Sports Scene Nothing like 50s and 60s for baseball by Chuck Delsman Posted: June 30, 2010,Lake Country Reporter While most people complain about getting old, I love it. I wish I was older, at least a couple of years so the government could send me those good social security checks, and maybe supply some health insurance while they’re at it…. Read more »
Bowling keeps shrinking in Lake Country and Waukesha Hartbrook Lanes in Hartland will close at the end of the upcoming season. It will be the 13th bowling alley over the last couple decades to close in Waukesha County as some bowling centers continue to struggle financially. Photo by: Scott Ash By Chuck Delsman Posted: June 30, 2014,Living Lake Country Reporter Drive… Read more »
Sussex Swimming Quarry edited by Michael R. Reilly updated03/17/2015 Now after 26 years of operation in 1916, a disastrous fire destroyed the wood piles, warehouses, kilns and the pump house. The business was dead, never to be revived. In 1918, the Kraemer family bought the now-rundown acreage, and the water filled quarry for a reported $5,000. In Sept. 1920, the… Read more »
Burghardt’s Sporting Goods Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Updated07/17/2014 Photograph courtesy of Milwaukee Public Library Description Title Remember When…Burghardt’s was a book store? Description The Burghardt Sporting Goods company got its start in business as a bookstore more than 100 years ago. Milwaukee in the 1880s was very German in influence, and German newspapers… Read more »
A game of base ball between the Experts, of Hartland, and Greenhorns, of Merton, in which the former had nine innings and the latter eight, the score was, respectively, 26 and 43. Ignorance was bliss in this instance, sure. source: Waukesha Freeman June 1, 1882, page 1 of 8. The Merton and Sussex baseball teams played here [Merton] on… Read more »
Lynndale Farms Raceway / Race Track by Michael R. Reilly updated 03/04/2015 Lynndale Farms Raceway was a road racing course situated about 20 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It opened in 1963 and closed in 1967. Most websites list the track as being in Pewaukee, but it actually existed in the Town of Lisbon (with a Pewaukee postal address). The… Read more »
