Last Days of the Tunnel Bar-B-Q
April 27, 2015
As everyone knows the Tunnel Bar-B-Q property was purchased by the University of Windsor as part of their new downtown campus. The property is to be redeveloped, and a new school building will rise on its site. The other day I noticed that the street between the Tunnel…
End Of The Line For 839
March 13, 2015
Back in 2001, I took a few shots of a great old house at 839 Assumption. Signs pointed to it being built about 1906, although I suspect it was about 10-15 years older. A well worn, old inner-city home.
It sold cheap in the summer of 2007….
It was horribly remodeled…
Former GM Plant Demolition
January 2, 2015
I finally had the opportunity over the holidays to get by and check out the demolition occurring at the old GM Transmission Plant on Kildare Rd. Looks like the demolition started on the south side, on the WWII era Border Cities Industries section, which is now, nothing more than a memory.
Just a pile of twisted metal and bricks remain where we made machine guns during WWII, and which later…
1077 Ouellette
July 25, 2014
The 1908 Tudor Revival house at 1077 Ouellette Ave, finally met the wrecking ball earlier this week. This house was part of a heritage fight to preserve it that ultimately lost. A nice house, and one of the least altered and most original on that stretch of Ouellette…
2490 McDougall
May 16, 2014
The old streamlined moderne factory building at 2490 McDougall is living on borrowed time.
The building lost its canopy over the front door, and had many elements painted over and covered up. The building is a non-descript beige.
This photo above shows the building in…
Highway Tavern Demolition
March 5, 2014
Demolition of the former Highway Tavern got under way earlier this week as the building eaters scraped away this large building on the edge of downtown. Reader Lisa T. sent along a few pictures of the demolition in progress. They started around the back, and it looks like they made pretty quick work of this place.
Photo © Lisa T 2014
Photo © Lisa T 2014
Photo © Lisa T 2014
Photo © Lisa T…
401 Bruce Avenue
January 31, 2014
Photo from Google Streetview
Driving through downtown Windsor the other week, I noted that this place, that sat at the south west corner of Bruce and Park was just a vacant lot.
Photo from Google Streetview
While the front suffered from a bad siding job, a view along the…
HighwayTavern - 592 Dougall
September 30, 2013
The old Highway Tavern at the corner of Wyandotte and Dougall, which oddly enough actually has a Dougall Avenue municipal address, is likely not long for this world. This old place, built into a large old residential property, recently had a demolition permit requested. The…