[milwaukee-electric] Re: 25th Anniversary: "The Trolley at East Troy"

[Gary Schnabl]

I was unaware back in 1957, when I started MUHS nearby, that there was a 
PROW off 35th and Clybourn. A few years later, our intramural football 
team at the engineering college of MU played at MU Stadium. I walked 
around the neighborhood at times, but did not notice much of anything, 
primarily because I was not really looking...
I clearly remember the PROW at 52nd + 1/2 Street and Wells, as I 
sometimes took the #10 partway home from MUHS, some ten miles away. 
Public transportation for six miles, walking/hitchhiking the final four 
miles to Pilgrim Road (156th Street) and Burleigh as a 14-year-old.

BTW, the 1934 map showed that Merrill Park, just east of MU Stadium, 
then was called City Playground.

Gary

On 7/20/2011 2:09 PM, Scott Greig wrote:
> Yes, it did.  I have a couple of pictures of the original connection from Clybourn, taken near where it joined the Rapid Transit Line.
>
> As I understand it, there was a retaining wall at the start of the private right-of-way that was visible for many years, but by the time I tried chasing TM roadbeds it was gone.
>
> --- On Wed, 7/20/11, Gary Schnabl<gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>  wrote:
>> Later, the first stretch of the rapid-transit portion
>> started west of
>> 35th, though. I suppose that the long viaduct from 39th
>> Street to near
>> 45th and Canal connected the surface route (on Clybourn
>> from the PSB?)
>> with the interurban to where the original rapid transit
>> part started.
>> Are there any remnants of those six blocks south of Merrill
>> Park?
>>
>> Gary

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

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