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Ferry Dock - c. 1927

January 4, 2008
Today’s photo comes courtesy of regular reader Mark, it was taken by his grandfather William Rudkin around 1927 from the ferry to Detroit. The quality and sharpness on those old photographs is simply outstanding. The detail can really take you back in time… This detail crop of Ouellette and Riverside (sorry about the colour correction… 🙂 ) is interesting as it appears to…
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Old Ford Postcard

January 3, 2008
Here’s an older postcard view of the Ford Factory I recently added to my collection, it has a very strange green tint to it for some reason…. The postcard dates to the late 30’s early 40’s, and I have no idea what that huge expanse of land is in the…
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2007 - The Year In Review

December 31, 2007
Every year, with the last post of the year, I look back, and recap some of the demolition that has occured in the last year. The victim of arson in late 2006, this was one of the first victims of 2007, and another vacant lot in the core. this house was on Janette. Lasalle, our neighbours to the west, knocked down one of the few old building they had with the demolition of the former Bishop Cody…
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Third Concession

December 28, 2007
In the days before E.C. Row ran though the middle of the city, the Third Concession was the east-west road located along the present route. Parts of the old Third Concession still survive today as the North Service Road. I have always wondered what the story was with the…
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Then, Then and Now

December 21, 2007
The former Tepperman’s Building on Ottawa St. has had a long and interesting history. First built in 1939, the building was originally only one story tall. It was designed by J.P. Thomson, who was at the time working for Sheppard & Masson. (Photo from the…
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Crescent Manor

December 20, 2007
Well stop the presses! After years of looking at what I thought was Ottawa’s Street’s version of the Docherty Hole, work has finally commenced on the Condos apartments that are replacing Crescent Lanes Bowling Alley. While I’m sure the shitty Windsor housing market, and the locally held belief that McMansions are a dream come true, are major factors in the delays and the switch…
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Superior Piston Ring

December 19, 2007
When looking over the old maps, occasionally there are names on some of the shops, and they just jump out at you. This map here shows Superior Piston Ring on Lincoln Rd just north of Wyandotte. From the old days of zoning, when small industrial buildings ended up in…
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Home Bank Building

December 18, 2007
The former Home Bank building at Wyandotte and Windermere is one of my favourite buildings in Walkerville, and the western anchor of what is perhaps our best looking and most intact historic commercial block. This postcard view is from Walkerville Publishing’s…