Forest Glade Cinema - Long Gone
July 8, 2013
Photo © 2013 Ian Deck
Long time reader and commenter Ian Deck, sent along these photos taken last week showing the end of the demolition of the old Forest Glade Cinemas. Another one long gone. While not historic, I’m sure there are a great number of people who grew up…
Riverside and Dougall - c. 1953
July 3, 2013
The picture above appeared in “Garden Gateway to Canada” published for the centennial celebration in 1954.
The caption reads as follows:
Bakery and home of Mark Richards, southeast corner of Dougall and Sandwich Street, Windsor. Mr Richards was mayor of Windsor…
Windsor Fairgrounds - 1913
June 26, 2013
The picture above, taken about 1913, was taken from “Garden Gateway to Canada”. It shows the corner of Ouellette and Tecumseh, and the site today occupied by the Jackson Park Gates.
While it was part of the Windsor Driving Park, the horse track that one occupied…
515-523 Chatham Street East
May 31, 2013
The other week this picture above was posted as 527-533 Chatham Street East bit the dust. The building immediately west at 515-523 was still standing, but boarded up.
This is how it looked in the spring of 2009.
Earlier this week, I cruised past and noticed it too was…
CN Passenger Station - 1976
May 29, 2013
A neat look back at our now departed passenger station. This photo of the second Walkerville Station, was taken in August, 1976, back in the pre-via days, when the passenger system was still run by CN.
It’s amazing how little this station changed from when this shot…