Lost WindsorOld Photographs

Ponds Drug Store - 2000 Wyandotte St W - 1957

March 26, 2023
Image from SWODA Located on the north west corner of Wyandotte Street West and Partington Avenue, 2000 Wyandotte Street West was a Pond’s Drug Store location when this photo was taken in November 1957. These photographs offer a neat view into the inside of some businesses in the late 50s and early 60s. This small display offers, some of the latest fad diet pills as well as the…
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Old Photographs

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…
Old Photographs

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…
Old PhotographsWindsor

594-598 Janette

March 1, 2021
Image from SWODA Sometimes even the humble little buildings can be interesting. I’ve long liked the building on the north east corner of Wyandotte & Janette on the edge of downtown Windsor. This shot above from 1950, shows the building still clad in its clapboard siding, and probably not looking much different from when it was built. This building for many years, had an old…
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Old Photographs

The Talbot House - 1952

January 17, 2021
Image from SWODA Today’s shot is a view looking west along Wyandotte Street West, from Elm Street, shot in December, 1952. The bar at the corner of Wyandotte & Wellington was known at the Talbot House until 1976, when it became the El Morocco. Today the building…
Buildings of Windsor

Pooles Fish Market

April 4, 2019
Address101 Wyandotte Street WestYear1940ArchitectJ.C. PenningtonStatusRegister Listed Opened in June, 1940 this is one of Windsor’s few streamlined moderne buildings. Designed by J.C. Pennington, the building was commissioned by Max Goldhar, to house his fish…