Bernie Drouillard CollectionOld PhotographsPhoto Du JourWindsor

1975

Here are few more old transit photos from the Bernie Drouillard Collection, digitzed and passed along by John Stefani. A big thank you is owed to both of them for helping to digitize and share such a massive collection. Today’s shots are both dated 1975 and were taken…
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Viscount Hotel

Regular reader Darren was kind enough to send along this crop of an image that he took in the early 1980’s. In it you can see the former Viscount Hotel (marked with a red dot). He apologized for the lousy quality, but any photo is better than none at all. So a big thanks to Darren for sending the photo. Below find a scan from a mid 1960’s ad in the Windsor Star… As you can see…
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Walkerville's Shame No More?

Last night City Council (for the most part) took a great stand for the built heritage of our city, in voting to accept the “forced” designation of the Harry Low/Paul Martin Sr. house on Ontario Street in Walkerville. Despite all the bullshit arguments put forward by a friend of the property owner that designation would impact the property value negatively, council with the exception of…
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Old PhotographsPhoto Du JourWindsor

Remember

While browsing on the Virtual Motor City website, an archive of old Detroit News photographs at Wayne State Univeristy, I came across a pair of old photos of ceremonies at the Cenotaph. Both photos were taken at the old Centoaph location at Gilles & Ouellette, next…
Old PhotographsPhoto Du JourWindsor

Essex Terminal No. 6

Today comes a great old photo from the John Stefani Collection. It was noted on the back of the photo: “Essex Terminal 6 0-6-0” “Walkerville, Ont. April 24, 1932” Maybe our resident Railfans can add a little something about the engine for…