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Ferry Boat "Pleasure"

March 10, 2010
The post Monday about the Ferry Dock, reminded me of this photo that was posted a long time ago, to the first version of the website, long before it was in today’s Blog format. The Pleasure was built in 1894, and worked for the Detroit & Windsor Ferry Company. As you can see in this photo, the boat was the setting for this photo from 1911 for the National Editorial Association…
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Downtown Windsor - 1930

March 1, 2010
Up today is a photo looking north from the Norton Palmer Hotel taken in 1930. Despite all the things I cover here on the website that have been mangled, or demolished, it’s funny how this one vantage point would still look remarkably similar even today. 🙂…
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Border Cities Industries

February 26, 2010
This plant at Kildare and Munsee, was known as Border Cities Industires, and was a subsidiary of G.M. through the end of WWII. The building was owned by the government, but run by GM. I’m not certain when this plant was built, but I have a record for a plant built by…
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Railroad Hotels

February 24, 2010
Back when the CN passenger station was on the waterfront at the foot of Goyeau, there were a bunch of hotels to serve them. Wherever there were railroad stations there were hotels. Some examples still exist in the city today, most notably the Crown Inn building on Devonshire in Walkerville, home to Taloola today, and the Southwood Hotel on Wellington, near the old MCRR Station. Downtown there…
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Eastown

February 19, 2010
Today’s post comes courtesy of Scott Hughes. Scott was kind enough to pass on this photo he took of the old Eastown sign at Lauzon & Tecumseh before it was altered. View Larger Map As you can see, other than the steel uprights, and the name, not much remains the…
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Ukrainian Restaurant

February 17, 2010
While John may have beat me to the punch the other day, posting about this place on My Local Food Blog, I’m still going to post about it today. 😉 The photo above ran in the Detroit News, in January, 1972 along with a review of the place. My wife and I were…
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Red Robin Follow-up

February 8, 2010
A few weeks ago we took a look at 331 Ouellette which was once home the Red Robin Store. The photo above appeared in the Gladstone-White Book “A Moment in Time”, so it likely came from either the Windsor Archives or the Museum, as most of his uncredited photos…
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Welcome To Windsor - 1957

February 5, 2010
Another old Newspaper photo, this one today is dated March 8, 1957. It’s from the Detroit News, and the caption on the back, reads as follows: On King’s Highway #2 showing the many clubs of the city. According to the notes on the back of the photo, it ran in the…