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

[Ken and Tracie]

It is somewhere close, if not directly on Roosevelt. I am probably wrong, 
but I thought it was next to those two houses which were built as "mirror 
images" of each other.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Schnabl" <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 7:16 PM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee-area Lustrons (1948 to 1950)


> 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...