Remarkable footage. Well done indeed. It appeared the use skating might have been at River Canard.
@dondressel452
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent video Cleaner streets people dressed with class No homeless and needles everywhere Oh take me back to simpler times!!!
@MikeEvansWindsor
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Don. Beautiful slice of life from the time.
@melissalindridge6104
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Michael, for the incredibly hard work you put into making such a treasure of a video. You've given us 'oldies' an extremely special gift.
@MikeEvansWindsor
4 жыл бұрын
My pleasure. I am glad you like it. Cheers
@albertagal46
4 жыл бұрын
Hi and thank you for posting this. I was 8 in 54 and went to Princess Elizabeth PS in Riverside. My parents lived on the river side of Riverside Drive in a house that my grandfather had built for them as a wedding gift in 1940 on land that he owned. It remained in our family till my mom's death in 2000 so almost 100yrs.
@melissalindridge6104
4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I've read about your parents' beautiful home. Growing up on the river - awesome!!! Watching this wonderful video has made me realize how much Windsor shaped my expectations of what a perfect life should be like. I'd happily live in that world again. The present one is an extremely uncomfortable fit.
@albertagal46
4 жыл бұрын
@@melissalindridge6104 I got to thinking the land my grandfather built on was an original French Canadian homestead from I would guess the late 1800s so over 100yrs the land was ours. I saw the pictures of the interior of what was a gracious home and it is a skeleton of it's self with the horrid taste the currant owners have. My parents also bought the water rights from the city for I forget but so many feet out from the shore line. Thank you for the tlc, I have a number of photos but kids today do no that few people had cameras and the cost of film developing was a whole lot. I can see in my mind the parties that were held there but no photos.
@MikeEvansWindsor
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Elizabeth, I was trying to get in touch with you about an amazing photo you posted on Facebook. Brownies in Willistead Park circa 1912. Amazing photo.
@bigjohnhere6522
4 жыл бұрын
Great video mike loved it
@MikeEvansWindsor
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks John!
@peterjaniceforan3080
9 ай бұрын
I remember some of this😮
@marcfedak
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Michael, I like the early 50s Detroit television segments...
@nutch696
4 жыл бұрын
It's always bitter-sweet watching old clips or seeing old photos of Windsor. Progress is fine, but not at the cost of losing your heritage. We were once a beautiful city bursting with character and stately architecture but after decades of poor city leadership, the DNA of downtown is lost forever. We have gorgeous waterfront no doubt but the Casino and the Norwich block debacle have destroyed the last remaining examples of Windsor's historic beginnings.
@rmcrae62
2 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing that the skating was on River Canard?
@MikeEvansWindsor
2 жыл бұрын
I think that is a great guess.
@Sofia-jz9hj
4 жыл бұрын
Did these already have sound or did you add that in?
@MikeEvansWindsor
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Sofia. The films were all silent so I added some sound here and there.
@revertinthemaking
4 жыл бұрын
Have you read the book Unholy City? About Windsor and how the cops looked the other way, compared to the rest of Ontario, it says 1950s, but it covers a few decades before. Prohibition, prostitution, gambling, Etc, went on for openly for a long time.
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