Remember When...downtown streets weren't so busy?
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- 1925
- Description
Although the Model T had been on the market for over a decade, this downtown intersection scene from 1925 shows that Milwaukee streets were not yet automobile oriented. A horse drawn truck delivered goods for the Milwaukee Linen Supply Co. (whose motto, "Rent - Why Buy Linen," was printed on the side) amid auto traffic and electric streetcar paths. A variety of mechanical "traffic policemen" were being experimented with throughout the city, but this intersection, at Broadway and Wisconsin, had only a simple polelike affair to regulate traffic. The Miller Building in the background was torn down and replaced by the Wisconsin-Broadway Building in 1928. (Photograph and information from the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection.)
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Milwaukee Public Library
- Publisher
- Milwaukee Journal
- Subjects
- Broadway Street (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Miller Building (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Spencerian Business College (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Horse-drawn vehicles
Traffic signs and signals -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Automobiles
Wright Dental Supply Company (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Des Forges and Company (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Ben Franklin Building and Loan Association (Milwaukee, Wis.)
William Silverstone and Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Wright's Drugs (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Wisconsin-Broadway Building (Milwaukee, Wis.) - Type
- image
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- Photograph
- Language
- English
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- Remember When...downtown streets weren't so busy?. 1925. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/RememberWhe/id/118. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- (1925) Remember When...downtown streets weren't so busy?. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/RememberWhe/id/118
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/RememberWhe/id/118>.