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Recollection Wisconsin
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Title
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1946
Subject
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1946. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
Contributor
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
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1946-12-03
Description
An account of the resource
Firefighters from Madison Fire Department respond to a fire at Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side on Tuesday, December 3, 1946. Fire Companies No. 1, 2, 3, and 5 responded to the two alarm fire. Aerial Truck No. 1 is visible on the far right hand side of the photograph.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1946
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1946. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
Contributor
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1946-12-03
Description
An account of the resource
Firefighters from Madison Fire Department respond to a fire at Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side on Tuesday, December 3, 1946. Fire Companies No. 1, 2, 3, and 5 responded to the two alarm fire.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
Contributor
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows a close-up view of several firefighters standing at the base of two red ladder trucks as they respond to a fire at the Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side.
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
Contributor
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows members of the Madison Fire Department on the roof of the Garver Feed Mill. Ladders and hoses can be seen at the front of the building, reaching to the mill's second story windows.
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
Contributor
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows a group of community members watching the Madison Fire Department's response to a fire at the Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side. Two ladders are visible in the background, extending fire hoses up to the mill's second story windows. Streams of water can be seen coming out of the hoses into the mill's windows.
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
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An account of the resource
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A close-up photograph shows multiple Madison Fire Department trucks responding to a fire at the Garver Feed Mill. Firefighters work to pry open a closed door to the mill in the background, while a person in a white firefighting uniform with "CHIEF" printed on the coat looks on in the foreground.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows the Madison Fire Department responding to a fire at Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side. Firefighters gather around the base of a ladder truck, maneuvering one firefighter on the ladder holding a fire hose to spray into the mill's second story. Fire hoses are seen lying flat on the pavement.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
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An account of the resource
A photograph shows a crowd gathered to watch the Madison Fire Department respond to a fire at Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side. Ladders and fire hoses are positioned against the exterior of the building. Dark gray smoke emerges from the building's second story windows.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows a crowd of community members gathered to watch the Madison Fire Department's response to a fire at the Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side. People sit and stand on the grass in front of the mill building while firefighters maneuver ladders and hoses. A large cloud of dark gray smoke emerges from the second story mill windows.
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
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An account of the resource
A photograph of the Madison Fire Department responding to a fire at the Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side. A young child watches as firefighters maneuver ladders and fire hoses to second story windows in the factory building.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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The topic of the resource
Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph shows activity on the ground during a fire at the Garver Feed Mill building on Madison's east side. Fire companies that responded were Engines-pumpers 3,5,8, Aerial Trucks 1,8, and Fire Chiefs' Car 30. Trucks responded to the fire at 12:55 pm and were back in service at 5:09 pm.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
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The topic of the resource
Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
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An account of the resource
A photograph shows two red ladder trucks responding to a fire at Garver Feed Mill. A member of the fire department is seen in the foreground. Fire companies that responded were Engines-pumpers 3,5,8, Aerial Trucks 1,8, and Fire Chiefs' Car 30. Trucks responded to the fire at 12:55 pm and were back in service at 5:09 pm.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Title
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Fire at Garver Feed Mill, 1964
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fires
Fire departments
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 1964. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mike Fuss, curator at Old Fire Station No. 8 history museum
Madison Fire Department
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-08-31
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An account of the resource
A photograph shows a spray of water from a fire hose into a second story window of the Garver Feed Mill building on Madison's east side. Fire companies that responded were Engines-pumpers 3,5,8, Aerial Trucks 1,8, and Fire Chiefs' Car 30. Trucks responded to the fire at 12:55 pm and were back in service at 5:09 pm.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Title
A name given to the resource
Interior of Garver Feed Mill, 2019
Subject
The topic of the resource
Renovation (Architecture)
Interior architecture
Industrial buildings
Rights
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Copyright 2019, Liz Boyd. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Boyd, Liz
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Madison Public Library
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A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2019-11-02
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of the interior of the renovated Garver Feed Mill building on Madison's east side. A light-up sign for Ian's Pizza may be seen in the background.
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Madison, Wisconsin
Identifier
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Title
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Jim Gempeler, 2019
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Copyright 2019, Liz Boyd. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Boyd, Liz
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Madison Public Library
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2019-11-02
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A photograph in profile of Jim Gempeler, taken during his oral history interview on November 2, 2019.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-007a
garver
garver-007
garver-007a
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/0af29b8367b91eedfc250c9d2f60fd96.jpg
4673357bb419f158a734fe13f7907aa2
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Title
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Ulrich Sielaff, David Hamel, Shelley Hamel, 2019
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Copyright 2019, Liz Boyd. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Boyd, Liz
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Madison Public Library
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2019-11-02
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A photograph of (from left to right) Ulrich Sielaff, David Hamel, and Shelley Hamel taken during their oral history interview at the Garver Feed Mill on November 2, 2019.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-003b
garver
garver-003
garver-003b
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/bcf4f88f04ec223d64bdcc20967257db.jpg
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Photograph of Lynn Slattery Hellmuth, 2019
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People
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Sculptors
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Copyright 2019, Liz Boyd. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Boyd, Liz
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Madison Public Library
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2019-11-02
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A photograph of Lynn Slattery Hellmuth taken during her oral history interview at the Garver Feed Mill building on November 2, 2019. Lynn is seated on the left, interviewer Jennifer Gurske is seated on the right.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-006a
garver
garver-006
garver-006a
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/da4682927aee3b84410d952b391491d1.jpg
104d6ce7e0ea99f96752af2a5ffa6b12
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Susan Rottier, 2019
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Copyright 2019, Liz Boyd. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Boyd, Liz
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Madison Public Library
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2019-11-02
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A photograph of Susan Rottier, taken during her oral history interview at the Garver Feed Mill on November 2, 2019.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-002c
garver
garver-002
garver-002c
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/833d44d882203cbe61bd66833b229500.jpg
17d14b2db624a674b073255cb56aa108
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Person holding Starplate™ box
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Framing (Building)
Building fittings
Hardware industry
Architectural metal-work
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Copyright 2019, Catherine Phan. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Phan, Catherine
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Madison Public Library
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2019-11-02
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A participant in the Garver Feed Mill story gathering holds a box featuring the branding for the Starplate™ Building System company that was based at the Garver Feed Mill building 1981-1985.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-003a
garver
garver-003
garver-003a
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/9b0bb42765b45320d00489d10537b452.jpg
942add6a2372f78987c564a8c62c4455
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Mill foreman standing on feed bags
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Feed industry
Feed mills
Industrial buildings
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Copyright 2019, Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Unknown
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1931-1950
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A photograph of Garver Supply Co. foreman Arthur M. Petterson standing on a stack of full feed bags, at the Garver Feed Mill building in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-002b
garver
garver-002
garver-002b
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/c19ce058b8a1a645ff7a36d7d6016946.jpg
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https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/5185d6606cbcde5a2658a6c01ad650fd.jpg
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Recollection Wisconsin
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James Russell Garver at office desk
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Feed mills
Feed industry
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Unknown
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A photograph of James Russell Garver, seated at his office desk at Garver Supply Co. The following is text from the (edited) caption that accompanies the image:
"J.R. Garver, president of Garver Supply Co., Madison manufacturer and distributor of Garver's livestock and poultry feed, through more than 200 dealers in this area, advises Wisconsin farmers and poultry raisers to make early preparation for "starting" baby chicks this year. Mr. Garver is pictured in his office at 3244 Atwood ave."
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-002a
garver
garver-002
garver-002a
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/126b7097bc357e1fc5220c4bbe075d81.jpg
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Title
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United States Sugar Company Factory, 1920
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Industrial buildings
Sugar beet industry
Sugar factories
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Copyright 1920. For more information, contact Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Unknown
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Wisconsin Historical Society
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1920
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Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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garver-014
garver
garver-014
garver-more
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/4c94b7261871bcc8e353a40cf79d861e.jpg
7f1f2450146c3434a049af14ce0fb1fc
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Garver Feed Mill exterior, 1980s
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Industrial buildings
Agriculture
Feed mills
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Copyright 1980s, unknown. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Unknown
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1980-1989
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A photograph of the front exterior of the Garver Feed Mill building, located on Madison's east side.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-013
garver
garver-013
garver-more
-
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Recollection Wisconsin
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http://grad.geography.wisc.edu/garver/omeka/
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Goodman to Garver: stories of place on Madison's east side
Subject
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Neighborhoods
Collective memory
Local history
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Copyright 2014, Rebecca Summer and Garret Nelson. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Summer, Rebecca
Nelson, Garrett
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East Side History Club (Madison, Wis.)
Goodman Community Center (Madison, Wis.)
UW-Madison Center for the Humanities (Madison, Wis.)
UW-Madison Department of Geography (Madison, Wis.)
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ca. 2014
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A hyperlink to an interactive "story map" website intended to gather community stories and photos about the area between the Goodman Community Center and the Garver Feed Mill on Madison's east side.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-012
garver
garver-012
garver-more
-
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Recollection Wisconsin
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https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/74971
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Redefining Historical Significance: Toward New Possibilities for Preservation at Madison's Sugar Castle
Subject
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Historic preservation
Industrial buildings
Collective memory and city planning
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Copyright 2014, Rebecca Summer. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Summer, Rebecca
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2014
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A hyperlink to the record for a geography master's thesis about collective memory and the historic preservation process at Garver Feed Mill. The thesis is written by Rebecca Summer and archived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-011
garver
garver-011
garver-more
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/c9f655a27f331018b56a095110d196e0.mp3
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Recollection Wisconsin
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:37 - ARNDORFER'S EXPERIENCE LIVING IN GARVER NEIGHBORHOOD 1992-2000<br /><br />1:23 - FIRST COMMUNITY MEETING ABOUT RENOVATION PLANS FOR BUILDING<br /><br />2:46 - LATER MEMORIES, STATE OF BUILDING, PICKING UP LEAF MULCH IN THE SPRING<br /><br />3:13 - REACTIONS TO BUILDING TODAY<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:00]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Good morning, my name is Laura Damon-Moore. I'm here at the Garver Feed Mill re-opening event on November 2nd, 2019.I have a narrator here who will introduce herself and tell us about her relationship to the Garver building and the east side neighborhood I believe. Will you introduce yourself please? <br /><br />[00:00:23]<br />Pat Arndorfer: My name is Pat Arndorfer. It's A-r-n-d-o-r-f-e-r. <br /><br />[00:00:30]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Wonderful, thank you. So Pat, tell us about your relationship to this area, this building, whatever you'd like to share today. <br /><br />[00:00:37]<br />Pat Arndorfer: Yeah, so I bought my first house in the Olbrich neighborhood. I lived four houses up from Olbrich Gardens, the hockey rink kind of area there. My house was built in 1925, right about the time that the sugar beet factory was kind of switching over to the feed mill. I bought the house in '92. The feed mill, apparently, was still going on, I learned that today that '97 is when it was closed up. The first five years I lived in my house the feed mill was here. I just remember now, I remember it being open when I lived here. It was always kind of an eyesore. I only lived there until 2000. Just kind of based on the dates I'm hearing today about when things happened, but my memory is, is that I went to probably the first community meeting at Olbrich Gardens on what the plans were for this building. <br /><br />[00:01:38]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Oh, wow! <br /><br />[00:01:39]<br />Pat Arndorfer: It was an invitation, I think to the neighborhood residents. So I thought oh, I'm just going to go over and see what they're going to tell us, you know? I think at that time Olbrich was thinking about taking over the building and doing something with it, with their gardens, their part of their business, their community property. I was all excited because I didn't think it was a very nice looking building but I love old buildings and I could see that it had a lot of potential. I don't remember a lot of details of the meeting. But I know I was there and I know I got all excited about it. Then nothing happened. And then I moved away. I moved away to Alaska, actually, in 2000. I wasn't here for the big fire because they talked about the fire in 2001 or [200]2 and I thought I would have remembered that because fire is actually pretty traumatic for me to just witness. <br /><br />[00:02:45]<br />Anyways, I missed the fire. But I remember the graffiti on the outside and I rode my bike by many times on the bike path. In the more recent years I was one of the many thousands of people who came through here and picked up our leaf mulch in the spring. I still had that connection. I would drive up and say "oh God," and every year the building was more and more dilapidated, coming in to do my mulch thing. To be here in this building today with how they have restored it so magnificently, it's just—it really makes me excited to see that they've finally, finally after twenty-some years, they finally got around to doing something with it. They've just created a masterpiece here. It's just really fun to know that I was kind of here at the beginning of the ideas and then I've been able to see it come to fruition. <br /><br />[00:03:45]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: That's lovely. Anything else you'd like to add today? Any particular stories? <br /><br />[00:03:50]<br />Pat Arndorfer: No, I think that's about it. Those are my memories and I'm just really happy that I have some small part in the history of this. <br /><br />[00:04:01]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Absolutely. Where did the neighborhood meeting take place? Was it in the building? <br /><br />[00:04:04]<br />Pat Arndorfer: It was in Olbrich Gardens. <br /><br />[00:04:05]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Oh, Olbrich Gardens, got it. Oh, neat. <br /><br />[00:04:08]<br />Pat Arndorfer: It must have been the community room in the back where they have all of the events. <br /><br />[00:04:12]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Got'cha. <br /><br />[00:04:13]<br />Pat Arndorfer: And I think there was a pretty good turnout. Those memories are a little bit vague. It was kind of fun to be there in the beginning. <br /><br />[00:04:22]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh that's great. Well thank you so much for sharing that, yeah. <br /><br />[00:04:28]<br />Pat Arndorfer: Happy to. <br /><br />[00:04:29]<br />Laura Damon-Moore: What a thrill to be back here. Wonderful. Thank you. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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00:04:33
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Title
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Garver Feed Mill story by Pat Arndorfer
Subject
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Industrial buildings
Neighborhood planning
Ruined buildings
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Copyright 2019, Pat Arndorfer and Madison Public Library. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Arndorfer, Pat
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Damon-Moore, Laura
Wolff, Jane
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2019-11-02
Description
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Pat Arndorfer narrates a story about living on the east side of Madison in the Olbrich neighborhood, and her recollections of the Garver Feed Mill building being a near-empty structure in the 1990s. She recalls a neighborhood discussion about future plans for the building that took place at Olbrich Gardens in the late 1990s.
