For the POC Outcast People

[Norm's Coupe]

How many of you are planning on attending this one next year? http://clubs.hemmings.com/frameset.cfm?club=dairylandplymouthclub and http://clubs.hemmings.com/frameset.cfm?club=dairylandplymouthclub

[Young Ed]

See you all there!

[greg g]

Gonna do the one in Sept in Westminster Maryland.

[Young Ed]

I plan to get there early or stay late and see a few other sights. Family history in the area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Juneau

[daddyo23]

More than likely, but Back To The Fifties is the same weekend. Decisions, decisions.... Wayne P.

[Don Coatney]

I plan to get there early or stay late and see a few other sights. Family history in the area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Juneau

Ed;

How are you related to Solomon Laurent Juneau, or Laurent-Salomon Juneau? All this time I thought it was beer, Harley Davidson, Briggs & Stratton, and Allen Bradley that made Milwaukee famous.

[Norm's Coupe]

I plan to get there early or stay late and see a few other sights. Family history in the area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Juneau

Ed,

Won't take you long to see Juneau park. It's pretty small and the statue is about all that is there. Walkers Point could be interesting though. A lot of the old buildings are still standing there. Mostly old factory buildings that have been converted into luxury apartments/condo's that sell somewhere between $500,000 to over $1,000,000. Also lots of little cutesie shops for women, theaters and art shops. The Menomonee valley has been pretty much cleared of all the old factory buildings. To take their place are some new factories, plus the Potowamonie Indian casino. The best thing in the valley now would be the new Harley Davidson museum that just opened up this summer. If you're into the arts, there is also the art museum on the lake front that is built to look like an old schooner ship, and the sails actually open and close if it's not too windy. That's located between Juneau park and Walkers point. If you are heading up to Theresa, WI, you could also stop in at the Hartford Auto museum located in Hartford, WI. Actually, Hartford isn't that far from Oconomowoc. Don't know why the local POC powers to be didn't plan a trip there. That's well worth seeing, and I think would be of more interest to old car people. I'm not a member of the club though. Old World is a Pioneer Village and also very nice, but it's not old car related.

[Norm's Coupe]

Ed;

How are you related to Solomon Laurent Juneau, or Laurent-Salomon Juneau? All this time I thought it was beer, Harley Davidson, Briggs & Stratton, and Allen Bradley that made Milwaukee famous.

Don,

Solomon Juneau was also very famous in the politics and building history of Milwaukee. Actually, if you can find the book (forgot the name of it) on the history of Milwaukee at your library, you'll see a lot about Juneau. Some colorful and some not so colorful if you get my drift. Milwaukee has a real history of colorful and sometimes corrupt politicians, especially in the early years.

[Young Ed]

Ed;

How are you related to Solomon Laurent Juneau, or Laurent-Salomon Juneau? All this time I thought it was beer, Harley Davidson, Briggs & Stratton, and Allen Bradley that made Milwaukee famous.

Don I'd have to get out the family tree book to find the exact relation. I'm sure he's quite distant. But both him and Joe Juneau that Juneau Alaska is named after are relatives. Just today one of my co-workers got back from an Alaskan trip and brought me a picture of Joe.

[Young Ed]

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Won't take you long to see Juneau park. It's pretty small and the statue is about all that is there. Walkers Point could be interesting though. A lot of the old buildings are still standing there. Mostly old factory buildings that have been converted into luxury apartments/condo's that sell somewhere between $500,000 to over $1,000,000. Also lots of little cutesie shops for women, theaters and art shops. The Menomonee valley has been pretty much cleared of all the old factory buildings. To take their place are some new factories, plus the Potowamonie Indian casino. The best thing in the valley now would be the new Harley Davidson museum that just opened up this summer. If you're into the arts, there is also the art museum on the lake front that is built to look like an old schooner ship, and the sails actually open and close if it's not too windy. That's located between Juneau park and Walkers point. If you are heading up to Theresa, WI, you could also stop in at the Hartford Auto museum located in Hartford, WI. Actually, Hartford isn't that far from Oconomowoc. Don't know why the local POC powers to be didn't plan a trip there. That's well worth seeing, and I think would be of more interest to old car people. I'm not a member of the club though. Old World is a Pioneer Village and also very nice, but it's not old car related.[/quote']

The flyer does say visiting WIs largest auto collection-perhaps that is the one in Hartford? I haven't been to Juneau park since I was about 5 but supposedly there is a replica of his cabin to see also. Sounds like 1 extra day would be enough to see the park and do some site seeing/shopping.

