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I found some nice trash cans today that reminded me of throwing garbage out in the old days. Sometimes I worry that doing all this is bordering on some weird unhealthy fetish for public amenities — but perhaps it’s not different than watching Antiques Road Show, which is kind of fun. If CBC of PBS or BBC did Garbage Can roadshow, I’d watch for a while.<\/p>\n

This old can must be 30 years old. It was outside my friend’s house on Ouellette Avenue, Windsor’s main street (some two kilometers south of the Rohypnol District I mentioned on Saturday<\/a>). They’re all over town too.
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The ads in Windsor on cans and bus benches are mostly small-time stuff — real estate agents complete with pictures of the agent — none of the big campaigns like in Toronto. The local-ness of it is sort of neat though. Kind of like Toronto’s Brad Lamb, but none of these people attach their heads to sheep-bodies.
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Does anybody remember Ricky Receptacle? I have a vague feeling there was some kind of cute campaign when these cans came out, with an anthropomorphized can asking kids to throw stuff out instead of littering. Am I imagining this, or was there such a thing? It is interesting to think that the state could be so cute.<\/p>\n

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Across the street from my old house, in the park I grew up in, was this old red can. These cans are everywhere, complete with with stenciled on town name. Tecumseh is sort of the Mississauga of Windsor. Well, maybe the Port Credit of Windsor is better, as the scale is about right. Not fancy, but the cans do the job and we’ll never forget where we are.
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They’ve also got this huge stencil they’ve placed all over the place that shows Chief Tecumseh. We didn’t know much about Tecumseh the man growing up in his town, just that he helped us win the War of 1812 somewhere along the Thames up towards London. His face was around though, like on the Big Chief gas station sign in town, a full service place that employed tough-looking kids.<\/p>\n

When the Harris government almagamated some of Windsor’s eastern suburbs (all former towns\/villages\/hamlets) there was some debate as to what to call the new municipality, but happily Tecumseh won out. The adjacent mega-pality got the unfortunate generic “Lakeshore” moniker. I don’t think I want to go see their cans, because even if they say Lakeshore, I won’t know where I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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