Great Video; As a child my mom took me to N&D grocery shopping every Wednesday; decades later I could still describe the exact layout of the store as well as where various products were kept within. bouquets I still have various old Windsor shopping bags (including N&D & BigV) around the house as well as some older newspapers and pamphlets/advertisements. Next time I got through this stuff in the basement, I'll pop you a note on here. Loved the video but; I did frown at the 4:15 mark when you stated "That's the Queen of England's Royal Yacht Britannia etc ..." Tisk tisk, She was domestically The Queen of Canada since February 1952 - by Proclamation of Her Canadian Parliament. :)
Good news! Yorktown square sign has lit up again and it's gorgeous! I've lived in south Windsor for a long time now and I've never noticed the sign until now, I've never seen a fancier sign like it before.
Yes, this was great Herb lived across the street onVictoria I married the youngest son of Windsor Walkerville Mp. Mark R MacGuigan, having the only grandchildren I helped in 95the Mayor of Tecumseh keeping the town not part of Windsor & put on the 75 yr reunion @ Victoria public school where I asked Herb to speak as he went there as a child.
My sister loved N&D and saved those stamps! 😆 Mom told me when their family moved to Windsor from Sturgeon Falls in 1940, she was mezmorized by all the lights. It's also something I loved too - looking all the lights and lit signs at night, barely being able to look out the window in the back seat of our car while Dad drove back from wherever we had been.
Great job on this one, we all went searching for the sucker man! Lol Would love to see an episode on the beautiful old building on Front Road in LaSalle, I heard it was originally a brewery?
I grew up at 3681 Mackay ave. between Dominion and Cabana from 58 to 70. We would ride down there and spend hours. Wasn't Tops Dairy Bar close by??? Slot car track comes to mind???
What a great video!! Was there that night when the sign was lit up! It was a very cold night, but worth seeing!! We used the N & D stamps all the time! Keep up the good work Mike!
Nick (Nikola) Budimir & Danny Manojlovich. I noticed Jon Hyttenrauch in the post credits. Any relationship to former cashier Mary Hyttenrauch? Didn't see a comment on the fire in the Store...late 60's or 70 maybe. Since my father worked at the Grand Marais Store, we had a supply of smoke flavored chocolate. Growing up as a kid, it was part of my life.
I'm not sure about the relationship between Jon and Mary. Jon is in the credits because it was his photo of the plaza from 1959. Great story a out the fire and chocolate 🍫
I remember that they also delivered our groceries! I loved the sucker man and my friends and I sat under that sign a lot! I think you should write about the scarlet brigade band - It was the only Windsor band to win the Canadian national band competition in the 80’s.
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I believe N&D stood for Nick and Danny?! Love the Windsor content Michael! As a young Windsorite, seeing all this historical stuff has always been fascinating. Thank you for curating such fascinating content
Some of my earliest memories are of the N&D supermarket, and of being fitted for school shoes at the children's shoe store (the name of which escapes me now) in the same plaza. I was pigeon-toed so my shoes had to be customized with orthotics. How do I get an N&D t-shirt? :-)