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Madison, Wisconsin
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en
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garver-008
garver
garver-008
-
https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/142c9ff14fe79f240b00ebe857b8c8e6.MP3
b637f07e1d3f205e2a0146ec2f617097
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Recollection Wisconsin
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:27 – ARTIST AS STUDENT MAKING LARGE SCULPTURES FROM GARVER FEED BAGS<br /><br />4:24 – HAD STUDIO AT GARVER MILL 1986-1999<br /><br />5:04 – GETTING USED BURLAP BAGS TO MAKE SCULPTURES<br /><br />5:55 – DESCRIPTIONS OF ARTIST’S PIECES<br /><br />10:25 – WORKING IN HER STUDIO AT GARVER MILL<br /><br />11:29 – STATE OF THE BUILDING WHEN SHE WORKED AT GARVER<br /><br />11:51 – MORE ON HER SCULPTURES, CRATING AND TRANSPORTING THEM<br /><br />16:51 – GARVER AS A PLACE TO WORK, KITTENS, KIDS IN HER STUDIO<br /><br />18:14 – REACTIONS TO GARVER IN 2019<br /><br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:03]<br />Jennifer Gurske: This is Jennifer Gurske. I'm at the Garver building on November 2, 2019, and I'm speaking with Lynn. Lynn, could you say and spell your last name? <br /><br />[00:00:13]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Okay. My maiden name is Slattery, so my art name is Lynn Slattery Hellmuth. S-l-a-t-t-e-r-y H-e-l-l-m-u-t-h. Two words. <br /><br />[00:00:24]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Thank you. Welcome. Thanks for doing this. <br /><br />[00:00:26]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Thank you. <br /><br />[00:00:27]<br />Jennifer Gurske: And we could start out by telling us a little bit about your relationship with Garver. <br /><br />[00:00:33]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Okay. When I was in graduate school, I wanted to create some large sculptures. And art materials being so expensive, I wanted to find something that I could work large and inexpensively and I wanted to make a series of animal sculptures that were very earthy and kind of rustic looking. So I settled—I had just read a book by Delia Owens about Africa and I thought, you know, it would be fun to do hyenas. I made three eight-foot tall stacks of hyenas, and they were maybe three on each stack and they were made with branches that became the legs for all of the hyenas, whatever level they were at. And also, I covered—I made chicken wire bodies and covered them with Garver's burlap. <br /><br />[00:01:39]<br />And then, I made them at my university art studio as I was a grad student, and I hadn't thought about how you get them out of the building [laughter]. So when I finally realized I could not get them down the stairs, fortunately there was a little hallway to a balcony. So we had to go and take them over the balcony and out and then somehow get them over to where the exhibition was. And then, thank God, when I came—well then—so I had also—I made another sculpture at the same time that was called "Ring of Power," and it was a circle of females. Each one had a woman who was like the spirit guide for that figure, and so there were little pouches and wonderful little prayer things in each of them. <br /><br />[00:02:39]<br />And there was one space for the viewer, so that made thirteen. They were made out of Garver burlap that I figured a way to stiffen. So they were just burlap—from Garver's [laughter]. Anyway, right away, before I even graduated, I entered several national exhibitions with them and they both got in. One was to the National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women. There were all these marvelous female sculptors there, which was so exciting for me at the time. It was in Cincinnati [laughter], which presented another conundrum. So I had to rent a big box truck and drive them to Cincinnati and leave them there and then go back and pick them up a month later, but it was just a thrill to be in that exhibition. The other piece, the "Ring of Power" figures, got into an exhibition in the State of Oregon, and it was winter, and I was trying all kinds of ways to try to figure out how to get these these big figures to Oregon. <br /><br />[00:03:52]<br />Finally, I thought, there's just no way. It's winter. I'm not going to take a big truck and pay for it, going over the mountains. So I contacted them and said "I am so sorry. I was so thrilled to be included in this exhibition but I just can't get them there." And they were so, I mean, typical women. They were so nice. They said, would you mind—could we still show the slides? I said, are you kidding? I would love for you to show the slides. So that's what they did. And then, I worked for—I had a studio here from 1986 to 1999, just thirteen years—I love the number thirteen anyway, so that's great for me. I made all kinds of sculptures out of Garver's burlap. I made "Top Dog" and "Underdog" and "Sant Angelicant", who thought she was going to heaven without doing anything to deserve it. And I did "Dog Eat Dog," which was a connected series of dogs and—oh, I did a lot of them. <br /><br />[00:05:01]<br />Where's my resume? <br /><br />[00:05:04]<br />Jennifer Gurske: How did you sort of connect using the Garver bags with your art? <br /><br />[00:05:12]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Oh, well, all that burlap that they gave me from Garver's. <br /><br />[00:05:17]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Yeah, did they just donate it to you? <br /><br />[00:05:18]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Yes! Yeah. So Jim Hatch and Wayne Wendorf were running Garver's Feed Mill at the time and I came out and asked—I guess I forgot to tell you that—came out and asked if they had any burlap and they said yes. And so I hauled a bunch of it back to my university studio, including a couple of baby mice which my friend Nancy, who's such an animal lover, made them a little house and tried to save them but they were too young, I think, and we didn't have any mouse milk [laughter]—thank God—to feed them. Anyway so [phone rings]—anyway that was—so then I made all kinds of other sculptures—sorry. Turn [the phone] off. I just have a whole—I had to spend a lot of time in big box trucks hauling each of them to different exhibitions around the Midwest. I went to Indianapolis and then closer to Chicago, to Indiana and then Chicago, Milwaukee, around the state to—and then Dubuque. <br /><br />[00:06:34]<br />I made a series of sound sculptures and I included twelve other artists. And we made all these sound sculptures and they opened the children's museum in Dubuque. I did—and that was—where that show opened was at a school for the visually impaired but they were the best audience I think we ever had. I had musicians play for the openings at that, and then kids could play on the sound sculptures. But they were so attuned, you know, because they couldn't see. They had that wonderful facility of hearing. So that was great. And then I made—I organized another exhibition called "Sticks," which was created with—well, it was a bunch of artists, I don't remember exactly how many. <br /><br />[00:07:37]<br />But they made sticks or stick imagery artwork from jewelry, from tiny little pieces to huge sculptures. And they were clay and there was wood and, mostly, some sticks made out of clay things. And so that one traveled around the Midwest too and then Marshfield and all these other cities. Then I started doing sculptures that were more feminist and spiritual. I did an exhibition called "Honoring the Crone: The Wise Older Woman," and that one traveled around the Midwest too. It was just kind of, those were so special for me. And then I did "She of a Thousand Names," an exhibition about the goddess. And those—both the crones and the goddesses—were made with old wooden ironing boards standing upright. <br /><br />[00:08:42]<br />I tried to make the crones as if they—from any culture. I tried to make them so anybody could identify with—and so I had a hundred people write in praise of an older woman who'd been a positive influence in their lives and the writings were just tearjerkers. I mean, I would see men—there were men and women who wrote—and kids. You could see people going out, remembering their grandma. "She of a Thousand Names" was an exhibition about the goddess. When it was here, there were twelve pieces and crones, and then when they went to—and I had a group of artists with me and then different musicians and speakers and writers. In Peoria, they added another bunch of—they asked people if they wanted to make—other artists—if they wanted to make a goddess. <br /><br />[00:09:50]<br />That was a much larger exhibit because we included all of those people. I've been in peace exhibitions and AIDS exhibitions and I've also—they've also been used by the dance faculty at the university as props for their dance. So [inaudible]. <br /><br />[00:10:25]<br />Jennifer Gurske: [inaudible] Garver. <br /><br />[00:10:26]<br />Yeah, well I loved working at Garver. I had a huge space, which after trying to get them out of my university studio was so nice. You could just walk them out the door because there were high ceilings. And I ended up practically filling the space at the end of the building that was. <br /><br />[00:10:48]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Were you in the same building that? <br /><br />[00:10:50]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Well, behind the screen in the other room, the black curtain, I was behind that. And I don't think they've finished that area yet. And then next to me were the guys who worked here and a terrible little bathroom. We were laughing about that this morning [laughter]. I was so happy to see there were bathrooms here that weren't... <br /><br />[00:11:11]<br />Jennifer Gurske: They're very nice. <br /><br />[00:11:12]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: I mean, they were all men. I don't think those bathrooms had ever been cleaned. I tried not to use them but once in a while I had to go in there. I think those guys probably thought I was crazy with the kinds of sculptures I was making but they were really nice to me. <br /><br />[00:11:29]<br />Jennifer Gurske: What did the space look like when you were here? You know, was it [inaudible]? <br /><br />[00:11:32]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: This space was a wreck. I was here from 1986 to 1999. <br /><br />[00:11:39]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Okay. <br /><br />[00:11:39]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:11:39]<br />Jennifer Gurske: So it was sort of coming into that more deterioration phase. <br /><br />[00:11:43]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Yeah. My studio was fine. I mean, it was just brick walls, which was wonderful to work with. I got "Honoring the Crone," they wanted me to bring them to a poetry conference in DeKalb because they had just bought—I don't know if it's still there. They just bought this building as a women's center. They opened the women's center, but I needed to have crates made to move them. And so I contacted one of the moving companies and some guy there said, yeah, I'll make you a bunch of crates because, I mean, those are big crates. They're like coffins, you know [laughter]? Of course, once again, I'm in the big box truck and only hauling the crones around. And so the odd thing is, to pay for those crates. That show was about grandmothers, "Honoring the Crone: The Wise Older Woman," right? <br /><br />[00:12:49]<br />I read about a foundation called the "Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred Foundation", and so I contacted her. She gave me a grant to pay for all of the crates. It was her grandmother who had left her this money, and she decided to use it to encourage other women's work—people who had done something or were organizing women's conferences or whatever. At the end of that, she sent a photographer around who turned out to be a famous photographer. He died a couple of years ago and Doug Moe wrote a column, part of his column, about him. His name was Bob Giard. <br /><br />[00:13:39]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Oh, yeah! <br /><br />[00:13:40]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: G-i-a-r-d. He was very famous, apparently, for writing a book about gay writers. He came. He took some wonderful pictures, the one that's out in the slide. The pictures, the photographs were sent to one of the Seven Sisters colleges for—there's a little—I don't know what you call it, but—a place where they store all of these pictures of these, that he went around and took, all of the "Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred" grantees. That was wonderful. I also did—and I don't know if you want to know more about other stuff—but I also applied to the Arts Board for a grant to do a sculpture installation. What I had in mind was called "Song of the Wind: Homage to Ehecatl, the God of the Wind." <br /><br />[00:14:40]<br />They say Aztec—but it's pre-Aztec, really. I applied and then I was looking around at our state parks—where can I put this big installation [laughter]? A woman who had been on the jury—I feel like, I love serendipity and I love these things that happen. One of the women who had been on the jury at the Arts Board called me and said, could we have these at UW-Eau Claire? I was like, yeah [laughter]! I was very happy about that. We put up the sculpture. Basically, it was a circle—I do like circles because it's good energy—a circle of poles, that—each one had some little musical thing that I created for the wind to play—never very noisy, but lots of little things. That was at UW-Eau Claire for I don't know how many years. <br /><br />[00:15:41]<br />At the same time, they bought one of my animal sculptures to put in their library. That was a Garver, a Garver burlap piece too. There's another one at West High, and there was one at Edgewood College—I taught there for a semester. Then I wanted to do a piece out in nature that was all-natural, so I contacted the Dane County Parks and asked if they would be interested in helping me with this. What I wanted was a circle of trees with one space for the viewer to complete the circle, and they were arbor vitae. They looked like my "Ring of Power" figures—they don't anymore because they've gotten so big they're getting—they're getting leggy [laughter]. Now they have legs. They put that at Token Creek County Park. It was a circle of women, and then in the middle, I asked if they had a stone that you could sit on and meditate. <br /><br />[00:16:51]<br />That was special for me too. Garver's was a wonderful place for me to work. It didn't always smell good because I think they were using some toxins. I never saw a mouse in my studio but one day I did hear some noises and they were—I was looking around in the boxes thinking, what is that? Two little bitty kittens—well, three actually, but one was dead—and so we were trying to figure out how to get them where the mother would find them because my studio was locked. So I don't know how she got—they're sneaky, those cats [laughter]. Another time, I came to my studio and the door was open—and I always locked the door because I was a little anal about that. Well, apparently, I think young kids had gotten in because all that was amiss was all these Super Balls that sometimes I used them for—to make—for drums [laughter]—and they were all over the floor and I thought, God bless you kids [laughter]! <br /><br />[00:17:55]<br />You took the junk! So I don't know if there's—I have lots of articles and lots of things that you don't need to know about. <br /><br />[00:18:06]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Extensive resume, that's a lot of experience. <br /><br />[00:18:09]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Well, I haven't done anything for a few years but I'm percolating [laughter]. <br /><br />[00:18:14]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Even an exhibit here of things that you... <br /><br />[00:18:19]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Oh, that would be neat. <br /><br />[00:18:20]<br />Jennifer Gurske: That would be wonderful. <br /><br />[00:18:21]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:18:21]<br />Jennifer Gurske: To have that connection between what you've done and now. <br /><br />[00:18:25]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Well, that's true. They should have an exhibition space—maybe in my studio? <br /><br />[00:18:29]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:18:29]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Of course they need to make money and that wouldn't make any money [laughter] I guess but. You know, really and truly. <br /><br />[00:18:40]<br />Jennifer Gurske: In a space like this, like say this is like an open space that someone's been renting. <br /><br />[00:18:47]<br />Lynn Slattery: Right. Well, I did ask Bryant if they would want the hyenas. The hyenas were the first big piece I made with animals and they're called the guardian hyenas because all my professors were male and they didn't—I thought, okay, I'm going to build something big that's going to give me a little protection since they don't always understand—I mean, one of them had the audacity to ask me one day, "Well what are you here for? Are you just a housewife looking for something to do?" And I was like, you've got to be—I wouldn't be here if that was what it was. So anyway, so I think they got a little better as my work got better maybe [laughter]. But there were difficult elements there. So yeah. And then "Ring of Power"—so I was going to take a little power back.<br /><br />[00:19:45]<br />Jennifer Gurske: That's amazing! I mean, especially having spent time here and experienced here. <br /><br />[00:19:49]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Oh I love this building! Isn't it amazing? <br /><br />[00:19:52]<br />Jennifer Gurske: How do you like what they've done to it? <br /><br />[00:19:54]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: Oh, it's incredible! I'm so glad that they did it after I left because I couldn't have afforded one of these spaces now. Well, even at the time, we had five teenagers at home, and so it was nice to get away [laughter] and go to my studio. Anyway, I think that's about all I have right now. <br /><br />[00:20:16]<br />Jennifer Gurske: That sounds great. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing your... <br /><br />[00:20:24]<br />Lynn Hellmuth: It was a pleasure for me too. It was nice to talk to you. <br /><br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Sculptor Lynn Slattery Hellmuth shares her story about renting space in the Garver Feed Mill building to use as her sculpture studio.
