[milwaukee-electric] Re: Speaking of old days at East Troy....

[Ken and Tracie]

Hank Bykirk ran the cars back then. And yes, I knew Dave. I would sometimes 
be a crewman for him. I liked both Dave and his girlfriend. Great people.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:19 AM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Speaking of old days at East Troy....


> So he was a Milwaukee streetcar motorman, not North Shore?
>
> Were there any other ex-North Shore guys that put in time at East Troy 
> besides Don DeVuyst and the late George Borgman?
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> --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net> wrote:
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>> From: Don L. Leistikow <DLeistikow at webtv.net>
>> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Speaking of old days at East Troy....
>> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
>> Cc: emory1522 at wi.rr.com
>> Date: Friday, January 7, 2011, 12:48 PM
>> Scott and list: I
>> remember Dave White, quite well. He was a stalwart
>> motorman, formerly with TM on the 15 Line.
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>> Dave's longtime girl friend (name?) was also out there with
>> him and was
>> the (almost) resident Ticket Seller at Phantom Woods.
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>> Weekend wrap-ups usually ended with dropping the power at
>> about 8:00 pm.
>> Then Dave (+) girl friend, myself and any others.... would
>> 'go to beans'
>> at one of the three local Restaurant's. I don't
>> remember the names
>> (Javell's on CTH J comes to mind), another on Beulah Lake
>> west of Beulah
>> Siding and the Restaurant west of the East Troy Village
>> Square along
>> then HY 15 (now ES). All three very good eating
>> places.
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>> Yes, Dave was a Semi-truck Driver for Spector Motor
>> Freight. His run
>> was between Milwaukee and Akron, Ohio, a central point
>> where LCL (less
>> than carload) shipments were resorted and then reforwarded
>> to other
>> Spector Terminals, system wide.
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>> I doubt that he ever married his longtime gril friend. His
>> residence was
>> in a Motel off of Layton Avenie just west of 27th
>> street. As I recall,
>> the Spector Freight Terminal was just down the Road from
>> there.
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>> Dave White died a couple of decades ago.
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>> Don L.
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