[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Gary Schnabl]

On 3/19/2011 1:53 PM, Y Marti wrote:
> If anything the retro Milwaukee photo is no earlier than 1961. The
> public museum didn't have the groundbreaking until late 1960 and the
> state office building didn't have a groundbreaking until late 1961.
> Bother were finished in 1963.
>
> If you were referring to the photo I posted of the yard area, I
> mentioned that that was from the late 40's. Most likely 1948 - no
> later than February 1949 when the Dresden and Vincent Flats at the
> southeast corner of 5th&  Michigan were torn down.
>
>> 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)?
> That was the former Abel&  Bach Trunk Factory building.
>
> Yance M.
That was what I thought, when I mentioned that Don might have mixed up 
the north vs south side of that building in his description of it. No 
big deal, but I am glad that it is now cleared up.

If I had owned A&B, I would not relocate just to satisfy the transit 
line's wish for a subway that they could not afford to build anyway, 
knowing that "my" business was a profitable going concern and all, 
making payroll and little things like that... As far as A&B was 
concerned, the rapid transit was just another "expressway," seeking to 
take their land and livelihood.

Mi dos centavos...

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

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