Sandwich Street - Walkerville - c. 1905
December 1, 2014
Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani
A view of Sandwich Street, in front of the Hiram Walker & Sons Distillery. This view is looking west and in the distance, you can make out the hump of the Peabody Bridge. The overhead wires of the…
Howard & Division c 1928
November 28, 2014
Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani
An interesting shot looking south on Howard Avenue, from the intersection with Division road. Today’s shot, once again comes from the Bernie Drouillard collection, and thanks as always to John Stefani for digitizing them for us. The tracks in the foreground of the photo is the old interurban street car line, the W.E. & L.S.
Greyhound Bus Terminal - Ouellette Ave c 1930
November 26, 2014
Image © Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitized by John Stefani
A shot of the old Greyhound Station, on Ouellette & Park about 1930. I think a similar picture has been posted here previously, but this scan comes to us via John Stefani, who digitized some more of Bernie…
Windsor - Detroit Tunnel Entrance c 1974
November 24, 2014
A neat shot showing the long running GM new look coaches. The last of these weren’t retried until about 4 or 5 years ago.
The old sign at the tunnel entrance is long gone, as is the old GREYHOUND marquee on the old bus station. Along the awning of the bus…
Ouellette & Pitt - c. 1929
November 5, 2014
A view of Ouellette Avenue at the end of the boom years. This shot shows the two major local downtown department stores, Bartlet, MacDonald & Gow as well as C. H. Smith’s. Of all the buildings visible in this picture, only one still stands today, and is the current…