Old PhotographsWindsor

1290 Tecumseh Road East

May 7, 2023
Image from SWODA This photo shows the Supertest Gas Station at the north west corner of Tecumseh Rd E and Hall in 1960. It appears that the station remained at this location from the 1930s though about 1985, when the budling was demolished and replaced with a Big V Pharmacy. Image from Google Streetview In recent years the building was home to Family Video which operated from 2010-…
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1190 Wyandotte Street West - 1961

March 5, 2023
Image from SWODA A view of 1190 Wyandotte Street West at Wellington, showing the Arrow Pharmacy. Like many buildings from Windsor’s past, it still stands, unrecognizable today. The building is still there, still standing. Only the brickwork at the top gives…
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Pig-N-Whistle Restaurant - 950 Wyandotte St W - 1954

May 29, 2022
Image from SWODA A view of what was then the Pig-N-Whistle restaurant at 950 Wyandotte St W from 1954. From what I can tell, the restaurant was around from 1952-1955 and was owned by Ernest Black. Black was charged in late 1954 with “keeping liquor for sale in his restaurant”. The building just west of Crawford on Wyandotte Street was the long time home to the Szechuan Gardens…
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Lauzon & Wyandotte - 1958

April 18, 2022
Image from SWODA A view today from the old Town of Riverside, taken May 1, 1958. This shot is looking east along Wyandotte Street East, towards the intersection of Lauzon Road. Looks much less busy than that intersection does today. There’s still a gas station on…
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435 Mill Street - 1957

March 7, 2022
Image from SWODA This picture shows the south west corner of Mill & Baby streets in Sandwich in May 1957. This little building was owned by the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway (SW&A), the forerunner of today’s Transit Windsor. It started out as a…
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Essex House Hotel - 317 Riverside Drive West

December 12, 2021
Image from SWODA A look today at the Essex House Hotel from 1961. The Essex House Hotel was built around 1840 and sat on the south west corner of Riverside Drive West and Dougall Avenue. In the late 1950s plans to develop a civic auditorium next door began to take shape and the Cleary Auditorium and convention centre rose to the east. The Essex House started to fall on hard times, and was…
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Walker & Tecumseh - Looking North 1950

January 10, 2021
Image from SWODA A view of the intersection of Walker & Tecumseh roads looking north in April, 1950. Oftentimes the old pictures we feature here are remarkable for the buildings shown that we’ve lost, but this I find remarkable for how little we have going on.