Edward Schuster and Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Twelfth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Vliet Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee County (Wis.) -- Buildings; Automobiles
The department store that made Milwaukee famous by giving native speech the expression "I'm going by Schuster's," once had a store at N. 12th and W. Vliet St. That store had moved, in 1911, from the firm's first branch operation on 12th and...
Boston Store (Milwaukee, Wis.); Clinton Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Virginia Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); First Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee (Wis.) Fire Department -- Buildings; Delivery of goods --...
Philip J. Fritsch of Milwaukee wonders how many readers can remember when Boston Store delivery men wore uniforms, in the early 1930s. This picture was taken in front of the Milwaukee Fire Department Repair Shop at Clinton and Virginia (later S....
Boston Store (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fourth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Trucks; Delivery of goods -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Pavements, Brick -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Retail trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Seventeen trucks were parked on Fourth St. alongside the Boston Store in this 1918 photograph. The store's founder, Julius Simon, believed the growing city would expand so that his business, originally on the edge of Downtown, would become the...
Gimbel Brothers; Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Advertising, Outdoor
Gimbels Brothers store has long been a downtown fixture, and over the years such department store merchandise has reflected the fashions, needs, customs - and prices - of the time. This picture was taken in the 1890s when the store still used an...
Some 250 moviegoers attending the afternoon showing of "Run for Cover" on May 12, 1955 at the Riverside Theatre, had to run for cover themselves when a coupling on an air refrigerating unit exploded at the theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Ave. The...
Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Cathedral Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee County Courthouse.
The promotional advertisement that ran in The Milwaukee Journal on Nov. 12, 1963 - the day before the first appearance of the Green Sheet's "Remember when" feature, which pictured (above) the old Milwaukee courthouse - suggested that the series...
T. A. Chapman (Firm); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Fires -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Construction and demolition debris -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
This photograph shows the beginning of work to rebuild the T.A. Chapman department store after it was almost totally destroyed by fire on Oct. 23, 1884. A newspaper account of the blaze reported: "The fire seemed to leap the entire length of the...
Thirty-fifth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee (Wis.) Fire Dept.; Fire engines -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Fire stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
When the City of Milwaukee annexed the town of North Milwaukee in 1929, the old North Milwaukee fire station at 5151 N. 35th St. became the home of Engine Co. 37 and Ladder Co. 15. The new truck used by the ladder company is pictured here,...
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...
Johnston Emergency Hospital (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hospitals -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Third Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fourth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Sycamore Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Michigan Street (Milwaukee, Wis.)
When Johnston emergency hospital was organized in May, 1888, by members of the Bartlett Clinical club, the old central police station, located on Broadway just north of Mason st. was its first quarters. Although at first glance it appeared...
Center Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Twenty-seventh Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Street-railroads -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; F. W. Woolworth Company; Walgreen's (Firm); O'Hanlon, Francis E; Hankin's Department Store;...
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...
An island in this sea of rails and bricks at Kinnickinnic and Lincoln Avenues in 1926 was the "turtle," also known as the "button" and "mushroom," which was located throughout Milwaukee streets as a traffic director. Cars making left turns at the...
The signs on Espenhain's proclaimed, "Going Out of Business Sale," "Espenhain's Quits Business," "Everything Must Go - the End Is Here." The reasons for such an ominous fate were told succinctly in one other sign - "Old Man Depression Has Us...
City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hotel Blatz (Milwaukee, Wis.); Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Downtowners will recognize the building on the left as City Hall. If it weren't for the horse and buggies on the right, one might think this a new photo and that the pedestrian walkway a leftover from the recent building cleaning there. But this...
Safety Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee County; Eighth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Ninth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); State Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bentley Company...
The building originated in a movement for a new police station during the first decade of the century. After prize competition, the city selected Albert Randolph Ross as the architect. When the idea of a joint city-county building to house law...
T. A. Chapman and Company; Milwaukee Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The location is the same and the sign above the door still says Chapman's, but almost everything else has changed. T. A. Chapman & Co. was established in 1857; this store was built in 1872 on the southeast corner of what is now N. Milwaukee St....
Ruck, Frederick C.; Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee, Wis.); Steam-boilers
Seated at his rolltop desk is the late Frederick C. Ruck, chief engineer. He ran the "power plant" in the Central Library and Museum building at 8th and Wisconsin for 40 years - from 1905 until he retired at age 70. The steam generators in this...
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce -- Buildings; Mackie Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Office buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Board of Trade Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Michigan Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Broadway Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee...
The history of Milwaukee's Chamber of Commerce goes back to 1858 when the Board of Trade and the Corn Exchange, which had functioned independently, combined into the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Milwaukee. The new chamber, with 99 members,...
A weeklong program of events marked the opening of Milwaukee's new Arena in 1950. From April 9 through April 15, variety shows were presented each night featuring such entertainers as Frances Langford, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, Art...
State Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Zeidler, Frank P.; Wisconsin American Legion; Clubhouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Mayors -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Crowds; Bands (Music) -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Veterans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The dedication of a new department headquarters for the Wisconsin American Legion, a building that had been purchased from the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, was held on Dec. 7, 1952, at 812 E. State St. The dedication ceremony began at 1:57 p.m.,...
