Our Milwaukee Video Street Tour - Mitchell St. West from 1st St. to 43rd St.
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2018
- Here it is, Milwaukee's original shopping strip. Historic Mitchell St. has a ton of history embedded into countless Milwaukeans' memories. So many classic landmarks on this street! Gimbels/Shusters! Woolworths! The Modjeska! Sears! Marc's Big Boy! That building that is always a Bank! Grebe's and the sweet shop! St. Stanislaus and St. Anthony churches! And of course, Goldmanns!
Here is a link to the playlist of all the videos in this series:
• Our Milwaukee
Music:
"Revival"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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What These Are
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In this series of videos, I do some street driving tours of many major arteries on Milwaukee's historic South Side. Milwaukee is my old hometown, and in many ways you never really leave. The memories remain strong, and I am especially tied to the locales - the streets and neighborhoods, the architecture and buildings, the parks, churches and highways. These videos are for me and everyone who wants to revisit those old haunts.
The area roughly encompasses from Greenfield on the north end, KK/1st/Packard on the east side, Howard/College on the south side, and 43rd st on the west side. This was approximately my old stomping grounds, the area of most of my frequent travels as a youth growing up in Milwaukee in the 70s and 80s. I had seen some other street tour videos on CZcams and thought it might be of interest to others who remember these old hometown areas to be able to visit them again.
How These Were Filmed
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I had done some drive-arounds in the past (and even posted a few to CZcams) with home video camcorders, but this time around I had a 4k camera and a more specific goal: to record longer, continuous sections of streets and most importantly, to record them moving much slower. I found that my previous attempts, which admittedly were just for my own archives and not meant to be seen, driving at 25 or 30mph or more resulted in a lot of blurry footage. 25mph doesn't seem very fast, but on camera it all whooshes by. I wanted to be able to better focus on specific landmarks, buildings and homes. In these videos, the goal was to move at under 20mph when possible, 10-15mph preferably. Many of these were shot at 10-15mph, but on some busier streets like 27th, which also has more large buildings/businesses than houses, I had to drive more like 20-30mph.
Filming Method
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I tried as best I could to film these as smoothly as possible (and remove redundant things like long waits at lights and camera bumps and such) but this was done in live traffic and Wisconsin roads are, well, you know how they are. :) These were basically filmed with the camera on top of a tripod sticking out the top of my sunroof, in a effort to get the clearest possible image and avoid shooting through the windshield. It also had the benefit of being a higher vantage point. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my auto focus set right, so it will sometimes blur slightly, but then it refocuses right away and comes back.
Video Editing
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Edited and outputted fully at 4k resolution, filmed at 30fps. Many cross streets are noted with an overlay, and other landmarks have animated text moving through the image to highlight them.
![Driving through Milwaukee's south side and more [part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KE8776Apf3Q/mqdefault.jpg)
Perfect memories of our Milwaukee. ❤
I used to live in 1st and Mitchell back in the early 80's growing up. Then moved to Bay View. Now I live in Volga, SD. I really miss Milwaukee and wish I could go back there. Part of my family still lives there. I miss that George Webb's a lot.
I probably knew you then, I lived right down the alley that was between 1st and 2nd, on Maple. I was friends with the kid who lived in the house at the end of the alley on Mitchell, might have been named Paul. You might have also known Matt.
Wonderful video. Thank you!
Thank you, thank you . . . so glad I found you! Your videos are great at the slower speed/higher mounted camera--looks so much better than the neighborhoods just flying by. Appreciate you putting in the street and landmark names too. I grew up in Milwaukee (south side) but moved away 10 years ago and am really missing it lately. So nice to see some familiar streets.
Thanks for making this video. Loved how you drove slowly and pulled over to let cars pass. It made it a pleasure to watch. :)
Thank you Gloria. Yes the slow drive was intentional so that details could be seen better. I tried as much as possible to drive as slow as possible, usually 10-15mph, but that was difficult or not possible in some places (like 27th st.) Also helps to make things clearer when pausing the video. My next series will be 360 degree camera, so you will be able to free-view in any direction at any time in the video, so you would be able to chose any angle of the "camera" to look at things.
@@RobinDale50 that's awsome. Can't wait to see your videos.
It's different from the way I remember it in the 70s, but glad to see it's still vibrant and alive with life. Good job Milwaukee! And thank you Robin for posting!
You hit the nail on the head there. So much has changed, and yet, so much is still the same (or reminds you of those times). The whole area from 1st through about 20th appears to be going through some gentrification, slowly.
Thanks for this video. I was born and raised on the south side. Miss my hometown.
My cousins live near Mitchell St and Milwaukee is my favorite city I used to go there every weekend with my dad to go sleep at my cousin's house and hang out
Woolworths 가 밀워키에도 있었구나. 난 호주에만 있는 줄 ㅎㅎ 밀워키 미첼역사거리에 요즘 흠뻑 빠져 있음. 특히 초기 모더니즘 건물들이 많은 것 같아 더더욱 흥미로워요.
I’ve lived in Milwaukee almost all of my life and I swear people here don’t know how to drive
Go Brewers 🍺 ⚾️
On 11th and Mitchell wasn't Walgreens on the left hand side or is my memory fading?
It is if you are coming from the other direction :)
superscott1970 Walgreens was taken down and now it’s a dollar store which is also about to close down due to bankruptcy
Yes bro I remember going there when I was little
Walgreens was definitely on the south side of Mitchell, I was just about to comment.
Remember there was a Sears around there
Yes at Forest Home and Mitchell, basically. It bordered 3 streets. Long gone now, was a go-to place for my family back in the day.
Remember that in the 1980s when my family moved around that area then it was food mart now I think its called el Rey
Go Bucks 🦌 🏀
Hi Robin. I'm editing a short video for a local nonprofit and wondered if they could have your permission to use a few shots from your driving video "Our Milwaukee Video Street Tour." They are some nice shots and it would save us from getting the shots ourselves. Thanks for your consideration!
Sure, help yourself. Give a shout-out (link) to the channel if you would be so kind, and let me know where I can watch the resulting videos.
Robin Dale thanks so much! Will def give credit and post link when it’s complete.
Go Packers 🥦 🧀 🏈
my old house at 9:13 looks different now...
Does anyone remember the Green Market (Farmers Market) that was in the triangle where Mitchell, Forest Home & 14th meet?
Your talking about "Pete's". My dad is obsessed with that place. 😁
@@RepubliKING No, Pete's is still in business, we LOVE Pete's too. I'm talking about the green market stalls (where people would come and sell their home grown produce). It was where the CVS is now, right across from El Rey. El Rey used to be a Sears and the CVS parking lot used to be the Green market stalls.
@@michellekozaczok8201 I'm an idiot 🤦. Your absolutely correct and I'm very incorrect. That's what I get because I just half read your comment and seen: "farmers market that was in the triangle"... I immediately assumed you were talking about "CAESAR'S Chavez/16th st, Muskego Ave & Greenfield Ave". Momma always said you know what assuming does...? It makes an "ass-out-of-u-and-me"!. You have humbled this know-it-all this evening and rather then being salty, I'll def use this moment as a learning experience. Thank you! 👍
@@RepubliKING LOL. You're good Vincent. 🤗
Yeah I do remember tere was around there
5:24 used to be a Hollywood back in the days