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First Baptist Church

February 4, 2008
February kicks of Black Heritage month across Canada and the United States, and today I thought we would take a look at one of the oldest church parishes in the City of Windsor. This postcard view from about 1918 shows the First Baptist Church incorrectly labeled as being on Windsor Avenue. The church is located at 710 Mercer Ave. in downtown Windsor. It was built in 1915, to replace an earlier…
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Twin City - Part II

February 1, 2008
Back to Saint-Etienne today, for a final look around. This is a post that is probably more suited for Scaledown.ca, but I’m going to post it anyway. 🙂 Europe is a much different place than North America, and an emphasis is placed on urban environments., and being…
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Twin City - Part I

January 31, 2008
Today’s post is a little different, today we take a trip across the ocean to visit one of Windsor’s Twin Cities. Since 1963, Windsor has been twinned with the City of Saint-Etienne in France. Oddly enough as further proof of what a small world it is, I have…
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Last Chance

January 30, 2008
To cast your vote for International Metropolis in the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards. If you have already done so, thank you! If you haven’t, please take one final opportunity to do so here: http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.aspx?p=250343. Thanks to Paul @ Windsor Municipal Shadow for forwarding this link to James Bow’s Blog. James Bow writes an analysis of each category and nominees, and…
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Out With The Old... In With The New...

January 30, 2008
All of today’s photos come from reader submissions… The first set is from Luc, who sent along a few progress photos of the new Walker Road underpass. Work is progressing nicely. Maybe someone who understands the project (I’m looking at our local…
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Paramount Cafeteria

January 29, 2008
Scouring through my old postcards, I came across this old rarely seen view of the Paramount Cafeteria. The back denotes the cafeteria to be in the basement of the Paramount Building. The room still exists, and unbelievely has really only seen minor renovations over the…
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St. Edmond

January 28, 2008
A pair of old downtown area postcards for today. First up is St. Edmond School. It was located on Tuscarora Ave. just east of Marentette, behind what was then Immaculate Conception Church, in fact, you can catch a glimpse of the church on the left side fo the card. I’m not sure when the school closed, when I first moved to Windsor in 1989, I seem to remember some new kids in school that…
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Canadian Blog Awards

January 26, 2008
The clock is ticking down on the voting for the final round of the C.B.A. for 2008. Voting closes Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 11:59 Pacific Time. There are a ton of great blogs that are finalists, including several Windsor based ones. International Metropolis is a…
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Walker and Wyandotte

January 25, 2008
I recently paid a visit to the newly leveled Wyandotte St. section just east of Walker Rd. Then Now It sure looks funny to see that underpass gone. However as you can see by the two photos above, your tax dollars are hard at work, and nothing but the highest quality…