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Low living costs. Free maps at the progressive Milwaukee Journal.  Wrigley’s Restaurant (self-service). Municipal camp in Lake Park, free, limited to 3 days.  Plankington Hotel ranks first, suites up to $12. Antlers Hotel, 3 floors reserved for women or families.   In 1927,  the</I> <I>Sixth St. Garage at 186 Sixth St., collected and delivered your car to your hotel–no charge and no tipping. Hotel Wisconsin. 3</I><I>rd</I><I> Ave, ½ block n. of Grand Ave, 500 rooms, $2/day up.  Special attention to auto parties.</I><I><B> </B></I><I>Hotel Pfister, on Wisconsin Ave. BB(1925)</I>   Milwaukee has been called “Cream City” because of the cream colored brick manufactured there in the 1800s and sold worldwide. <B>Cream City bricks</B> are made from a red clay containing elevated amounts of lime and sulfur found in the Milwaukee area.   <B>Lake Michigan</B> waterfront is essentially one long band of parkland from historic Third Ward north for miles and encompasses several individually named parks. </div> <bR> <div> <B>M369.4 </B>Intersection of Wisconsin Ave.(YT to the west) and Water St. (YT to south).   <B>Pfister Hotel</B> 424 East Wisconsin Ave. In the mid-1920s the YTA had 17 “travel bureaus,” like today’s AAA, where maps, weather and road reports were given out free. The Pfister Hotel contained one of those bureaus in its lobby. The elegant lobby is much as it was. Worth a visit to see how the “better” YT traveler lived.</div> <bR> <div> <B>M369.4</B>7 The YT on Water St. skirts the <B>Historic Third Ward</B>. Take a walking tour of this intriguing mix of shops in this historic warehouse district. It has the highest concentration of art galleries, antique shops and theaters in the city. For a walking tour, see <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.historicmilwaukee.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.historicmilwaukee.org"><U>www.historicmilwaukee.org.</U></A></FONT> A good way to relive history. </div> <bR> <div> <B>M370.0</B> Going north at the intersection of 1st St and Pittsburgh, the YT did not follow Wis 32 to the east but rather crossed the Milwaukee River on an older bridge.</div> <div> <B>M370.8 Allen-Bradley Company</B> 1201 S. 2nd St. one block off the YT (hwy 32, S. Kinnikinick St.)  The old Allen-Bradley Clock Tower is a Milwaukee landmark featuring the largest four-sided clock in the world. Viewed by YT travelers. </div> <bR> <div> <B>M372.0</B> Intersection of Kinnickinnic and Lincoln.  For most years the YT followed Kinnickinnic through here. However, the 1919 Yellowstone Trail Association Guide specifies that the Trail, coming from the south, turned east here onto Lincoln, and thence north to Wisconsin Ave. at M368.9<B>.</B> This route avoids some congested areas downtown (and many historically interesting things) and it leads to other interesting sites, including: <B>Harley Davidson Museum</B> 400 W. Canal St.(just off S. 6th St.) with displays of historic motorcycles that were an important part of the YT years.  <B> </B>At the intersection of Lincoln and 6th is the <B>Basilica of St. Josaphat.</B> 2333 S. 6th St. Magnificent 100 year-old landmark designed after St. Peter’s in Rome. Stained glass and murals show Milwaukee’s history and heritage.</div> <div> <B>M372.2</B> Intersection of Kinnickinnic (Wis 32) and Conway. At this intersection the later route from the south on Kinnickinnic met the earlier route from the east on Conway. Conway is now cut off by the new I794 so the best connection now is probably Russell St., a few blocks south of Conway.</div> <div> <B>M376.6 Cudahy</B> <I>A factory suburb of Milwaukee.  The Cudahy Packing Plant is located here.</I> Today, Cudahy is still known primarily as a meat packing town. The City has embraced the movement to resurrect the fame of the YT, so watch for the Yellowstone Trail markers through Cudahy.  See the <B>Cudahy Wayside</B> for other sites in Cudahy.</div> <div> <B>M379.1 </B>Intersection of College and Chicago/Packard. The early YT route went east to Lake Drive and the later route went north on Packard, Howard, and Kinnickinnic rejoining the early route at <B>M372.2</B>.  Howard is a new road running a bit north of the original YT route.</div> <bR> <div> <B>M380.5 South Milwaukee</B>  <I>A factory town</I> <I>MH; Bucyrus Co.,made steam shovels that dug the Panama Canal. 10</I><I>th</I><I> Avenue. BB(1920); Camp 1 mile ne.  60 cars. Maintained by Milw Co Park Comm.  Charcoal burners, bathing in lake and toilets. AAA</I></div> <div> <B>Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company Museum</B> at Heritage Bldg. 1100 Milwaukee Ave. The museum is brand new. Opened 2009.  The Bucyrus Company moved to South Milwaukee in 1892.  Bucyrus makes huge mining equipment and dredges with draglines, some so large they must be assembled in the field.  