My cousin Wayne sent me a fascinating PDF document recently. It’s a complete Kenosha Phone Book from 1953! April, 1953 to be precise. Wow, what a cool snapshot from the past! This is 10 years before I was born. It includes handwritten notes on some pages as well – it’s the real deal. All of the phone numbers are 4 or 5 digits too, none of that newfangled 10-digit nonsense of the future.

I looked up Trottier and found my dad and his brother Sylvester, but my grandfather, George Trottier, wasn’t in it. Sandy’s father George Wegmann Jr., and his father George Wegmann Sr. are both in there.

There’s 75 “white pages”, as we called them back in the day, and 181 “yellow pages”. The Yellow Pages were advertising for businesses. And it’s ironic in this case, since the book is so old…they’re all yellow pages! But take look, it’s worth it if you like to look back at the way things were.

I’ll probably post a few screenshots from interesting tidbits about Kenosha as I find them when I dig into this book a bit deeper. Stay tuned.