oldmke

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I post photos and videos from Milwaukee's past

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We often forget that Milwaukee is an old city. This photograph, taken in 1885, shows some beautiful Victorian homes along W. Wells St. near 24th St. The sidewalks were wooden in those days, and no automobiles would be seen for quite a few years. You can make out the hitching posts for the horses. The trees were small, the street unpaved. If you look closely, in the foreground you can make out horse car tracks for the West Side Street Railway. Ele ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeW8MSsua00

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Herman Weiss operated his meat market virtually in the shadow of Milwaukee's Exposition Building (seen in background). The store's awning reads "C. Weiss" because the market was in his mother Caroline's name. Gloria Wetzel of Cedarburg tells us that her grandfather's store was at 502 Wells, on what is now the northwest corner of 5th and Wells. Gloria's mother, now Mrs. Alma Wetzel, was born in the living quarters above the market in 1893 and migh ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVwcyR0u00

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On April 25, 1931, parents Luigi and Gaetana Marchese (at left end of the line) had a double reason to celebrate. It was the wedding day for both their son and daughter. After the double ceremony, Anna Marchese and Frank Lupo and their wedding attendants posed for this photograph with Carl Marchese and Marie Malloy and their wedding party in front of Madonna di Pompeii Church. Smiling guests and well-wishers lined the sidewalk. Although the churc ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVplu1ya00

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The time: Shortly after the turn of the century. The place: Harwood av. looking south to State st. in Wauwatosa. The streets were unpaved and residents made their daily rounds in horse drawn wagons and carriages, on bicycles or on foot. The "village" was built in the hollow of a hill with the Menomonee river flowing through its center under the Harwood av. bridge. The electric car line which provided Wauwatosans with streetcar service to Milwauke ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVc0zZ0i00

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A close look at this late 1800s picture of the intersection of E. Water and Cedar Sts. (later N. Water and W. Kilbourn) enables you to pick out some interesting details. The Herman Toser Co., a wholesaler of wines and liquors, was located at the corner, and one of its street level windows advertised its "sample room," while the other told German speaking passersby of its weinstube (meaning wine cellar). The Mi-Flora Cigar Factory sign included me ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVV9U-4e00

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The land for the park which was in time to become Milwaukee's Washington park zoo was purchased in 1891 and given the name West park. It offered an excellent view of the city which at that time was developing around it. Its chief attraction, according to a report written in 1895, was its "grand, old forest, some 15 acres in extent, composed of the only maples and other old trees 100 feet high that were spared by the ax for a great distance around ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVHRUE0a00

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The home-building business thrived as Milwaukee expanded in the early 1900s and the land west of W. Washington Blvd. and N. 60th St. was subdivided to provide new homes. The fields had belonged to the Pabst Brewing Co., which had used them for farming hops. The Kamm family moved into their new home at what is now 6426 Upper Parkway North in December 1919. They were the second family to become residents of the area still known today as the Washing ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeVAZTD8i00

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During World War II, a shipyard sprang up overnight in Milwaukee along the banks of the Kinnickinnic River. Local builder Ben Froemming, despite a lack of any shipbuilding experience, won a contract from the government in December 1941 to build four seagoing tugs at a cost of $1.2 million each. Before the war was over, the Froemming Brothers Shipyard, located at 1901 S. 1st St., built 26 ships at a rate of almost one a month. Here people gathered ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUyqE3im00

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Carriage and wagon building and repairing was a booming business for many years in Milwaukee. Until the automobile, almost every family had one of these hand made carriers. This was the C. Abresh Carriage and Wagon Works at Poplar and 4th sts. Outside the shop were carriages of the Badger Pump factory, located next door, and the J. Obermann Co., which bottled lager beer. Also seen are fancier non-commercial coaches. Besides building and rebuildin ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUrywQCi00

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This photo of Wisconsin Ave. between 3rd and 4th Sts., taken in January 1951, shows work beginning on the $500,000 renovation of the city's "Magnificent Mile" from the Milwaukee River to 11th St. The avenue from 11th to 27th Sts., immodestly called the "Miracle Mile," had been rebuilt in 1947, in time for the Wisconsin State Centennial of 1948. Although causing great inconvenience until completed for a grand reopening in September 1951, the secon ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUeEgqSi00

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If it wasn't for the roof line of the Central Library in the background, it would be hard to know just what street the photographer was on when he snapped this picture back around 1916. The crew working on the street light in the 700 block of Grand (now W. Wisconsin) Ave. might be planning to stop at the Queen City Lunch, which, judging from the sign inside the steamy window, was featuring oysters that day. But the clientele wasn't exclusively ma ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUXLiNii00

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These students in a shoe bottoming class were bent over their work when the photographer came around the Milwaukee Vocational School in 1946. Signs and posters on the walls reminded them of the fine points about both feet and shoe construction. Vocational school training began to develop rapidly in Milwaukee in 1912, after passage of the first state compulsory continuation school attendance law in 1911. The law required that children between the ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUJd_Qau00

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When the Chicago and North Western Railway Depot stood on Wisconsin St. overlooking the lake, the nearby Juneau Hotel at 229 Wisconsin welcomed visitors to Milwaukee. The structure was built at the turn of the century as an apartment house, but in 1910, after the area lost its residential character, Eugene Trimberger bought the building and turned it into a hotel. Trimberger also established a restaurant at the site in 1919; it was called Eugene' ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeUCmLqii00

