Old PhotographsWindsor

190 Park Place - Then and Now

April 15, 2009
Back in March, I had a post on Park Place near the University. The house at 190 Park Place, was, as you may remember, featured in the Border Cities Star in 1924. It was the home of Joseph Loikrec, who owned a dry goods store at Wyandotte and Mercer (located today under Fred Thomas Park). Along with Joseph, Harry, Hyman and Olaf, all students are listed at the residence. After that post, I had…
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Windsor

Ferguson Glass

April 14, 2009
A slew of buildings along Howard Avenue are looking forward to a future as a temporary roadway around the Howard Avenue grade separation. Among them, is the Ferguson Glass Building. It’s an older cinder block warehouse with an interesting 1970’s office slapped…
Old Newspaper StoriesOld PhotographsWindsor

L.A. Young Industries

April 9, 2009
Yesterday WRG commented on the Chrysler photo with the following: I looked quickly at Chrysler Canada’s history (again at the allpar) site, and in ’64 Chrysler acquired L. A. Young Spring & Wire Limited and the Walker Metal Products foundry both in Windsor… That being said, I have never heard of, or even heard reference to L. A. Young Spring & Wire. So here we go with…
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Old PhotographsReader SubmissionWindsor

Windsor Assembly

April 8, 2009
Today’s photo was sent along from a regular reader. An interesting early aerial photo of the Windsor Assembly Plant. I’m unsure of the date on this one, but it’s probably from the mid to late 1930’s. The view is looking south from Walker Tecumseh…
Old AdsWindsor

Kelsey Wheel Company

April 7, 2009
Today is another glimpse into the industrial history of our fair city. The Kelsey Wheel Company (later Kelsey Hayes) was opened in Windsor in November of 1913. It was the first plant to be unionized by the UAW in Canada. It closed down not too long after I moved to Windsor…
Essex CountyOld Ads

Real Estate For Sale - 1925 Style

April 6, 2009
Does anyone out there Recognize this house in/near Amherstburg? I need some County help today… 🙂 From “The Detroiter” (the publication of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce), May 18, 1925: BEAUTIFUL RIVERFRONT HOME FOR SALE This property which is suitable for a summer or year round home or for a clubhouse, is situated on the Canadian shore of the Detroit River, facing Bob-Lo…
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Bernie Drouillard CollectionEssex County

Streetcar Friday

April 3, 2009
To the County today, and a little Inter-Urban history. As usual, if it has to do with streetcar, and history, we need to thank John and Bernie for digging them up. The first shot shows an inter-urban car passing the corner of Division & Main St. in downtown (or…
StuccoWindsor

Mmmm... Stucco...

April 2, 2009
Seeing as it’s been a while since I singled out and ridiculed a bad renovation job… This one is bad. I used this one as one of my bad renovation examples during the Petcha Kucha talk a few months ago… Located at Wyandotte and Parent, there are four…