I`ve been checking that site out every now and then.
 
 I find something amazing every time!
 

Wow, that is a great find!
A quick search revealed a photo of my Uncle who passed away earlier this year.
In the 1934 photo he appears to be dressed in costume for a play of some kind wearing a girls, or nobility wig, ha!

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/mke-polonia/id/25587/rec/1

RD

        
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                       www.uwm.edu/mkepolonia     

I was at Polish Fest this past weekend. In the Culture Tent they had some old photographs taken in the 20`s 30`s 40`s and 50`s in the neighborhoods around Ko?ciuszko Park. A professional photographer , who had his studio around 8th and Lincoln ave. kept OVER 37,000 negatives and documented some info on each one. UWM obtained the negatives and have them all on a website. Photo`s come up AMAZINGLY clear, and can be enlarged.

www.uwm.edu/mkepolonia

I was able to find a photo of my mother, who is now 88, when she was 2 years old!

One of the best Sausage shops Milwaukee has ever had!
 AND IT`S STILL HERE!
 For now.
Even though the hours are very limited.

1985 South Muskego Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53204
EUROPEAN SAUSAGE COMPANY

http://www.eurosausage.com/Pages/default.aspx
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Out of all of my Milwaukee memories, the ones that stand out
the most to this day are the ones of riding the North Shore
electric trains to Chicago.  My older brother and I rode those trains
a lot.   We would use any excuse we could think up, for a reason
to take the North Shore to Chicago.  The station was downtown
at 6th and Michigan Ave.  Those heavy trains would go down the
middle of 6th street from the station way down through the south
side, until it got to Harrison St.   At Harrison, it ran off the end of
the street and on to high speed tracks.  They kept the speed down
while on the street, but I can still remember how cool it was
when it would go off the street and then he'd open it all the way
up, and it would get up to 80 mph in a very short time.

Those electric railcars were mostly built in the 1920s and 30's,
but the two fancy modern 4-car Electroliners were built in 1941
so they were newer ones.

We rode it a lot.  We used it to go to the Museum of Science
and Industry, the Field Museum, the planetarium, and some times
we would ride it down to the Chicago loop just so we could walk
over to the Illinois Central Electric train station and then go ride
those.

The last night that the North Shore ran was a bitterly cold.
It was in January of 1963.

I was on the last train from Chicago to Milwaukee.
Pulling into the Milwaukee station, swinging in off of 6th
St. into the station the conductor said: "That's all there is, there aint no more!"   After he said that, all went silent.  Nobody said a word.

Those are among my fondest Milwaukee memories, and that
last night is my saddest memory of all.  I still, to this day
get choked up about it.   When they took those trains away,
Milwaukee was never quite the same after that.

Chuck

I think he broke the glass more then once. I was on a field trip with my grade school class when he shattered it once.
I believe The Milwaukee Public Museum had Samson "stuffed" . I saw him there a few years ago.
http://www.mpm.edu/samson

Wasn't there one time when Sampson actually cracked the glass?
As I recall, some kid was teasing him and he took a run at the
glass and this one time it cracked and scared the bejeezuss out
of everyone!

I distinctly remember the sign:

"Do Not Tease Gorilla"

My personal favorite was Mama Mia's on 78th and Burleigh.
Eating there at their dining room was always neat.  It was
very low lighting in there, and the whole room always glowed
a reddish tint.

Calling in for a carry-out, you'd call and get a number to remember
and it was always 20 minutes.   And, of course, no order was
complete without a bag of their very buttery garlic bread.

In the carry-out waiting room they had one of those
cigarette machines that had the levers you'd pull out.
I'd always be futzing with that machine, pulling levers and
twisting the coin return, and every so often a few coins would
drop down into the coin return chute.