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

[Larry Allan]

Photo of the Goodyear Blimp at Timmerman Field.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at swdetroit.com>wrote:

> 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
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