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INDEX:<br /><br />00:45 - ORIGINS OF STARPLATE, THEIR BUSINESS, 1981<br /><br />02:40 - MOVING TO GARVER, 1982. CONDITION OF BUILDING, SMELL<br /><br />04:55 - CLEANING UP AND PAINTING THEIR OFFICE SPACE<br /><br />05:33 - LOCATION IN GARVER OF THEIR OFFICE, SHIPPING AREA, BATHROOM<br /><br />06:20 - OTHERS WORKING IN GARVER AT THE TIME, SMELL<br /><br />07:18 - SHELLEY HAMEL'S FORTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY AT GARVER<br /><br />07:55 - SHIPPING DEPARTMENT, LOADING DOCK ON GROUND FLOOR<br /><br />08:51 - HOW THEIR BUSINESS DEVELOPED AND WAS ACQUIRED, MOVING CARRIAGE BOLTS<br /><br />13:24 - JIM PETERS' BOAT, BUILT IN GARVER OUTBUILDING<br /><br />13:56 - SHOOTING OF WOODCHUCKS THAT WERE DAMAGING BUILDING FOUNDATION<br /><br />15:41 - CURRENT STATE OF BUILDING, GRATITUDE TO GARVER PARTNERS<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:00]<br />Catherine Phan: This is Catherine Phan. I'm at the Garver Building on November 2, 2019, and I'm speaking with Shelley, David, and Ulrich. They're going to introduce themselves right now. <br /><br />[00:00:14]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: I'm Ulrich Sielaff. U-l-r-i-c-h S-i-e-l-a-f-f. <br /><br />[00:00:23]<br />David Hamel: David Hamel. D-a-v-i-d H-a-m-e-l. <br /><br />[00:00:30]<br />Shelley Hamel: Shelley Hamel. S-h-e-l-l-e-y H-a-m-e-l. <br /><br />[00:00:38]<br />Catherine Phan: So Shelley, David, and Ulrich, what memories or stories do you want to share with us about this place? <br /><br />[00:00:46]<br />Ulrich Seilaff: This is Ulrich. I guess I'd like to start just by giving a little overview of what our connection was to the Garver Feed Mill here. I'm a designer and at one point I had an idea for making a—I think it actually started earlier—I designed a little toy for a company that had the shape of a little geodesic dome. And I realized that if I scaled it up to a larger size, it might be something that might be sort of a bigger project for perhaps selling for backyard buildings and so forth. And when I had that idea, I had the good fortune of having two friends, Shelley and David, and I think we were a good match. I was a little bit more of a designer and David was a manufacturing engineer with lots of clever ideas. And I also realized that Shelley was probably the glue that held us together with knowing how to do word processing for example. <br /><br />[00:01:50]<br />And many other things that kind of kept us organized. So I think we were kind of a good match. And the product ended up being a set of metal plates that made the joints of a very simple geodesic dome building. The thing that was nice about it was that it was a very simple shape where all the pieces of the wood, of the struts, were all exactly the same length. And so basically there were fifteen pieces of two-by-four of any length and I think it was eleven plates that held these pieces together. And by making just the variation of the length, we could make buildings of basically any size. <br /><br />[00:02:40]<br />David Hamel: The date when all this became a venture was 1981, we began. And by 1982, we were selling sets of star plates and had an office on Monona Drive and renting warehouse out on Femrite Drive. And the move to Garver gave us an opportunity to have our own shipping department and office all in one location. That office is what Jim Gempeler took over after we left it in 1985. <br /><br />[00:03:26]<br />Shelley Hamel: I think the way we found out about Garver was knocking on the door of the little brick building, which was the office. And Wayne Wendorf I think was there. And Ulrich, it just might have been you and me. I don't remember David being there, but we said is there a place that we could have new offices and where there's a loading dock so that we could assemble the boxes that had to be shipped out? And he said, "Well you can go look at it," and gave us the key, and we walked up those green stairs that were attached to the outside of the building, opened the doors, and it spoke to us. [laughter] But the thing I really remember about it is it stank in here. I don't know if either of you guys remember that, but I think it was the molasses that was left over from decades ago. But it really had an off aroma. That was a memory of mine. <br /><br />[00:04:19]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: Actually, I was impressed with in what rough shape the entire building was in. It was in stunningly bad shape actually. And the fact that this room was a room that we occupied was on the second floor, kind of took it away from kind of the ground floor where all the real wet and damaged stuff was. But I'll never forget. The room was a beautiful room except it looked terrible. It had great big windows on both sides. I remember that clearly and the walls were basically blackened brick and junk everywhere. So our first task when we got in here was to kind of clean it up as best we could and renting a large airless paint sprayer. And we spray painted the entire, not the floor, but the walls and the ceiling, all white with white paint. That was the extent of our decoration. <br /><br />[00:05:19]<br />David Hamel: It was interesting to hear Jim Gempeler say that the false ceiling concealed a bat rookery. I was never aware of anything behind the ceiling. I guess we just never were there at night. <br /><br />[00:05:33]<br />Catherine Phan: Where exactly were you? You were on the second floor? [multiple speakers] [inaudible] <br /><br />[00:05:39]<br />David Hamel: Well our warehouse and shipping department was the ground floor that Lynn Hellmuth moved into when we departed. And upstairs was the office that Jim Gempeler moved into after we departed. <br /><br />[00:05:55]<br />Shelley Hamel: So the loft apartment was our office, looking nothing like the loft apartment that Jim Gempeler later created. One of the things I was asking David about this morning was, where was the bathroom? I don't remember at all a bathroom. There must have been a bathroom. It was not in our office. <br /><br />[00:06:15]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: No it was on the lower floor. It was, you know, not a very nice bathroom, but it was down on the lower level. I'm assuming it was still, because there was still some people, there might have been an old maintenance person or I think there were two people, two men that worked here and I think there was still somebody, there was one person in the office that was holding down the fort. And I don't know if there was any business still happening then, but I think the smell was more of a grain smell because they did all different kinds of grain here. So maybe it was—and then, of course, by that time everything sort of had started being mixed with water. So I think that probably had to do with the smell too. <br /><br />[00:06:57]<br />Shelley Hamel: We had some employees. We had, if you remember, Dale Melius was our accountant, so he came from somewhere in Madison to our offices here. Jana Fothergill was an artist who came. David remembered, um... <br /><br />[00:07:11]<br />David Hamel: Mary. <br /><br />[00:07:12]<br />Shelley Hamel: Mary, who was also an accountant. And then one great memory of mine is I decided to have my birthday party in that office because it was perfect. I didn't want to celebrate my fortieth birthday because I just didn't want to. But on my forty-first birthday, we hired Rockin' John McDonald of WORT to be the D.J. And so there must have been fifty-five people. I mean, I don't even think I know fifty-five people. But it was just going to be such a cool thing to have my birthday party rock and roll dance up there. [laughter] And that's one thing I really remember. <br /><br />[00:07:55]<br />David Hamel: The shipping department on the ground floor depended on a loading dock for semi-trucks to back up to. And it was really a rickety thing made out of two-by-tens or, you know, lumber, nailed together, but we had an aluminum plate, apparently, that made it possible to roll our pallet jack in and out of a semi. When we began it was pretty much hand labor. But the business exploded and we did a large business in heavy sheet metal product. And I remember one time a semi load of carriage bolts from Taiwan arrived, that was so overloaded, it had had to stop and get three or four tires replaced on the way from Milwaukee where the ship had unloaded. <br /><br />[00:08:50]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: I can expand that story a little bit. One of the parts that we hadn't talked about was kind of how the business developed and what was happening. It turned out that there was actually a company that...We had a patented idea of this, and it was quite a success. We were selling it in lots of home centers all around the country. But at one point we went to a trade show in Chicago to sell our product and it turned out that a company from Minnesota had knocked off the idea and showed up right close to our booth in McCormick Place and had our product be the centerpiece of their display. And of course, that's a long story, but we ended up, to settle that issue that they were violating our patent.<br /><br />[00:09:51]<br />We in effect sold the company to this company that knocked the product off. That didn't end well because it turned out that we were actually better at marketing that product than the new company. But what happened was another employee that we had not for a long time was somebody that we thought could help us with importing the product. And we never imported the star plates themselves but, as David mentioned, we did buy carriage bolts that held these legs to the two-by-fours from China, and we hired somebody or we got the help of someone who fancied themselves as an import/export expert. <br /><br />[00:10:37]<br />David Hamel: In 1981, or [198]2. <br /><br />[00:10:40]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: So we were, as David said, we were kind of buying carriage bolts, and they were loaded on trucks that had to be basically forty thousand pounds, and there were many of these containers that came over. Well when this whole thing went down with being knocked off and selling the company, there were still two containers that were on the water that we couldn't basically turn off. And when this all came down, this new company acquired the business, we had nothing, we had nothing to do with these two containers of carriage bolts. I think I calculated one time that each container had about a million bolts or something like that. It was a staggering number of bolts. And when I mentioned a minute ago that Shelley was one our saviors and organizers, what were we doing? And what reminded me of the story was that we were trying to move these huge pallets that were incredibly heavy and they were in boxes that were kind of falling apart kind of boxes. <br /><br />[00:11:42]<br />And every time we tried to move anything, either the pallet jack would barely crunch across the terminal floor. But finally, Shelley managed to come up, and I don't know what this program was, but somewhere she found out that there was some government program that would accept hardware that could be used for some other applications, and it was either to be donated or who knows what black hole it went into. But I do remember that there was eighty thousand pounds. I think it was more than a container because eighty thousand pounds of carriage bolts were down there. And one day, a semi or two showed up and we bumped it into the semi and they took those carriage bolts and they disappeared, and I actually think we got money for it, which was really amazing. [laughter] But that was one of the funny memories there. <br /><br />[00:12:38]<br />Shelley Hamel: That's why we have three people here. I don't remember that at all. What I thought you were going to go to was pulling the load of carriage bolts by the pallet jack was, David—do you remember this, Ulrich—slipped his disc [laughter] carrying him down the stairs and we had to take him to the hospital where he was in the hospital for two or three days. <br /><br />[00:12:59]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: That I don't remember. All right, well that's funny.<br /><br />[00:13:02]<br />David Hamel: I wedged myself between the stack of carriage bolts and a load on the pallet jack. Trucks that parked on our dock ended up on a slope, so we had to push things up a little bit of a slope to get up and out of the trailer. <br /><br />[00:13:18]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: I don't even remember that. <br /><br />[00:13:19]<br />David Hamel: And it was the next day when I sneezed and I knocked myself to the floor. [laughter] <br /><br />[00:13:24]<br />Shelley Hamel: There are two other things before we wrap up here. And one is, Ulrich, you must tell the story about the hunter. And also Jim Peters who did build a sailboat in a building that was behind Garver. I guess it's no longer here now. That was what they were talking about. <br /><br />[00:13:44]<br />David Hamel: The sheet metal building. <br /><br />[00:13:45]<br />Shelley Hamel: The sheet metal building. But we did see that boat. I mean it was a yacht. It was an ocean-going— <br /><br />[00:13:51]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: Really? [multiple speakers] <br /><br />[00:13:52]<br />David Hamel: Well over 40 feet. <br /><br />[00:13:55]<br />Shelley Hamel: So that was another part. But anyway tell about the hunter. <br /><br />[00:13:59]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: I wouldn't say it was hunters, but there was, as I mentioned, there was—I think that there two men that worked here and I'm assuming they might of even been here tonight or today. But I think it was kind of a regular occurrence, if not every day, certainly every other day, we always heard gunshots. And it was funny to be working up there and typically during the day, there'd be five or ten gunshots that we typically heard. But it turned out what it was, was a rifle that was down on the lower level and outside around the building, there was somebody shooting off a twenty-two rifle. And it turned out that over the years, the woodchucks had invaded the area, both probably inside and out of the building. And they were so destructive and so prolific that they dug under the foundation and actually caused damage where the bricks were falling in. <br /><br />[00:15:03]<br />And this was not uncommon for them to do. But the thing that was notable was how many of them there were. And so the day might have started with these guys where one of them would go out and check out if they could shoot some woodchucks that day. And it happened a lot. So one of my memories is always hearing the twenty-two go off for the hunting that was being done outside the building. <br /><br />[00:15:31]<br />Catherine Phan: Anyone else have any favorite spots or other memories or senses of this building? <br /><br />[00:15:41]<br />David Hamel: No. <br /><br />[00:15:42]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: I'm just amazed first of all at having seen the building in its state of disrepair. And kind of hearing the history of the business and realizing what incredibly rough shape it was in, and kind of having been kind of a building—well, David and Shelley as well, have done renovations and things, we realize what's involved even on a tiny scale compared to this. So the result of the work here is just stunning to us and we're just so happy that in some way we could have been a little part of it. <br /><br />[00:16:21]<br />Catherine Phan: Are there parts of this that you still remember as being the same, or parts that you aren't shocked at how different it is? <br /><br />[00:16:26]<br />Shelley Hamel: The beautiful brickwork on the outside is still magnificent, and it's really a huge building and beautiful. <br /><br />[00:16:34]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: Yeah, yeah. <br /><br />[00:16:34]<br />David Hamel: And the space that we occupied as an office is unchanged except that now it's clear story to the ceiling. <br /><br />[00:16:43]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: And the bricks exposed and beautiful and the windows are wonderful. [laughter] <br /><br />[00:16:48]<br />David Hamel: And tight. [multiple speakers] <br /><br />[00:16:51]<br />Ulrich Sielaff: Or, it was just a great—it was a chapter in a business and it was a chapter that was really fun when you think back that that was one of our connections in the past. <br /><br />[00:17:04]<br />David Hamel: And you know those two partners had to be real open-minded people to consider renting a fraction of their square footage. It wasn't a big deal, but they let us come and go and do the remodeling we needed to do, no problem. A great couple of guys. <br /><br />[00:17:25]<br />Catherine Phan: Thank you so much. Those were really wonderful stories. Thanks so much. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Hamel, David
Hamel, Shelley
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Wolff, Jane
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Ulrich Sielaff, David Hamel, and Shelley Hamel describe their experiences renting space for their manufacturing business in the Garver Feed Mill building. They describe the building's poor physical condition and cleaning their office space for use. The group discusses the yacht that was built in an adjacent building, an overloaded semi that delivered bolts to the building, and the sale of their company to a competitor that was building "knock-off" structures.
