Carla G wrote:DanB wrote:.....you remember what Muhammad Ali Blvd used to be called.
Chestnut Street?
Walnut.
Carla G wrote:DanB wrote:.....you remember what Muhammad Ali Blvd used to be called.
Chestnut Street?
Carla G wrote:DanB wrote:.....you remember what Muhammad Ali Blvd used to be called.
Chestnut Street?
BevP wrote:I don't remember this as its name but my Mom used to refer to Liberty St as Fehr I think as in Fehr's brewery.
Lonnie Turner wrote:BevP wrote:I don't remember this as its name but my Mom used to refer to Liberty St as Fehr I think as in Fehr's brewery.
My wife told me Liberty Street used to be called Green Street. About a century ago it was the epicenter of a big time red light district. Nothing like it has existed locally in living memory. She chose it as the subject of a college research project since she was always interested in the history of Storyville in New Orleans and she says this was the closest analog in the area. I should try to talk her into doing walking or biking tours like Tom Owen. To hear her tell it, Green Street would keep a modern 24x7 news cycle nicely watered and fed.
Your are REALLY Louisville if you write your college project on THAT!
BevP wrote:Obviously Iam wrong on that one...maybe your wife could offer some insight into what street the brewery was on ...Thanks
David R. Pierce wrote:BevP wrote:Obviously Iam wrong on that one...maybe your wife could offer some insight into what street the brewery was on ...Thanks
Frank Fehr Brewing Co.
Address: Frank Fehr Brewing Company, 412 South Jackson Street, Louisville, Kentucky
BevP wrote:Thanks there was a Fehr st ..I googled it and found an obit or census that listed an address from some one that lived there..anyway thanks again....I checked with my sisters they thought like I did , but Mom has been gone since 87 so it would take some doing to ask her.
David R. Pierce wrote:BevP wrote:Obviously Iam wrong on that one...maybe your wife could offer some insight into what street the brewery was on ...Thanks
Frank Fehr Brewing Co.
Address: Frank Fehr Brewing Company, 412 South Jackson Street, Louisville, Kentucky
Lonnie Turner wrote:Your mother was right, but it's complicated.
Lonnie Turner wrote:David R. Pierce wrote:BevP wrote:Obviously Iam wrong on that one...maybe your wife could offer some insight into what street the brewery was on ...Thanks
Frank Fehr Brewing Co.
Address: Frank Fehr Brewing Company, 412 South Jackson Street, Louisville, Kentucky
Bev,
Your mother was right, but it's complicated. The address from David provides the necessary clue. I checked some old city maps from 1873, 1917 & 1932. Sometime between 1917 & 1932 the street changed names from Green to Liberty. Green / Liberty took a dog leg to the south at Preston and then continued east to Baxter as the relocated (or straightened) street does today. On the 1873 & 1917 maps it retains the name Green Street when it ends on Baxter. Fehr's appears to have taken up the block between Preston and Jackson at the point where Green / Liberty took the dog leg. The highest detail of the three maps is the 1932 one and the east edge stops just past Preston. On the 1932 map the resumption of the street heading east after the dog leg south on Preston is called Fehr Avenue! Since the map does not show any points farther east I can't tell if it was called Fehr all the way to Baxter or if just a portion of it was. In any case, some section of that street was definitely called Fehr Avenue at one time.
Ken, I think that's "...with a STEIN on the table..." Anyone have a link to an old recording of it?Ken Wilson wrote:You are so Louisville if... you can sing the Fehr's beer jingle with me:
Oh, it's always fair weather
When good fellows get together!
With Fehr's on the table
And a good song ringing clear!
Willie Myers wrote:Anyone have a link to an old recording of it?
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