Photo Du JourWindsor

Downtown Windsor - Part IV

March 13, 2008
The tour continues today… Along Maiden Lane you can find the shop of downtown advocate Betty Wilkinson, her shop “Works on Paper” is a great local gem of a used book store, and the kind of buisness we need downtown for revival. She has stated in the Windsor Star that this spring will make or break her. Try and get down and check it out if you’ve never been there. Fug.
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Photo Du JourWindsor

Downtown Windsor - Part III

March 12, 2008
Continuing to make our south along Ouellette… The Park Building is quite possibly the worst and most un-needed stucco job on the strip. The person responsible needs to really give their head a shake… Stuccoed and vacant… A detail shot shows how marked…
Photo Du JourWindsor

Downtown Windsor - Part II

March 11, 2008
We start today’s tour along University Avenue East at what I like to refer to as the trifecta of vacancy. Closed & vacant former Bus Station Closed & vacant former Top Hat Nightclub Closed & vacant former Windsor Armouries. The only decent plan for…
Photo Du JourWindsor

Downtown Windsor - Part I

March 10, 2008
On Friday over at Scaledown.ca, I got into a debate with someone about the state of downtown. Many others also argued with him, all with the same lack of success or resolution. On Sunday (yesterday), I decided to head out and do a full walk around the area used as a playground/toilet weekly by the bar crowd, along with an associate. I wanted to see if it was as lousy as I was claiming. I looked…
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Cadillaqua - 1912

March 7, 2008
We’re looking across the river today to feature the huge festival that took place in 1912 for Detroit’s 211th birthday – The Cadillaqua festival. The festival was so big that articles about it appeared in the New York Times. This one ran June 23…
Photo Du JourWindsor

Crescent Manor

March 6, 2008
To the corner of Ottawa and Parent today, when to my amazement it appears that work has started again on the much delayed Crescent Manor project. Before Christmas the project looked like this, and until recently nothing new had happed at the site, and it almost looked…
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Mario's - 1948

March 4, 2008
OK, so who out there remembers this Mario’s location? This is at Tecumseh and Ouellettte, in the X-Ray clinic that can’t keep a restaurant open. If we were to peel away all the layers is this underneath? This is from the 1948 Visitor’s Guide. The location…
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Hello? Anyone paying attention?

March 3, 2008
The Detroit News today had an article entitled “Woe is Windsor” Maybe this will open some eyes: Hello Eddie Francis? Hello Larry Horowitz? Look at the results above. Do you see that? Can we plase now stop trying to make our city into a playground for Americans?