About 1970, I remember going to a scout ice fishing jamboree by the sewage treatment plant on the Island and some guy was sitting on a bucket fishing the open water at the edge of the ice. Must have forgot his spud.
Some of the younger viewers of this blog site might not know that both Second and Third Streets used to extend all the way to the eastern edge of Little Lake Butte des Morts. You could actually drive your car from Second Street onto the lake. Then they decided to greatly expand what was then known as the Wisconsin Tissue Mill, and this cut off these streets at Tayco Street. The expansion also gobbled up Prospect Street, which ran from Tayco Street west to the Lake. I realize that this added several badly needed jobs in the City, but I think that the City lost something when it allowed these streets to be closed. Perhaps the City's experience with the Gilbert Paper Mill demolition will be repeated many years from now, in that SCA Tissue Mill will be demolished and the grandchildren of these younger viewers will once again be able to see the lake from Second and Third Streets. One can always dream.
I went ice fishing once in my life when I was about 10 or so in 1968. We eagerly walked down lake street onto little lake butte des morts. I got about 20 feet out onto the ice and one my legs broke through the ice and into the water up to my knee. Needless to say, my friends thought it was very funny. Once they stopped laughing, one of them helped me extract my leg and I walked all the way back home with a huge soaker, alone. No mercy. In fact, as I recall, the funniest moments were when some sort of misfortune happened on one of us. Help would only be rendered once the group got proper humor from the situation. If the victim got mad, any help was delayed accordingly.
About 1970, I remember going to a scout ice fishing jamboree by the sewage treatment plant on the Island and some guy was sitting on a bucket fishing the open water at the edge of the ice. Must have forgot his spud.
ReplyDeleteSome of the younger viewers of this blog site might not know that both Second and Third Streets used to extend all the way to the eastern edge of Little Lake Butte des Morts. You could actually drive your car from Second Street onto the lake. Then they decided to greatly expand what was then known as the Wisconsin Tissue Mill, and this cut off these streets at Tayco Street. The expansion also gobbled up Prospect Street, which ran from Tayco Street west to the Lake. I realize that this added several badly needed jobs in the City, but I think that the City lost something when it allowed these streets to be closed. Perhaps the City's experience with the Gilbert Paper Mill demolition will be repeated many years from now, in that SCA Tissue Mill will be demolished and the grandchildren of these younger viewers will once again be able to see the lake from Second and Third Streets. One can always dream.
ReplyDeleteI went ice fishing once in my life when I was about 10 or so in 1968. We eagerly walked down lake street onto little lake butte des morts. I got about 20 feet out onto the ice and one my legs broke through the ice and into the water up to my knee. Needless to say, my friends thought it was very funny. Once they stopped laughing, one of them helped me extract my leg and I walked all the way back home with a huge soaker, alone. No mercy. In fact, as I recall, the funniest moments were when some sort of misfortune happened on one of us. Help would only be rendered once the group got proper humor from the situation. If the victim got mad, any help was delayed accordingly.
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