Some 77 of its steam shovels went to Panama to dig the canal 1904 -1907. One 1960 model was the largest self-powered land vehicle built. A 14" model of it is in the Smithsonian. The company became Bucyrus - Erie, and now is Bucyrus International. <A HREF="http://www.bucyrus.com/museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bucyrus.com/museum.htm">www.bucyrus.com/museum.htm</A>  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot.</B> 1111 Milwaukee Ave. Construction was completed in 1893. The depot was built by Charles Sumner Frost, a well-known architect with many Wisconsin depots to his credit. The structure was finished in red brick and detailed in brownstone. The depot provided regular service through the 1950s and has undergone very few modifications. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</div> <div> <B>M383.0 Oak Creek</B> </div> <div> <B>M385.6 Milwaukee/Racine County Line</B>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Milwaukee Wayside</div> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >   Milwaukee Art Museum with the famous Calatrava “wings” on the roof which “unfurl” at 10AM and again at noon. The Calatrava soaring “wings” have become the symbol of Milwaukee and are an attraction in their own right. Dramatic architecture throughout. Scenic gardens. The Museum is at the foot of E. Mason Ave. at N. Lincoln Memorial Dr. Closed Mondays.</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 1 </B></FONT><B> Milwaukee Public Museum.</B> 800 W. Wells St. The focus is natural history with exhibits on the natural  environment of various parts of the planet. It is regarded as one of America’s top natural history museums.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 2</B></FONT><B>  Pabst Mansion</B> (7 blocks w of YT) 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave. The 1892 Flemish Renaissance mansion of Captain Frederick Pabst is a nationally recognized house museum. It has spectacular, opulent interiors. Pabst was a beer baron, a sea captain and a philanthropist to the arts. Open year round.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 2</B></FONT><B>  Mader’s </B>(1041 N. Old World Third St.), and  Ratzsch’s (320 E. Mason), serve old world German fare in German atmosphere. They have been famous for over half a century and have won many accolades.</div> <div> Code 3<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >.Golda Meir, Israel’s first woman prime minister came from Milwaukee. (Ingrid Bergman played her in the movie “A Woman Called Golda” 1982)</FONT></div> <div> Cudahy Wayside<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >.</FONT></div> <div> From this intersection of Lake Drive and Layton Ave (M376.6) drive west four blocks on Layton to meet the later route of the YT and visit <B>Dretzka’s Department Store </B>at 4746 S.Packard Ave. Notice the YT sign outside the front door. Founded in 1901, the store was there 14 years before the YT arrived. It is now managed by the fourth generation Dretzka.  It is an old fashioned department store with wonderful, creaky floors.  Prices and items don’t seem to have changed since 1974. Some old fashioned but useful items like long underwear you can even get online, its homage to modernity.</div> <div> The YT Association had local <B>‘Trailmen’</B>, members of the Association who volunteered to watch over the Trail in a number of ways. <B>Jerome Dretzka</B> was just such a man. Jerome was Executive Secretary of the Milwaukee Park Commission and helped to establish a tourist camp in Grant Park near South Milwaukee, a necessity due to the influx of auto tourists in 1921. This is the same Dretzka family you found at the Department Store.     </div> <div> A couple of blocks further west on Layton to Applewood Lane and view the famous Patrick Cudahy Meat Packing Company </div> <bR> <div> Oak Creek Wayside</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 2 </B></FONT><B> Oak Creek Historical Museum</B>. 8500 S. 15th Ave. Historical exhibits and a blacksmith shop. Open summers. Free</div> <bR> <div> South Milwaukee Wayside</div> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  The Wisconsin Highway Department allowed the YTA to keep its yellow signs up in Wisconsin, even though the Department caused all other trail association signs to come down in 1918. The YT was so famous by 1921 and directed so many people along its national route that campgrounds sprouted all along the route to care for the burgeoning numbers of autoists taking advantage of this cheaper housing.