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Urban spelunking: The secret indoor track at Juneau/MacDowell

When my friend Gerry Belsha saw I had visited his alma mater - Milwaukee Juneau High School, now home to the MacDowell Montessori School program - to get a tour of the beautiful moderne building erected in 1932 to the plans of Van Ryn and DeGelleke, he asked if I had seen the indoor track. I assumed he meant some painted lanes in the gym, but, no, he said, there is an indoor track in the basement accessed through a closet door. I had to go see it.