From the Border Cities Star – November 24, 1928: This is an architect’s sketch of the new children’s wing, now going up for the Essex County Sanatorium, Sandwich, at a structural cost of $110,000. When completely furnished and equipped, the handsome structure will represent a much heavier outlay of funds, and this is the...
From the Border Cities Star – January 12, 1929: This is the new home of Jackson Cleaner and Dyer, at Erie and Lillian streets, which will be in operation at the beginning of next week. The plant, equipped, represents an expenditure of $10,000. The...
Happy streetcar Friday everyone! John Stefani sent along this scan from the Bernie Drouillard collection. From the mid 1920′s a shot taken down by the old Ford Plan on the river. The car in the front #104 is a Tecumseh line car, and to...
The postcard above from the mid 1920′s shows a view of Lanspeary Park. View Larger Map Bounded by Giles to the north, Ottawa to the south, Langlois to the...
A few weeks ago at the end of April the sold sign went up on the Low-Martin house on Ontario and Devonshire. I had been meaning to post about...
Photo © Gerry Kaiser Photo © Gerry Kaiser Photo © Gerry Kaiser Local photographer Gerry Kaiser, sent along a few of his photos from the Casting Plant Demolition that...
Photo © Will Foot Today’s photo comes courtesy of my brother who happened by Erie and Bruce yesterday. We first looked at this place back in October, 2008. If...
Back in December, there was this post about the Grand Tavern, and its impending demolition. Demolition started late last week, and a parking lot to service Erie Street will...
Hey everyone, a little news for you today… Action Hobbies is hosting Slide Show #5, this time it’s on Saturday. It’s always a good time, and there’s guaranteed to...
From the Border Cities Star – December 31, 1925: Interesting to note the location of the public school at what is now Dougall and Cabana. Was there an earlier...
This large apartment building at the corner of University and Randolph has long been one of my favourite buildings in the city. Built in 1924 the building is typical...
Happy Friday everyone! Above is rendering of the interior of the Border Cities Arena, it was one of a few pictures from prior to the opening of the arena...
From the Evening Record – October 14, 1913: The above is the architect’s perspective of the new proposed Empress Theatre, which will be erected opposite the Joseph Appelbe Company’s...
As the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic this weekend was all over the news, I thought today’s post of the front page of the Evening Record, from...
To be fair since we looked at the Tunnel in the last post, from the same series of images, here’s a look at the bridge. Regional cooperation was evident...
A neat old photo of the tunnel entrance from the 1940′s. I’m certain someone out there will be able to help narrow down the date based on the car....
From the Evening Record – April 13, 1912: Pitt street is marching right to the front as part of Windsor’s business section. This view shows the old blacksmith shop...
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From the Detroit Publishing Co. archives at the Library of Congress Website, comes this shot of the Victoria Fountain, now in Willistead park, in its original location on Devonshire...
Photo © Matthew Kulbacki Another picture from the Matthew Kulbacki collection, via Tim Swaddling. Today’s shot is looking west and shows the long gone Peabody Bridge over Riverside Drive....
Today’s picture is a scan of an advertising postcard for the Elmwood showing some upcoming events. Some of the biggest stars of the era were coming… Before the Casino...
A neat link sent to me from Tim Swaddling, yields this image of the Walkerville Depot from when it first opened as the CN station. The photo is taken...
Today’s picture is courtesy of John Stefani, who sends along this scan from his collection. A great shot of the ferry landing at the Foot of Ouellette Avenue. This...
Photo © Al Gradwell Another picture from the Al Gradwell collection, via Tim Swaddling… This photo was taken from the Peabody Bridge looking east, towards Devonshire. The Walker Power...
Photo © Al Gradwell Some more pictures from the Al Gradwell collection, via Tim Swaddling. This is car #96, according to the stories Tim passes along, this is a...
Photo © Al Gradwell Some more pictures from the Al Gradwell collection, via Tim Swaddling. This is a pretty standard shot, but there a great capture of an interesting...
Today’s photo taken by Al Gradwell comes to us once again via Tim Swaddling. Tim is helping to digitize a large number of older rail slides, and where possible...
From the Library of Congress once again. Not sure where in the distillery complex this was, but it looks like it was quite the place. As always the level...
