Twelfth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Walters Sinclair Service Station (Milwaukee, Wis.); Alabama Apartments (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hotel La Salle (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee;...
Antique car buffs may be able to approximate the era this photograph was taken as the late 1930s; many Marquette University alumni and other downtowners will recognize the site as the northeast corner of N. 12th St. and W. Wisconsin Ave. When this...
Clybourn Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Thirty-fifth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.): Marquette University -- Football; Crowds -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Football -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The 1926 Marquette University homecoming, heralded as "the biggest and best" ever arranged, opened on Thursday, November 4, with an alumni dance and ended that Saturday with a football game in the afternoon and fraternity reunion parties for alumni...
Michigan, Lake; Water treatment plants -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
This may look like just another construction scene, but sharp-eyed readers will notice the outlines of the Filtration Plant beginning to rise along Lake Michigan in this photograph. A brick and lannon stone building in modernized Gothic style is...
Plankinton Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Plankinton Arcade (Milwaukee, Wis.); John Plankinton Mall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Shopping malls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Arcades -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.)
The signs of rebuilding were all there - barricades, ladders, sawhorses - and only the skylight, lamps and mezzanine give a clue as to where this picture was taken. Sharp eyed Downtowners will recognize it as the west end of the Plankinton Arcade...
Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee, Wis.); Henry Llewellyn Branch Library; Bay View Library; Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Library buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Fashion; Tricycles
The Llewellyn Library was the first neighborhood library in the Milwaukee Public Library system. It came into existence in 1887 as the "Bay View Branch," when the former suburb of Bay View was incorporated into the city as the 17th ward. The...
Milwaukee County Stadium; Stadiums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Baseball fields -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Construction and demolition debris -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee Braves (Baseball team); Milwaukee Brewers (Baseball team)
The year 1953 was a special one for Milwaukee baseball fans. Not only did they have a new team, moved here from Boston, but a new stadium that would become the "home of the Braves." There were a lot of sidewalk superintendents on hand during the...
Ravenna Park (Shorewood, Wis.); Hubbard Park (Shorewood, Wis.); Mineral Springs Park (Shorewood, Wis.); Wonderland (Shorewood, Wis.); Amusement parks -- Wisconsin -- Shorewood
This picture, taken in 1912, shows people entering Ravenna Park for some summer fun. The private amusement emporium was the last in a series of predecessors to Hubbard Park, a retreat on the east bank of the Milwaukee River in Shorewood. It...
Badger Auto Service (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company; Service stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Gasoline pumps; Water towers; Fond du Lac Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Badger Auto Service was formed in the 1920s by the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. to service and compete with the new mode of transportation - the car. Among other enterprises, Badger operated taxi service in some of the smaller towns near...
West Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Washington Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bandstands -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Until 1900, Washington park was known as West park. Pictured above is the bandstand in the park as it appeared in the fall of 1912, 24 years before the present band shell was dedicated. Land for West park and nearby Sherman park was purchased by...
Schlitz Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Eighth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Walnut Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Pagodas; Quentin's Park (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Schlitz park, complete with 250 gas lights, was one of the city's most popular outdoor beer gardens in the gay nineties. Located on 8th and Walnut sts., where Roosevelt junior high school and Carver park now stand, Schlitz park was popular for old...
Menomonee River Valley (Wis.); Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Viaducts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bridges -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Grand Avenue Viaduct (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct (Milwaukee,...
It took some four years and over a half million dollars to complete the massive project, but Milwaukee and the Town of Wauwatosa were more conveniently linked in 1911 when the Grand Avenue (now W. Wisconsin Ave.) viaduct was opened. The span...
During the latter part of the 19th century this scene, looking west from what is now, E. Mason st. and N. Broadway, was part of what was known as " Milwaukee's Newspaper Row." On the corner was Adam Roth's Quiet House saloon. The third floor of...
Washington Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Outdoor recreation -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
If one would but visit "the stifling alleys of any great city" he would "appreciate that the task of providing a great town with beautiful parks is one of the most grateful in the world; but it also becomes a duty." That statement was made by...
Union Depot (Milwaukee, Wis.); Reed Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Second Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Railroad stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Horse-drawn vehicles
The old Union Depot was built in 1866 at the foot of Reed St. ( S. 2nd) and was Milwaukee's principal railroad "port of entry." H. Russell Austin, in "The Milwaukee Story," described the area: "The street in the front of it (depot) was crowded at...
