January 10, 2007
Milwaukee sidewalk imprints ::
photos — tagged flickr, milwaukee, photos and sidewalks
12:40 pm
2006
Originally uploaded by M.Theory.
A guy from Milwaukee has a Flickr set of all the different imprints on Milwaukee sidewalks. Whenever the city would install new sidwalks, they would place these imprints intermittenly. I’m not sure what the point of the imprints were, other than to serve a reminder of when the construction happened, something like stuffing current newspapers into the wall during home renovation projects.
In any event, growing up in Milwaukee, I remember seeing those imprints on the sidewalks in my neighborhood, and I remember them changing throughout the years. I especially recall them from the time we got all new sidewalks on our street. It’s nice to see how the designs evolve over the years.
