Posts Tagged ‘lake’

There’s always something “new” at the Oconomowoc Historical Museum. Maybe it will be you! Open from 1:00 to 4:00 pm Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Other times by appointment. www.oconomowochistoricalsociety.com A slideshow with photos and postcards (I blame Don Weimer for getting me started collecting them.) of the “old” town.

The EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is underway with about 100 projects in hundreds of communities across eight states including two events in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is expanding its third annual Medicine Collection Day to include four counties. Named “A prescription for clean water and safe kids,” the pharmaceutical collections will be held on April 19 in Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, and Washington counties. Meanwhile – the city of Milwaukee is hosting an electronic waste collection for its residents on Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 10 am to 2 pm The e-Waste collection will be held in a parking lot just south of Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee. City of Milwaukee residents are invited to bring their unwanted televisions and computer equipment to this event to get them recycled. Material will be recycled at no charge to residents of Milwaukee. Officials added the event is not for business waste – just residents. The contact is Rick Meyers with the City of Milwaukee Dept of Public Works. Call Meyers at 414-286-2334 The Earth Healing Initiative has put our local interfaith liaison in touch with Milwaukee officials. He’s Rev. Brad Brown, campus pastor at Marquette University Lutheran Campus Ministry – in Milwaukee, Wisconsin The MMSD has distributed nearly 200000 postcards promoting the event that has been widely publicized by area media. The Earth Healing Initiative offered to help distribute …

Here is a small collection of vintage postcards mainly from the forties and fifties. Thanks for watching!

Here are some vintage postcards primarily from the 1940′s through the 1960′s. Thanks for watching!