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Gateway To Canada

January 8, 2009
GATEWAY TO CANADA WINDSOR, ONTARIO OUELLETTE AVENUE MALL I’m not sure if I’ve ever posted this one before… If I have my apologies. After 6 years, it’s hard to keep track 🙂 I don’t have too much info on the background of this card. Obviously at one time there was a plan to turn Ouellette into a pedestrian mall. Nearly everywhere this was tried, it was a dismal…
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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…
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A Mystery - 1936 Style

January 5, 2009
From the Windsor Star – July 31, 1936: Windsor police today were searching for the driver of a car, which shortly before noon crashed into the guard rail of the C.P.R. Bridge on London Street West. Police hurried to the scene, found the car, registered in the name of Alice O’Gorman of La Salle, but there was no sign of its occupants. Witnesses told police that the driver had been…
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Return To The Cat House

January 2, 2009
Some readers may remember the infamous Cat House on Windermere in Walkerville, that we visited back in September, 2007. The old house was demolished after it was left abandoned by the owners at the time, and full of cats. The site remained a vacant lot for the better part…
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2008 The Year In Review

December 31, 2008
Well, it would seem that after spending a good chunk of the afternoon sorting through photos from the past 12 months, that in 2008 the building stock in this city was severely beaten. Far and away this was one of the worst years I can remember since I started the…
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The Emperor's New Clothes

December 30, 2008
I joke, but I honestly never thought I would live to see the day this house got covered up. If you’ve spent any time cruising around the city, you’ll know the house I’m talking about. 401 Parent, located on the south west corner of University and…
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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.