[Merle Coggins]

The Olympia is less than 20 miles from me. I'll plan making a visit or 3.

Norm, they mention in the flyer "Visit Wisconsin's largest automotive museum". Which one is that if it's not the one in Hartford? Also they mention the fire equipment, which I believe would be in Slinger.

As I recall Juneau is one of the reasons that none of the streets down town line up where they cross the river. His town was on one side of the river and he didn't get along with the people in the town across the river. So he made sure that none of the streets would line up to make bridge making difficult. This way those "other people" wouldn't be able to get to his town easily.

Merle

[Furylee2]

We're planning on attending. We are going to take the entire week, and do some sightseeing before the meet.

[Young Ed]

Haha that sounds like someone I would be related to. My limited understanding of the history goes like this. There were 3 towns right there. Juneautown on the west and then 2 other towns named after other people on the north and east of the Y in the river(s). When the towns grew the 3 of them merged together and became one.

[Don Coatney]

do some site seeing/shopping.

Ed;

I dont know if anyone has told you this yet but men dont "shop". Men know what they want and go buy it. Leave the shopping to the women folk.

[Young Ed]

Well I'm sure she will be with me Don.

[Don Coatney]

Well I'm sure she will be with me Don.

So let her go shop while you continue sight seeing. Men dont shop.

[Young Ed]

Does it count as shopping if I don't buy anything?

[Don Coatney]

Does it count as shopping if I don't buy anything?

You finally get it. You are sight seeing (in the mall) so you dont buy anything. Men dont shop.

[Young Ed]

I hope the mall has some good sights to see. Just don't get caught looking right?

[Don Coatney]

You are learning Ed

[Young Ed]

I try

[Merle Coggins]

Oops, I got it wrong. It wan't Juneau's fault for the offset streets. It was Kilbourn's fault.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Milwaukee

See also: Milwaukee Bridge War

Milwaukee has three "founding fathers," of whom French Canadian Solomon Juneau was first to come to the area, in 1818. Juneau became Vieau's son-in-law in 1820, when Vieau handed down the post to his daughter, the "founding mother of Milwaukee," by selling the business to his son-in-law. The Juneaus moved the post in 1825 to the eastern bank of the Milwaukee River (between the river and Lake Michigan), where they founded the town called Juneau's Side, or Juneautown, that began attracting more settlers.

However, Byron Kilbourn was Juneau's equivalent on the west side of the Milwaukee River. In competition with Juneau, he established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River, and made sure that the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side. This accounts for the large number of angled bridges that still exist in Milwaukee today. Further, Kilbourn distributed maps of the area which only showed Kilbourntown, implying that Juneautown did not exist or that the east side of the river was uninhabited and thus undesirable.

The third prominent builder was George H. Walker. He claimed land to the south of the Milwaukee River, along with Juneautown, where he built a log house in 1834. This area grew and became known as Walker's Point.

The proximity of the towns sparked tensions in 1845 after the completion of bridge built between Kilbourntown and Juneautown. Kilbourn and his supporters viewed the bridge as a threat to their community and ultimately led to Kilbourn destroying part of the bridge. Over the next few weeks, skirmishes broke out between the inhabitants of the two towns; no one was killed, although several people were injured, some seriously. While this event became known as the Milwaukee Bridge War, the two towns made greater attempts at cooperation.

By the 1840s, the three towns had grown to such an extent that on January 31, 1846 they combined to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee and elected L. Solomon Juneau as Milwaukee's first mayor. A great number of German immigrants had helped increase the city's population during the 1840s and continued to migrate to the area during the following decades. Milwaukee has even been called "Deutsches Athen" (German Athens), and into the twentieth century, there were more German speakers and German-language newspapers than there were English speakers and English-language newspapers in the city. (To this day, the Milwaukee phonebook includes more than forty pages of Schmitts or Schmidts, far more than the pages of Smiths.)

In the mid-1800s Milwaukee earned its nickname "Cream City." The nickname refers to the large amount of unique cream colored bricks that came out of the Menomonee River Valley and were used in building construction. At its peak, Milwaukee was producing 15 million bricks a year, with a third going out of the state.

[Plymouthy Adams]

that looks like the first car I bought...a 59-9 passenger surburban..got it for 40.00 after a lady ran it without water..put my own engine in it..what memories...

[Young Ed]

Darn and here I thought I could blaim hereditary for my behaviour Looks like I have the map upside down in my mind as I got east and west and north and south backwards

[Plymouthy Adams]

Ed..you been working under the dash too long..need to stand on your feet a spell and not your head..