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

[Gary Schnabl]

On 7/8/2010 12:39 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> My understanding was that a group of them were given away to promote "All
> Electric Living." There were five or six built as part of this promotion.
> The ones my ever dimming memory recalls are:
>
> 1.)  Roosevelt, between Fond du Lac and Sherman.
>    
Good. I will pass that on to Rick Allen, the guy who maintains the 
Lustron Registry. I lived two/three blocks away from Sherman and Roosevelt.

My family sold the last two lots of the "farm" on Capitol back during 
1968 or 1969. Green Bay Packer--Willie Davis--owns that property 
nowadays. Davis was not its first owner, though. It first became a 
welfare-department/unemployment-compensation branch office back 
then--but no longer.

> 2.)  Capitol, north side, just a few blocks west of N. 35th.
>    

Lustron #2 was factory built at 3802 West Capitol Drive--opened after 
the long, heavy rains finally stopped during May 1948. My school was at 
38th and Keefe--1/2 mile south, so I passed by that one nearly daily 
going home to 4206 West Capitol Drive--where the speed limit was 190, so 
say the road signs there. Or was that its Wisconsin highway number?

> 3.)  N. 84th, Between Burleigh and Lisbon.
>    

That might be the one in the North 3400 block of those between 81st and 
91st Streets in Wauwatosa. I will have to check back.

> 4.) Along my paper route, somewhere between Roosevelt, Keefe,  N. 54 and
> N.56th Streets.
>    

This one might be another winner, as it--like the one on Roosevelt--was 
not in the registry. Perhaps, two or three of the six missing 
Milwaukee-area Lustrons might now be identified--along with the Aaron 
Lustron.

My own Sentinel route included 51st through 53rd Streets there, by 
Keefe--the very same, mostly Jewish neighborhood. The parents of Herbert 
Kohl and Bud Selig, lived on 51st and 52nd Streets, respectively. They 
were eight years older than I, so I never met them--or even knew about 
them then, as they were sophomore frat-house roommates at the University 
of Wisconsin-Madison during 1955 when I was a sixth grader...

> There was/were one or two more, on the South Side, as I recall.
>    

I believe the registry listed one or more on the "SoutSite."


Gary


> K.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don L. Leistikow"<DLeistikow at webtv.net>
> To:<milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:41 AM
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee-area Lustrons (1948 to 1950)
>
>
>    
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>      
>
>    


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