[milwaukee-electric] Re: This is Hibernia? No?

[Gary Schnabl]

On 3/18/2012 11:20 PM, Don Leistikow wrote:
> Gary S and list:   Yeah, that is Hibernia Street, looking west toward
> 10th street and the overhead viaduct around Abel&  Bach Luggage
> building.   Is a photo date visable or known ?
> No way is that a photo of Detroit and Van Buren streets.
>
> I shall bring up another mis-captioned photo... that of the RTL 27th
> street landing.   This photo looks down, ostensibly from the 27 street
> viaduct, and clearly shows the three tracks, shelter and the Red Star
> Yeast building immediately south of the prow.
>
> Looding SW, the prow is shown all the way to and including the switches
> to cross over from the freight track onto the eastbound main and then
> through a crossover to the westboun main.    The High Voltage Towers are
> also in the photo.
>
> Imagine this... this photo is found in a collectiion of CMStP&P
> (Milwaukee Road) photographs.
>
> Does anyone have this photograph downloaded, in their collection ?  If
> so, please upload it as an attachment, so that I and members can see it.
>
> Don L .

Those photos were a few taken from the 1936 collection. There were 
others beside the two in that set with erroneous captions.

The Red Star photo was also corrected. I noticed that error a couple 
years go too when viewing those 1936 pictures.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3289

On another matter... Does anyone have any historical pictures of the 
vicinity of Fourth and Cherry? A number of the Uihleins lived there in 
their mansions until around 1935, and then their kids donated them to 
the Archdiocese--before being torn down by the city in favor of LBJ's 
ill-fated "urban renewal" projects during the Nixon years. The area 
between Fourth and Seventh Streets was a "high-rent" district during the 
1800s. Then several breweries came--some pretty big...

My old parish--St. John de Nepomuc--was originally in a small Protestant 
church that apparently went broke before it ever opened during the 
1800s. Another Catholic church--St Joseph--a few blocks west was also 
housed in a busted Protestant church, and that church served the 
Bohemian parishioners a few years (three?) before they scrapped up the 
bucks for their own church on Fourth. The Slovaks eventually split off 
from the Bohemians and built their parish a couple blocks north.

A seminarian from St. Francis wrote his 43-page masters thesis about St. 
John's in 1941. The librarian at the seminary sent me a copy last month.

Gary
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