Rendezvous Shores (Windsor, Ontario)

USA / Michigan / Grosse Pointe Park / Windsor, Ontario
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Former site of the Rendezvous Tavern, a pivotal landmark during the Prohibition era. An East end staple for decades after.
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Coordinates:   42°20'3"N   82°53'49"W

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  • Originally a Speak Easy Tavern was located here called the Rendezvous. It was tore down to make large up-scale homes.
  • So sad to see what has become of that property; my cherished childhood playground turned into a subdivision of $600,000 over-priced McMansions. Rendezvous Shores used to me the location of the "Rendezvous Marina" a great family-boating marina back in the 1950's through the 1970's. If you zoom in on satellite image, in the water to the left of the the tip of that jetty/penninsula, you see an angular breakwater row of rocks in water; that used to be the outer edge of many many rows of concrete marina boat slips. Working-class families from Ontario & Detroit would spend their summers and weekends there with their boats and small cabin cruisers. Children would be playing on that entire huge grass field covering what is now that entire housing subdivision, from the edge of the boat docks, all the way down to huge beautiful Rendezvous Tavern Restaurant & Bar on the edge of the main roadway, which I see has been torn down for those homes. Nothing greater at age 5 than running from the docks to the Tavern with 20-cents in your hand to get an ice cream cone in 1965. I hope I am not the only person who recalls the sweet years there at the "Rendezvous Marina"
  • Shawn ... that was a great Tavern/Restaurant, along with the marina behind it during its heyday from the 1950's through the 1970's. I spent so many summers there as a kid on my family's boat. I stopped by there once in 1980's with my camera and took photos of the decaying docks, the Marina-Master shack and the Tavern, because I knew someday someone was gonna bulldoze the entire property. I still have the pics.
  • Abars down at Lauzon and Riverside had suffered a similar fate to the Rendezvous not long ago. What will become of the property, only time will tell.
  • Funny that previous commentators mention the $600,000 McMansions which are now worth close to $2,000,000.
  • Would love to see these photos
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