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Bottle Drive This Weekend

May 22, 2009
Don’t forget to bring your empties back for a good cause this weekend: Returns for Leukemia Research is a fundraising initiative of The Beer Store and its employee union, UFCW Local 12R24, to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada. On the weekend of May 23 and 24, customers will be invited to donate all or a portion of their empty bottle refund to the Society. 100%…
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PostcardsWindsor

City Hall

May 22, 2009
Closing out the week, we might as well do another postcard… Today is a card I have never seen before running across a copy on eBay recently.. It is a colour photo of the old City Hall. Although you can’t see it in the image above, the cars in the lot beside city…
PostcardsWindsor

The Hiram Walker Historical Museum

May 20, 2009
The Hiram Walker Historical Musuem Windsor, Ontario, Canada Installed in the old Francois Baby House, the earliest brick house in the Northwest, dating back to 1811. The Baby House was restored by Hiram Walker and Sons and depictis early life in the district This postcard likely dates to 1958, when the building was first rehabbed and opened as a museum. Note how the river was visible from Pitt…
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NewsWindsor

Bottle Drive Reminder

May 15, 2009
A reminder about the Bottle Drive, next weekend: Returns for Leukemia Research is a fundraising initiative of The Beer Store and its employee union, UFCW Local 12R24, to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada. On the weekend of May 23 and 24…
Old PhotographsWindsor

Children's Aid Society - Then & Now

May 15, 2009
Built in 1962, the building is misidentified as being located on the corner of Tuscarora & Louis, it’s actually on the corner of Cataraqui & Louis. Sometime later, the building was expanded, and the addition is much larger than the original section of the building. Also the original entrance was remodeled, with the wall removed. Today the building is mostly vacant since they…
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Old AdsWindsor

Dayus Roofing - Then & Now

May 14, 2009
After 50 years, Dayus Roofing is moving from Howard Avenue, expropriated for the new crossing. This Windsor business has been around since 1950, and luckily they aren’t packing it in. According to the sign on the Howard facade, they are moving to Halford Road in…
Old PhotographsWindsor

Drouillard 9

May 13, 2009
Today’s photo is a recent eBay find. Transit Windsor # 757 headed north on Chrysler Centre on the long gone Drouillard 9 route. The building to the rear is the long departed Chrysler Human Resources building, located on Chrysler Centre just south of Tecumseh Road. Two…