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:34 - FATHER, CHARLES PETTERSON, WORKED AT GARVER MILL 1931-1977<br /><br />1:25 - HIS CAREER PROGRESSION, FROM UNLOADING TRUCKS TO FOREMAN<br /><br />2:37 - GARVER MILL DESCRIBED AS FULL, BUSY, INDUSTRIOUS<br /><br />4:35 - THE COTTAGE (MR. GARVER'S OFFICE), AREA AROUND GARVER<br /><br />5:19 - NAMES OF RELATIVES WHO WORKED AT GARVER MILL<br /><br />5:55 - MEMORIES OF FATHER DRIVING BY MILL ON DAYS OFF, HIS ATTACHMENT TO GARVER<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:00]<br />Amy Scanlon: This is Amy Scanlon, and I'm at the Garver Building. It's the grand opening on November 2, 2009. And I'm speaking with Susan. Susan, could you please spell your first and last name for us? <br /><br />[00:00:14]<br />Susan Rottier: It's S-u-s-a-n, and my last name is Rottier, R-o-t-t-i-e-r. <br /><br />[00:00:20]<br />Amy Scanlon: Thank you! Thank you so much for being here today. Do you have a memory or story about the Garver Building you'd like to share with us today? <br /><br />[00:00:31]<br />Susan Rottier: Yes. <br /><br />[00:00:32]<br />Amy Scanlon: Awesome! Tell us. <br /><br />[00:00:34]<br />Susan Rottier: Well, my father worked here for forty-six years. He started working in 1931, when he was eighteen years old. And he continued until 19--, let's see, I almost forgot what year it was now, he continued until he was sixty-four years old. And he married my mother, and always lived on the east side of Madison. And grew up here and went to Allis Elementary. And my mother went to Lowell Elementary. So they were always east siders. And we lived just near Breese Stevens Field. He worked here and loved--he loved what he did and ended up foreman of it later on, after he was a little older. And Mr. Garver was almost like a father to him. <br /><br />[00:01:25]<br />Amy Scanlon: Talk about how he progressed through his career here. When he started, what did he do, and where did he end up? <br /><br />[00:01:32]<br />Susan Rottier: Mostly when he started, I believe, I was not born yet, obviously, but he mostly was in the warehouse here and just loading bags and unloading trucks, and I'm not even sure what year he became foreman, but I only knew him as foreman. I was born in '51. <br /><br />[00:01:50]<br />Amy Scanlon: And you were talking about his office is located right here on-- <br /><br />[00:01:55]<br />Susan Rottier: Just inside the front door of this building. He had a small office, which I remember once I graduated high school and I was working, I would have to--the bus line only came this far, so I had to come inside--I had to come here, wait for my dad to have a break in order to take us--take me home to take care of my mother who was an invalid at the time, so. <br /><br />[00:02:17]<br />Amy Scanlon: You guys would come into this building and you have memories of it as it was before? <br /><br />[00:02:21]<br />Susan Rottier: Yes. Yes. Very much so. And I had my older brother worked here for a short time, and my oldest sister's husband worked here for a short time also. It was kind of--if there was a job, if someone needed a job, they usually got it here [laughing]. <br /><br />[00:02:34]<br />Amy Scanlon: So it was a center? <br /><br />[00:02:36]<br />Susan Rottier: Yes. <br /><br />[00:02:37]<br />Amy Scanlon: What things about the building, there are so many things that have changed, but what things about the building do you recognize immediately that are different from when you remember? <br /><br />[00:02:49]<br />Susan Rottier: The entire inside is completely--except for the--I mean, the brick was always so beautiful, no matter what, when you walked in here. But there was not all this open space, obviously, before, because there was an elevator that took the bags up to the loft, so there was loft and it was not open like it is now. <br /><br />[00:03:11]<br />Amy Scanlon: Even before the renovations started, there were certain rooms, outrooms, for example, where trees were growing, over there, and I'm sure that's not what you saw either. <br /><br />[00:03:20]<br />Susan Rottier: No. <br /><br />[00:03:20]<br />Amy Scanlon: It was a working--this was a really industrious place of business. <br /><br />[00:03:24]<br />Susan Rottier: Yes, yes. <br /><br />[00:03:25]<br />Amy Scanlon: Every room was full and things were happening. <br /><br />[00:03:28]<br />Susan Rottier: And it was always well taken care of then, too. I mean, obviously, the fires did some damage and my dad was--there was one time I know that he got called back late at night because the fire had started in the building. They did have fires because of the heat, I guess. <br /><br />[00:03:44]<br />Amy Scanlon: Right. What else about this place do you recall that you'd like to have us know as part of this collection? As far as your memories of how it looked or smelled or how it felt? <br /><br />[00:04:07]<br />Susan Rottier: It was always so busy when I walked in. I mean, there was just activity and lots of employees. It was a nice place, my dad loved it here. He spent so many hours here that, and the cottage, I got to go through that and stuff, so it was always kind of neat to be able to do that. But, I don't know, it was just a very active mill. I mean [chuckling], you saw bags everywhere! <br /><br />[00:04:35]<br />Amy Scanlon: Right. What was happening in the cottage? <br /><br />[00:04:39]<br />Susan Rottier: That was Mr. Garver's office. <br /><br />[00:04:42]<br />Amy Scanlon: Alone, he was in there by himself? <br /><br />[00:04:44]<br />Susan Rottier: There were two secretaries. It was a beautiful building, and it still is. I just--the only thing that I remember, I went in there a few times, but I just remember there was a large safe in the basement [laughing]. <br /><br />[00:04:59]<br />Amy Scanlon: And what about what was happening behind the building? <br /><br />[00:05:05]<br />Susan Rottier: There was never really--it was just seemed all open to me, I guess, I don't remember ever, yeah, being back in the backside of the building, because I always came at it from the other side, so I never really paid attention back here. <br /><br />[00:05:19]<br />Amy Scanlon: Right. I don't think we've said, what was your father's name? <br /><br />[00:05:22]<br />Susan Rottier: My father's name is Arthur Milton Petterson. <br /><br />[00:05:29]<br />Amy Scanlon: And you had some other relatives who were here. What were their names? <br /><br />[00:05:31]<br />Susan Rottier: My brother, Charles Petterson. He worked here for a short time. I don't remember what years it was, and then my oldest sister's first husband was Junior Rice, and he worked here for a short time, too. My dad managed to get them jobs. [Laughing] But none of them continued as long as my dad did, obviously. <br /><br />[00:05:55]<br />Amy Scanlon: What other--you had a family soft spot for this building. Is there anything else, are there any other funny stories or--<br /><br />[00:06:13]<br />Susan Rottier: Well, I wrote down one, I remember very vividly, when my dad was off from work, which was usually Saturday and Sunday, that was it, but sometimes Saturday not. He would--if we went anywhere, we would go for a ride, take my mother out, and we always had to come driving through here just to see it. He would never go a full week without, or a full day even, without driving us around and we had to, even if we went for a little ride someplace, we always had to come through here. He just-- <br /><br />[00:06:42]<br />Amy Scanlon: Check on it. <br /><br />[00:06:43]<br />Susan Rottier: Yeah. It was pretty much his life. I mean, my mother became invalid towards the end and if he got called back to work here, or because something happened at night, he'd have to come in and get me out of the bedroom and lay next to my mom because she was--just in case she needed anything. He was torn between the two things, but he really loved working here. And, like I said, Mr. Garver was kind of like a father figure to him. <br /><br />[00:07:13]<br />Amy Scanlon: Wonderful story, thank you. And you brought a lot of other photographs and things for us to look at, and hopefully those will be added to the collection. Is there anything else you want to talk about? <br /><br />[00:07:27]<br />Susan Rottier: I can't think of anything else. I think I told what I'd kind of written down about it. <br /><br />[00:07:32]<br />Amy Scanlon: Thank you so much for coming in today. <br /><br />[00:07:35]<br />Susan Rottier: Thank you! Thanks, I'm glad I did! <br /><br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Garver Feed Mill story by Susan Rottier
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Wolff, Jane
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Susan Rottier shares her family's history with the Garver Feed Mill, where her father was the foreman for many years. She tells about coming to visit him at work as a child.
