[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.
>    
I did both a GoogleEarth and a MapQuest of Sherman and Roosevelt. There 
are now a couple small duplexes west of 44th. I then tracked Roosevelt 
up to Fond du Lac. At the NW corner, the old Seaman residence (of 
Seaman-Gunderson heavy equipment) from that era was still there. (The 
Seaman's kid was a classmate of mine at St. John de Nepomuc and MUHS.) 
The former, once-popular Carvel frozen custard stand across the street 
from Seaman's now is an empty lot--just concrete...

Having somewhat of a pornographic memory, I did not remember any Lustron 
there in my own former "back yard" during 1946 through 1968 in the 4300 
or 4400 blocks of Roosevelt. Might you know its relation to anything 
there? I seem to recall that the 4300 block (even) was vacant lots. The 
church and school and (possibly) the Jewish synagogue took up all the 
odd side of Roosevelt in that triangular block.

> 2.)  Capitol, north side, just a few blocks west of N. 35th.
>
> 3.)  N. 84th, Between Burleigh and Lisbon.
>    

This might be a winner, as the Lustron Registry does not list one there 
(two were close...):
http://www.lustronpreservation.org/lounge/locator/lustron-locator?cmd=search&startAt=0&endAt=30&stateId=59&searchText=milwaukee&searchField=2&modelId=0&colorId=0&threatId=0&alterationId=0&zip=&street=&showall=Show+ALL+Lustrons 
<http://www.lustronpreservation.org/lounge/locator/lustron-locator?cmd=search&startAt=0&endAt=30&stateId=59&searchText=milwaukee&searchField=2&modelId=0&colorId=0&threatId=0&alterationId=0&zip=&street=&showall=Show+ALL+Lustrons>

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

Still have to scope this one out yet...

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


Gary
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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...