[milwaukee-electric] Re: One Man 600s

[Gary Schnabl]

On 8/23/2010 11:19 AM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Gary S and list:   Yup, Edgewood, was the southern border of Shorewood.
>
> As I was not an 'eastsider', I can't answer your question about a ramp
> on the eastside of Oakland Avenue.
>
> However, my memory kicked in with a commentary on the one man 600's.
> Transportation to and from each other's field, was accomplished by a
> Charter streetcar.  A great rivalry existed between High School Football
> Teams, Wauwatosa and Shorewood, as they played each other, each Fall
> Season.  The usual razzing after the game by the winner to the loser,
> was common.  On one measurable occassion, Shorewood lost.  The exhausted
> Shorewood team, took out their frustration on the widnows of their
> one-man 600 class streetcar, breaking several.  As I recall, the
> motorman was usually accompanied by a Supervisor on the round trip.  The
> Special car would layover at the Harwood Terminal.
>
> I suspect that this was the last time that TMER&T ran that Charter, in
> either direction.   I was in Wauwatosa High School, back then; the early
> 1940's.  We heard about that from our Principal, the next School Day.
> Those interschool games were held on Friday nights.
>
> For the record..... Don L.
>    
About Friday night football in Madison... (I worked in Madison for 27 
years and lived on a couple farms nearby.)

Friday-night football games were the norm until race riots during the 
crack 1980s forced a changeover to Saturday (AM?) games.

Black girls would routinely gang up on hapless Caucasian females (those 
who attended the football games alone), especially at Breese Stevens 
park (about 2/3 mile east of the Capitol on East Washington Blvd.) 
--where apparently East High played the football games, as they had no 
athletic fields near their HS except for practice. Usually only one or a 
few attacks per game. It seemed that the politically correct Madison 
police took little to no action on that--appeasement related? The reason 
for the attacks was that black females had only a few black males to 
date because they often dated white girls then.

One particular Friday night during the 1980s the attacks was so 
numerous, with so many blacks attacking white girls, that the police 
finally showed up and brought out their riot gear and such that they 
last used during the Vietnam student-riot days over a decade earlier.

Perhaps, the games are still held on Saturdays, but I moved from the 
People's Republik of Madison thirteen years ago.

Gary

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