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More Parking Lots

April 16, 2009
This past weekend a fire broke out near Caesar’s on Glengarry Avenue. Windsor Visuals was on the scene, and he got some amazing shots of the fire in progress… So click here to check out Owen’s shots. From the Star: Arson cause of blaze in abandoned home BY STAR STAFF, THE WINDSOR STAR APRIL 11, 2009 Arson has been pinpointed as the cause of a downtown blaze that gutted one…
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190 Park Place - Then and Now

April 15, 2009
Back in March, I had a post on Park Place near the University. The house at 190 Park Place, was, as you may remember, featured in the Border Cities Star in 1924. It was the home of Joseph Loikrec, who owned a dry goods store at Wyandotte and Mercer (located today under…
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Ferguson Glass

April 14, 2009
A slew of buildings along Howard Avenue are looking forward to a future as a temporary roadway around the Howard Avenue grade separation. Among them, is the Ferguson Glass Building. It’s an older cinder block warehouse with an interesting 1970’s office slapped…
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L.A. Young Industries

April 9, 2009
Yesterday WRG commented on the Chrysler photo with the following: I looked quickly at Chrysler Canada’s history (again at the allpar) site, and in ’64 Chrysler acquired L. A. Young Spring & Wire Limited and the Walker Metal Products foundry both in…
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Windsor Assembly

April 8, 2009
Today’s photo was sent along from a regular reader. An interesting early aerial photo of the Windsor Assembly Plant. I’m unsure of the date on this one, but it’s probably from the mid to late 1930’s. The view is looking south from Walker Tecumseh…
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Kelsey Wheel Company

April 7, 2009
Today is another glimpse into the industrial history of our fair city. The Kelsey Wheel Company (later Kelsey Hayes) was opened in Windsor in November of 1913. It was the first plant to be unionized by the UAW in Canada. It closed down not too long after I moved to Windsor, in October, 1990. From the New York Times archives: COMPANY NEWS; Canada Closing Set By Kelsey-Hayes AP Published: Saturday…
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Mmmm... Stucco...

April 2, 2009
Seeing as it’s been a while since I singled out and ridiculed a bad renovation job… This one is bad. I used this one as one of my bad renovation examples during the Petcha Kucha talk a few months ago… Located at Wyandotte and Parent, there are four…
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Dominion Twist Drill

April 1, 2009
I recently received an email from a former Windsorite who was looking for some information about the Dominion Twist Drill. Her Father was an employee there in the late 1930’s to early 1940’s. When he went overseas for WWII, he was given a good luck bracelet. The…