Hi Ho - Part II
May 16, 2008
A big thanks goes out to Chris Edwards at Walkerville Publishing, for sharing these photos with us over here.
Last year at Art in the Park, Chris put on an exhibiton of historic photographs in the Manor House, and in that exhibition Hi Ho was featured as being…
1587 McDougall
May 15, 2008
Another part of Windsor’s past was lost Tuesday night in a spectacular fire. Seen above in happier days, the building on McDougall Ave and Hanna, was originally built as the Swedish Crucible Steel Company in 1914. The historic section being the middle part of the…
Hi-Ho
May 14, 2008
From the September 3, 1968 issue of the Windsor Star, is this ad from Hi-Ho restaurants.
Hi-Ho was a local chain of drive-in burger joints, that was founded in 1937. A letter was sent by the owner to Walt Disney asking permission to use “Hi-Ho”. A letter was sent back telling him to go ahead, no problem. Try that today! 🙂
I’m sure some of the readers out there have some…
New City Market
May 13, 2008
From the Border Cities Star – April 4, 1929.
THIS is an architect’s sketch of Windsor’s new public market, Pitt street east, which
is to replace the existing structure, which has stood for so long on a site opposite
the central fire station.
Setting an…
Where Service To Motorist Rules
May 12, 2008
Photo from the Border Cities Star -Saturday, April 27, 1929
The new plant of Spee-Dee Auto Wash Limited, on Langlois avenue at Wyandotte street, which is equipped and staffed to give a complete car wash in nine minutes, and is also authorized Simoniz and Alemite service…
Fire Station No. 3
May 9, 2008
A special thanks goes out to Chris Edwards from Walkerville Publishing for the tip on today’s entry. This place is literally four blocks from my house and I had never noticed it in the seven years I’ve been living here… Again, more local history hiding in plain sight…
Located on Langlois just north of Niagara, is what appears to be just another run of the mill, inner-city…
Facebook Blog Network
May 8, 2008
Today I logged into Facebook, and found several requests from Local Blogs for a new Facebook application called Blog Networks.
Several local blogs like Windsor Eats and Scaledown.ca have had a Facebook presence for a while now, so as not to feel left out, we’re now…
Windsor Armouries
May 8, 2008
Here’s a neat old postcard of the Armouries with a giant “Mobilization Centre” banner across the front. As for a date, I’m guessing pre-1920. What was the Mobilization for? The Influenza outbreak of 1918? World War I?
It’s nice to see the…