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Villard Avenue was one of the main arteries when North Milwaukee was a village and then a city. This photo, taken not too long after North Milwaukee was annexed to Milwaukee in 1929, shows a street lined with stores for every need, a bustling shopping area. A popular place to spend leisure time was the Ritz Theatre (190 Villard), and on the day the photo was taken it featured "Song of Kentucky," billed as an "All Talking" show. Although the names ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeT-1JGKe00

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Although it was still a dirt street, Villard Ave. was already a main thoroughfare through North Milwaukee, lined with shops and a tavern or two. Villard ran from 27th St. west to Fond du Lac Ave., but North Milwaukee stretched only as far as 42nd St. when this photo was taken about 1908. The community of North Milwaukee, now a part of Milwaukee, was five miles north of the city at that time and located within the Town of Granville. When the Wisco ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeTu9grai00

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These examples of Victorian architecture were once the private residences of leading Milwaukee citizens on Highland blvd. between N. 29th and N. 30th sts. The house third from left was built in 1892 for malt tycoon Aldoph Zinn. It featured a round turret, tudor style gable, huge stone chimneys which served the 10 fireplaces that heated the house, and porte cochere or covered carriage entrance. Zinn built the limestone mansion a few years before h ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeTgRcW4i00

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Henry M. Van Ells started his career as a pharmacist at the Hassinger and Van Ells Drug Store on Forest Home Ave. in 1892. Later that decade, he moved to Mitchell St., and from there to National Ave. in 1902. In 1904, Van Ells established his pharmacy, the Van Ells Drug Co., at the busy intersection of 27th, Center and Fond du Lac, in a Dutch Gothic structure whose ornamentation was reminiscent of the old Pabst Building and City Hall. He remained ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeTZZppiu00

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This was the sum total of automobiles used in 1913 by the faculty and students of the State Normal School of Milwaukee, which is now the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. These six Fords, three Dodges and the custodian's riding lawn mower (in the center of the lineup) did not cause many parking problems around the early college campus. All of the drivers were men, for in the days before self-starters, it took a strong back to crank the engines ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeTLqrsea00

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For many years, one of Milwaukee's busiest shopping areas ran along N. 3rd St. for several blocks on either side of North Ave. Stores like Rosenberg's, Grants and Schusters could be found there. After World War II, Mayor John Bohn urged that Upper 3rd St. be completely rebuilt by removing the streetcar tracks and widening the street. On March 28, 1948, the last of the Route 19 and Route 37 streetcars rumbled past the Schlitz Brewery along with th ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeTEzDaOi00

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Milwaukee University School was founded in 1851 as the Milwaukee Educational Association by wealthy German families who sought more comprehensive educational facilities than were then available to their children. Conducted in a rented building on upper East (later N.) Water St., the school had 40 pupils in its opening year. Two years later, the state legislature chartered the association as the German Academy. In the same year, a site was purchas ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeT1EjDWy00

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Whether your horse needed new shoes or your surrey new fringe, Trupke and Goetter would attend to it promptly. The firm operated on Teutonia and North avs. from 1887 to 1928. This photograph dates from about 1910. The owners were Julius C. Trupke and Herman Goetter, wagon makers and blacksmiths. They made wagons, carriages and sleighs. One of their specialties was milk wagons, for Schwartzburg Dairy as the one in the picture, or for the Cedarburg ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeSwMjkyu00

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The 150-acre tract of land which became Washington Park has been acquired piecemeal beginning in 1891. While most Milwaukeeans remember the park - bounded by N. 40th and 47th Sts., W. Lisbon Ave., W. Lloyd and W. Vliet Sts. - as the site of the zoo and visit such features as the band shell, lagoon and tennis courts there today, a popular part of the park in the early 1900s was the race course. The track was situated next to the old boathouse on t ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeSifTD4a00

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Thomas H. Brever, now of Rhinelander, wonders "how many of the boys are still around who may remember this pictures." "It was in early 1917," Brever recalls. "We used the field behind the old post office on Michigan St. for a drill field. A few of us were old timers; we just got back from the Mexican border in January - I being one of them. Most of the men were new recruits, having been recruited at the Plankinton Arcade. I was an acting drill se ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeSblo7Ky00

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On February 25, 1936, a broken switch caused the front wheels of this streetcar to go north on S.1st St., while the rest turned west on W. Greenfield Ave. The result was a rush-hour tieup that lasted more than an hour and backed up numerous other streetcars on S. 1st St. There were many mishaps involving streetcars during their years of service in Milwaukee. While the accidents were usually the result of a mechanical failure or a careless motoris ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeSO236eq00

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The intricate network of cable hovered undisturbed over Center St. at 27th St. in this early morning photograph in the 1940s. Pedestrian and vehicle traffic was light. At rush hour in earlier days, streetcars dominated the activity, winding noisily around the bend, with bells clanging and steel wheels clashing against the trackwork. According to William D. Middleton's "The Time of the Trolley," Milwaukee's first trolley ran in 1890 on the Wells S ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeSHA4Iii00

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