  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6136 Registered: 10-2003 |
After demolition, but before Cobo - P.D.J.. Urban renewal, and civic center construction was in full swing in 1957 in both downtowns. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 757 Registered: 10-2003 |
Nifty postcard, Andrew that dredges up memories of going to the waterfront by the New York Central's Third Street Freight House to look at the D&C liners tied up to the pier. The freight house was flattened for Cobo. The little white building just to the left of the flour mill, that was the Georgian Bay Lines terminal, wasn't it? | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1258 Registered: 12-2004 |
Thanks Aiw. Sweet find! | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1482 Registered: 05-2005 |
i see what appears to be a steam generation/incinerator station just on the north side of the cobo site, that's no longer there as well | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9175 Registered: 10-2003 |
An absolute fantastic find AIW! Just look at the density of the downtown areas. How wonderful! Don't forget the Windsor Market up in the top right corner (where the Casino is now). The gas station has a nice art deco/moderne style. Just another building that "needed" to be demolished. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3599 Registered: 10-2003 |
Interesting piece of history AIW. Great stuff as usual. The building of Dieppe Park prompted a question in my mind. Why was that name Dieppe chosen? The well known disastrous Dieppe Raid fell heavily on the Canadians who suffered huge losses. My question is, were Windsorite and Essex county particularly affected and was this what prompted the memorial garden to be constructed and so named? quote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid "Dieppe Meditation"  | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6137 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: http://www.citywindsor.ca/0003 50.asp?parks=dieppe | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 758 Registered: 10-2003 |
Is Dieppe Gardens where the Lancaster bomber was mounted, and the CN steam locomotive is displayed? | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 739 Registered: 09-2005 |
The Lancaster was in Jackson park (Ouellette and Tecumseh). I believe the locomotive falls within the eastern boundary of Dieppe Gardens (I am not sure exactly where Dieppe Gardens proper ends). | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9177 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Lanc used to be located in Dieppe park many years ago but was moved in the mid '60s to Jackson Park. It is now being restored so that it will one day be able to taxi (it will never fly because they cut out a part of teh main frame when they mounted it on the pedestal). It will be 1 of only 3 (possibly 4) Lancs that are still in existence worldwide. Lowell, The Essex Scottish (now Essex-Kent Scottish) regiment was used during the raid on Dieppe and suffered very heavy losses. This was another Mountbatten fuck up and sealed his fate (he was relegated to the backroom after this fiasco). On a positive note, many lessons were learned from this landing that were used for D-Day (a little fact: The "D" in D-Day stood for...Day)and helped to keep losses lower than what would have been a possible massacre. My great uncle (on my step-father's side) died at Dieppe at the age of 18. When they were supposed to go across the strait in June he was too ill and would have missed the landings. But since it was pushed up to August 19 1942, he had recovered from his bout with pneumonia and had to go. In a twist of fate he wrote his mother a thank you letter thanking her for everything she had ever done for him but he would not see her again. But not to worry because he would be in a better place and wait for her. He never made it off the beach. The letter is still kept by the family on their mantle. | ||
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave Post Number: 27 Registered: 09-2006 |
there is a flying Lancaster bomber in the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum up in Hamilton, Ont... you can get a flight on it in the right seat for what used to be $3500... david | ||
Milwaukee Member Username: Milwaukee Post Number: 653 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow! Detroit looked a lot better. A lot fuller. Great post card. Thanks AIW! | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2006 |
Really? I was looking at that 50s post card, and thinking that it made Detroit look like crap and how much better downtown looks now... | ||
Milwaukee Member Username: Milwaukee Post Number: 658 Registered: 08-2006 |
I like how the Guardian was so prominent in the skyline. Today it seems to be covered up. No freeways cutting downtown apart is nice. Plus, not many if any surface lots. | ||
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 213 Registered: 11-2005 |
Campus Martius definetly has a lot more prominence in the skyline back then. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4773 Registered: 11-2003 |
Great memories. Thanks Andrew. Windsor looks quit sleepy back then. In 1957, Detroit probably had nearly 2 Million and atleast ranks #5 in USA cities. jjaba, Proudly Westside (of Cobo Hall) | ||
Walkerpub Member Username: Walkerpub Post Number: 115 Registered: 12-2003 |
For those interested in the history of the Essex Scottish Regiment and the aforementioned Dieppe disaster, we published a magnificent light read on the subject (832 pages to be exact- also doubles as a fine door stop): http://walkerville.com/dutynob lydone/index.html | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 91 Registered: 03-2006 |
I see the two Boblo (Bob-Lo?) boats tethered by the Ford Theater. |
