My parents both grew up in Windsor as did my sister and I and it's remarkable how quickly and severely it's gone down hill since the 90's. It was a nice city that had a town feel to it, reasonably affordable place to live and now...well now the only thing keeping us here is one another. None of us are happy here anymore, our neighbors are all strangers from foreign lands and the housing prices are absolutely astronomical thanks in large part to greedy individuals from out of town who gradually started buying rental properties so they could become wealthier and wealthier. The government sat back and did nothing and now most of our children who grow up here won't ever achieve the dream of home ownership. Sad times indeed.
The Springz amusement place is in the former Dominion / Value Village at the north end of Dorwin Plaza. Sentry Department Store was at the south end of the plaza and was last a Food Basics market.
Hey! that one really caught me too. stumbled into these amazing photos. I found my apartment building windows in the "wyandotte e and pelissier looking north" 1926 photo. Where would you read up on those other train overpasses??? seems crazy to think they existed where the brand new intersection now is.
The pics of the Sentry store and Springz are wrong. The Sentry store was further south in the same plaza. It later became a Farmer Jacks and later a Food Basics. Today it is empty. Springz was for years a Dominion grocery store, then later a Value Village store. It is at the north end of the plaza. Same plaza, wrong location.
I lived in LaSalle until I was in 4th grade and right across the street the land was only home to weeds, brush and wildlife. Hunters, in season, would go after Pheasant and as a child I would hear the shotguns booming. One day 3 guys emerged from the bush's and as we had the only house on the street they came dragging a guy that the other 2 had shot. Mom was home and she tore up some rags and tried to help the guy. I have no memory of the Cops or any kind of emergency crew showing up. Now LaSalle is subdivisions that stretch out probably as far as River Canard. That is how things change. Never going back.
I don't think that your Sentry photo is correct. The Sentry store was located further South in this plaza and after it closed and remained empty, was opened into a Farmer Jack. That larger store you show here was a super market that was made after the original ONE store of Sentry was all that was there.
