[milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee-area Lustrons (1948 to 1950)

[Ken and Tracie]

Montreal and Toronto Streets bordered part of Lincoln Creek's original 
channel.

I remember houses on north-south streets between Capitol and Congress, from 
about N. 38th Street to Sherman Boulevard  having rural style mailboxes into 
the mid-1960s

Before Lincoln Creek was re-routed, there was also a small "feeder" creek 
running north on the east side of N. 35th Street, which fed into Lincoln 
Creek on the south side of Capitol, along the edge of  the A.O. Smith 
property.

Quite a few creeks on Milwaukee's Northwest Side were placed into tunnels 
and/or re-aligned.

Several met the "Dineen Park" creek right near Northwest General Hospital, 
near 53rd and Capitol.

The Dineen Park creek and the creek originating at McGovern Park (or perhaps 
north of Silver Spring on the former House of Corrections/USDB property, now 
Havenwoods State Forest), both emerge from their tunnels, to empty into 
Lincoln Creek, near N. 48th and Congress.

The creek which used to run east from about N. 78th Street and Marion 
roughly between Fiebrantz and Marion until "diagonal-ing" northeast at N. 
65th, to cross Congress, Fond du Lac, then enter Lincoln Creek at about 
N.62nd Street, emerges from its tunnel, entering Lincoln Creek just above 
North 60th, just north of Fond du Lac.

During the floods during the spring of 1974, the creek exiting Dineen Park, 
overtopped its tunnel at N. 63rd and Melvina, found its original path and 
severely damaged several homes along the way, between dispersing at N. 60th 
and Capitol.

You can fool with Mother Nature, but you can't fool her.

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Schnabl" <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:35 AM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee-area Lustrons (1948 to 1950)


> On 7/8/2010 3:41 AM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
>> Gary S and list:    Yes, I remember them.  That was long ago.
>>
>> I recall some of them on the north side of town.  Capitol Drive rings a
>> bell as does Burleigh Street, in Wauwatosa.
>>
>> Surely there must be a way to trace these Lustron Homes.... sided with
>> porcelain enameled metal panels.  No painting, ever, just hose the house
>> down.  Ranch style construction, too.
>>
>> Perhaps tracing their location via Building Permits for 1948 thru 1950.
>> If those records are now on internet files, the search could be quickly
>> completed.
>>
>> Don L.
>>
> Yes, there are about six of them between 81st and 91st Streets in
> Wauwatosa--from a bit north of Burleigh to around North. I think that
> another Lustron was near Blue Mound Road, too.
>
> A Lustron could easily be moved, even with its ten tons of porcelain
> steel. The one I suspected that Aaron lived in is now essentially 1/2
> block away on Marion or Sercombe (the original name for 39th Street).
> Records are inconclusive, as government records were not always
> accurate. However, that Lustron was repainted yellow, as some white
> shows in places.
>
> Sometime during the Great Depression, Lincoln Creek was rerouted from a
> meandering surface creek from Sherman and Congress through or skirting
> my grandfather's thirty acres north of 42nd and Capitol Drive then
> headed roughly SE to cross Capitol Drive twice--at 36th and 34th
> Streets--and then did a 180 inside the AO Smith plant's 160 acres at
> 35th Street. The original Lincoln Creek hindered Lake Street (now
> Capitol Drive) from around being built west of 27th Street to around
> 35th Street or whatever until the 1920s or so.
>
> All of those half dozen or so Lustrons on my uncle's paper route in 1948
> were withinh 1/8 mile of the former route of Lincoln Creek, suggesting
> that they all were erected on newly reclaimed city lots after the creek
> detour at Congress Street--essentially an EW trench dug by the WPA or
> the CCC. I alerted the Lustron Registry to get those three Milwaukee
> maps that show the original Lincoln Creek, because most of the very few
> vacant lots that I noticed during 1950 were on the original Lincoln
> Creek's route.
>
> I suspected that Aaron's Lustron was on West Hope Avenue--the 3700 or
> 3800 blocks (even numbered). Assuming that my recollection as an
> 11-year-old kid was OK. We kids played many hundred games of hardball
> baseball from 1952 through 1955/56 in the large empty area, now occupied
> by a middle school, west of 36th Street and Hope. Aaron's house was on
> one of a few lots next to that field.
>
>
> Gary
>
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