{"id":1393,"date":"2014-05-12T00:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2014-05-12T00:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:42:39","slug":"south-kk-row-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"South KK Row-houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love old photos and the Library of Congress has a great collection of online images that can be searched. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/search\/?q=mydans+milwaukee&#038;sp=1\">series of Milwaukee pictures<\/a> by veteran Life magazine photographer Carl Mydans taken in April 1936. I have looked at these photos many, many times and most of them show areas of town that have been struck by &#8220;urban renewal&#8221;. As a result, you have to take for granted that these older areas of the city are forever gone. <\/p>\n<p>Several of the photos have labels and descriptions that I know are not right and don&#8217;t make sense from what I know. The following picture is one of those that have bugged me and it has a description of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/fsa1998020121\/PP\/\"> &#8220;View from living quarters at 730 West Winnebago Street&#8221;.<\/a> That area of Winnebago Street across from the old Pabst Brewery is long demolished after the Park East Freeway was built in the late 1960s. I have the large size of the picture as my PC desktop background so I see it all of the time and it was a surprise when I was driving back from Bay View on KK a few weeks back that I glanced over and saw houses that looked like those in the photo. It was an &#8220;aha&#8221; moment and when I got home, I looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@43.0131878,-87.9114555,160m\/data=!3m1!1e3\">Google Maps<\/a> and sure enough, these were the houses I was looking for and they, for the most part, still exist but in the wrong location.<\/p>\n<p>Mislabeled historic photos can be found in many places. There is another one on the Library of Congress website that was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/fsa1998020115\/PP\/\"> identified wrong here<\/a> and is actually around 9th &#038; Clybourn. Gary Rebholz of <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeesgermannewspapers.blogspot.com\/\">Milwaukee German Newspapers Index<\/a> showed me a few pictures on the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.mpl.org\/cdm\/search\/collection\/HstoricPho\">Milwaukee Public Library digital collection website<\/a> that had erroneous descriptions. They have since been corrected.<\/p>\n<p>So the moral of the story is don&#8217;t believe everything you read about where that old photo is from. Chances are that somebody screwed up. Keep your eyes open &#8211; history is all around you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houses1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houses1.jpg\" alt=\"houses1\" width=\"640\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houses1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houses1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The row-houses as they look today with a few that have been torn down:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Houses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Houses.jpg\" alt=\"Houses\" width=\"800\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Houses.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Houses-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love old photos and the Library of Congress has a great collection of online images that can be searched. There is a series of Milwaukee pictures by veteran Life magazine photographer Carl Mydans taken in April 1936. I have looked at these photos many, many times and most of them show areas of town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[202,13],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-old-days","tag-carl-mydans","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}