The Good Old Days on the South Side

I remember most of them also. How about the CUDAHY hobby shop (when it was on the west side of Packard Ave). Wasn't Taco Bell in Cudahy back then (corner of Packard and Ramsey)? If you remember Black Bear in Cudahy, you are really old. I don't remember the Rockets beating the Packers though, can you tell I went to Cudahy.

I remember everything you blogged.I worked at Gimbels while in High School, I thought that was the best.Eating at Lloyd's lunch was such a treat.Every sunday ,ham and dutchy crust rolls and butter horn bakery from Grebe's. I saw Planet of Apes at the Garden Theater with my brothers then going for ice cream at the old candy shop on Milwaukee Ave. The owner was an old man who would walk with a limp and always wore a bow tie.I found that to be interesting!The Spectacle of Music was such a big event for the city.I remember sitting on the corner where Taco Bell was but before that was an old gas station then a Boy Blue turned Taco Bell.How about Lights Drug Store, Spiegel to get your gym uniforms for school?New shoes from Brotts,Tresure Island in Cudahy-Grocery shopping at A &P.Drews variety Store-I always get a new swim suit from there to use at Parkway or Sheridian pool-I also could go on and on-Such a long time ago but close in heart.Happy Holidays!

Hi Wende - After reading your post, I just had to dig up an old email specific to South Milwaukee. It's a long email. Here are some of the highlights. Enjoy!

* You know you're from South Milwaukee when:
* You have painted "the rock"
* You start directions with "where Taco Bell used to be"
* You live or have lived on a street that starts with an M
* You have partied at the GLP.
* You remember Bernie's pharmecy.
* Two words: Brott's Shoes.
* You have been to Monkey Island.
* You know where "The Grass Is Greener... On The Other Side" AND "It's Only Fun Until Someone Loses An Eye" was written.
* You call Millpond "The Lagoon"
* You thought you were cool if you hung out at "the wall"
* You love and hate the man named Mr. Blake.
* You remember those two little old ladies that were twins.
* Your first year of high school it was okay to get lunch from G&H liquor store. Only two students at one time please.
* You have gone sledding at Suicide Hill.
* You still believe there are tunnels that connect the high school and old middle school.
* You always wondered if that soda fountain place on Milwaukee Ave. was ever open.
* Your parents and grandparents still live here.

Being a Cudahy resident, I sooo miss the old Cudahy News and Hobby! I used to go there as a teenager. They had the BEST candy ... and the biggest magazine selection I've ever seen.

Okay, I'll bite. Where was the Taco Bell in SM? I remember the one on Ramsey and Packard but that is Cudahy?

Taco Bell in So. Milw. was on 10th and Marquette-There's a new strip mall there. Across from the senior living apts. on the north side

I moved from SM in 1981, but I remember: Marc's Big Boy and their chocolate milk which was just milk with some chocolate syrup stirred into it. Yes, Lloyd's Lunch and Wally's (later it was Witt's Restaurant) had the deer head on the wall over the coat rack. Pizza Hut after the SM games.Treasure Island, Arlan's, Turnstyle, Red Owl grocery stores, Kohl's Food Stores, Ben Franklin, being able to buy 45s at Kohl's Department store (they were .76 cents!), Dog and Suds, Ponderosa Steak House and Mr. Steak.
Mr. Buckley, Mr.Mielke (and that small female teacher across the hall...can't remember her name) Mr. Dums, Mr. Mullens (my Favorite JR. High Teacher...) Mr. Bowe(from Jr. High), Mrs. Stanazak (Rawson School), and Miss Dempsey (she was SO hip) and the coat rooms we had on the 3rd floor of Rawson School.
Out of town there was Al's Custard stand (0ut by the airport), the IHOP that was next to Miss Awe's house on Packard Avenue (loved the bosenberry syrup), the parking lot on Layton Avenue where you could go watch planes take off and land.
Riding my bike EVERYWHERE during the summer. The Parkway Pool, the park at Willow Lane, to everyone's house and we had to be back home by the time the street lights came on in the summers.
Boy, I miss those days! Wish I had known enough to appreciate them more back then....

hi do you remember harvest picnic run every labor day weekend at st.johns school for the deaf the a&w stand on packard and lake , the a&w stand on chicago, the old drivers testing station in sm, the st.francis power plant, the old st.francis building and loan on kk carvelle later sermas on kk, sacred heart grade school st.marys acadamy, pio nono, the old macdonalds on packard where walgreens now resides, thompson school, faircrest school kfc in cudahy on packard where the car lot is now i could go on and on but i hope these memories brought you back to easier times. i graduated from sacred heart in 1970 but live in milwaukee

Wende:

Great list, the sm cudahy rivarly in sports, namely football is one for the ages!

Thanks for the thought you put into this, and the trip down memory lane!

Black Bear was in St Francis not Cudahy, I kow it was only a few yards but it was still St Francis