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1. Remember When...W. Wisconsin Ave. was rebuilt? Remember When...W. Wisconsin Ave. was rebuilt? Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; F. W. Woolworth Company; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Automobiles; Construction equipment 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...
2. Remember When...cyclists peddled along Milwaukee's streets? Remember When...cyclists peddled along Milwaukee's streets? Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Grand Avenue Congregational Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Irish Cultural and Heritage Center (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bicycles In 1888 this was the scene along Grand Avenue, as cyclists peddled in front of the new Grand Avenue Congregational Church UCC, and the Gaves residence west of the church. The church was organized on Feb....
3. Remember When...The school building at 8th and Michigan was brand new? Remember When...The school building at 8th and Michigan was brand new? Eighth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Michigan Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fourth Ward School (Milwaukee, Wis.); Plankinton School (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fourth District School (Milwaukee, Wis.); Eighth Street School (Milwaukee, Wis.); North Division Downtown Campus (Milwaukee, Wis.); Urban Day School (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fulton Junior High School Annex (Milwaukee, Wis.); Eighth Street Middle School (Milwaukee, Wis.); School buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee Public Schools -- Buildings There were wooden sidewalks, hitching posts and gas lights at 8th and Michigan Streets when this building, now the oldest building in use in the Milwaukee Public School System, was built in 1884. A school...
4. Remember When...class visits to the museum began at the lecture hall? Remember When...class visits to the museum began at the lecture hall? Eighth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee Public Library; Milwaukee Public Museum; Auditoriums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Library buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Centennial Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); School buses; School children -- Transportation If you grew up in Milwaukee in the '40s and '50s, chances are you once stood in line like this at the entrance to the Museum Lecture Hall at 733 N. 8th Street. The lecture hall, built in 1913, was the...
5. Remember When...you, too, could have center stage? Remember When...you, too, could have center stage? Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee, Wis.); Library buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Libraries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Auditoriums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Centennial Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Women -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee The old Museum and Library lecture hall, on the east side of the Central Library building, was a meeting place for community groups such as the audience attending a homemaking meeting in this 1952 photograph....
6. Remember When...Blatz beer was first brewed here? Remember When...Blatz beer was first brewed here? Blatz, Valentin; Van Buren Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Mansions -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee This is the Valentin Blatz home, built in 1885 and razed in 1964, at 605 (later 1141 N.) Van Buren St. Blatz was born in Miltenber-am-Main, Bavaria, in 1826. He came to the United States about 1847. He...
7. Remember When...St. Mark's built its first church? Remember When...St. Mark's built its first church? St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); St. Mark's AME Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); African American churches -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Mix, Edward Townsend; Kilbourn Ave. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fourth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Cedar Street (Milwaukee, Wis.) The first black congregation in Wisconsin, St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized in 1869. This church, at 4th and Cedar (later W. Kilbourn Ave.) was the second home of the congregation,...
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