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Who is the East Side History Club?
The East Side History Club is a project of the Goodman Community Center. The club gathers memories from past and present East Side residents, for sharing through publications and programs.
In the summer of 2006, Goodman Atwood Community Center director Becky Steinhoff encouraged local volunteers and history buffs to preserve our neighborhood history. By Fall 2006 Madison’s East Side History Club was formed.
We meet on the 3rd Saturday of most months, 2-4pm, at the Goodman Community Center. Club organizers provide programs and refreshments. Participants bring their photographs, stories, and memorabilia to share. Newcomers and old-timers find common ground as we explore what we know–or wish to find out–about our community.
In 2008 we produced our first publication, An East Side Album, for the Goodman Center’s grand opening in the old Kupfer Iron Works building. Contributions from 109 East Siders past and present fill over 160 pages with photos, stories, and recipes. Proceeds from sales of the book support future projects of the club. The book is available at the Goodman Center and some local gift shops and book stores.
Please visit the album’s website at www.eastsidehistorymadison.org where you may post a correction, or submit new material to the East Side History Club’s archive.
Thank you, East Siders, for your interest in our neighborhood!
Sarah White, Pat Martin, and Ann Waidelich, club organizers
monica skeat said
We discovered that the house we recently purchased is listed with the Wisconsin HIstorical Society as a house of interest. The society had little information about the house and we were hoping that the East Side History Club might shed of light on it or point us in the right direction . It’s located at 1945 E. Washington Ave. and is cataloged by the Wis. Hist. Soc. as the Henry Williamson House.
Thanks for your help.
Monica Skeat
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John Thomsen said
I’m looking for old photos of the original Schoeps Ice Cream factory on the corner of Ohio and La Follette, also photos of the original grocery store owned by E J Schoephoester.
Ann Waidelich said
John
There is a photo in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s web site for Images that shows a Schoep’s truck in front of the store/factory on Ohio Ave. taken in 1934. The image ID number is 16599. If you give me your address and/or email I can send you a photocopy of the image. You can purchase a real photo copy of the image, also. I can tell you how. They have another photo of the Schoep’s booth at the East Side Business Men’s Assoc. Festival in 1930 ID number is 20093. There is also a photo of Henry Schoephoester of Prairie du Sac taken in 1949. Is he a relative? Otherwise the East Side History Club does not have any pictures of the Schoep’s Ice Cream factory or the original grocery store.
Ann Waidelich, 2150 Lakeland Ave., Madison 249-7920 annwaid@sbcglobal.net
Virgina Farwell Zwickey said
We would like to invite all members and friends of the East Side History Club to attend the 50th Anniversary of the Olbrich Garden Club that was formed in1962 as the Garden Center Club to promote and raise funds for a public building at the
Olbrich Botanical Gardens. I find it fascinating as I read through historical records to recognize the journey and the realization of a dream. Virginia Farwell Zwickey RSVP 231.1632