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INDEX:<br /><br />00:58 - GROWING UP ON EAST SIDE, RENTING GARVER SPACE<br /><br />03:20 - FUSS TELLS OF FIRES AT GARVER IN 1946, 1964, 1981 AND 2001<br /><br />07:10 - USE OF METAL BUILDINGS FOR GARVER TRUCKS, FUSS'S FIRE TRUCK, BOAT-BUILDING, BREAK-INS<br /><br />09:41 - GARVER BUILDING NOW, REUSE OF OLD BUILDINGS<br /><br />11:08 - TEIDT TELLS OF PLAYING AT WIRTH COURT, DUNNING ST., STARKWEATHER CREEK (IN MADISON SILO CEMENT TUBS FROM GARVER)<br /><br />13:58 - OLBRICH PARK TOBOGGAN SLIDE<br /><br />17:30 - OLBRICH GARDEN QUONSET HUTS, BOAT STORAGE, FISHING, HUDSON BEACH<br /><br />20:50 - COMMENTS ON OLD AND NEW BUILDINGS, DEVELOPMENT<br /><br />25:32 - 1991 BUTTER FIRE, 1958 BASSETT ST. FIRE<br /><br />31:00 - 1970 STERLING HALL EXPLOSION, FIRE, RIOTS<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:03]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Okay. And oh my gosh, make sure you're here. This is Jennifer Gurske. I'm at the Garver Building on November 2, 2019. I am speaking with Mike Fuss and Terry -- <br /><br />[00:00:20]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Tiedt. <br /><br />[00:00:22]<br />Jennifer Gurske: And if you both could spell your last names for me? <br /><br />[00:00:26]<br />Mike Fuss: Okay. My name is F-U-S-S, double S as in Sam. <br /><br />[00:00:33]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Mine's T-i-e-d-t. <br /><br />[00:00:38]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Great. Okay. So, we can just start off with telling us about your relationship to this place. <br /><br />[00:00:45]<br />Sarah Lawton: I'll just double check that this is actually recording. Is it? Okay, good. Sorry. <br /><br />[00:00:51]<br />Mike Fuss: My name is Verizon. Can you hear me now? <br /><br />[00:00:55]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Yes. (laughter) You're good to go. Sorry about that. <br /><br />[00:00:58]<br />Mike Fuss: No. My relationship with Garver's goes back. When I played baseball back in 1958 to 1960, in the Little League, I would cut through here from Fair Oaks Avenue. There was a baseball diamond across, by the lake, a toboggan slide in the winter. We'd go over there. I'd cut through here to practice, and I'd go here every day that we started playing ball in the summer. Later on, I got fire trucks, and I had to have a place to store them. Madison Silo—Garver's owned the building, but Madison Silo was operating a silo company [in the building]. They said, hey, you can keep them here for a hundred dollars a month, and I had six of them at that time.<br /><br />[00:01:58]<br />So, I stored them in the back here. I was in the process of trying to get Old Fire Station Number Eight on North Street. I finally got it. I moved those out of here in 1990, but we took a big photo. George Jackson of the [Wisconsin] State Journal took a photo of all the trucks outside, and he stood on this roof, just down a little bit, and he—his camera was down, and I was up on a ladder, aerial ladder, looking up at him. I had my elbow out—that hid the building. It was all open. That was his idea. Then I got the station, moved in there, and my two uncles and my stepdad had another building here at Garver's, one down farther. <br /><br />[00:03:04]<br />There's all kinds of buildings around here, metal ones. They opened up a storage for cars and boats and everything; it was called CDC, Chamberlain, DeWeiss [assumed spelling], Chamberlain. That was that. Now, in the big history, I am the historian of the Madison Fire Department, have been since 1987. I got into all this, and I remember all the fires. The first one was on December 3, 1946, and that was in the far west side of Garver's, the small, first, one-story building. In 1964, they had another fire, and that was August 31 of '64. I came here on my little Honda motorcycle. <br /><br />[00:04:07]<br />I was sixteen years old. I watched that fire, and Terry's uncle was here, on the aerial truck from Number Eight, my place, and he was operating that. His dad and uncle were all—they were firemen, too. Two of them were on the B Shift, one was on the A Shift at that time. The next fire was April 4, 1981, and that was in the back, here—it might have been right here, I think, in this building, this part of it. In 2001, May 5, they had the last fire, but the building was vacant. That—I came from the VFW on Cottage Grove Road because I was playing in a band. <br /><br />[00:05:08]<br />I had my own band. I got done a little after—well, right around midnight. I took off, and I came this way, because I always go this way, back to my house. I could smell the smoke, when I got up by Sugar Avenue, right there. I thought, geez, that—and I go through the neighborhood and just, there was a strong smell, but I couldn't see anything. I drove around the neighborhood. I got home, and probably 15 minutes later, they gave the call for here. That's what I was smelling. I got over here, and the whole, that end again, down there, that was really going. That was the four fires, and my association with Garver's. <br /><br />[00:05:55]<br />Sarah Lawton: What caused the fire in 1964? Like, was it a big fire? <br /><br />[00:06:00]<br />Mike Fuss: Spontaneous combustion of the feed. <br /><br />[00:06:02]<br />Sarah Lawton: Uh-huh. What did it look like when you got here, on your Honda motorcycle? <br /><br />[00:06:10]<br />Mike Fuss: The smoke was coming out the two windows, where that one-story building, is on the west. It goes up like that, starts to—where the cafe is. They had two aerial ladder trucks, going up into those windows, and it's just pouring out of there. I mean, it was really going when we got there. We watched it. My Uncle Bob, he was a fireman too, and he was there. He worked with Terry's dad and uncle. I mean, it was black smoke. I've got all kinds of pictures of that fire, and I've got it from '46 and 2001, and I got one, but I can't find it, from '81. Otherwise, I've got all these pictures. If you need them for the library, I can make copies. <br /><br />[00:07:11]<br />This metal building out here, it was real long, and Garver's had their trucks in there. I kept one of my trucks at the far end. They let me do that for nothing. This guy was building a ship, a boat, a sail boat in the other side, down here, right out in here, and he asked, because I knew him then, and he says, "Is your son—how old's your son?" I said, "Oh, he's like fourteen." "Oh, man, I could use him." He came and helped him do the ballast and some other stuff. That was neat. I got pictures of that ship coming—or that boat—when they were pulling it out of the building. They had to do a couple things—I'll have to look for those, too. That's another part of the history. <br /><br />[00:08:09]<br />Sarah Lawton: Was the feed mill still operating then or was it— <br /><br />[00:08:11]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. No, it was still—yeah. I knew guys that worked here. They'd help me, you know, if I had trouble with the trucks or something with a building. They helped me. I had a break-in one night, and they stole my—one of my speakers off the truck, some siren lights. I started setting booby traps, but I didn't tell anybody. I said, "Boy, the next time they come through this door, they're going to have a wonderful surprise." But they never — <br /><br />[00:08:44]<br />Sarah Lawton: What kind of booby trap? <br /><br />[00:08:45]<br />Mike Fuss: —came back. I had stuff, when you opened up that door, it's going to come down on you, if you don't know what you're doing. I had other things going on, too, where I had wires set where they could walk and trip. I thought, "You know, you're going to mess with us? Okay." But they never came back. Darn. Yeah, I had a lot of fun here. My uncle lived across the creek over there on—<br /><br />Terrence Tiedt: Ivy Street—<br /><br />Mike Fuss: Leon Street, Barry did.<br /><br />Terrence Tiedt: Leon—I thought it was Ivy.<br /><br />Mike Fuss: That's where my Uncle Bud lived, yeah. <br /><br />Terrence Tiedt: That's the one I remember. Bud.<br /><br />Mike Fuss: He lived right down the street here, off Fair Oaks. I had a lot of different things that I did over here. <br /><br />[00:09:41]<br />Jennifer Gurske: What do you think about what's happened to the building now? <br /><br />[00:09:43]<br />Mike Fuss: I think it's really neat. Did a great job. It's real, you know, this has to cost a lot of money on this. I don't know how you could do it. You had to—you'd have to be rich to even do it, to think about it. The way prices are these days for anything, your car or a building or anything, it's just ridiculous. But what are you going to do? <br /><br />[00:10:14]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: I, as a long-time member here, on the east side of Madison, I love to watch the way they're taking older buildings and reusing them. I'm going to use, for instance, that the—where the Goodman Community Center is, rebuilding that. Then, they went across the street and did the Brass Works and the Iron Works, and it's just good seeing all the older buildings being reused. Instead of tearing down. Because there's a lot of history in all that stuff. I have the pleasure of working over there, at the Goodman Community Center. So I'm in those buildings every day. It's just beautiful. I remember walking past it when it was the Iron Works and talking to the men working at the Kupfer Iron Works. Mike and I, we'd play in the park. <br /><br />[00:11:16]<br />Wirth Court, playing there. Back then, the playgrounds weren't all loaded up with little rubber nuggets. They had a monkey bar thing, and I remember hanging on the monkey bar, coming across and doing things there and falling to the ground, and just getting back up. Lucky we didn't break our necks or something. It was just, different times. You know? But we—the old adage. We made it. Yep, we made it. Mike and I have been friends since, oh, gosh, since we probably got to know each other when we were ten years old. <br /><br />[00:11:59]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. My cousins lived across the street from him. <br /><br />[00:12:04]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:12:05]<br />Mike Fuss: So, I was over there a lot. Dunning Street. <br /><br />[00:12:10]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yep. <br /><br />[00:12:10]<br />Mike Fuss: You know where that is? <br /><br />[00:12:11]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:12:12]<br />Mike Fuss: Well, that's where he grew up. In fact, his brother still lives there. <br /><br />[00:12:18]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Well, my—as I was saying, out there, my experience, not that I have—Mike has the fire aspect. I have the—when we were younger, one of the excursions that we would do back here, because of the Madison Silo [Company], back then, they mixed all the cement in cement tubs. Everything was done by hand. Then they poured it out into their molds. Well, the cement tubs were pretty neat, to kids. When the building was closed, nobody working, we'd come on the weekends, and we'd get into the cement tubs, and we'd go up and down Starkweather Creek in the cement tubs. <br /><br />[00:13:06]<br />Mike Fuss: Build rafts. Mark McCormack. <br /><br />[00:13:08]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Oh, man, yeah. That was one of the neatest rafts that we could see at that time. It was a two-story. <br /><br />[00:13:20]<br />Mike Fuss: [multiple voices] Dick [inaudible] lived there on Fair Oaks. He was a captain on the Fire Department. He lived on Fair Oaks Avenue. He worked where I live. I used to be down there at my station. I was there since I was four years old. I went by there every day. I'd stop in, and finally, I just was there all the time. Grew up, finally got on the department, and been retired for twenty years, in January. I was on thirty-one years, and I'm only thirty-eight. [laughter]<br /><br />[00:13:58]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Mike related to something when we were young that we don't have in this town anymore, that was one of the things that we used to look forward to when we were young, during the winter, is the toboggan slide over here on Olbrich Hill. We used to have—get on, and race—not race, because you could only go down once, but the object was how far could you get your toboggan slide to go. There were certain toboggans that we learned were faster than the others. You'd try to get everything that you can—could to get your toboggan to go the furthest down. We would go all the way down the creek and almost to—halfway to where the beach house is, because they would stretch that ice out. The ice would come from—when it first started out, would come from the lakes that they put in to saw it out of the lakes and put down the thing. <br /><br />[00:15:00]<br />Eventually, it became, I think, out of Oscar Mayer's, that they'd bring the ice for the toboggan slide. That was the neatest thing. We used to love that, coming over here. <br /><br />[00:15:12]<br />Sarah Lawton: Was it a built structure? <br /><br />[00:15:14]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah. They'd put it up every year. <br /><br />[00:15:16]<br />Sarah Lawton: Okay. <br /><br />[00:15:16]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Every year, Madison had—I mean, we'd have to walk up—you see that light post out there? About that height to the top, to get into the top of that—about that high. I'm not saying exactly, but very close. Walk up with your toboggan but you'd pull the toboggan up the side. There was— where you can pull the toboggan up. Mike, help me, how many did we get? Four, five on that sled? <br /><br />[00:15:40]<br />Mike Fuss: Oh yeah, five, sometimes, six. <br /><br />[00:15:42]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: What we'd do, is we'd be behind each other, then after they get done, they'd stand there. Once in awhile, the operator on the toboggan—"Let's put it down. Put it down now," because they had to lift all of us, because it was on a thing—a fulcrum, and it could go up, like a thing. There was help. They'd lift us, and when we were coming in right behind them, and if they didn't get off the tracks right away, we'd hit each other. Dumb, stupid things, you know? But it was fun. We just—like I said, no helmets, no pads, no nothing. <br /><br />[00:16:32]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. Were you on—did you ever go on that East Side History on Facebook? <br /><br />[00:16:40]<br />Sarah Lawton: No. <br /><br />[00:16:41]<br />Mike Fuss: Well, they had a picture. There's three pictures of that on there today. Because I saw it, and I—if you go on there, East Side History site. It's right there, and you'll see it. It's really—a kid put it on there and said, "Here's what we used to do," and all these people around it. <br /><br />[00:17:00]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Oh, yeah, that was a gathering spot. And the ice skating rink across—I don't know [inaudible] about it. Right over here, on the park. We used to all come there. Hockey—big old hockey rink in there. That was the place to gather for the kids during the summer. <br /><br />[00:17:17]<br />Mike Fuss: They still have a hockey rink, a skating rink, but not like it was. That skating rink was pretty big. Obrich—the gardens took some of it over. Now, it's not as big. <br /><br />[00:17:31]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Well, where the gardens is over here, used to be—used to have Quonset huts that people could store their boats in. Then, all of a sudden, they—the garden kept growing, and they expanded, and they knocked that down. Basically, you'd come in here. You rent this storage unit out from the city, and you'd put your boat in there. You pull the boat out, and you'd go down to the creek, Starkweather Creek, and put your boat in, and go out and go on out on the lake. <br /><br />[00:18:06]<br />Mike Fuss: Used to fish in the creek all the time. <br /><br />[00:18:08]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:18:09]<br />Mike Fuss: Over here, and down here. There, everywhere. <br /><br />[00:18:15]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: The mouth of the Starkweather Creek was my dad's favorite spot for northerns. <br /><br />[00:18:21]<br />Sarah Lawton: Really? <br /><br />[00:18:22]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yes. <br /><br />[00:18:23]<br />Sarah Lawton: What era was that? <br /><br />[00:18:26]<br />Mike Fuss: Fifties, forties. <br /><br />[00:18:29]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: My dad—this was