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More Streetcars

April 30, 2008
More from Bernie’s treasure chest…. Car 212 on Chatham St., just west of Ouellette. c. 1938. A shot of car # 37 at the Car Barns on London St. (now Univeristy Ave.). Another shot of # 37 from the same set. Car # 44 at the Car Barns. Car # 45 – The Rail Grinding Car. Railfans? Please explaing the rail grinding car to me… Is this specific to streetcars or was is used on…
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Reader's Submissions...

April 18, 2008
Photo courtesy Darren B. The photo above comes from regular reader Darren B. , who submitted a follow up to the silo series from the other day. The silo is now all gone. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o The next…
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United Grill

February 28, 2008
From my 1954 Visitor’s Guide, the only other restuarant still open, the United Grill on University Ave near the old Greyhound Station. A gleaming white, streamlined modern architectural beauty. The interior looks like it was quite the hopping place at one time. Check out that lunch counter! While they may have been open seven days a week in 1954, today they are a Monday to Friday…
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End Of An Era

February 5, 2008
From the Windsor Star, December, 31, 1974. The end of an era The Norton-Palmer is no more By PAUL VASEY Thirty-four years ago The Border Cities Star devoted a couple of inside pages to lavish praise of an addition to the Norton-Palmer Hotel. Now a yellow-brown clipping in a Windsor Star file, the story seems oddly out of step with a faster, more glamorous age. The Norton-Palmer, it proclaims…
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Chanoso's

January 24, 2008
Or at least as it looked, pre-Chanoso’s. Over at the excelent Windsor Blog, Scale Down, Windsor… the other day I was giving Mark Boscariol a hard time over his choice of stucco to reface the buildings that house Chanoso’s and the Sushi Place next door (the…
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David Maxwell School

January 21, 2008
Located on Francois, between Seminole and Tecumseh Roads, David Maxwell was built in 1928, in what was then known as East Windsor. Ford City was renamed East Windsor when Chrysler Moved in to their new plant at Tecumseh & Walker. The School was designed by the Windsor…