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

[Ken and Tracie]

I have attached a 1965 photo of the barracks, looking towards the northeast. 
I know that at that time, Sherman Boulevard ended just before the C&NW 
tracks, forcing a left turn  to reach Hopkins so you could continue north. A 
portion of Hopkins between Silver Spring and Florist(?) was replaced with 
Sherman Boulevard, perhaps during the late 1950s or early 1960s. I believe 
Hopkins was re-aligned on east side of Sherman to serve as a sort of 
frontage road. The city started replacing the wooden temporary streetlights 
in the area during 1969. WEPCO started replacing their power line poles 
along Hopkins between Florist and Woolworth Avenues at this time, but 
suspended the work, probably due to debate over what to do with the USDB 
site and the impending extension of Sherman Boulevard to Mill Road. There 
was a mix of new and old poles with temporary hardware holding the wires 
along the west side of Hopkins for several years. The wooden streetlight 
poles and their overhead circuits remained along the east side of the street 
during this time, too, long after new streetlight was installed elsewhere in 
the vicinity. I will have to research this and try to find out if there were 
plans to reconfigure Hopkins in this area in addition to extending Sherman 
Boulevard.
When Sherman Boulevard was extended to meet Hopkins on the North 43rd Street 
alignment at Mill Road, during the early 1970s, the Hopkins grade crossing 
with the C&NW was removed and Hopkins dead-ended at the crossing, near 
Woolworth Avenue.

Many of the wooden structures at the barracks were destroyed between 1971 
and 1973 or '74 by arson fires. The old House of Correction complex, which 
the Army took over during 1945 or '46 was heavily vandalized throughout the 
1970s. The Army Reserve had used part of the complex after the Disciplinary 
Barracks closed, but their operations were shifted south, across the 
Milwaukee Road tracks, to the Nike buildings after the Nike site was 
deactivated. The missile silos were up by the prison buildings, along the 
C&NW tracks. The silos were finally dismantled to make way for flood 
detention ponds for Lincoln Creek during the 1990s.

I will have to dig out one of my 1930s-'50s Milwaukee maps to see if there 
was an airfield east of Hopkins and north of Silver Spring.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Schnabl" <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:33 PM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee Train Station During 
1969


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