probably in the fifties. I can remember going fishing in dad's boat with me and Tom, my brother, Tom. <br /><br />[00:18:38]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:18:40]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Tom cast out, we were fishing, and he threw, you know how they go back like that, well, on the back swing, he hit Dad in the head with his hook, and the hook got planted in the—now, get this. This is how tough some of these firemen were. And I mean, all these—we went home. Instead of going to the clinic, Dad took a pair of side cuts, cut the hook, and pulled it out of his head himself. <br /><br />[00:19:12]<br />Sarah Lawton: Oh! (laughter)<br /><br />[00:19:13]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: True story. <br /><br />[00:19:15]<br />Mike Fuss: Tough guys, them. <br /><br />[00:19:16]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah. And another—and fishing out in that same area, I don't know when, but we were casting, and me and my brother probably got into a little bit of an argument, and the boat and his rod fell over, in the lake. Two weeks later, my dad's out there fishing, and he pulls that rod in. <br /><br />[00:19:38]<br />Sarah Lawton: Wow. <br /><br />[00:19:42]<br />Sarah Lawton: What was the creek like in terms of the water and the banks of it—pretty undeveloped? <br /><br />[00:19:48]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: The water never turned over until late August, late August. We always called it the dog days of summer. <br /><br />[00:19:57]<br />Mike Fuss: Yep. <br /><br />[00:19:57]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: We used to swim over here, at Hudson Beach. We would go up and down the Indian trails. Because Hudson Beach was up, and when they'd throw in new sand, we'd come off of the top and just jump right down into the sand. You could go in there, and the water was clear. You wouldn't get—you wouldn't have the muck that's showing up as early as it is, with the water. <br /><br />[00:20:24]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah, the gardens weren't here. Nothing was here. They had a little—those two brick things out in front, that's the only thing that was Olbrich—the gardens—for years. Then they kept developing it. That's our story, and we're sticking to it. <br /><br />[00:20:51]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah. Over here, off of Fair Oaks, I don't know—maybe you've come across this in your thing, but what they have now is the Madison-Kipp building there at the railroad tracks. That used to be the old Madison Bus Company, which is now—that was all tore down. They tore that all down, but that is where the bus—that I remember, during my youth, that was—at that time, was Madison Bus Company, which was not owned by the city of Madison. <br /><br />[00:21:22]<br />Mike Fuss: Right. <br /><br />[00:21:22]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: They went bellied up, and the city bought them. Now, prior to this, the city of Madison required all the employees that worked in the city of Madison to live in the city of Madison. However, when they got the bus company, those men driving the bus lived outside the city, so that opened it up, through negotiations—<br /><br />[00:21:48]<br />Mike Fuss: Police, Fire. <br /><br />[00:21:49]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: —for the Fire Department and the rest of—some of the people in the city of Madison, to be able to live outside the city of Madison, working in the city of Madison. <br /><br />[00:22:01]<br />Sarah Lawton: Did that change the composition of the Fire Department a lot? <br /><br />[00:22:06]<br />Mike Fuss: No. To me, if you're in this city, you should live in the city. That's the way we always felt. Because we had guys living in Milwaukee. There still is. It used to be—second alarm fire, third alarm—they'd want to hire guys back, well, it would take them an hour. If they were out of the city, it would take them so long to get back. Now it's all changed. It's all different, a lot different. <br /><br />[00:22:35]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Like Mike says, it's just water over the dam, so to speak. Some of that politicking that went on. We used to ride the bus for what—a nickel? <br /><br />[00:22:45]<br />Mike Fuss: Yep. A nickel. The apartments over here, that used to be a Red Dot Potato Chip Company. They had one on East Washington Avenue, by the tracks. Then, it was Kessenich's. Remember when it was Kessenich's? It was Red Dot first. You could get potato chips there.<br /><br />[00:23:09]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Then Frito-Lay. <br /><br />[00:23:10]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:23:11]<br />Sarah Lawton: Could you smell potato chips back here? <br /><br />[00:23:17]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Oh, yeah. <br /><br />[00:23:17]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like Gardner's. <br /><br />[00:23:19]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah, Gardner's. <br /><br />[00:23:21]<br />Mike Fuss: Now, that's gone. That's the sad part. I like it when they do this, like Terry said, just use the structure that's here. Don't rip them down and build some—the buildings, to me, that they're building, especially apartments, are ugly. Their colors are terrible, and they don't even look right. But this, this is the way it should be. This—just leave it alone. <br /><br />[00:23:48]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: I agree. <br /><br />[00:23:48]<br />Mike Fuss: You know? <br /><br />[00:23:50]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Totally. <br /><br />[00:23:51]<br />Mike Fuss: Yep. I didn't do anything to my station. I kept it all original, and I did put a fireplace in it, and knocked one wall out, but you wouldn't know it. Otherwise, it's just like it was. I got the trucks that were there when I was a kid. I got them all back. <br /><br />[00:24:11]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: You got that truck that went through the Tip Top [Tavern], don't you? <br /><br />[00:24:14]<br />Mike Fuss: Yep. Yep. And then, the FWD and Engine Five, that your dad drove. <br /><br />[00:24:22]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yeah, my uncle was driving the one that went through the Tip Top, avoided that car. <br /><br />[00:24:29]<br />Mike Fuss: A big accident, right where that—I'm trying to think of the name of the—restaurant at North Street and Commercial, that new restaurant. I'm trying to think of the name of it. [Ogden's North Street Diner.] I haven't even been in it yet, but it's busy. It's a busy place. It used to be a grocery store when I was a kid, Jensen's [phonetic]. Now, it's a neat place. I just got to go in. It's busy, all the time; they're doing good. That's what you like to see. You like to see that stuff in this city. Uptown, which I don't understand, is the Children's Museum, Historical Museum? Okay. The Historical Society wants to rip down all the buildings that—all the way to Grace Church. They got the first—highest building in Madison, still standing, and they want to rip it all down and put a Historical Association. Now, does that make sense? <br /><br />[00:25:31]<br />Sarah Lawton: Were you guys around during the Butter Fire? That was more recent.<br /><br />[00:25:34]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Oh, yeah. <br /><br />[00:25:35]<br />Mike Fuss: Oh, yeah, I was working. <br /><br />[00:25:37]<br />Jennifer Gurske: What year was the Butter Fire? <br /><br />[00:25:38]<br />Mike Fuss: '91. <br /><br />[00:25:39]<br />Jennifer Gurske: '91? Yeah. That was the huge fire, right? <br /><br />[00:25:42]<br />Mike Fuss: Oh, yeah. Biggest fire we've ever had, and the butter and the lard—everything was just floating down the creek. <br /><br />[00:25:53]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yep. <br /><br />[00:25:54]<br />Mike Fuss: It was bad. All our equipment was nothing but that smell, and it was terrible. They had to steam clean everything, and it still—in the engines and all the equipment, you could smell it for a year. It was bad. We got some canned hams, though, out of it. They said, here, just take those. I'll take them. Oscar Mayer canned hams that was stored. <br /><br />[00:26:23]<br />Sarah Lawton: And that started down Cottage Grove Road, right? <br /><br />[00:26:26]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Right. Central Storage. <br /><br />[00:26:28]<br />Mike Fuss: Right. <br /><br />[00:26:29]<br />Jennifer Gurske: What was it called? <br /><br />[00:26:30]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Central Storage. <br /><br />[00:26:32]<br />Mike Fuss: Yep. Big warehouse. Two of them, they burned. Three days, we were there. What time is it? <br /><br />[00:26:43]<br />Jennifer Gurske: It is 10:07. <br /><br />[00:26:46]<br />Mike Fuss: Okay. I think I'm last. <br /><br />[00:26:50]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Another one--you remember the Bassett Street Fire? <br /><br />[00:26:53]<br />Mike Fuss: Oh, yeah. I'll tell you that—this—you'll like this. They had two explosions in 1958, January 4th. The first one was on East Main Street, where those new buildings they built—there's a restaurant in one, on like the 700 Block, East Wash, right by Breese Stevens. Behind there, on East Main, this Hansen Body Shop blew up. And five minutes later, on Bassett Street, a whole block blew up. So, we had eight stations then, and everybody went, and they called—this was the thing. If the guys would have been in Milwaukee, lived there, it would have took them forever. Well, our guys came right away. <br /><br />[00:27:55]<br />I remember, I was eleven years old, and my mom and dad and my brother and myself, lived upstairs. My grandma and grandpa built the house. They lived downstairs. I can remember waking up, and this was like at midnight, and I'm going, what's—I can hear my mom, and they're all kind of—and I came downstairs, and I looked at my grandma's stove, gas stove, and the pilot lights were jumping that high. They were that high. Because the pressure gauges in the city, a couple of them failed, and that threw all this—they had like two or three other explosions in the city, but they were minor, luckily. They were fighting this fire out on Bassett Street. The one on East Main went out pretty fast, but Bassett Street, the manhole covers, it blew them up, and the flames were shooting right out of the street, like that. <br /><br />[00:29:02]<br />The street was on fire, you might say. All these guys—they were brave firemen—were there, and they stopped it. They all could have got blown up. That was the worst one until this. It was kind of a different thing, too. That was a gas explosion. That, out here, was from a forklift. The battery shorted out. There's a lot of stuff that— <br /><br />[00:29:39]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: What I remember, Dad was off, but they called him in. We had to take—like you said, back then, was the gas and the pilot light was always—if you had something covering the pilot light. We were told to take that off, so the pilot light could be at that height, so that it didn't go whatever on the stove. I don't—again, I was probably, like Mike said he was eleven. I was probably twelve or thirteen at the time. <br /><br />[00:30:05]<br />Mike Fuss: Yeah, you're right. <br /><br />[00:30:06]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: I remember dad being called in. What they did is that at first, he manned another station, because everybody was up at—let's say the A Shift was all at the— <br /><br />[00:30:17]<br />Mike Fuss: Fire. <br /><br />[00:30:18]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: —fire station, so they called all the B Shift in. Then, the A Shift got tired, and the B Shift went on to replace the A Shift, so the guys could get a little break. They had it all coordinated pretty good. I remember being careful, like Mike was saying, because of the concern that there might be other explosions coming. That was probably—in my life, as a young person, that was probably one of the scariest moments that I had, with my dad being a city fireman. <br /><br />[00:31:00]<br />Mike Fuss: Well, then Sterling Hall blew up. I remember hearing about that. <br /><br />[00:31:04]<br />Terrence (Terry) Tiedt: Yep. <br /><br />[00:31:04]<br />Jennifer Gurske: When was that? <br /><br />[00:31:06]<br />Mike Fuss: That was 1970. I had just come on the job in '69, and I switched with a guy, to go to a family reunion on a Sunday. I was working at Number Four Station on Dayton and Randall, where the Camp Randall there. That night, these guys, the Armstrong brothers, and two other ones, well, they blew it up, and they killed a guy, which was—I was really sad that that happened. I heard that thing—it blew the guys out of bed, because they were only like three blocks from there, in the station. It literally blew them out. I would have been working, but I had switched. But I heard it blow, and I lived on Pflaum Road. I heard it echo across that lake. It went boom, boom, boom, and it was like, oh, man. <br /><br />[00:32:08]<br />I heard them give the call, because I had a scanner. They blew that up. I went back to work. They blew up about four or five other buildings. They set fires to them. We had the riots; that's when we had the riots. We'd be on the back of an engine, and we had our riot shields on and that. The cops were throwing tear gas. They'd throw it at the kids and that. Here we are on the back of the engine, nothing there, and it come up, and it's getting to us. We'd be yelling at the officers, the lieutenant, hey, get us out of here, let's go. That was kind of a scary thing, too. They liked us, the students did. They hated the cops, but they kind of liked us. At first, they didn't, and they were throwing rocks, anything they can get their hands on, at us, too. That was quite a thing. It's not on the east side, but there's a lot of fires here on the east side, too, over the years. <br /><br />[00:33:15]<br />When I was a kid, I went to a lot of fires. Because they were my heroes. When I got on the job, I had a lot of fires. McCormick Lumber on Milwaukee Street, right over here. That was going one night. I was driving the engine, and we could smell that. We moved to new Number Eight—when I had old Number Eight—on Lien Road. And when we hit the apron, when we were going to take off, you could smell it. The wind was blowing right. You could smell that fire, all the way out East Washington Avenue from Milwaukee Street. It was unreal. That's about all I've got, because we'd be here all day. <br /><br />[00:34:02]<br />Jennifer Gurske: We could talk to you all day. It's an amazing history of Madison. Thank you so much— <br /><br />[00:34:08]<br />Mike Fuss: You're welcome. <br /><br />[00:34:09]<br />Jennifer Gurske: —for providing this. <br /><br />[00:34:10]<br />Mike Fuss: If you need anything, let me know. <br /><br />[00:34:12]<br />Jennifer Gurske: A lot of information. <br /><br />[00:34:14]<br />Mike Fuss: I can make pictures up. I'll make pictures of the fires that I got here. <br /><br />[00:34:20]<br />Sarah Lawton: We can give you some contact information. As part of this project, there's the oral history recordings, but there's also photos that we like to scan and upload. We have all the equipment to take photos in whatever form and digitize them, so— <br /><br />[00:34:35]<br />Mike Fuss: I mean, if there's somebody on Facebook, I can send them right from my Facebook page to—let me know, because I can do that. Because I've got them all right there. I won't even have to make them. <br /><br />[00:34:49]<br />Sarah Lawton: I'll see. <br /><br />[00:34:50]<br />Jennifer Gurske: Great. <br /><br />[00:34:51]<br />Mike Fuss: All right? <br /><br />[00:34:51]<br />Jennifer Gurske: It sounds pretty-- <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Garver Feed Mill story by Mike Fuss and Terrence Tiedt
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Fuss, Mike
Tiedt, Terrence
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Wolff, Jane
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2019-11-02
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Mike Fuss and Terrence (Terry) Tiedt talk about growing up on Madison's east side. Mike shares stories about working as a firefighter with the Madison Fire Department, and the many fires that took place in and around the Garver Feed Mill. Terry and Mike discuss various east side landmarks, including the toboggan run at Olbrich Park, fishing and swimming at Starkweather Creek and Hudson Beach.
