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Rollin' on the River

October 2, 2008
Regular IM reader and commenter DouglasM was asking about old photos of the Windsor Waterfront when it was still covered in rails. Doug used to live in the Detroit area, back when the waterfront on both sides was occupied with rails, and was the staging grounds and rail yards for rail cars crossing the river by ferry. I put out a request to Bernie Drouillard to check his collection and see if he…
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Downtown Chevrolet Oldsmobile

September 19, 2008
The photo above is from 1929, and shows the new garage of Easton-Edwards Chevrolet. The description said it was on Goyeau near Tuscarora. I always thought it was an interesting looking place, and wondered what happened to it. Then in a newspaper from 1952, I stumbled across…
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Medical Arts - Part I

September 9, 2008
Here’s another tour I’ve been sitting on for a while… This summer was just way too busy… A rendering of the Medical Arts Building from the Microfilm archives dating to 1928. As you can see in the photo below compared to the rendering above, an extra floor was added during construction. You can’t tell from the inside, but it does look out of place today, after seeing…
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UAW Hall - Then and Now - 1952 - 2008

August 27, 2008
While poking though some microfilm the other day, I noticed this building in a December 1952, issue, and thought it looked familiar… The building is called the United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America Union Hall in the photographs, better known as the UAW. The building is still around today, and is in use as an X-Ray clinic. It’s always intersting…
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Manning House

August 19, 2008
There was a big discussion on an old post the other day about the fate of the remains of the Manning House. The Heritage Committee (of which I am a part) voted to not take any action in moving to designate the remaining section when faced with a request for demolition. The…
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A call for help...

August 15, 2008
I got this email a while back from a former resident who is trying to track down his family history, maybe one of the readers out there will be able to help him: Grade 5 – Prince of Wales My name is David Hansen, and I am a Windsor native now living in the Vancouver…