[milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee Train Station During 1969

[Gary Schnabl]

On 3/17/2011 11:42 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> There is Timmerman Field, which was once known as Curtis Wright Field. It is
> located at Hampton and 92nd, stretching to Appleton Avenue.
>
> K.
Timmerman is a fairly large general-aviation airport. I landed there 
once when the Goodyear blimp was parked there for some event or another. 
I flew in from Madison to visit my folks, and the blimp was a few feet 
off the ground on the grass part of the airport. Some (at least one) 
runway is grass. I reckon the blimp used that one.

How large was the field off Hopkins? I remember it being east of the 
street. Was that area all developed by 1950? I remember there still 
being military barracks near there when I started driving around 1960. 
My grandfather sold his 30 acres at 42nd and Capitol in 1928 and moved 
to the Lower Rio Grande when he was in his middle 40s.

Back around then, Sherman Blvd--Milwaukee's last macadam street 
(1932?)--only went north as far as Hope (1/4 mile north of Capitol). A 
few years later, a block on Sherman about two blocks north of Congress 
(Lincoln Creek) was not built yet. That stream that now enters Lincoln 
Creek at 47th Street meandered in that area north of Congress and went 
as far east as 44th Street until the WPA in the 1930s dug a straight N/S 
trench and relocated it at 47th. That was the same creek that was at 
49th and Hampton.

When I attended kindergarten at Pleasant  View school (49th/50th and 
Capitol) in 1948, the Milwaukee city limits sign was located at 49th 
Street then.

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

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