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Return To Kavanagh's

January 7, 2009
I first profiled Kavanagh’s Tourist Camp, in March 2007. I recently came across the postcard above, it was dated 1933. It shows the building, prior to the new cafeteria shown in the post from 2007: The garage in the back of the house in the photo above, still read “GAS”. I always figured they were using their garage to advertise, but this card shows that the garage was…
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Flat Iron Building - Walkerville

December 29, 2008
Located on the south east corner of Riverside Dr. and Devonshire, the Flat Iron building designed by Mason & Rice was demolished by Hiram Walker’s parent company in 1995, in an attempt to pay less taxes. Today the site of the building remains an empty lot.
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Toledo Scale

December 22, 2008
The other day someone was asking about the old Toledo Scale Plant at Howard and Memorial. I don’t have much on it but here’s a copy of the Fire Map from 1937. Intersting to note that back then, Ypres and Memorial were two different roads, with Memorial running…
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The Race Of The Century

December 19, 2008
There was once a time when Windsor was well known as a horse racing centre. There was the Windsor Jockey Club where Jackson Park and Kennedy sit today, there was Devonshire Race Track, which is today occupied by a Shopping Mall of the same name, and there was a third one, located across Howard Avenue from Devonshire, which is today home to a crappy sub-division, but for a week in October of 1920…
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The Fountain Through The Years

December 11, 2008
A few different views of the fountain over the years. Yesterday windsorite-in-exile left the following comment The fountain should be restored and moved to a prominent civic square. Restoring the water flow would restore it’s soul. It would make an appropriate…
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Wilfred Sykes

October 8, 2008
I came across this photo at a local antique store last week. There is nothing to ID the date by, but I would guesstimate late 1950’s – early 1960’s. According to the Boatnerd Bible, she was built in 1949 by the American Shipbuilding Co. at Lorain, Ohio. At…
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Pelton Tower

October 7, 2008
Grab an older map of Essex County, and in the area of Walker and Provincial, you will see a dot on the map named “Pelton”. There never was actually a community around the spot on the map, but there was a rail line junction with a control tower, more of a rail junction, there is still a bit of history behind it. When Bernie was going through his slides, looking for riverfront photos for…
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Peabody Bridge

October 6, 2008
Some comments the other day were asking about the peabody bridge. I don’t have much info about it, but here’s what I do have. A postcard view, you can see the bridge to the right of the silos. An aerial view from 1952 1981 – Note the Peabody building…