General Motors Oshawa, 1924

[@PhilipDykshoorn]

Good old Oshawa, born and bred. l can recall these buildings in my youth, still up in the mid 70s.

[@dekelanson5280]

Great video but too short. I lived in Oshawa from 1985 to 2020. I'd love to see more.

[@CanadianAutomotiveMuseum]

So would we! This is the entirety of the historical Oshawa footage we have, unfortunately. If you know where we can find more that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and is cleared for public release like this, please let us know!

[@olsmokey5256]

I believe that was Ritson Rd. Just North of King

[@runner3033]

I don't think it is, solely on the basis that there are what looks like houses down at the end of the road, like this "road" dead-ends into a T-junction. Ritson would have just been going off into the countryside. I have an aerial photo of the GM plant from 40s/50s and it was quite a sprawling complex of buildings like these with RR tracks and those conveyor-ways between buildings, so many places this could have been taken. This could even have been on the grounds of the plant somewhere, and not even a street. The other clue is the single large chimney, in the aerial photo I have you can only see the 2 big ones along William St that were demolished in the early 00's. I've watched this like 15 times now, really tough to ID this location.

[@PhilipDykshoorn]

Have a keen interest in the City of Oshawa, and even growing up in the 70s, there were still many buildings of historic Oshawa as well as the old GM plants in downtown Oshawa. Of course l am sure you are familiar with Timothy Bouckley three-parter on Oshawa, with clear images of the city in the early part of the 20th century.

[@CanadianAutomotiveMuseum]

We're big fans of Bouckley's work. His photo collection has been foundational to many of our exhibits, and it's a tremendously valuable source of reference material.