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Imagine on the really hot summer days when the air is so thick you can cut it with a knife... The smells must have made your eyes water.

http://www.walkervilletimes.com/curse-peche-island.html

One of my personal favorites: The Curse of Peche Island.

Just started listening to this. I'll have more time tomorrow to really dig into this but so far I think it's very well done. Thanks for sharing this.

Great documentary. They failed to talk about how David Bowie was a massive fan of The Stooges and what he did to resurrect Iggy Pop's career, which was basically dormant before Bowie got into...

Shane - as you can see here, Chilver was called "Victoria Street" back then. It was called that until Walkerville was absorbed into Windsor in 1937. I guess Windsor's version of Victoria won out.

Downriviera -- You're thinking of Californias. That was on Walker and Niagara on the eastern fringe of Walkerville.

Yes Danny, long story short, the steel industry was supposed to come here in a huge way. Windsor was going to be the "Pittsburgh" of Canada and a massive plant was to be built on land that is now...

Shane I grew up on that very street - the 1200 block of Chilver. Nice, quiet neighbourhood, close to a lot of amenities and you have the Market just a couple of blocks away. Little has changed...

What a cool map Mikeg!

This is the first map I've ever seen that shows the original location of Essex Golf and C.C. By the late 1930s it was abandoned and it moved to its present location near...

Notice the underlined part at the end of this message. That is all these people want - publicity, and Anonymous is just another group providing these idiots with free publicity. The way we make WBC...

They'll just steal the steel doors.

I'm really glad to read this. Finally some good news for a change.

According to him, Detroit couldn't possibly have places with doormen, and that shot was from somewhere on 5th Avenue in New York, and the entire city is basically destroyed and primitive.

Where do...

Totally agree, and let's add new Yankee Stadium and Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati to the mediocre white bread list. Why they tore Yankee Stadium down I have no idea, none whatsoever.

I do apologize for my crass evaluation of Memorial Stadium. I was off on a tangent and I got carried away. I brought up Baltimore because it was the success of Camden Yards [[which I personally love...

Over a decade ago, there was a renovation plan for Tiger Stadium drawn up by two architects called the "Cochrane Plan" that was never taken seriously by Mike Ilitch and the Tigers. It basically did...

Here's another exterior shot from the Bennett Park era, with a closeup of the ticket booths. I also stuck in a shot of what was on the site before it was a ballpark, a picture of the hay market.
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Here's some various exterior shots of Bennett Park as it evolved into Navin Field then Briggs Stadium...

No, that's Sam Crawford in centerfield. Ty Cobb was in right field in both the 1907 and 1909 World Series.

Great photos, Magna. At that time, in the heart of the so-called "Dead Ball Era", homeruns as we know them were extremely rare, and teams would sell as many tickets as possible. Often they'd rope...

This is getting ridiculous. From now on I'm going to completely disregard any weather "forecasts" that I hear whatsoever. But hey, at least I got a snow day out of it...

Yes it did, but the time you spent watching the Partridge Family did nothing but cripple society and destroy many young lives.

I'm not a believer until I see her face.

Uh oh. It's on.

Anyone else want some popcorn?

It's very interesting that you came to that conclusion from what I wrote.