[milwaukee-electric] Re: Oldest Custard Stand

[Gary Schnabl]

On 6/1/2011 8:15 AM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Gary S and list;    'Gillies'... was an early Custard Stand but, as I
> recall, not quite as early as Clark's on Bluemound Road.
>
> Paul Gilles opened a bit later than Clark's. Where the 'Gillies' name
> came from,  I do not know.  I have thought that 'Gillies' was simply a
> moniiker or abstraction used by later, young patrons.
>
> A check of Wauwatosa Building Permits, could settle that question.
> Growing up in the 68th and Bluemound area in the 1930's,  my memories
> lean toward Clark's, as the first Custard Stand.  I think that Leon's
> and Gilles, opened a bit later.
>
> Did a lot of local travel on TMER&L's Route 10, Wells~Downer 500 Class
> Streetcars, back then.  Caught onto the Local Rapid Transit Line about
> 1940 and then used that service, almost exclusively.
>
> Don L.
I suppose that Clark's was also in Wauwatosa, but I do not know where 
its boundary with Milwaukee is along Bluemound Rd. Of course, much of 
the then town of Wauwatosa was unincorporated at the turn of the 20th 
Century, as West Milwaukee (north of Greenfield before WM expanded south 
of Greenfield) was carved out of it, along with my grandparents' 30 
acres at 42nd and Capitol before 1910 (the 1910 Census lists their 
house/"farm" location as being in Wauwatosa then). Wauwatosa (town) went 
as far north as Hampton and as far east as 27th Street (including the 
original real estate of the AO Smith Co., for example).

One would think that the older inner city would have some custard 
stands, though, as the amount of space for a stand was minimal. 27th 
Street had some on both North and South sides ("sites", if speaking it 
"sout" of the river...) of town.


Gary


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Gary Schnabl
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