From the Windsor Star – May 8, 1954
Out of the ashes of one of the largest fires Windsor has ever seen has arisen the most modern paint manufacturing company in Canada. The Rinshed-Mason Company, renamed following the fire, to succeed the old Standard Paint and Varnish Company, was rebuilt and formally reopened exactly one year to the day following an early morning explosion that rocked…
Where 40,000 Volumes Await Readers - 1925
August 7, 2015
This picture above shows the old Carnegie Library at Park & Victoria in September, 1925.
A library is a sort of “poor man’s college” where books and volumes of every kind under the sun are loaned to borrowers. This photo shows a portion of the…
LaSalle Bell Building - 1953
March 4, 2015
From the Windsor Star – December 9, 1953:
Pictured here is the new Bell Telephone building which will house dial switching equipment to serve the LaSalle area when the new exchange is opened early next spring. The attractive one story structure is located on the east…
Lindon Brooks - Pioneer of Motormen - 1935
January 21, 2015
Mr. Lindon Clark Brooks – Drove the first Trolley Car
His obituary ran on Page 5 of the January 16, 1935 edition of the Border Cities Star, exactly 80 years ago, last Friday.
“Windsor’s first street car motorman – and, incidentally, the first street car motor man on the North American continent – died early this morning at his home, 656 Goyeau street, following a…
St Andrew's Church - Park & Victoria
December 17, 2014
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, was built in 1895 to replace an earlier structure that burned down. It was designed by the architectural firm of Spier & Rohns of Detroit, it is built in the Richardson Romanesque Style. Spier & Rohns designed many churches…
British-American Oil Company Storage Plant - 1931
September 19, 2014
A notable addition to the Border’s growing industrial roster is pictured here – the $250,000 storage plant of the British-American Oil Company, Limited. It is on the Yawkey Farm tract, at Sandwich.
Does anyone know if this is where the BP storage place on…
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 concrete floors poured, rough plumbing is going in and tinsmith work also is underway. Department of Transport officials hope 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…