[milwaukee-electric] Re: Milwaukee slums during the 1940s and afterward

[Don L. Leistikow]

Scott G and list:    Your comment, back on 11/7, is nominomly correct.                   

I recall a photograph looking east on the private right of way at about
20th street, to which the Press had superimposed a concrete roadway with
automobiles on it.   IIRC, that was about 1945 and the doctored photo
appeared in the Milwaukee Journal.                                   

I'm sure that this photo has reappeared in various publications as
evidence in support of Freeway Construction.              

In defense of what we had...... I once rode west from the PSB to 68th
street, non-stop... in 7 minutes flat... and that included 6 blocks of
street running.  The year was 1940, and you cannot do that today!                                                          

A class operation, that was.  And remember:                                                                                                               

There is Nothing Free, about the Freeway 


Don L.