERVICE ON WYANDOTTE…
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Farmer's Market

July 6, 2009
Despite the CUPE strike, and despite Councillor Gignac’s lone vote against allowing this market, the result was a great success! A dedicated group of organizers and volunteers worked their asses off to make sure this went off as well as it did. Work started late…
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Downtown Farmer's Market Tomorrow

July 3, 2009
Don’t forget the Farmer’s Market Tomorrow! Check out the website here: http://www.downtownfarmersmarket.ca/. There may be some differences between the information on the site, and that on the poster. I’ve been told to pass along that the poster is correct. Come out this Saturday between 8 am and 3 pm for the first day of the 2009 market season. The ribbon cutting ceremony willl…
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Green Corridor

July 3, 2009
If you haven’t passed by Huron Church and College Avenue lately, you’re missing out on the Green Corridor outdoor art project. One of the projects is this Dodge van, that’s stripped and full of holes and lit from the inside at night. It must have been…
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Ebbinghaus Electric Ltd.

June 29, 2009
While at the archives a while back looking through old Johnson-McWhinnie blueprints, this set for Ebbinghaus Electric caught my eye… The main thing that attracted me was this crazy sign from the front. Love the lightning bolts! 1960 had much cooler signs than the last few decades ever gave us… I wondered if the place was ever built, and if it was, if it was still around. All I had to…
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TD Bank Rises

June 26, 2009
So the TD Bank is on the way up. After a lot of underground work the building rose above ground pretty quickly. Too bad it’s going to look like it does. Another pedestrian unfriendly glass wall, and another dead block in the core. Reader Syl, sent in these photos of…
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Thursdays Live!

June 24, 2009
Don’t forget that Thursdays Live continues tomorrow night. As well as taking place in Walkerville, don’t forget that it is also taking place in the Pillette Village BIA as well. I was asked to pass along a message from Magpie Antiques, (disclaimer – I did…