Phone service came to MB about 1936, By 37 there are just 16 Phones and many of them like the Azzatto's, Schulte's, Schait's and Vandenburgs were also their business phone. In a world today where it seems 90% of folks now walk around or worse drive with a phone stuck in their ear,this list is hard to believe.

 

There Was No Map In The First Directory

if there was this is what it would of looked like

 

it would perhaps show too clearly that there were two distinct towns and that would of possibly discouraged or certainly confused potential future property owners. Home Guardian had been giving away 3 Room Bungalows with a 5 lot purchase (about $450.00 ) during the depression as an incentive to buy, they did not need anything else to make folks think twice.

Although Birch Rd (Neighborhood Road) and Aspen Road crossed the Knapp Estate they were fenced off at Locust on the west side & Alder on the east, forcing people to have to drive north before they could go across town east or west.

 

BUT SPEAKING OF CONFUSION

THE WRITTEN DIRECTIONS OF HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND TOWN
WOULD MAKE ANY FUTURE FOREIGN TECHWRITER OF A VCR MANUAL BEAM!

 

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