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Cruising 1920s Style
Isn’t this photo a beaut? I’ve been saving it for a while. Tony Beresford, a member of my Windsor Ontario Then facebook group, posted it several months ago but unfortunately, didn’t have much information to go with it. At least … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, People, The Straits, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1920s, cruising, Detroit, Detroit River, downtown, duds, fashion, ferry, gals, gents, history, hotel, ladies, mystery, Ontario, Ouellette Avenue, photo, photography, Roaring Twenties, sharp, streets, style, urban, vintage, wedding, Windsor
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I love old buildings WAY too much.
This photo has been perched on my virtual desktop for over a month. Every now and then I would catch a glimpse of it and I would tell myself, Ok, DO SOMETHING with that photo so you can get it … Continue reading
Posted in People, The Straits, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1854, 1980s, apartment, architecture, buildings, camera, Canada, cholera, creep, death, facade, feeling, Giles, gut, heritage, immigrants, lost, My Old House, mystery, Norwegian, now, old, Ontario, Ouellette, pervert, photo, photography, preserved, Prince Wales, Prince Wales Apartments, saved, then, tragedy, train, Windsor, wrecking ball, yellow brick
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Hey You Posers! (How One Old Photo Led to Another.)
I’ve been saving this charming photo for a while. I received it from my constant source of old local photos, Charlie Fox, several years ago. He wrote: “I found another old photo you might like. The three people are Alfred Mapes, … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, People, The Straits, Walkerville, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1880, cars, cattle, corset, cows, Detroit, distillery, General Motors Transmission Plant, Hiram Walker, hour glass, Mapes, Marratt Artistic Photographer, mash, Michigan, Ontario, photography, Seminole Road, sepia tone, The Walkerville Times, vintage, Walker Farms, Walker Road, whisky, Windsor, Woodward
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A Merry Party: Walkerville Early 1900s
Well, you wouldn’t look very merry either if you had to sit perfectly still for two minutes waiting for a camera to do its thing. It’s certainly not easy to have a smile plastered on your face for that long. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, People, Walkerville
Tagged aperture, blurr, early, exposure, merry go round, photography, playground, portrait
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