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 1</B></FONT><B>  Grant Park. </B>At the lakefront in northern South Milwaukee. It is 400 acres of wooded bluffs, walking paths, golf course, beach, athletic fields and a campground. South Milwaukee has been proud of Grant Park for almost 100 years. Nels Monson, local historian, wrote: <I>In an effort to help deal with this influx of travelers, in March 1921, the Wisconsin Highway Commission asked the city to establish a campground for “automobile tourists.” That summer, the Grant Park Tourist Camp was opened.  Due to its superb location near the wooded, path-lined bluffs of Lake Michigan, the free Tourist Camp soon became very popular with travelers. Park superintendent Frederick C. Wulff reported that 850 people stayed at the campground that first year.</I> (Images of South Milwaukee by Nels Monson and Dean Marlowe, Jr. Arcadia. Chicago. 2004)</div> <bR> <div> Attendance peaked in 1929 at Grant Park with 2,502 registered guests. Then came the Depression, and attendance began to dwindle.</div> <bR> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0080FF" FACE="Arial" >  Milwaukee Historic Note</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >:</FONT></div> <div> Wisconsin Motorist magazine, June 1920:<I> For the second year the YTA will conduct a free information bureau for tourists in this city (Milwaukee). It was opened May 17. Last year 5,300 touring parties were served by the Trail bureau, more than half of them coming from outside of the state of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee bureau this year is in charge of David Rellin and will be in the </I><I><B>Hotel Pfister</B></I><I> where it was located last season.</I></div> <bR> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0080FF" FACE="Arial" >  Milwaukee Historic Note</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >:</FONT></div> <div> <B>Weather station</B> in Milwaukee begins 1901: Official three day forecasts begin for the North Atlantic. At the Weather Bureau Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Willis Moore observed the Post Office Department was delivering slips of paper on which were daily forecasts, frost and cold-wave warnings, to everyone's door with the mail. The one disadvantage to the system was the mail carriers started their routes about 7 a.m. and that day's forecast was not issued until 10 a.m., so the previous night's forecasts were used.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Code 1 <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0080FF" FACE="Arial" >Milwaukee Historic Note:</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Allen-Bradley Company</B> was initially founded as the Compression Rheostat Company by Lynde Bradley and Dr. Stanton Allen with an initial investment of $1,000 in 1903. In 1910 the company was renamed the Allen-Bradley Company. On February 20, 1985 Rockwell Automation purchased Allen-Bradley for $1.651 billion, which is the largest acquisition in Wisconsin's history. It manufactures programmable automation controllers, human-machine interfaces, sensors and systems made of these and similar products.</div> <bR> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0080FF" FACE="Arial" >  South Milwaukee Historical Note</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >:</FONT></div> <div> South Milwaukee early on<B> joined the YTA.</B> Local historian, Nels Monson has written: <I>City leaders were quick to realize the importance of improving street conditions to meet the increased traffic demands. In South Milwaukee, drainage was improved and in 1917 the city purchased a new steamroller to help with road maintenance.  Some streets were widened, and new gas-filled ornamental streetlights replaced the old magnetite arc lights along Milwaukee Avenue. Local “Trailmen” R.H. Knoll, Leo Joerg, or Charles Franke routinely appeared before the South Milwaukee Common Council. On May 21, 1921 the city paid its $50 “assessment” to the Yellowstone Trail Association for that year. </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Today, visitors to South Milwaukee can find many of the old buildings along the Yellowstone Trail still in use.  There are five businesses that still carry out the very same services they provided to their customers all those years ago.  These merchants are the South Milwaukee Arcade Bowling Alley, the former U-R Next Barber Shop on 10th and Milwaukee, Bobbie’s Saloon (one of South Milwaukee’s most historic buildings, it was listed as a “soft drink parlor” during the Prohibition years), Grant Park Garage, and of course, Bucyrus–Erie.  Sadly, others such as the Hotel Rogers no longer exist.  Still, if one would stand at the corner of 10th and Milwaukee Avenues to gaze down the road once traveled by so many, so long ago, you can almost hear the sounds of the “Flivvers” and “Tin-Lizzies” as they sputter past, in those heady, early days of automotive travel in America.</I></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>