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New City Market

May 13, 2008
From the Border Cities Star – April 4, 1929. THIS is an architect’s sketch of Windsor’s new public market, Pitt street east, which is to replace the existing structure, which has stood for so long on a site opposite the central fire station. Setting an example to other civic spending bodies, the City Council, in awarding contracts for the structure yesterday, kept well under…
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Where Service To Motorist Rules

May 12, 2008
Photo from the Border Cities Star -Saturday, April 27, 1929 The new plant of Spee-Dee Auto Wash Limited, on Langlois avenue at Wyandotte street, which is equipped and staffed to give a complete car wash in nine minutes, and is also authorized Simoniz and Alemite service…
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Security Building

February 20, 2008
January 29, Ted in Toronto asked about the Security Building, where his father had his offices for 40 years. The rendering above appeared in The Border Cities Star, December 31, 1926. The building designed by architects Pennington & Boyde, was built in 1927. The…
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End Of An Era

February 5, 2008
From the Windsor Star, December, 31, 1974. The end of an era The Norton-Palmer is no more By PAUL VASEY Thirty-four years ago The Border Cities Star devoted a couple of inside pages to lavish praise of an addition to the Norton-Palmer Hotel. Now a yellow-brown clipping in a Windsor Star file, the story seems oddly out of step with a faster, more glamorous age. The Norton-Palmer, it proclaims…
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Adie Knox

October 24, 2007
Normally if you mention Adie Knox to a Windsorite, the first thing that comes to mind is the arena on Wyandotte St West, but who was she? From the Windsor Star – March 15th, 1967: Mrs. W. F. Herman Mrs. Adie Knox Herman, O.B.E., died Tuesday afternoon at her Home, 3945…
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Devonshire Mall

September 4, 2007
From the Windsor Star – May 2, 1969 Artist’s view of centre Fifteen months from now Windsor will have one of the largest shopping centres in Canada with the opening of the $15,000,000 Devonshire-Windsor Shopping Centre on Howard Ave. south of E. C. Row Ave.
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Elmwood Casino - Part III

August 17, 2007
The first incarnation of the Elmwood Hotel, which was fined several times for liquor violations was destroyed in a $50,000 fire, December 19, 1943. The owners at the time seemed to flout any rules openly, and were constantly under scrutiny. They started building the…
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Elmwood Part II

August 16, 2007
This postcard dates to the late 1940’s and shows the original building before additions. The building today. A postcard from the late 1950’s of the entire complex. Like taken after the motel was built in 1956. A view of the lobby of the motel building. Classic…