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https://omeka.madisonpubliclibrary.org/files/original/b75434808fb27541b1036ba4eff67b2d.mp3
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:30 - FAMILY HISTORY OF HANS STRUCK, BUILDER OF SUGAR BEET PLANT<br /><br />2:06 - FAMILY CONNECTION TO FINDORFF FAMILY, OF FINDORFF CONSTRUCTION<br /><br />2:57 - MEMORIES OF VILAS PARK, ZOO<br /><br />3:40 - MEMORIES OF WATCHING FISH AT LAKE MONONA NEAR FAUERBACH & ELKS CLUB<br /><br />4:35 - BRICK LAYING AT BEGINNING OF GARVER MILL RECONSTRUCTION<br /><br />5:29 - THOMAS SYLKE'S REMINISCENCES OF HIS GRANDMOTHER PLAYING AT GARVER, BRINGING HIM TO GARVER AS A CHILD<br /><br />6:48 - OLD PHOTO OF GARVER WITH TWO GIRLS, POSSIBLY SYLKE'S GRANDMOTHER AND HER SISTER<br /><br />8:10 - MADISON'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE, PAST AND PRESENT<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:01]<br />Catherine Phan: This is Catherine Phan. I'm at the Garver Building on November 2, 2019. And I'm speaking with Thomas and Allison. And they are going to introduce themselves. <br /><br />[00:00:16]<br />Allison Sylke: Hello. My name is Allison Sylke, A-l-l-i-s-o-n S-y-l-k-e. <br /><br />[00:00:22]<br />Thomas Sylke: And I'm Tom Sylke, C. Thomas Sylke, S-y-l-k-e and Thomas is T-h-o-m-a-s. <br /><br />[00:00:31]<br />Catherine Phan: Okay. So what memories or stories do you have to share? <br /><br />[00:00:34]<br />Allison Sylke: Well I'm not sure if this is as much of a memory or story, but for me, my great-great-grandpa at least played a key role or mostly built this facility around 1905. <br /><br />[00:00:50]<br />Thomas Sylke: Right. My mother's family lived on Jenifer Street and my great-grandfather, Hans Struck, built this building and was part of the sugar industry. He was an immigrant from Germany, came over around 1880 in his teens to the United States, and traveled around the Midwest. And based on family discussions and so forth, it's our understanding that they lived in more than twenty different locations building sugar beet processing plants. So, he did that through his teens and into his adult years. They got to the point where he eventually got married and his wife said, "Hans, you get one more move out of me. We can go anywhere you want. You can move as many times as you want, but I'm moving once and you pick the place and we'll go." And they came back to Madison and lived here, also on the east side. And he also founded Struck and Irwin on Williamson Street, which has been there since, I think, around 1905 as well. <br /><br />[00:01:56]<br />And he was part of the sugar beet industry for many, many years. He passed away in 1937 and is buried here in Madison. And in addition, that is my mother's mother's side of her family. My mother's father's side of the family, her father was George Bremer, B-r-e-m-e-r. His sister was Anna Findorff. She was married to the John Findorff who started the Findorff Construction Company. So we have a lot of history with the city of Madison and the east side. And I spent my youth, my parents were school teachers so we had blocks of time to be together and travel. And so we would come to visit my grandmother in the 1960s, for example, and my brother and I basically lived on Jenifer Street and roamed around Willy Street and had just a terrific time. <br /><br />[00:02:57]<br />Catherine Phan: Did you have any favorite spots that you had when you were visiting here or any specific memories about visiting this building or Olbrich Park? <br /><br />[00:03:07]<br />Thomas Sylke: I remember certainly Vilas Park, which has, you want to talk about Vilas Park? <br /><br />[00:03:14]<br />Allison Sylke: A little bit. It's one of my favorite places to go in Madison, besides sometimes going around the capitol and some of the museums around there. And it's so pretty. <br /><br />[00:03:23]<br />Thomas Sylke: Yep. Yep. I grew up going to Vilas Park when we were up here. And after Allison was born--we live in Milwaukee. We have a huge, beautiful zoo in Milwaukee, but we will, when Allison thought it would be fun to go see the animals, we would drive to Madison and go to Vilas. There's a small location where Spaight Street and Jenifer Street come together, not too far from what used to be the Fauerbach Brewery and the Elks Club on the east side there. And it's not big enough to be a park, but it's a little piece of land that has cyclone fencing going around it and it literally, the base of the fence is Lake Monona. And our father and my grandmother and my mom used to walk us down there because fish would congregate and you could stand at the fence and look down and see fish swimming around. And it was, when you were a small child, it's a big deal to see that sort of thing. So we would always ask to go see the fish. <br /><br />[00:04:25]<br />It seemed like a big place and an important spot. You become an adult and you realize it's just some little piece of land next to the lake. But terrific. Yes. <br /><br />[00:04:34]<br />Allison Sylke: [Whispers] Brick laying. <br /><br />[00:04:37]<br />Thomas Sylke: The? <br /><br />[00:04:37]<br />Allison Sylke: Brick laying. Oh well, also, about I think two and a half years ago was it? <br /><br />[00:04:46]<br />Thomas Sylke: About. <br /><br />[00:04:47]<br />Allison Sylke: Yeah, about. My dad and I and my mom came here for the brick laying. And my dad spoke for a little bit and I went up on stage with him or up to the podium for just a minute. And since I am the great-great granddaughter of Hans Struck, then they let me lay the first brick. And that was absolutely amazing. It's just changed so much from then to now and just how much they've done. Because especially in one of the back rooms at the time, there was a lot of graffiti and a lot of interesting comments they wrote. It seemed there were a lot of messages back and forth and it was just very interesting. But it just looks so different now. Yeah, it's amazing. <br /><br />[00:05:29]<br />Thomas Sylke: We were very excited because my mom passed away in 2011 and about a year or two before her death, the [Wisconsin] State Journal called her in Milwaukee and said, "We understand you have some relationship to the Garver Feed Mill Building." And she said, "Well, it was my grandfather's workplace. You know, he built the building and he worked there." And he, in the 20s and 30s, would bring her out here on the weekends when he was working. And his office was in the small office building that Olbrich is now using. And she would come out and play out here. And in the 60s she would drive us out. My brother and I are about the same age. And she would drive us out here and say, you know, this is a building that her grandfather built and where he worked. And she got the call from the [Wisconsin] State Journal and they said, you know, "We understand the City of Madison may not demolish it. They may actually try to do something to save the building." And so she was very excited about the possibility of saving that piece of our family's history. <br /><br />[00:06:31]<br />And despite her passing, I stayed in touch with the City of Madison and with the [Wisconsin] State Journal. And it's really been exciting to see what's happened. And this whole area is obviously just a tremendous rebirth of the east side. <br /><br />[00:06:48]<br />Allison Sylke: Yeah. And also do you remember the picture? <br /><br />[00:06:51]<br />Thomas Sylke: Oh, of the two girls? <br /><br />[00:06:52]<br />Allison Sylke: Yeah. <br /><br />[00:06:53]<br />Thomas Sylke: Yeah, there's a photograph associated with the Garver Feed Mill that's a picture from when it was the Sugar Castle, when it still had its gothic structure. And there are two girls standing out in front at the front road. And we aren't certain, but there's a pretty good chance that the girl on the left in the black is my grandmother and the girl on the right is her sister, Ella. And my grandmother, Minnie Struck Bremer, was very modest and you could see the girl there wearing a plain black cloth coat. And the girl on the right, if it was her sister Ella, through her entire life until the day she died, was called the Duchess by people in the family and people who knew her. And you could tell that the girl on the right has a little bit fancier coat and hat and has kind of a different expression on her face. I may just be projecting on that, but if it is them, there's a photograph in the slideshow that they showed here that I had of my grandmother and her sister near the ends of their lives in the late 60s. <br /><br />[00:08:00]<br />And they're standing in the same relative positions as the girls in the photo. It's just neat to think about it. The industrial heritage that Madison has, has been either carried forward by new businesses, new industry that's come in, new technologies, or there have been efforts, like the Garver Feed Mill, to preserve it in some way. And this building now houses not just the space, but it helps preserve the memories and the experiences of all the people who built the building, who worked here, who lived in the area, and were part of the building's history, as opposed to tearing it down and putting up something different. <br /><br />[00:08:47]<br />Allison Sylke: It's really nice to see that this building isn't now just part of the past or something kind of long gone, you'd only see in a photo album. But now it's kind of carried forward and it'll probably be part of the future for a long time. <br /><br />[00:08:59]<br />Thomas Sylke: Right. <br /><br />[00:08:59]<br />Catherine Phan: So Allison, I just have one question for you. When you laid that first brick down, did it make you feel or how meaningful was for you to continue that line of your great-great-grandfather? <br /><br />[00:09:17]<br />Allison Sylke: To me it was very meaningful and I felt this very proud sense. And I feel very grateful that they didn't demolish the building. It just felt amazing that even though everything that my great-great grandpa did, that I was still able to be just a small part of that. I'm just very grateful that they kept this and decided to do what they did with it. <br /><br />[00:09:36]<br />Catherine Phan: Thank you. Thanks so much to both of you for your stories. <br /><br />[00:09:38]<br />Thomas Sylke: Thank you, Catherine.<br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Garver Feed Mill story by Allison Sylke and C. Thomas Sylke
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Father and daughter Thomas and Allison Sylke speak about their family's relationship to Garver Feed Mill. Their great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, Hans Struck, built the original structure when it was used as a sugar beet factory in the early twentieth century. Allison participated in the recent bricklaying to commemorate the mill's history.
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:29 – HOW GEMPELER CAME TO LIVE AT GARVER MILL, EARLY DAYS THERE<br /><br />3:45 - BATS IN THE CEILING<br /><br />4:35 - NIGHT WATCHMAN DUTIES, CHASING MISCHIEVOUS KIDS<br /><br />6:50 - LIVING AND ENTERTAINING AT GARVER, HALLOWEEN, 4TH OF JULY PARTIES<br /><br />8:13 - REACTIONS TO GARVER'S TRANSITIONS, RENOVATION<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:01]<br />Eric Schafer: Okay. This is Eric Schafer. I'm at the Garver Building on November 2, 2019. I'm speaking with Jim Gempeler. Could you please spell your last name for us [inaudible]? <br /><br />[00:00:16]<br />Jim Gempeler: Certainly. Jim Gempeler, G-e-m-p-e-l-e-r.<br />[00:00:21]<br />Eric Schafer: All right. So, do you have a story you want to tell about Garver? <br /><br />[00:00:29]<br />Jim Gempeler: Oh there are so many. Well, I'm an architect and I lived here in the Garver Feed Building for about six and a half years. That was back from I want to say '85 to '91, if memory serves. Specializing in residential architecture, I like to live in places that really have an effect on how you look and how you feel about things. And back in those days, being a starving architect, I just started my practice in '84, '83 actually, and at that time I was living in Dr. Jackson's estate south of the Beltline. It was a Frank Lloyd Wright house that Marshall Irwin built. And they had rented that out to residents, but there was no residents who wanted to live there, so I stumbled upon that and that's where I started a business out of. <br /><br />[00:01:34]<br />That was moved to Beaver Dam, which is a tragic end to that story. So after living there, I certainly couldn't stand living in a "normal" house. And then knowing this building and appreciating it for years and playing softball. There's an old ice skating rink just next door that was a softball field in the summer months. I'd look at that and go, "God, that'd be awesome to live there. Wonder if that can happen?" So as an architect, I looked at the zoning and could see it was a manufacturing zone. And as such, a night watchman could live there. And that was the only person that could live in a manufacturing zone. So, I pounded on the office of Garver Feed and talked to Wayne Wendorf. Asked him if he wouldn't mind me living there and being an unofficial night watchman. <br /><br />[00:02:37]<br />Furrowed brow [laughs], "Why would you want to live here?" kind of thing. And I said, "Well, I know which end of the hammer to hold. If you've got some space, I'd love to, you know, build a loft space." And he says, "Sure." So he showed me around. And I ended up in the second story on the east end of the building. Had its own little rickety old staircase that went up there. So off we went and did that. Then my fiancée at the time, we lived there before we even got a bath and shower and kitchen in there. We had to shower down in the, before the workers got here, there's a little shower for the workmen down in the first floor. We'd sneak down there early in the morning. So it was rather challenging for a while. And then making the improvements up there. It was just a big space, tall ceiling, built partial height walls. <br /><br />[00:03:42]<br />I wanted to take down the, there's a suspended ceiling up there that's about ten feet, so there's about four feet above that. And I took one panel down and looked and could see all sorts of daylight. And knowing what can get in there, I decided, no I'm not going to take that ceiling down. We went outside, you can see in the evening, just streams of bats going out of the building, just bats. So I left that [the ceiling] in place. There'd be an occasional bat come down, which had lots of silly happenings with bats in the middle of the night. So that was always exciting when they would visit. As far as the night watchman unofficial post I had, it wasn't nearly the...what security issues that you'd think. <br /><br />[00:04:50]<br />I mean, it was a very safe place to live really, because nobody would think of breaking into my loft looking for, well number one they didn't know it was inhabited or what was there. But if you're wanting to steal expensive TVs or something of worth, you're not going to be looking at the Garver Feed Building, right? So about the only people that I would run into would be kids breaking in. Several of those were where they'd tip the pop machine over and steal change and [I'd] come down and chase them away. One time, it was a Saturday morning, I'd played golf and I was coming back. And looking right at the building just coming over the railroad tracks looking at the big arch, the main entrance there. And as I'm looking at it, driving over the railroad tracks, wham, this tremendous crash and two tines of the forklift exploded right through the door. And the door just, holy cow, somebody is in there and I doubt that it's anybody, from Garver because they just exploded through the door. <br /><br />[00:05:57]<br />So I parked the car and yelled up for Linda to call the cops. And she did. And I ran around the outside of the building in the back and there were kids pouring out like rats. And I grabbed a couple by the scruffs of their neck and held them there, which was kind of silly what could have happened. But they're just kids, 12, 13, something like that. And the cops came shortly thereafter, but I don't think anything happened to them. They're just kids doing what kids do at that age. So that was about the only unofficial night watchman duties that came involved in the whole thing. That was about the extent of that, yeah. But the other things that we'd do, there was lots of wings of the building off this main space that were unused by the feed mill at the time because they had big sugar beet equipment in there yet. <br /><br />[00:07:10]<br />So there was literally a couple inches of fine dust covering all these things. I mean, it looked like some horror movie set. And for Halloween parties and stuff, we'd go down through those. You'd think that Bela Lugosi would be spreading his cape shortly. So that was a great place for Halloween parties. The grain elevators were still in place, so Fourth of July we'd get the brainy idea that we'd crawl up to the top of the grain elevator to see how many firework shows we could see from around the area, which, it's a spectacular view up there. It's like being in a helicopter. So it was quite a time, quite a period. Fantastic area—the gardens, the lake. It was just a really, really fun place to live. <br /><br />[00:08:13]<br />Yeah, great chapter in my life. And so glad to see this building saved because, you know, being an architect, this place was just, I thought, past it. It looked like it was from a World War II movie set of a bombed out building. And there'd be some interest and I would suggest some things to do with it, but the city really wasn't interested back in those days. So I moved on and was busy working trying to support myself. When Baum got involved and Bryant and the job they did and all the design team and the construction on this, I take my hat off. I mean, it's just fantastic. A lot of memories flood back to be able to walk through this place and see it again, so it's a very cool project and my hat is tipped for everybody involved who pulled it off from everybody at the city and the neighborhood that got behind it and made it happen. <br /><br />[00:09:18]<br />So, very cool. <br /><br />[00:09:20]<br />Eric Schafer: Thank you so much. That's a remarkable story. <br /><br />[00:09:25]<br />Jim Gempeler: You're most welcome. There's so many, so many I could tell. No, maybe I shouldn't (laughs). But it was great to see Jim again, the owners. Sadly Wayne's passed. And Don, who was a worker at the time. Yeah, it's cool to see these people again. It's a great slice of history for Madison. It really is and for the state as well. I mean, sugar beet factory, there's not too many that are in the U.S. I don't know of any more that survived. Could be, but this is a very cool project to have here in Madison. <br /><br />[00:10:05]<br />Eric Schafer: Yeah. And not to have it end up torn down. <br /><br />[00:10:09]<br />Jim Gempeler: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's fantastic. I'm sure it'll thrive and hopefully more things get built around here to increase the critical mass that's now been achieved and it's all good. So, yeah. <br /><br />[00:10:21]<br />Eric Schafer: Okay. Well, thank you so much. <br /><br />[00:10:23]<br />Jim Gempeler: Oh you bet. I appreciate it. <br /><br />[00:10:24]<br />Eric Schafer: I'm going to turn off the recorder here. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Garver Feed Mill story by Jim Gempeler
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Agriculture
Industrial buildings
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Schafer, Eric
Wolff, Jane
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2019-11-02
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Jim Gempeler, a residential architect, worked as the unofficial night watchman for the Garver Feed Mill and built a living space for himself into the upper loft of the building. Jim recalls memories of the bats that inhabited the building, chasing the occasional youth visitors out of the building at night, and hosting parties.
