This is a typical 1958 Photo of the CLE Racetrack pits in Fort William Ontario as seen from the Grandstand facing south/east. In the center is the #19 Louis Tocheri car '32 Ford Coupe with his hauler vividly painted "Tocheri Brothers". If you click on the photo to get a closer shot you will also see a pickup truck with "East End Service" painted on the side. East End Service still exists to this day. What you will see as you scroll down is a few photos showing you the exact location of this photo relative to the google earth photo today, using a few houses as locator's.
Note these three houses in this closer photo to see where they are today.
Here are the houses in the gold square above and also in the square below. You can see that the pits and the track completely surrounded the present day golf dome.
The aerial photo shows Fort William Road, Northern Ave., the Coliseum building, the Golf dome, the Silver City Theatre, the Neebing River and the Fort William Road bridge crossing it. From these photos you should be able to locate the spot where all the oil and grease still exists under the Golf dome parking lot. Next: A Port Arthur thought!
This is an incredible photo from the Thunder Bay Online web page showing a Chinese Laundry just to the south of the old News Chronicle building in Port Arthur Ontario. This looks like a 1938 Pontiac or Oldsmobile coupe sitting proudly up front. I wonder what the two chaps are talking about? Just to the right of this building is the old News Chronicle(Port Arthur newspaper) building.

1 comment:
Pretty amazing photo; it has a fine-art quality to it, like photos taken for the NRA in the U.S. at that time of crumbling urban infrastructure.
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