Airport Terminal Construction - 1956
June 27, 2014
From the Windsor Daily Star – July 30, 1956
TERMINAL TAKING SHAPE – The new $615,000 Windsor Airport Terminal, which will include immigration, customs and quarantine facilities for international operations, is gradually taking form. Steel is up, most of the…
Lang & Jewell Body Service - 1935
June 20, 2014
This photo above ran in the Border Cities Star on June 29, 1935:
Above picture shows one of a fleet of 15 new palatial highway parlor coaches of modern streamline design. These coaches were upholstered, painted and letter by the Lang & Jewell Body Service, main plant…
Proposed Civic Centre Plan - 1952
April 4, 2014
From the Windsor Daily Star – December 29, 1952:
Board of Control recently took the initial step in what could be one of the greatest civic projects Windsor has ever seen. The board moved to expropriate downtown riverfront land for Civic Centre development and the Civic Auditorium, proposed by the Centennial Birthday Festival committee, may be one of the first buildings to go into the site.
Windsor's Strip - 1970
March 12, 2014
From the Windsor Star – June 13, 1970
It’s not exactly the Vegas Strip or even Toronto’s Yonge St. strip – but it has the makings.
The area is about four miles of Tecumseh Rd. between Walker Rd. and Lauzon Rd. It has the flashing neon signs, the…
Windsor - Detroit Subway - 1925
February 14, 2014
One to file in the proposed, but unbuilt files. From November 1925, came this proposal for an electric subway train under the river linking Windsor and Detroit.
The caption in the lower left reads as follows:
The architect’s drawing pictured above, shows one of the…
Amalgamation
February 12, 2014
The Town of Walkerville election notice in the December 6, 1934 issue of the Walkerville News.
The ballot included a vote on Amalgamation with the Border Communities, the Walkerville News was urging all eligible voters to turn out and to vote “NO” on amalgamation.
Oddly enough the town of Riverside was included in the vote but didn’t become part of Windsor until 1965, three…
1160 Albert Road
December 18, 2013
From the 1948 Windsor Daily Star…
The Garden Tractor and Equipment Company, Ltd., 1164 Albert road, shown above … The plant shown here is far too small for the rapidly expanding business of the company and since early last January negotiaions have been held with…
1380 Ypres
December 16, 2013
One of the more unique houses in Windsor was featured in the review of the 1948 residential construction, being noted as one of the “higher-priced private homes” built in 1948.
The house was featured with it’s own little photograph.
Located on Ypres and…
