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Dieppe Gardens

An early postcard view of Dieppe Park in its very early days. The Detroit Skyline looks odd without the towering presence of the RenCen, which wasn’t built until 1977. From the Deparment of Parks & Recreation’s History of Windsor Parks: Dieppe Gardens Commonly known as: Dieppe, Dieppe Gardens Former/other names: Civic Centre Park, Gateway Park, Riverside Park, Waterfront…
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Assumption College From The Air

A neat postcard view of the University from late 1950’s early 1960’s. Intersting to note on the back of the car, it says “Photo by Frank Wansborough”. Photo above from the Windsor Star Library © 1987 On the old site I ran the following quip when…
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Riverside Drive

Here’s a neat old postcard view of Riverside Dr. from the 1950’s. It looks like you can see Belle Isle off in the distance in this one, and I think the shot is looking east from somewhere around where the end of Reaume Park is today. As you can see in this…
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Maple Leaf Motel & Restaurant

Anyone out there remember anything about this place? There was a Maple Leaf Restaurant on Pelisser St. in the 1950’s, that served Chinese Food, but I’m not sure if there’s any relation. I wonder if there’s any relation between the place above and the current Maple Leaf on Tecumseh Road. The caption on the back reads: MAPLE LEAF MOTEL & RESTAURANT On Hwys. 2 – 98…
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Peabody Bridge

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…
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Crusherama

Postcard from the John Stefani Collection The poor old Aquarama, which met her fate in the scrapyards in Turkey in November, 2007 had acquired the nickname “Crusherama”, due to her terrible turning radius in the narrow ports of the Great Lakes. In her day she smashed into a few different docks. While pouring though some old Windsor Star Microfilm at the library, I came across some…
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Manning House

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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Norton Palmer

Another old postcard today, this one of the Norton Palmer. What a great old building. It’s a shame that it didn’t survive until today. It would have been a prime candidate for rehab like the Book-Cadillac in Detroit, or a great Condo conversion…