The Milwaukee area
was the hot bed of short track racing in the area during the
50's thru the 70's. With Names Like Miles"the Mouse"Melius,
Fuzzy"the Hound"Fassbender, Billy"the Cat"Johnson and many more.
It was truly a special time in racing history. For more on these
cars and drivers go to vmsconline.com
Start of race in 1962 on the quarter mile track
inside the Milwaukee Mile (photo by Tom Trettin)
Bill Becker here ... 1943 vintage
... emigrated from Milwaukee in 1982
to San Francisco ... grew up (not likely) on 19th & Wright
Street and went to
St. Boniface (grade school up to 6th grade) ... in 1955 moved to
80th and
Livingston in 'Tosa and completed 8th grade at St. Pius (big
culture shock
back then) ... went to Pius XI High where we frequented Gille's
on 76th and
Bluemound. Often, on Monday mornings, the principal, Fr.
Becker (no
relation), would get on the P. A. system and berate the student
body for its
uncivil behavior the preceding weekend at what he called "The
Custard Stand
of Gilles (GILL-ESS)" ... we'd chuckle about the good Father's
HEAVY
Prussian accent and his not pronouncing Gille's the way we did
(GILL-EEEEEZ). SUGGESTIONS: More visuals of old Milwaukee
in your posting
please. Have you thought about doing of these for other U.
S. metropolitan
areas. It'd sell; nostalgia being what it is; and always
has been;
especially with 70 million of us boomers 'dominoing' !
Aina, hey?!* Also,
thin crust pizza served up by Connie and his family at the old
Caradaro
Club (on Water Street by the Milwaukee River) ... VERY few
pizzas have
equaled Caradaro's (what I miss most about Milwaukee after all
these years)!
My name is George
I grew up too in the 50s. I'm 65 now, an Milwaukee was
the best time an place to grow up in, best time of my life,
happy days. At that time I had a 1950 mercury, chopped top, live
to drive, drive to live, gas was 17 cents a gal, pooled are
money an got 2 bucks in the tank an off we went. We would ride
up Villard Ave, Capital dr, Wisconsin ave, an pick up chicks. On
Saturday nite, we went out to Wylers dance hall out in Port
Washington, welcoming in rock an roll, an now I got a old
Mercury, fixed up, an a member of a Mercury car club called
brewtown cruisers, go to car shows, an you know something, I'm
still lost in the 50,s an still havin fun, rock on. George,
w.r.i.t.
A Customized 1950 Mercury
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