Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction 11
I Settlement and Growth
1 From Trading Post to City 14
2 The Great Trouser Disaster 18
3 The Lost Canal 21
4 When Lincoln Came to Town 25
5 Soldiers' Home 29
II Entertainment
6 The Lost Park 34
7 Shorewood's Amusement Park 38
8 Drinking Pabst in Whitefish Bay 43
9 Just a Neighborhood Theater 47
10 He Taught Milwaukee to Dance 50
III Machine Shop to the World
11 Lawson's Airliner 56
12 The Ice War 64
13 Evinrude Test Facility 69
14 The Little Engine that Couldn't 74
15 The Sweetest Story 78
16 Grenades and Underwear 82
17 Eline's Chocolate 85
18 Deaf Workers Aided War Effort 88
19 Hungover? Quaff-Aid to the Rescue! 91
20 The Day Schlitz Closed 94
21 Park Has an Industrial Past 100
IV Life and Death in Old Milwaukee
22 Milwaukee's Favorite Lake Trip 108
23 Shipwreck in Downtown Milwaukee 114
24 "Marriages Solemnized Here" 118
25 The Lost Business District 121
26 Tragedy at the Orphanage 125
27 The Hatpin Ordinance 129
28 The Tuberculosis Park 132
V Streetcar Days
29 The Depot in Lake Park 136
30 Thrills on the Wells Street Viaduct 139
31 A Sometimes Strange History 143
VI Steam and Fast Trains
32 A Tale of Two Depots 148
33 Four Hundred Miles in Four Hundred Minutes 152
34 The Beer Line 156
35 An Upriver Mystery 159
VII Lost River Landmarks
36 A River Made for Recreation 162
37 Milwaukee Cement Company 166
38 Estabrook's Lost Beach 170
39 A Boat Named Killjoy 174
40 A Duck Named Gertie 178
41 The Lost Neighborhood 182
42 Amid the Ruins 185
Notes 189
Index 201
About the Author 208
