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Welcome to Yorktown Square

August 10, 2006
Located in South Windsor, this relic from the 1950’s still lights up the parking lot at Yorktown Square (as the dates below show, the Yorktown store that was first to open, did so in 1953). Thanks to John and Mike for the heads up that the old sign still lights up. At one time the plaza was anchored by The N & D Yorktown Store. N & D was a Windsor “chain” supermarket…
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Lifetime Warranty

August 9, 2006
The deathfences are up, and time has run out for the old Veteran Plumbing store on Wyandotte St @ McDougall. The store was a long time downtown fixture, and in the last few years, packed up and headed to the south end of the city near the Sprawl-Mart. I used to head…
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More HDR

August 8, 2006
It was a long weekend on the Canadian side of the river this weekend. Most of mine was spent painting. Here is my house, with a mix of colors going up on the lower level bay window, in glorious HDR. Still messing around, I took this HDR shot of looking west along my…
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HDR & lots of work...

August 5, 2006
So I’m just messing around with HDR. I think I’ve finally got a little grasp of the whole process…. The photo above is my house. The scaffolding is up, and that means scraping and painting, and cleaning out and stabilizing rotted wood… What a joyous treat. I think it’s been about 25 years since anyone did anything in the way of maintenace to the front facade. The…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part III

July 26, 2006
Today is the thrid and final installment. An interior view of one of the warehouses. This one claimed to hold 20,000 barrels A view of the bottling line. Must have been comfortable to work all dressed up 🙂 A view of the train station (demolished), the Jubilee Fountain…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part II

July 25, 2006
Continuing the tour, today is part II… The Directors lunch room. Looks almost the same, and is today the corporate art gallery. A few views of the hallways of the offices. The animal heads are however gone. A view looking towards the river. The buildings on the…
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Walkerville - 1899 - Part I

July 24, 2006
Into the time machine today. We’re heading back to 1899, back when Walkerville was still a separate town. Out of this town came this little promotional booklet… PERHAPS very few small places are so widely known in every country of the civilized world as this little town of Walkerville, named after Mr. Hiram Walker, who established here in 1858 the distillery to which the town owes…
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RIP - Joseph Nicola DeLauro - 1916 - 2006

July 16, 2006
Joe Delauro a taleneted sculptor and one of the few remaining links back to the old generation of sculptors passed away last Tuesday, July 11th at his Novi home at the age of 90. Here’s a brief obituary from this past Saturday’s Windsor Star: Ex-prof pioneered…
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Via Italia

July 6, 2006
As Italy prepares to face off against France in Sunday’s World Cup final, here is a photo tour through Erie Street, Windsor’s Little Italy. The light pole banners welcoming you to Little Italy. The east end, many blocks east of the restaurant district is a…