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St. Rose Development

August 13, 2008
Continuing along with the look at old Subdivision, we head out to Riverside today. From the Border Cities Star – June 14, 1924: Another ad that ran on June 12, 1924, featured these photos: Sadly, a drive out there didn’t unveil any houses to me that looked to be from the mid 1920’s. Other than the Chruch, and the school that is long gone, it doesn’t appear that too…
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McLaughlin Park

August 12, 2008
For the next few days, we’re going to take a look at some of Windsor’s sub-division history. Up first, is this ad that ran in the Border Cities Star September 24, 1920. Being beside the land that was designated as the General Motors Corporation Subdivision, some…
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Downtown Motor Sales

August 11, 2008
It’s always fun to find out about a buildings past… I stumbled across this ad for Downtown Motor Sales, a Studebaker-Packard dealership from August 1956. It was probably the wrong time to open a new dealership, and this was likely one of the last…
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Hanna Street Hydro Substation

August 8, 2008
A thanks goes out to regular reader Aaron for the suggestion to cover this old Hydro Substation on Hanna St. in his old neighbourhood. I thought I had some information on this one somewhere, but I couldn’t find it anywhere… It was decommissioned around the time the one on Walker Road just north of Richmond was. Maybe around 2002 – 2003… I seem to recall that this one was a…
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Old Service Station

August 7, 2008
Occasionally I can still stumble across a building in this city that I have never seen before. Such is the case with this old gas station at the corner of Shepherd and Elsmere. Likely built in the late 1920’s, this is the only one of its type left in the city that I…
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St. Denis Hall Follow-up

August 6, 2008
As you might remember last Thursday, there was an entry about St. Denis Hall. Jim G remarked that the postcard was printed with a reversed image, and through the magic of Photoshop, I have fixed that error, so the image above is now the correct view. Chris Edwards from…
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

August 5, 2008
This house on Janette proves that it can. Apparently the owner of this place was worried that he was going to be left out of the stucco party, so he decided to “freshen up” this century old house just north of Wyandotte St. My favourite part of the house is the decorative trim, it matches nicely with the black metal bars. 🙂 If you are out and about, and run across a lousy stucco…
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Norton Palmer

August 1, 2008
Another old postcard today, this one of the Norton Palmer. What a great old building. It’s a shame that it didn’t survive until today. It would have been a prime candidate for rehab like the Book-Cadillac in Detroit, or a great Condo conversion…
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St. Dennis Hall

July 31, 2008
This postcard was postmarked 1978 (not that means anything). The caption reads: Entrance ST. DENNIS HALL Gymnasium UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR Seeing as this is St. Dennis Hall, a gymnasium, and the current St. Dennis Centre located on College Ave. contains a Gym. I’m…