Westboro has changed a little in the last 80+ years... I'll be watching the Super Bowl at Whispers tomorrow (as I do most years). Here is Whispers on Richmond Road now, and what the identical location looked like in about 1935 (in a photo I just acquired this week). Amazing!
(You can read more about the history of Whispers itself from a post I made 3 years ago at: http://kitchissippimuseum.blogspot.ca/2015/02/the-evolution-of-whispers-westboros.html)
To enlarge the photos, simply click on them, and a new window will open showing a larger version:
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| Richmond Road at Tweedsmuir, looking west (Source: Google Streetview, August 2017) |
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| Richmond Road at Tweedsmuir (then known as "Xavier Street") circa 1935 (Source: unknown, likely Ottawa Archives, Suburban Road Commission Fonds) |
So the building with the "British Consols" (?) on it is now Whispers Pub? Very neat.
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