Madison Area Builders Association Parade of Homes: The Beginning and Now

First Parade was a simple affair.  (Capital Times, June 6, 1997)

And it took place here, in 1952, on DeVolls Parkway in the Dunn's Marsh neighborhood on what was then the far southwest side of Madison, just south of the Beltline between present-day Seminole Highway and Verona Road.

There probably wouldn't have been any trees in the frame 63 years ago.  As one of the original residents, Harold Colter, described it in a magazine interview:

This is a new development and we won't get much protection from the elements for a long time.  The wind will howl plenty in the winter, and the sun will probably give us a beating in the summer time.

Red arrow.  DeVolls Parkway, site of the 1st official Parade of Homes
Orange arrow:  Midvale Boulevard, 2 separate sections
Yellow arrow.  Beltline. 
Green arrow.   Monroe Street.

Portion of Madison street map 1951   

        

Mr. Cotter and his family moved into this home at 4322 DeVolls Parkway.

As described in the 1997 Capital Times article:

• 2 bedrooms
• 1 bathroom
• den
• living room with fireplace
• kitchen
• attached one-car garage
• 'spacious' basement (unfinished)
• 'huge' back yard

The view from across the parkway.  Looks like a great location for throwing a frisbee or playing bocce ball.

By 1997, the Parade of Home had gone upscale.

Of course, being simpler times, those first Parade homes were nowhere near the high-tech, luxury-appointed castles that dominate today's Parade.  (Capital Times)

And still dominate today, to be sure.

The Community of Bishops Bay, Middleton.  (Augusta Drive and Back Nine Drive)

The sun beats down on a treeless expanse of Back Nine Drive.

All photos by Retiring Guy

2015 Parade of Homes

The Price of Scrambled Egg Patties is Likely to Rise

And will continue to overlook.

Food Companies Fear Bird Flu May Cause Egg Shortages.  (The New York Times, 5/21/2015)

Roughly 87 percent of the birds stricken with the disease are laying hens, according to the Department of Agriculture, and many of the eggs they lay are turned into ingredients used by food businesses in things like scrambled egg patties and baked goods.

The article notes that some food processing companies are stocking up on egg substitutes.  Will they still proclaim that their products are "made with real eggs"?

Make your own egg patty at home!!!!

Monica offers this tutorial.  (She sez it's OK to use real eggs.)



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Based on the Journal Sentinel headline, I'd suggest cataloging this Rand Paul book as fiction

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/21/2015

Book jacket credit:  Google

Quote source:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

*Who are planning to spend nearly $1 billion between now and the 2016 election to promote their agenda of "lower taxes, less government, and an end of Obamacare".  Free markets, in other words.  Their own prosperity, not ours.