Mary D. Bradford High School - Kenosha, WI

If you enjoyed viewing the first Photo Gallery, you may also like this one.  Many of these images date back almost a hundred years....

 

The former Kenosha Central High School, which later became Bradford, looking southwest from the corner of 57th Street and Sheridan Road:

 



 

 Looking northwest from the corner of 58th St. and Sheridan Road:

 



 

The old annex:

 



 

Built in 1928, St. Catherine's Hospital is where many of us classmates were born.  The hospital has since moved to a new location on west Hwy. 50 and the building below was razed.  This site across the street from Pennoyer Park is now home to new luxury, lakeview apartments: 

 



 

The original Kenosha Hospital...

 



 

... and an artist's rendition of what it was envisioned to become:

 



 

On 56th Street looking west toward Sheridan Road.  Note the city's first, federal post office (on the left), which is currently the new Dinosaur Discovery Museum located on 10th Ave. and 56th Street.  In 1934, the 1,200 ton building was lifted and carefully scooted one block west from its original site on 56th Street and Sheridan Road (as seen below) to where it is now; and a much larger post office was built in its place:

 



 

Still on 56th Street, just facing the opposite direction now looking east with the old city hall on the right.  Note the smokestack of the former Simmons Company (known for their mattresses) in the distance.  The former Dutch Maid diner would be located half way up on the right:

 



 

Looking south toward the intersection of 59th Street and 6th Avenue, on the south end of downtown:

 



 

Same intersection....  Let's hop on the trolley!

 



 

The ritzy Hotel Dayton just to the east and across the street of the same intersection. 

 

 

 

This theatre on 56th Street and 5th Avenue, is now the Rhode Center for the Arts and home to the Lakeside Players.  In the photo below, the marquee announces, Bebe Daniels, in Swim, Girl, Swim....

 



 

 

The Simmons Company eventually became the AMC lakefront plant which has long since been demolished.  The site below is now the location of Kenosha's beautiful Harbor Park and new marina area:

 



 

Sailing on Lake Michigan....

 



 

 

 



 

The old Kenosha Lighthouse... which still stands today:

 



 

The Bain Wagon Company was one of the major employers of Kenosha's early settlers.  The Gilbert M. Simmons Library is pictured in the background:

 



 

Parades in Kenosha during the early part of the last century....

 



 



 

Note the former post office again in the distance on the left....

 



 



 



 

Hope you enjoyed this march down memory lane....  Come visit again!