Photo Du JourWindsor

Casino Expansion

August 21, 2006
As the Casino’s across the river in Detroit work at building their permanent facilities, Casino Windsor is well underway with their expansion project. The expanded Windsor Casino will contain a second hotel tower, and a 5,000 seat auditorium. The expansion is the tower on the right. This weekend’s Windsor Star also contained this small blurb: CASINO EYES TOP ACTS Casino Windsor will…
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Hamilton & Oakman

August 18, 2006
For today’s Photo Du Jour, we’re off to lovely Highland Park. At the intersection of Hamilton & Oakman is this massive industrial building. While a giant factory isn’t usually too exciting, the front entrace to this one is outstanding. Art…
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Lot 271 - State Fair Ave. E.

August 14, 2006
Late of the archives of the F.H.A. is this home designed and built in 1939. Located on lot 271 on State Fair Ave. E., I’m not sure how to go about cross referencing lot numbers to street addresses. So I’m not sure if this one is still around or not. Designed by…
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Hey...

August 11, 2006
From today’s Windsor Star… Mystery shrouds woman’s injuries Dalson Chen, Windsor Star Published: Friday, August 11, 2006 Windsor police are treating a downtown apartment as a crime scene after they had to smash open a patio door to remove a critically…
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Going... Going...

August 11, 2006
So I drove by the Veteran Plumbing site yesterday morning on the way to work. The older two story building was half demolished already. A giant hole is appearing in the streetscape. The building eater is poised ready to get back to work destroying things. I drove by again on my way home, and all that remained was a twisted pile of metal and wood. The clock is ticking rapidly on the old…
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Photo Du JourWindsor

Welcome to Yorktown Square

August 10, 2006
Located in South Windsor, this relic from the 1950’s still lights up the parking lot at Yorktown Square (as the dates below show, the Yorktown store that was first to open, did so in 1953). Thanks to John and Mike for the heads up that the old sign still lights up. At…