BECAUSE IT RAINED ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
WHO WILL EVER KNOW WHAT PART OF WINDSOR THIS WAS
But seriously folks...It's starting to look like a sick pattern. Why is it that heritage buildings always seem to get razed in the off hours while any other demolition happens during normal business hours? They might have goofed on this one though. All of those workers were payed double plus time to do the deed on a Sunday morning. Apparently the brilliatants who planned this one out forgot to take into account that the Windsor Market is packed on Sundays. They also seemed unaware that Carrousel of Nations and the Ottawa Street Festival were on this particular Sunday. So...One day after the position for a"Heritage Planner" was posted in the Star they celebrated by erasing one more of the few bits of Windsor's heritage still in existence. They should have posted for a Press Secretary as well. It turned out to be quite a show for all passers by. Ahhh...The best of plans. Not a stone, dental, capital or column was saved. They were beauties too.
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE PROGRESS?
LET'S KEEP WINDSOR WORKING
WHO CALLED FOR THIS AND WHY?
TRAFFIC SLOWS TO RUBBER NECK
TRAFFIC SLOWS TO RUBBER NECK
LAST CAPITAL STANDING
ONLOOKERS WITH CAMERAS AND CELL PHONES
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Windsor wasn't built in a day but who will ever know.
6 comments:
I hope those careless slugs, are going to pay to repair the crosswalk light they busted.
My tax dollars should have to pay for that...
Thank you, Peter, for today's blog. I'm sick at heart at the removal of the bank building. Please explain how Govas has gotten such a stranglehold on our community! The reno has turned into a monstrosity over the YEARS it's taking to get it done, and as for the tacky strip mall, it's mostly empty! And that lovely olde building is a pile of rubble!
Sickening
Typical Windsor. While other people have re-use and adaptive measures for their old buildings Windsor tears theirs down.
Who needs old buildings.
From every person I know who travels to other cities they love to go to empty strip malls and look at buildings that are stucco'ed over great brick work.
Why we dont' even need our tourism centre and we can fire Gord Orr thus saving us a lot of taxpayers dollars because people from all over will come to gawk at how great Widnsor looks at being like other cities.
We can even put Paris, London, Stratford, Dresden to shame because everyone knows old buildngs are boring and no one goes to see them anymore.
It would be nice just to leave all of these buildings here, just because they're old and have some fancy masonry. But, in the real world, no one wants to invest in Windsor. Even if a trendy little marketeer wanted to put something there, chances are unless there were cigarettes and beer involved, Windsorites wouldn't give a toss.
Let's get real here... there's a reason that there is only one area like Monmouth in the city.
Your best bet is to just grow a mullet, wear flip flops, and get some leg tattoos. This city sold its soul the day the auto industry came to town. As far as culture goes, we're riding a drunken mule into the slaughter house.
To Lifelong...
Well put. The general "autotown" mentality which is deeply rooted here since the turn of the century has turned out to be our own ball and shakle. We never looked in any other direction and we didn't prepare future generations to better the Windsor community. Hopefully our business leaders, government and Development Commission are working warp speed to bring new angles into play. It would be a sad day if the city's slogan becomes: "The Mullet stops here.
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