[PRCo] What's in a Name????

[Ken & Tracie]

In northwestern Milwaukee County,  there were the rural and semi-rural 
communties of Granville, North Granville and Granville Center. Milwaukee and 
suburban Brown Deer eventually gobbled them up through annexation.

The remnants of Granville ceased to exist during 1964. The area went from a 
pleasant rural and residential area to urban sprawl (a seemingly unplanned 
commercial, residential and industrial mixture) and then to a high crime, 
low income area between 1964 and the mid 1980s.

Businesses failed (including one of the largest indoor shopping malls in 
Wisconsin) and tax revenues nosed dived.

The city is trying a residential and economic renewal program there. The 
centerpiece area has been renamed......."Granville."

I wonder if the charming roadside farmers' fruit and vegetable stands of my 
early childhood will return? Or perhaps the Milwaukee Northern interuban 
line my mother used to ride?  (Am being sarcastic, Fred.) :-)

K.



Fred Schneider wrote:


>> Why just pick on Pittsburgh.   That's not fair is it.   Here in
>> Lancaster we used to have streetcar routes and later bus lines that
>> were identified by the political wards they served: 7th Ward (and
>> later the Duke St. - 7th Ward bus), 6th Ward (and later the 6th Ward
>> - Laurel bus), and the 8th Ward - McCaskey bus.    Well, we no longer
>> have a 7th Ward bus.   We still have a bus that goes to through the
>> 7th Ward but now its called "Southeast Lancaster" because everybody
>> knows "The Ward" is such a horrible place.