Old sporting goods in Milwaukee

Ktown. If you were 11 or 12 yo I doubt if they would have sold it to you.    I bought a Beretta Silver Snipe 12 ga over/under from Tysons when I was 18 but my Ma had to sign.    lol

Glimmer  been awhile but I remember the Arlens store...not the tavern   ...anyhow back to Milw. stores...was working on some fishin gear this aft and found a Mitchell 300 that I got cleaning out my uncles stuff. Couldnt figure where Chappies was...but found some info back a page. My uncle was a southsider so that made sense. ....was amazed at price tag.. and what we paid for reels back in the 60's. 

Yup you Kenosha men can't have all the fun..
Does anyone remember Arlens? was a variety store on Appleton Avenue just down from Jim Mitchells great bar on other side of street. (Native Milwaukeeans always reference locations by bars) Did they have Firearms? trying to place where me Pop & I got our first pump guns.
Mine a Savage 12 and the obsequious Mossberg 500 for Pa.
Otherwise, was thinking that Mossberg might have actually come from Target! I'm pretty sure,way before they went all woke & crazy they had Firearms.
Thoughts?

Here's a pic of Tyson's back in the day. The workroom was through the door at the end of the gun counter. I still have the .22 Remington pump rifle I got from Tyson's when I was eleven or twelve years old. I don't remember if I bought it, or if my dad bought it for me.

I also remember Eagle's, bought a pellet gun from them.

Sorry to OP! Half of my family could probably go on for days about old Milwaukee establishments, but they're very anti internet.

Leave it to Kenoshans to hijack a thread. Lol Who remembers Eagle Trading on Sheridan? Picked up an SKS, win 30-30, and savage lever 308 there. Couple new firing pins and still shooting. I'm fairly certain nothing over ​$200 was spent. Good ol' days

When EVINRUDE first came out with their new 25 HP motor i bought one from TYSONS.  It cost 325 or 350$.!!   I remember having a hard time scraping up that large amount of money.  lol.   

Dad bought our deer rifles and shotguns from Tysons in Kenosha, we knew them and they lived in our area of Pleasant Prairie. As was stated they were the only sporting goods store in Kenosha
Gave my 30.06 to my oldest grandson last year but I still own the 2 shotguns

Anyone buy swiss fix reels at Tysons?  How about recurve bows and arrows at Brennans Archery?

Ktown I didn’t phrase that correctly! I meant to say that before TYSONS was THE place for sporting goods ISSETS was where people shopped for sporting goods.     I believe TYSON went into business a couple of years after ISSETS closed up.  They were in two different parts of the city .

I didn't realize Tyson's was originally Issets. Course, Carpio predates Columbus so he was probably there when they laid the cornerstone.
I'm surprised they were using paper currency back then, thought it would have been gold nuggets.   

I went back and thought about it and I was around 10 so that would make it around 1951 .         Edit .  The average hourly manufacturing wage at that time was about 1.75$ hr.   And I was actually paling around with my friend who was on the route, not me.   I saw the money rolled up and picked it up and my friend wanted me to share it with him but you can guess what I told him     

Carpio, that story reminded me of watching the Leave It To Beaver show.    

That’s funny Carpio!
Parents sure knew how to ruin a good thing.
Back in the day it was probably more money than my dad would carry around (lol)

It was ISSETS SPORTING GOODS before TYSONs.   They were across the street from TROLLEY DOGS.   I once found 60 some$ lying on the sidewalk while on my paper route and blew it all on lures even though I didn’t own a rod & reel   When TED ISSET rang me up he asked my name and later called my dad and asked him where I got 60$.  Dad made me return the lures & reported the money to the police.    When nobody claimed it I got it back but my folks turned it into a weekly allowance   AND NO LURES!   lol.