[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[William Sell]

The large building on the SW corner of 10th and Clybourn may well be 
Milwaukee Insurance.It seems to have endured through much freeway 
construction. I can't picture the location of that building now and 
do not see it on Google Maps.  The other building, a house west and 
next to the Insurance building, was owned by Gretchen Colnick who was 
something of a radio star (WTMJ?) and had a day time program.  She 
managed to keep her house through the original freeway builds; it did 
not survive her passing.
Bill




At 12:31 PM 3/19/2011, you wrote:
>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 .
>
>
>--
>
>Gary Schnabl
>Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...
>
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