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Chanoso's

January 24, 2008
Or at least as it looked, pre-Chanoso’s. Over at the excelent Windsor Blog, Scale Down, Windsor… the other day I was giving Mark Boscariol a hard time over his choice of stucco to reface the buildings that house Chanoso’s and the Sushi Place next door (the name currently escapes me…). While it was mostly good natured, and Mark accpeted the error of his ways, I promised him…
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Final Reminder & Finalist!

January 23, 2008
Don’t forget! Hopefully some of you will be able to come by and say hello… WE Speak Bloggers Meet Date: Wednesday January 23rd, 2008 Location: The Mill, 3199 Sandwich St, Windsor Time: 8:00 pm The Mill has parking in the back and best of all – free…
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2008 North American International Auto Show

January 23, 2008
It’s that time of year again, time for a visit to Cobo and to the 2008 North American International Auto Show. (Past shows can be found here: 2007 & 2006 First thing you see this year in the lobby is Geely. Geely was the first Chinese Company to exhibit in…
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1404 Tecumseh Road East

January 22, 2008
This building at Tecumseh Rd and Moy, has a long history as a restaurant, as I recently discovered. As I was looking through an old booklet from 1954, I came across this ad for the Bel-Air Restaurant… Someone along the way bricked in every other window along the side, but it’s still a restaurant. According to some of the long time business owners along that stretch of Tecumseh, the…
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David Maxwell School

January 21, 2008
Located on Francois, between Seminole and Tecumseh Roads, David Maxwell was built in 1928, in what was then known as East Windsor. Ford City was renamed East Windsor when Chrysler Moved in to their new plant at Tecumseh & Walker. The School was designed by the Windsor…
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News For The Weekend

January 20, 2008
The first round of voting includes all nominees. In 2007, each person gets one vote for their favourite blog, in each category. Unlike 2006, you do not get one vote per day, you just get one per round. If you haven’t done so yet, I would really appreciate your vote…
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Old Sandwich Schools

January 18, 2008
Here are a pair of century old postcards (c. 1909) of two schools in Sandwich. The Sandwich Public School, and St. Francis. St. Francis School, built in 1901, was located on the corner of Peter & Detroit. The site today is a parking lot. The Sandwich Public School was on Bedford St. (today known as Sandwich St.), when amalgamation took place in 1935, the school must have been renamed, as my…
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Walker Road Underpass

January 17, 2008
As Windsor is crippled by the Walker Road closure, you don’t hear too much about the status of the project these days. With nearly no one around, and Walker Rd. silent, I decided to take a trip down there to see what’s going on. It looks like the tracks have…
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McPherson Lounge - Electa Hall

January 16, 2008
Back before Christmas, there was a post on Cody Hall, and in the comment, the discussion turned to McPherson Lounge in Electa Hall. Today’s photos come from regular reader westerntragedy, who visited McPherson Lounge, and happened to have his camera. 🙂 As a side…