[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Y Marti]

Gary,

Abel & Bach did downsize by the 1950s and by then had sold off the  
building you mentioned. They were a big company in the earlier part of  
the century and had a big factory stretching to St. Paul and also east  
of 10th Street. The main office was on St. Paul. With the Stock Market  
Crash they had to sell to Stearns but still kept manufacturing there  
through the 1950s.

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.
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> 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.
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> Mi dos centavos...
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