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1. Remember When...the Union Depot was in the heart of town? Remember When...the Union Depot was in the heart of town? 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...
2. Remember When...Milwaukee had a 'Newspaper Row'? Remember When...Milwaukee had a 'Newspaper Row'? Milwaukee Journal; Newspaper publishing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Newspaper buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Horse drawn vehicles; Mason Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Broadway Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee Press Club; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Quiet House (Milwaukee, Wis.); Roth, Adam 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...
3. Remember When...passengers shivered when the Wells st. viaduct quivered? Remember When...passengers shivered when the Wells st. viaduct quivered? Street-railroads (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wells Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Viaducts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bridges -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Menomonee River Valley (Wis.); Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works; Wells Street Viaduct (Milwaukee, Wis.); Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee and Wauwatosa Motor Railway Although it was part of the Milwaukee scene until the 1960's, this picture recalls some of the earlier days of the old Wells st. viaduct. For 70 years this lengthy span carried a succession of chugging...
4. Remember When...pork steak was 11c per pound? Remember When...pork steak was 11c per pound? Lincoln Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Jos. Smith Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Grocery trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee It has been many years since numbers like 3, 7 and 11 referred to the cost per pound of meat. But these were the prices which were advertised by the Jos. Smith Co., which owned the market pictured above....
5. Remember When...Division st. was home to the German market? Remember When...Division st. was home to the German market? Division Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Juneau Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Markets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Germans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; German-Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City Market (Milwaukee, Wis.) The East Division Street Market (on what is now E. Juneau av.) was "downtown" for Milwaukee's German population between about 1870 and 1920. Here, the German housewives could buy produce, eggs, Schmierkaes...
6. Remember When...6th st. was bricked? Remember When...6th st. was bricked? Sixth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Roads -- Design and construction -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Pavements, Brick -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee The block between what is now W. State st. and W. Highland av. had just received a new brick surface when this picture was taken in 1905. The crew took time off after the job was completed to pose with...
7. Remember When...City Hall was towerless? Remember When...City Hall was towerless? City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Aerial photographs Workers hadn’t yet completed the ornate tower and cupola on City Hall when a high-climbing photographer took his picture in 1895 from the roof of the since-demolished Pabst Building on E. Wisconsin Ave....
8. Remember When...horses were common in the city? Remember When...horses were common in the city? Blizzards -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Snow -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Winter -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Weather -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Twenty-fifth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Horses; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee On Jan. 29 and 30, 1947, Milwaukee was paralyzed by more than 18 inches of snow, with drifts as high as 15 feet. Thousands were stranded at work. It took six days to dig out, and the city was not fully...
9. Remember When...Riverside High School was being built? Remember When...Riverside High School was being built? Riverside High School (Milwaukee, Wis.); School buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee Public Schools -- Buildings; Locust Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Schools -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Construction and demolition debris -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee When a photographer set up his camera in the middle of Locust St. between the streetcar tracks on a quiet November day in 1913, construction of Riverside High had been under way for some time. Designed...
10. Remember When...Johnston hospital was open? Remember When...Johnston hospital was open? 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....
11. Remember When...Grocery stores looked like this? Remember When...Grocery stores looked like this? 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; Automobiles 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...
12. Remember When...Milwaukee had its own White House? Remember When...Milwaukee had its own White House? White House Theatre (Milwaukee, Wis.); Mid-City Theatre (Milwaukee, Wis.); Atlantic Theatre (Milwaukee, Wis.); Third Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Motion picture theaters -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee A 1,365-seat movie theater called the White House was opened Dec. 16, 1916, by promoters Otto Meister and John Freuler. The theater was on N. 3rd St. between Wisconsin Ave. and Wells St. Its façade contained...
13. Remember When...the Civic Center was yet to come? Remember When...the Civic Center was yet to come? Milwaukee County Courthouse; Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Kilbourn Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Civic Center Plaza (Milwaukee, Wis.); Automobiles This 1940 photo shows the County Courthouse surrounded by a jumble of apartment buildings, houses, billboards and a service station - a far cry from today's Civic Center Plaza. The courthouse in the photo...
14. Remember When...the Kilbourn Avenue bridge opened? Remember When...the Kilbourn Avenue bridge opened? Kilbourn Avenue Bridge (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bridges -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Kilbourn Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Automobiles; Milwaukee River (Wis.) Built at a cost of $757,000, the 250-foot-long Kilbourn Avenue bridge was finally dedicated and opened on June 15, 1929. Citizens' groups had petitioned for a bridge spanning old Cedar and Biddle Streets...
15. 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...
16. Remember When...Newberry Blvd. was being developed? Remember When...Newberry Blvd. was being developed? Newberry Boulevard (Milwaukee, Wis.); Lake Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Goldberg, B. M.; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Gardens -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Automobiles This is a post card-type picture, printed in Germany around 1905, of fashionable Newberry Blvd. on Milwaukee's East Side. A uniformed chauffeur drives a prosperous young family past the richly planted...
17. Remember When...Gimbels was just a tiny store? Remember When...Gimbels was just a tiny store? Gimbel Brothers; Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Department stores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Building sites -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Gimbels, the department-store institution that now has been taken over by Marshall Field's, started out modestly in Milwaukee. This picture, taken on Aug. 30, 1901, shows the original Gimbels Milwaukee...
18. Remember When...building lobbies were as ornate as this? Remember When...building lobbies were as ornate as this? Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company -- Buildings; Loyalty Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Corporations -- Headquarters -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Office buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Staircases; Architecture -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Atriums In his "Heritage Guidebook," architectural historian H. Russell Zimmerman calls the lobby of the formal Northwestern Mutual Insurance Building, now the Loyalty Building, "one of the best preserved and...
19. Remember When...the courthouse was a brand-new building? Remember When...the courthouse was a brand-new building? Kilbourn Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Ninth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wells Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Essex Apartments (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hampton Court Apartments (Milwaukee, Wis.); Dugout Tavern (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee County Courthouse; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Apartment houses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee County The Milwaukee County Courthouse had been located at E. Kilbourn Ave. and Jefferson St. until the present-day structure, Milwaukee's third courthouse building, was built between 1929 and 1931 at 9th St....
20. Remember When...Milwaukee's riverfront looked like this? Remember When...Milwaukee's riverfront looked like this? Milwaukee River (Wis.); Waterfronts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); B. Mock and Sons Livery Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) If you glanced northward along the Milwaukee river from the Wisconsin st. bridge in the first decade of the century, this is the view which greeted you between Wisconsin and Mason sts. - the back doors...
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