[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Gary Schnabl]

Referring back to the Retro photo:
http://www.retrocom.com/retromilw/Mke-Downtown50s.jpg
What was the large building at the SW corner of 10th and Clybourn 
(ending at Hibernia)?

I thought that a different building might have been along the PROW alley 
between 7th and 8th. But the more I looked at it, it appears as it was 
what was left after it was razed. All of the buildings on the south side 
of Clybourn between 6th and 9th were gone.  However, some buildings on 
Hibernia between 8th and 10th are visible. The photo ends somewhere in 
the 900 block of Hibernia.

The subway entrance is very obvious, being right next to the ROW. It 
appears the same as I remember it from an ancient Milwaukee Journal 
article from some 70 years ago. It seems to be openly accessible...

The Blatz sign at the SE corner of 8th and Wisconsin was huge, taking up 
most of the side of that (8-story?) building, there. My parents' next 
door neighbor in Brookfield--Al Romans--owned most or all of the George 
Webb's in Milwaukee and Racine. There was one right near the corner of 
8th and Wisconsin, on the south side of Wisconsin then.

I also remember seeing on a website that apparently is no longer up some 
1964 photos of the ROW, showing that nearly everything between St Paul 
and Clybourn, especially between Clybourn and Hibernia except for 
Aldrich Chemical, was taken out during the 1964 activity So, I tend to 
agree with the 1963 date that another poster suggested. I doubt if it 
were later. Its caption suggested that it was from the 1960s, but 
another blurb also suggested it might have even been in the 1950s.

I am not a believer of photo captions, as that gallery of 1936 Milwaukee 
photos were loaded with bogus captions.


Gary


On 3/19/2011 12:41 PM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Gary:   Looking again at the Retro Milwaukee 1950's photo, ..  is
> somewhat difficult as the location of the then GE bulding is way over at
> the right side of this photo.
>
> I can see and identify Wells, Wisconsin, Michigan and Clybourn streets.
> Also evident, for our purposes are the Royal Hotel at 5th and Michigan,
> the MILW Trainshed, The North Shore Terminal and the intersection of
> 6th, Clybourn,and St.Paul streets.
>
> The Court of Honor (the boulevard on Wisconsin Avenue) is clearly shown
> thus identifying 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th streets.  Sliding over to
> the far right is somewhat obscured and fuzzy.  That could be a problem
> with my 'webber' and its limits.  However, it does appear that the east
> end of the then GE property is somewhat cleared.  A rather small black
> spot, could be the remaining entrance to the Subway.
>
> As for the 1963 photo, I have trouble with that date.  It looks like the
> RTL ramp up to 8th street, is still there.  As I was employed there (GE)
> in 1951, right after Speedrail shut down, that ramp was torn down.
> Furthermore, there was a very tall Line Pole, from the ground up to way
> over the track level.  There was a STOP board at the crossing, in both
> directions.
>
> There hung that STOP board, way up in the air, untouchable.  One day I
> came out and the very tall line pole... was down and cut in half...and
> that sign? ...... Intact !  That sign is now in my basement.  So, what
> I'm saying is, the yard was cleared in the late 1951-1952 era.
>
>
> Furthermore, this photo is older than 1963.  Look at the railroad cars
> at the bottom of the photo.  The tracks and Fowler Street LCL yard is
> apparently still there.  As I recall, that operation was ended when the
> railroads dumped the LCL traffic.  (LCL meaning Less than Car Load) as I
> had posted earlier.  The land was cleared, as I recall  That space
> became the site of the new, combined MILW and C&NW Passenger Station in
> 1965.
>
> As for a new buiding on Clybourn in the 700 block.... ??????     I doubt
> it.  What that is, I don't know.
>
> Don L .


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

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