[milwaukee-electric] Re: Oldest Custard Stand

[Don L. Leistikow]

Gary S and list:   The boundaries of the City of Wauwatosa, are a really
unusual configuration.  Suburbs are printed in various colors on my copy
of a 1939 TMER&T Map.                                          

The eastern bundary in  is mostly a straight line except for a bulge to
the east for a few blocks, up to Hawley Road  Then, Bluemound Road is
the south line except for a protrusion south to  about 40' north of
Mount Vernon.  Thes protrusion runs west to 71st street then, refuining
to Bluemound Road.   Another such segment, appears west of 84th street,
south to the Rapid Transit Liner then west to 89thstreet where ithe
booundary  extends north to the Miwaukee County Institution Grounds.                                   

Similiar ragged  Wauwatosa City limits exist on the western and northern
borders. 

When TMER&L  purchased land for the RTL between 100th and Lapham and its
end of the private right of way between 7th and 8th off Clybourn
streets, the property west of the Menomonee Valley, was known as the
Town of Wauwatosa.     

The corridor between Wauwatosa and West Allis, became City of Milwaukee
property.  Therefore, I believe that the Town of Wauwatosa, was larger
than what became the City of Wauwatosa.        

An oddity was that although I coudl see Juneau High School five blocks
from my house, I went to Wauwatosa High School. 

Don L.