[milwaukee-electric] History Mystery Streetcar Tour

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History Mystery Streetcar Tour

The Kenosha History Center is proud to announce that a brand new History Mystery tour is scheduled for this summer. This time, we will be traveling back in time on Kenosha's Electric Streetcars.

The date is Saturday, Aug. 29, and the special event for local history
buffs will begin on the streetcar route: with wine and a gourmet buffet at Ashling on the Lough, 125 – 56th St. Cocktails will be at 5:30 p.m., followed by Dinner at 6:00 p.m. At 7:00 p.m., we will board one of the electric streetcars for our trip back in time.

Tickets are $45 and available at the Kenosha History Center (220 –
51st Pl., 262-654-5770) and can be purchased by check or with
MasterCard/VISA. There are only 42 seats on the Streetcar so get your
tickets quickly!

Our conductor for the tour will be local historian Don Jensen, who has
led a number of previous History Mystery tours around Kenosha and the
rural areas of Kenosha County.  Those who have been on these historical adventures in the past, know that Jensen will be spinning non-stop stories about interesting people and places from the community's past.

This time he will focus on history as it evolved over the past decades
and centuries along the streetcar loop, from the Metra railway station, past the venerable Civic Center plaza, through downtown and HarborPark and back along Kenosha's harbor. The hour-long streetcar trip will be punctuated by frequent stops and several brief jaunts on foot down interesting streets along the way.

You will learn about Kenosha's streetcar history, the irate property
owner who went to court because she didn't want the tracks running down her street, about the battle for riders between the streetcars and the jitney taxis.  We will learn about the Sammy Bar and what went wrong with the Rite Spot. And how about the store that suddenly found its first floor displays in the basement!

And as we continue our rail tour around downtown, we will hear about our own Lady Liberty and how the city managed to move a huge post office an entire block.  We will be introduced to perhaps our least appreciated art gallery and view sites where our ancestors played baseball indoors long before there was a Miller Park and where U.S. Presidents spoke to Kenosha voters.

Jensen will continue to spin a historical web with plenty of other tales of our downtown and lakefront areas that will both educate and entertain you about our little known past, our hometown history mysteries.

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Meridith Jumisko
Public Relations & Graphic Design Coordinator
Kenosha Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
Phone: 800-654-7309 ext. 13, 262-654-7307 ext. 13
Web Site: http://www.kenoshacvb.com <http://www.kenoshacvb.com/>
Media Room: http://www.kenoshacvb.com/media/press.asp
<http://www.kenoshacvb.com/media/press.asp>
Email: mjumisko at ...
Fax: 262-654-0882
Mail: 812-56th Street, Kenosha, WI, 53140

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