Yes, and the cards weren't sealed because then the postage was cheaper!! The good ol' days. Mail twice a day right to your door, the milk chute near the back door where the milkman deposited your order (and froze in winter) -- oh, and the milk trucks pulled by horses during World War II. The iceman and the coal men. The produce trucks, the bakery trucks, Charlie the popcorn man, the summer ice cream man with his bells. And during the 30's and the depression when I was quite young, a boy with a cart pulled by a goat came by. He would give neighborhood kids a ride for a few cents each to earn money. Still have the picture of my brother and I on that cart! Great memories. Too bad things have changed so very much!! Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary R. Frank" <mrfrank@uwm.edu> To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] mail > Yes, and I remember when we didn't even seal all those cards we sent--we > just turned the flaps in on the envelopes. I still remember walking > them up to the corner mailbox for my mom. Yes, and having the cards > taped all over the French doors to our living room--it really made us > kids anticipate Christmas. > > JaneKenW@aol.com wrote: >> I grew up in Waukegan, IL and lived there for 21 years. I only remember >> one >> mail delivery a day except at Christmas time, when the Post Office would >> hire >> a lot of extra postmen, and we would have several mail deliveries a day. >> What >> a fun time waiting for the mailman to bring lots of Christmas cards. >> Jane >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

I remember the man with his cart that would go door to door to sharpen scissors and knives for a few dollars. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Heffren" <tinlizzie@npgcable.com> To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] mail > Yes, and the cards weren't sealed because then the postage was cheaper!! > > The good ol' days. Mail twice a day right to your door, the milk chute > near > the back door where the milkman deposited your order (and froze in > winter) -- oh, and the milk trucks pulled by horses during World War II. > The iceman and the coal men. The produce trucks, the bakery trucks, > Charlie > the popcorn man, the summer ice cream man with his bells. And during the > 30's and the depression when I was quite young, a boy with a cart pulled > by > a goat came by. He would give neighborhood kids a ride for a few cents > each > to earn money. Still have the picture of my brother and I on that cart! > > Great memories. Too bad things have changed so very much!! > > Liz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary R. Frank" <mrfrank@uwm.edu> > To: <wimilwau@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:27 PM > Subject: Re: [WIMILWAU] mail > > >> Yes, and I remember when we didn't even seal all those cards we sent--we >> just turned the flaps in on the envelopes. I still remember walking >> them up to the corner mailbox for my mom. Yes, and having the cards >> taped all over the French doors to our living room--it really made us >> kids anticipate Christmas. >> >> JaneKenW@aol.com wrote: >>> I grew up in Waukegan, IL and lived there for 21 years. I only remember >>> one >>> mail delivery a day except at Christmas time, when the Post Office would >>> hire >>> a lot of extra postmen, and we would have several mail deliveries a day. >>> What >>> a fun time waiting for the mailman to bring lots of Christmas cards. >>> Jane >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WIMILWAU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

While we are going down memory lane.....I remember the rag man with a horse pulling a wagon to collect rags. He would yell "rags, rags" as he went down the street....Wright Street in my case.

Maxine, I used to rent an apt. on the NW corner of Wright and Pierce (1978-1983, before I bought my house). Actually, the corner lot was empty (our yard) and my apartment was in the first house north of the lot on Pierce. Where did you live on Wright? I think my Great Aunt Olga Buchholz's husband's family was from Wright and something. I looked them up once. The father's name was Johan Westphal, I believe. My great-uncle was Bob Westphal. I know the Westphals later ran a gas station on Burleigh around 14th St. or so. Not sure if it was Bob or his father or both that ran the gas station--I'm thinking Bob, given the timing. I still have some old copies of an art print of a lady that they must have used on a calendar because the name of the gas station is someplace on the bottom of the page. I love this old memory-lane stuff. As for childhood memories, my memories from the 1960's are of my mom bringing us up from Racine to the Boston Store and to Gimbels (both on Wisconsin Ave.) to take us shopping for clothes each fall. I don't remember if she brought all three of us girls, or just me and my 2nd sister (I'll have to ask them). But I still remember one year when she bought me two plaid wool skirts--one a heathery green and the other a heathery blue, with matching plain green and blue sweaters. Funny how certain clothes will just stick in your mind. I didn't have a lot of experience with Milwaukee when I was a kid. But when I first moved to Milwaukee in 1977, I knew right away that I would live in Riverwest and when I moved to my house in 1983, and later started to research my roots, I thought it was so interesting that my Franks and Buchholzs had also lived in the same general area of Milwaukee before moving south to northern Racine Co. Maxine Capezza wrote: > While we are going down memory lane.....I remember the rag man with a > horse pulling a wagon to collect rags. He would yell "rags, rags" as > he went down the street....Wright Street in my case. > > >

My Aunt taught at Bay View High School 1939-1978. Does anyone on the list remember her? ALICE R. RILEY She taught English, and subbed at Latin, Spanish, and Calculus. She died in 1997 after being mugged in Whitefish Bay. She kept journals and I will go through them again and post any names that might be of importance to others on the list. She attended and graduated from UW-Madison on a full scholarship for being valedictorian of her graduating class at Riverside High. She truly loved her students at Bay View High. She never married but said she had hundreds of children! Gail in Appleton, WI genereau@vbe.com