It was a sad day in March 1949 when the Steinmeyer grocery store on 3rd and Highland Sts. closed its doors. Long a Milwaukee institution, it claimed to be the nation's largest independent retail grocery under one roof. Steinmeyer's got its start...
Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; State Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Frank Dollak Grocery (Milwaukee, Wis.); Dollak Family; Dollak, Frank; Dollak, Clara; Dollak, Mary; Miller, Mary; Dollak, Frank Jr.; Milwaukee Area Technical College;...
Frank Dollak's grocery served its State Street customers well nearly 70 years ago. Dollak established his first grocery in 1918 on St. Paul Avenue; from 1919 to 1923 he was located at 624 W. State, now the site of MATC. An immigrant from...
Franklin Place (Milwaukee, Wis.); Baumann, Herman F.; Baumann, George; Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Sales personnel -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Herman F. Baumann, Grocer (Milwaukee, Wis.)
A modern grocery store in 1910 - that's how George H. Baumann of Wauwatosa describes this picture of his father's business establishment on Milwaukee's East Side, 856 Franklin Pl. (later 1708 N. Franklin Pl.). This photo shows proprietor Herman F....
This photograph provides a small slice of life from April 1937, when it was taken. Eisendrath's Grocery was then at 2002 W. Juneau Ave. As with many neighborhood grocery stores, prices were painted on the window. The specials when this picture...
Michigan Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Jackson Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Contipodero, Theo; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Shoe shiners -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Lewis Center (Milwaukee,...
The four identical houses pictured here lined the south side of Michigan St. east of Jackson St. in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Theo Contipodero's neighborhood grocery store was on the first floor of the corner house, and the Contipoderos...
Out of control after a collision with an automobile, a trackless trolley crashed into the Lawrenz grocery store, 5133 W. North Ave., on Jan. 26, 1950. The driver of the automobile was hurt but the trolley driver and his one passenger were not. ...
Before the days of supermarkets, people shopped at the corner grocery store. This Milwaukee store, seen in a 1925 photograph, shows the proud owners, Anton and Amalia Teisl, with an unidentified customer. A close examination of the shelves shows...
At the turn of the century, customers walked down wooden sidewalks on old Mitchell St. to do their daily errands. Among buildings located there was the Surges Bros. saloon and grocery story at 510 Mitchell St. (now 9th and Mitchell Sts.), at an...
William Steinmeyer Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Third Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Highland Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Horse-drawn vehicles; Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The William Steinmeyer Co. was established in 1865 as a wholesale and retail grocery. Twenty-eight years later, the business moved from the southeast corner of N. 4th St. and W. Juneau Ave. to this five story building on the corner of N. 3rd St....
Third Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Eighth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Frank Tatera, Grocer (Milwaukee, Wis.); Tatera, Ervin; Tatera, Florence; Tatera, Frank; Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Advertising
"Rinso." "Holsum Bread." "Free 'American Family Soap' - Bring Coupons Here." These were just a few of the signs in Frank Tatera's grocery story at 1025 Third Ave. (later 2401 S. 8th St.) in 1929. Many shoppers today - even young ones - remember...
Tony Campanelli ran his market at 232 (later 811 E.) Brady St. from 1920 to 1946. From then until 1972, the family store was at 1699 N. Astor St. Campanelli's sold all manner of grocery products, especially imported foods, such as olives and...
Customers could choose just the right fruits and vegetables to suit their tastes from boxes and baskets of produce displayed outside the neighborhood grocery. This store belonged to Charles J. Petri, who is on the sidewalk, and was at the corner...
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Detroit Street (three blocks south of Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee's Third Ward) was a busy community area with a number of shops. Customers could count on personal service at the grocery store owned by Leonard Cascio and located at 161 Detroit. ...
The A&P store on the southwest corner of 27th and State Sts. was typical of corner grocery stores all over the city for many years. This photograph was taken in late November 1924. Baked goods, some of it in holiday boxes, was temptingly...
The corner grocery store, although a far cry from today's warehouse supermarkets, took care of most of the needs of the neighborhood. Grocer Rudolph Bartos (behind counter) posed in his store at the corner of W. Burleigh and N. 24th Sts. in 1923. ...
Sixth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wright Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); F. Butzlaff Groceries (Milwaukee, Wis.); Butzlaff, Ferdinand A.; Butzlaff family; Butzlaff, Ferdinand A. -- Family; Horse-drawn vehicles
This typical neighborhood grocery was located on what is now N. 6th and W. Wright sts. Ferdinand Butzlaff, shown here with his wife and their five daughters, operated the store at this location from 1887 until 1918. The store faced a wooden...
And the price of admission - a nickel for children, a dime for adults - included more than just movies. When the old Greenfield Theater changed hands in 1930, it became the Pastime Theater. The versatile Norbert J. Karczewski Sr. was manager,...
Wells Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Oneida Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Jefferson Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
"The city directory is Milwaukee's catalog," its ads used to proclaim, and certainly their listings are still a big help in pinpointing what's where in Milwaukee, especially in old photographs like this one. E. Wells St. was called Oneida St. when...
Elm Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Garfield Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); George Schott, Grocer (Milwaukee, Wis.); Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; World War, 1914-1918 -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance
Like any good neighborhood grocer, George Schott couldn't let any empty window space go to waste, so he often painted signs on it to let passersby know what he was selling. But he wasn't advertising his own merchandise when this picture was taken;...
Matyas Bakery (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bakers and bakeries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Holton Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Matyas, Leopold
The neighborhood bakery has long been a tried and tasty institution on the Milwaukee scene. From the far reaches of the south side Polish bakeries to the little German shops on the north side, the tempting aroma of such delights as pazczka, babka...
