tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583877.post7574406094495339719..comments2024-03-20T05:31:42.781-04:00Comments on Secondat: SussdorfsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583877.post-16164121659201747322011-10-17T07:20:10.936-04:002011-10-17T07:20:10.936-04:00Thanks, Mike,
You very surely know better than I....Thanks, Mike,<br /><br />You very surely know better than I. I couldn't find a photo looking down Skillman from Roosevelt and have not stood there and seen the view for myself. My grandmother and her brother, my great-uncle, sold part of the property to developers and, in the mid-1930s, gave the rest to the city for use as a park. I think the Sussdorf family began selling off parts of their property earlier and, I think, kept selling pieces of it up to about the beginning of. Queess must have been a surprising mix of rural, suburban, and urban.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08853204880593806973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583877.post-88829814066770559342011-10-16T21:14:54.290-04:002011-10-16T21:14:54.290-04:00I had a very quick recognition of the view in the ...I had a very quick recognition of the view in the Rainy Day print - standing in front of PS 11 and heading west on Skillman. My parents moved to Sunnyside when the land that is now Windmuller Park was farmland and told me there was quite a bit of soil removed during WW II. In the early 1950s when I would walk from PS11 home to Phipps there was a big vacant lot next to Windmuller parkMike Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10048738658725284172noreply@blogger.com