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INDEX:<br /><br />0:32 – DARBO/WORTHINGTON MEMORIES, WALKING TO GARVER TO BUY RABBIT FOOD<br /><br />2:35 – GROWTH OF NEIGHBORHOOD, BUS ROUTES, HAWTHORNE SCHOOL<br /><br />3:27 - PLAYING IN STARKWEATHER CREEK, POLLUTION<br /><br />5:00 - PLAYING IN VOIT FIELDS, VOIT POND<br /><br />5:56 - VISITING GARVER FEED MILL, SMELLS<br /><br />8:14 - SWIMMING AT HUDSON BEACH<br /><br />9:11 - OLBRICH PARK TOBOGGAN SLIDE<br /><br />[START OF RECORDING]<br /><br />[00:00:00]<br />Eric Schafer: Hi. So this is Eric Schafer. I'm at the Garver building on November 2, 2019. And I'm speaking with Ken -- <br /><br />[00:00:09]<br />Ken Baun: Baun. <br /><br />[00:00:10]<br />Eric Schafer: --Baun. Could I have you spell your last name, please? <br /><br />[00:00:17]<br />Ken Baun: B-A-U-N. <br /><br />[00:00:17]<br />Eric Schafer: All right. So Ken will be sharing a memory--or story about the Garver building. And--why don't you go ahead? <br /><br />[00:00:32]<br />Ken Baun: I grew up in Madison not far from here. My parents built the first house on the block on Gannon Avenue--530 Gannon Avenue, which is down near the intersection of Fair Oaks and Highway 30. It was the first house on the block, and there was nothing beyond Highway 30 at that point. And there wasn't--certainly wasn't an overpass. And over the years, that became a very dangerous intersection. Anyway, when I was a little kid, probably 8 or 10 years old, so late '50s--I was born in 1950, late '50s. We had a rabbit. And I used to walk from there down to here with a bucket and get rabbit food from them. So this great big industrial place would sell me a bucket of rabbit food, you know? Get a little shovel out and fill this. And it couldn't have been very much or very big because I'd have to walk it home, which is about a mile from here. <br /><br />[00:01:35]<br />But I remember, you know, people were always -- I was this little kid with my quarter or whatever it was. They were always happy, willing to, you know, sell a little bit of something. So it was a great big industrial plant. So that's my little anecdote about the Garver building. <br /><br />[00:01:56]<br />Eric Schafer: Did it look substantially different than it does now? <br /><br />[00:01:58]<br />Ken Baun: Certainly than it does now. Yeah, so over the years it certainly fell into [inaudible] use. But it was used heavily at that point. So I was glad to see that there was--there's a few remnants from its era as a feed mill. And I don't know what all he made food for, but--and I don't--for all I know, they might've been giving us chicken food. But it worked, and it was a prominent part of the East Side here. <br /><br />[00:02:33]<br />Eric Schafer: Did you walk down--did you say you walked down Fair Oaks Street? <br /><br />[00:02:35]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah. Mm-hmm. The bus at that time, growing up, would come down here. And basically, Milwaukee Street was as far as it went. And it stayed that way for all of my youth. I think it wasn't until after I left high school that the bus line ever got extended. But it was in the--you know, it must've been the early '60s that the population over here finally grew enough to build Hawthorne School. And then in the '80s or something, they closed Hawthorne because of the baby boom's population had completely dropped off--only to open it up again, you know, a decade or two later. The town and this area certainly has changed a lot over the seventy years I've been around. <br /><br />[00:03:27]<br />Eric Schafer: And was Starkweather Creek basically where it is now? Everything was [inaudible]? <br /><br />[00:03:31]<br />Ken Baun: Oh yeah, it was always funky. Starkweather was always a--you know, a nasty polluted stream. So we spent a lot of time in Starkweather, literally. It used to be a salvage yard where--you know, where Thurber Park is down by the railroad tracks that cross there. That's where Madison ends and Blooming Grove continues beyond the--and right by the tracks there, there was this salvage yard. And we would go down there and salvage the makings for rafts. And we spent--you know, and every time we fell in the stream, the creek would just get reeking. You know, it was pretty foul back then too. But there was--there were some larger industries out here, and they certainly polluted it. And there was a lot of dead fish around. Also, the stream was never [inaudible]. <br /><br />[00:04:31]<br />And of course, you had French Battery up on this branch of [inaudible] Starkweather that goes up under East Washington and all the way out to the airport. And you know, French Battery Company. So that was heavily polluted as well. So it wasn't much of a stream. But that didn't deter, you know, some young kids from getting in it. And the--what is it? The place where--the cement folks. [inaudible] I'm blanking on their names. Where the carnival was every summer. You know where they--God, why am I--the big empty field, Voit. Voit. Voit Pond, which is again becoming an issue in the community. But Voit was a very active extraction. They basically dug sand and gravel. <br /><br />[00:05:33]<br />And when I was really little, there wasn't a Voit Pond there, but they dug that out. And I think they hit a groundwater table and it filled up very quickly. I spent a lot of time getting chased out of Voit Fields and later Voit Pond. Growing up on the East Side. <br /><br />[00:05:56]<br />Eric Schafer: So when you came over here, I mean, was like there a--do feed mills have a smell or is it-- <br /><br />[00:06:03]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah--yes, they did. But you know, I can't describe it. And it wasn't--it wasn't really prominent and it wasn't rank. But you know, it smelled of processing. And actually, you know, I think of like some of the canning factories that go back past. You know, and you ride through rural Wisconsin, and you occasionally come upon a canning factory. And it was not unlike that, you know? <br /><br />[00:06:36]<br />Eric Schafer: Was it really busy? Were there a lot of people? <br /><br />[00:06:38]<br />Ken Baun: No, it was--I don't know. Not the part that I saw, anyway. We would go into a door down over on that corner. And that's where they--you know, people could drive up and buy directly from the dock. And so, I never got very far into the building. Not until I came in here this last year. <br /><br />[00:07:06]<br />Eric Schafer: Well, thank you so much. <br /><br />[00:07:09]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah. Thanks for offering to do this. <br /><br />[00:07:19]<br />Eric Schafer: Sure. Let me make sure I've got--I think that's all we need to do. Do you have any questions for me or-- <br /><br />[00:07:28]<br />Ken Baun: What's going on, do you know, with the little houses that they've talked about out here? <br /><br />[00:07:32]<br />Eric Schafer: I don't know for sure. I've actually only--the information I have about the building is--mostly is what's available publicly on the project. There's some information they gave us. Some background for the--for this project, too, just about the building. We talked about how it was a feed mill. It was built--the history project thesis, a student thesis. <br /><br />[00:08:07]<br />Ken Baun: Mm-hmm. <br /><br />[00:08:07]<br />Eric Schafer: A 2014 project thesis. <br /><br />[00:08:10]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah. Well, I'm sure as a sugar beet mill and as a beet mill, I'm sure they dumped a lot of, you know, stuff into the creek here. <br /><br />[00:08:13]<br />Eric Schafer: Sure. <br /><br />[00:08:14]<br />Ken Baun: And you know, we had folks reminisce about how much more polluted the lake has become. And you know, I don't think so, actually. I remember, you know, there was always algae blooms here. And that creek was always nasty. So you know, it always depended on which way the wind was blowing where you were going to go swimming. <br /><br />[00:08:34]<br />Eric Schafer: Right. <br /><br />[00:08:34]<br />Ken Baun: And we swam a lot over here at--it was Hudson Beach at the time. I don't know if you know where that little spot is. There was Olbrich Beach here, and that was a very--that was a thriving beach. And up off of where Hudson Avenue hits the lake down by the Indian mounds, there isn't a beach access. There isn't a beach there now, but that was also a thriving beach in its day. So I took swimming lessons. They had--you know, there'd be two lifeguards on duty all the time. And then, we were just reminiscing about the toboggan slide on the top of Olbrich Hill. Do you know of that? <br /><br />[00:09:23]<br />Eric Schafer: I think so. The--I think people still sled there now, right? <br /><br />[00:09:27]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah. Yeah, people sled there, but they had a toboggan slide. <br /><br />[00:09:29]<br />Eric Schafer: Oh. <br /><br />[00:09:30]<br />Ken Baun: That was phenomenal. And I just saw pictures of it. Actually, someone just sent me a picture of it yesterday. [Recorder feedback] All through--well, apparently, it goes back quite a ways. Oh I think I have it on my computer at home, and I think I--well, it should be in there. It was a super structure that they would build. So the hill was pretty high. But then they'd build another 20 feet, it seemed, or higher structure that had a shoot--an ice shoot. So it would meet at the bottom of the hill. So it'd be a whole lot steeper than the current hill. And you know, this was a formed shoot. So they must've had a form where they would make these things so, you know, the toboggan wouldn't fall off this shoot. And it was just pure ice. And they'd set it up every winter. <br /><br />[00:10:30]<br />And there was a line going up that--of people getting up on top of it. Here's a couple of pictures of it. <br /><br />[00:10:44]<br />Eric Schafer: Oh wow. <br /><br />[00:10:45]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah. And I think it cost ten cents if you had your own toboggan or a quarter if you had to rent one from them for the day. So the shoot would come down there, and then it would continue out across that field. And they would build a temporary bridge across Starkweather Creek every winter. And it had to be not only big enough for the stream--you know, for the toboggan shoot to go across, but there was also a walkway for people to walk back. So this thing--you would go so fast down this thing that you'd go all the way across that field. And that's 300 feet, at least--400 feet? All the way across, continue across the river, and maybe another 100 feet on the other side. And they would build--they would put it up every year and take it down every--you know, every spring. The city invested in that every time. And I think it ended. I don't know if it was because of the investment or because of liability. <br /><br />[00:11:45]<br />Because a lot of people got hurt on it. Because the little kids wouldn't know enough to get off the track before the next toboggan came down. And you know, a little toboggan with little kids on it didn't have much mass or momentum, and it wouldn't go nearly as far. And then you get a toboggan full of big people and it'd go a lot faster and further. And there were too many occasions when the little kids didn't get out of the way. So maybe that was the end of the toboggan slide. But it was pretty fascinating going--looking back on it and looking back on the changes in the city and the community and the neighborhood. Yeah. Thanks for giving me the opportunity. <br /><br />[00:12:23]<br />Eric Schafer: Sure. Thanks for coming in. This was fantastic. Thank you so much. <br /><br />[00:12:27]<br />Ken Baun: Yeah, so are you going to be doing this all afternoon or all day? Or a chunk of it, anyway? <br /><br />[00:12:31]<br />Eric Schafer: I'm here--I'm going to turn this off. <br /><br />[END OF RECORDING]
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Garver Feed Mill story by Ken Baun
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Ken Baun shares childhood memories about visiting the Garver Feed Mill to purchase animal feed. Ken relates memories about the east side Madison neighborhood where he grew up, about exploring the area around Voit farm and pond, and about the toboggan run at Olbrich Park.
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION CERTIFICATION APPLICATION - Garver Feed Mill
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Copyright 2014, MacRostie Historic Advisors and Baum Revision. All rights reserved. For more information, contact Madison Public Library.
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Application submitted to the National Park Service to certify the building that housed Garver Feed Mill and Supply Company added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory.
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