Image from SWODA
A view of what was then the Pig-N-Whistle restaurant at 950 Wyandotte St W from 1954.
From what I can tell, the restaurant was around from 1952-1955 and was owned by Ernest Black. Black was charged in late 1954 with “keeping liquor for sale in his restaurant”.
The building just west of Crawford on Wyandotte Street was the long time home to the Szechuan Gardens…
3232 Sandwich Street - Then & Now
May 1, 2022
Photo from 2005
Sorting through some older photographs this weekend, and I came across a folder of pictures I took in Sandwich back in 2005. The image above being one of them. The building with the white siding façade was certainly non-descript and wasn’t adding…
Downtown Laura Secord Closes - 1976
April 24, 2022
From the Windsor Star – February 27, 1976. The downtown Laura Secord shop was closing down and moving out as the Prince Edward hotel at Park & Ouellette was getting ready for demolition.
STORE CLOSES — With demolition crews marshalling to bring down the…
Lauzon & Wyandotte - 1958
April 18, 2022
Image from SWODA
A view today from the old Town of Riverside, taken May 1, 1958. This shot is looking east along Wyandotte Street East, towards the intersection of Lauzon Road. Looks much less busy than that intersection does today. There’s still a gas station on the south east corner, and there’s Fresh Co in place of the Dominion Store today. Always love looking at the old…
The Auditorium Building - 709 Ouellette
April 3, 2022
Image from SWODA
This building located at 709 Ouellette was known as the Auditorium Building. When first built around 1927, the Knights of Columbus had a clubhouse to the rear and built this as an annex and auditorium. Eventually the clubhouse was torn down and a larger…
4195 Seminole - Former Caribbean Centre
March 27, 2022
This building at 4195 Seminole is currently undergoing some work. The renovations have uncovered the old sign for when this was the Caribbean Centre. The Caribbean Centre was located here from about 1976 though 1992, before it moved to its current home on Central Avenue.
Canada Square - 1965
March 13, 2022
Proposed Canada Square Development – 1965
Back in 1965 a Toronto architectural firm of K. R. Cooper & Associates drew up plans for the Canada Square Development that was supposed to be built along the river at Riverside Drive West & Church Street. The complex was to feature a hotel, offices, shops, dining and a theatre.
Like many grand plans though the years this one ended up…
435 Mill Street - 1957
March 7, 2022
Image from SWODA
This picture shows the south west corner of Mill & Baby streets in Sandwich in May 1957. This little building was owned by the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway (SW&A), the forerunner of today’s Transit Windsor. It started out as a…
Park & Pelissier - 1961
February 28, 2022
Image from SWODA
From the great collection over at the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive comes this image taken in February 1961. Looking north west to the corner of Park Street West and Pelissier. Visible on the left is the long gone Norton Palmer Hotel, and an Esso…