Old PhotographsWindsor

2422 Gladstone Avenue

November 12, 2023
This shot above appeared in the Windsor Daily Star, December 31, 1936 in a recap of the new prominent houses built in the last year. The house on the east side of Gladstone was built by Frank N Isbey, of Michigan. Isbey was the head of the Michigan State Fair, and it appears that he never lived in the house. The house was owned and occupied by Frank & Mary Postill. Mary Postill (nee…
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Dieppe Park - c 1958

October 22, 2023
A view of the recently constructed Dieppe Park and civic auditorium site cleared for construction of the future Cleary Auditorium. The Cleary Guest House built in 1957 is visible at the east end of the park near the parking lot at the foot of Ouellette, while the rest of the…
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Drouillard Road - c 1928

July 30, 2023
Photo above from the collection of the Windsor Public Library A shot taken around 1928 on the east side of Drouillard in between what is today Whelpton & Trenton streets. A pair of architecturally interesting buildings here, both lost to time. Oddly the building to…
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St Clare School

June 4, 2023
Located at Bruce & Shepard, the St Clare School was designed by Windsor architect Gilbert J P Jacques & Co., and opened in 1922. By the late 1960s the Separate School board was looking at options to either renovate or replace the old school building. After a lot of back and forth, it was decided that the building would be replaced, with a new one storey school designed by J P Thomson…
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1290 Tecumseh Road East

May 7, 2023
Image from SWODA This photo shows the Supertest Gas Station at the north west corner of Tecumseh Rd E and Hall in 1960. It appears that the station remained at this location from the 1930s though about 1985, when the budling was demolished and replaced with a Big V…
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Ponds Drug Store - 2000 Wyandotte St W - 1957

March 26, 2023
Image from SWODA Located on the north west corner of Wyandotte Street West and Partington Avenue, 2000 Wyandotte Street West was a Pond’s Drug Store location when this photo was taken in November 1957. These photographs offer a neat view into the inside of some businesses in the late 50s and early 60s. This small display offers, some of the latest fad diet pills as well as the…
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Windsor Police - c 1927

March 12, 2023
Panoramic Photo of the WPD courtesy of Don G. Regular reader Don G. sent along this amazing photo for me to share with the readers. He’s also given me a link where he’s hosting a large scale version of the image, and you can zoom in on the details for…
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1190 Wyandotte Street West - 1961

March 5, 2023
Image from SWODA A view of 1190 Wyandotte Street West at Wellington, showing the Arrow Pharmacy. Like many buildings from Windsor’s past, it still stands, unrecognizable today. The building is still there, still standing. Only the brickwork at the top gives…