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Liquidation World

February 26, 2008
Down to Ottawa Street today, and one of my favourite buidlings on that stretch. Located on the corner of Ottawa and Moy, the Liquidation World building, is truly an underapreciated art deco gem. Built sometime after 1937, the building still sports the “W” of the original owner Woolworth’s tiled into the floor in the doorways. The buiding is a throw back to the days when…
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Back To The Foundry

February 25, 2008
Hope everyone had a good weekend… Today we head back over to the Ford Foundry, and a few more reader submitted photos. Richard V. sent along these four following photos – Thanks for sharing these photos with…
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More Steinberg's

February 22, 2008
Reader Darren sent along a few Steinberg’s pictures from his collection… Thanks Darren! A clipping from the Windsor Star during the demolition in 1992… … and this photo above. He writes: I have a photo I took inside there after it closed and they used it for auto shows. Can’t remember when I took the photo, but you should be able to tell by the models of cars…
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Steinberg's

February 22, 2008
Another email I got last week was from reader Pete, who was wondering if I had anything on the old Steinberg’s downtown. This photo above comes from the book “Windsor 1892-1992 – A centennial celebration” , by Trevor Price and Larry Kulisek. The…
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Purity Dairy

February 21, 2008
I got an email last week from regular reader Ross, who asked about the old Purity Dairy Building at 1501 Howard Ave. The old building has under gone many name changes over the years, but it was built in 1929 by local architects Shepard & Mason. The building was altered…
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Security Building

February 20, 2008
January 29, Ted in Toronto asked about the Security Building, where his father had his offices for 40 years. The rendering above appeared in The Border Cities Star, December 31, 1926. The building designed by architects Pennington & Boyde, was built in 1927. The caption to the render above read as follows: According to plans of a local syndicate headed by S. E. Loveridge and C. A. Haley…
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