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1. Remember When...the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital was new? Remember When...the Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital was new? Sacred Heart Sanitarium (Milwaukee, Wis.); Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hospitals -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Layton Boulevard (Milwaukee, Wis.); Sanatoriums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; School Sisters of St. Francis (Milwaukee, Wis.) The Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital at 1545 S. Layton Blvd. recently marked its 100th birthday. The building was opened on Dec. 23, 1893, and the picture above probably was taken not long after that....
2. Remember When...the Sherman Pharmacy served north Milwaukee? Remember When...the Sherman Pharmacy served north Milwaukee? Sherman, Nathan; Sherman, David; Sherman Pharmacy (Milwaukee, Wis.); Drugstores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Candy; Soda fountains Nathan Sherman and his son David pose next to three bushels of bulk candy in this photo of the Sherman Pharmacy at 35th St. and Villard Ave. The photo was taken in 1927. An old-fashioned marble-topped...
3. Remember When...Milwaukee was stopped cold by the blizzard of '47? Remember When...Milwaukee was stopped cold by the blizzard of '47? Blizzards -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Winter -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Snow -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Weather -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Twenty-Seventh Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Brown Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Electric railroads -- Cars -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee The blizzard of Jan. 29-30, 1947, probably was the most memorable ever to hit Milwaukee. Fighting it proved almost impossible, so the city mainly just waited it out. People soon demonstrated their resourcefulness...
4. Remember When...the Milwaukee transit company operated service stations? Remember When...the Milwaukee transit company operated service stations? 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...
5. Remember When...Milwaukee celebrated the first Earth Day? Remember When...Milwaukee celebrated the first Earth Day? Earth Day; Milwaukee Performing Arts Center (Milwaukee, Wis.); Marcus Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee, Wis.); The Ox (Musical group); Crowds; Journal Company -- Buildings Earth Day, formally called the "National Environmental Teach-In," was the brainchild of Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). He based it on the 1969 teach-ins and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, which...
6. 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...
7. Remember When...this building served as the South Side Library? Remember When...this building served as the South Side Library? Madison Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee Public Library. South Side Library; Libraries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Library buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public libraries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Automobiles; Inner City Development Project (Milwaukee, Wis.); Social services -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee This substantial building at 931 W. Madison St. was the South Side Library from 1910 until 1966, when the new Forest Home Library opened at 1432 W. Forest Home Ave. Known variously as the South Division...
8. Remember When...the Glass Block stood on Grand Ave.? Remember When...the Glass Block stood on Grand Ave.? Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Glass Block (Milwaukee, Wis.); Commercial buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Browning King & Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.) In the 1920s, Grand Ave. (now Wisconsin Ave.) looked like this west of the Milwaukee River bridge. On the south side of the avenue, the Gimbels building towered over its neighbors, while the Glass Block...
9. 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....
10. Remember When...this was the oldest building in Milwaukee? Remember When...this was the oldest building in Milwaukee? Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Dousman, George D.; Main Express Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Storage and moving industry -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Warehouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Historic preservation -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee This old warehouse at 117 N. Water St. was reputed, in 1950, to be the oldest structure in the city. And at one time or another, its owners had included some of Milwaukee's most prominent early settlers....
11. Remember When...the Scottish picnic was an annual tradition? Remember When...the Scottish picnic was an annual tradition? National Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Scots -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Scottish-Americans -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Crowds -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Dance Milwaukee is familiar as a city of many ethnic groups and this picture shows in one way why that reputation is long-lived. The annual Scottish picnic was already a 25 year old tradition when this picture...
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