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Racine was a great place to live in the 70s through as late as the 90s. Watching festival park being built was pretty fun to watch from a kids perspective, especially one that loved fishing. My bf and i would always go down to the gateway breakwater and fish for perch or salmon where we always caught our limit. When we caught a salmon, we would filet it on the beach and grab old cobblestone that littered the beach and make an oven out of them. We'd wrap it in tinfoil with some veggies and spices. I wish I could go back to that time and relive a few of those memories. During the 70s & 80s, you could sein for smelt down there, and also use the umbrella nets on either of the piers downtown. It was mad fun! Its sad to hear how downhill the town went. Im glad i was there for the best part of its history.

I grew up in Milwaukee during the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Born in Cudahy in 1967, we moved to Franklin in 1970. I loved living there. We had a decent amount of space to play. A lot of woods out behind my buddy's house. Trails for 🚲bicycling🚲, or 🚶‍♂️hiking🚶‍♂️, and a mini lake "Mud Lake" for fishing and 🏊‍♂️swimming🏊‍♂️ if you braved the notorious snapping 🐢turtle🐢named Grumpy. He was a big *ss 🐢turtle🐢with a mean streak. Although he was more rumor at first. Until some punk teenagers caught and killed him. The Lake mainly had bullhead fish, some perch, and pan fish but nothing edible. I had already started the "catch and release" concept since our pond/Lake wasn't on the DNR's list of lakes to replenish. Many people would fish elsewhere and bring their catches to our lake and let them go there. Much later after I moved away the area was gutted for "progress" and "advancement" and a park was put in, as well as a road, a major road, and a line of condos. Figures! Take a really nice natural outdoor area and stuff it full of greed, chop down the 🌳trees🌲and tear up the land? That's progress? Since I moved my city has been "overhauled" in the name of advancement. All of the wonderful places, beautiful areas, and great childhood memories are gone. Either torn down, closed down, or destroyed. I went back about 7 years ago and every childhood place, even the spots I loved into my 20's were gone! 27th Street was a great place to shop, and it's 🚌bus🚏🚏line🚌 would take you to a park, a Toys R Us(epic for a kid!), multiple stores, two 🎥theaters🎥, and Southgate Mall. Plus there were three McDonald's, two 🌮Taco🌮 🔔Bell's🔔 one Hardee's, a AWESOME 🍕pizza🍕place🍕, and a 🍕Pizza🍕Hut.🍕 Down the road to the south of College Avenue was a kick butt Go-Kart Track, and a little further south, the 41-Twin Drive-in. All of which are LONG GONE! I never got to see much of Racine or Kenosha either. I passed them, and stopped for ⛽gas⛽ on the way to Six Flags Great America. 👍 Another AWESOME PLACE I LOVED! I wish I would have gone to Racine a few more times. I've lived in Wisconsin my entire life but I've seen only a few towns. Black River Falls, Tomah, Hayward, Taylor, Hixton(last 2 were SMALL towns outside of Black River Falls.), Greenfield, Franklin, all the surrounding suburbs, Oak Creek, Greendale, South Milwaukee, Cudahy, West Allis, Hales Corners, and later Madison. I love seeing the photos of cities from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. Seeing my town brings back many wonderful memories. Seeing other towns gives me insight into what they had, liked, and lived with. These are great! I'd love to see a 70's Milwaukee area tour video. Milwaukee and it's surrounding suburbs. Seeing home would be a wonderful experience to see my past.

dumping trash in the lake will give us parking!

May I share the Milwaukee footage on its own? If so, please let me know who I should credit. Thank you.

Back when the zoo had animals and the bear left the cave 😂

How the hell did they get all that money...? Even over the course of what.... 50 years....?? I Raytown native. That red lighthouse was a fave hangout spot for my friends and I, after high-school One time the harbor police boated on over and shouted through their megaphone for us kids to get down. We should've just told them to go f**k themselves; it would have taken a lot of time and effort for them to actually get to us, but we were stoned and paranoid and drinking underage so we ran like hell all the way up the causeway, to the parking lot where the playground Kid's Cove (or Pirate's Cove, as we called it) and drove fast as hell back to our friends place on 16th and Boyd... I think there was myself and another driver but this was almost 20 years ago...

The city no longer has this kind of leadership and vision, other than the tent cities that are just a matter of time, and welfare programs. Today's city counsel and Mayor should have to watch this.

Ice-skated on the zoo pond many times, learned to water ski on a chilly Lake Michigan

Lmao the 1980s drug epidemic really fucked up wisconsin

the waters of Lake Michigan CONSTANTLY change!!!

I wondered where the trash went before the landfill.

Change rarely seems for the better.

Wow, super cool to find this. I’ve moved to Racine in 2019 as a flight instructor and I’ve always wondered what the projects were on the shoreline since I see/ fly over them, everyday I work. Very fascinating to see. It would have been cool to see them finish. Do we know why the project was not complete on the south end?

Fast forward 65 years............. or, we could just make Racine the biggest ghetto in Wisconsin.

Appreciate the upload. I will for sure mention your contribution uploading with link if I use any parts of the video. I have 44 locations throughout Wisconsin that I will be giving a thorough history and if able a Paranormal investigation. Some of them I may just break into 2 videos pending information. Been waiting 4 Covid to calm down.

Now children get out your pencils and we are going to have a quiz. 😆

They really like that breakwater.

Little did they know that so much of it would turn ghetto, YUK. I'm so glad I left that place

My home town I miss it

What year was this? Late 60s-early 70s? And where was it?

This is really great - thanks!

Interesting!

Watched both parts. Very interesting.

I thought they did a beautiful job on the lake front when I saw it in 2004. I remember the "dump" that was there when I was a child. My dad would go down there & take me sometimes. I finished high school in 1954, so the film was one year later. BTW my aunt was Julia Brew Burdick. Any relation?

Racine has changed some we need so we don’t lose any more land mostly on the south

I love this, wish they had one of old franksville

This might sound dumb but this would be good for a lofi video

Thank you for uploading.

it would have been real cool if they finished it

Is there a part 2??

ha ha nice one!