Park Street Cultural Tour

Ideal Body Shop

502 South Park Street

At Ideal Body Shop I learned a lot,
How it started out as a blacksmith shop,
With wooden sidewalks and a real dirt road,
They fixed buggies that people rode.
They made a new building and started fixing cars,
They're a really good business and deserve some stars.
–Sam R.

Mr. Joe Dottl founded the Ideal Body Shop during the 1800s. The shop started as a blacksmith, then it fixed wagons, and now it repairs cars.
–Tristan

To work on a car he has to hook up an air power tool because the hydraulics are all run by air power.
–Miracle

At Ideal, we saw a Sheriff's car that had hit a deer the night before and was in the Body Shop for a mirror fix-up along with a front bumper repair. In the Body Shop most of the tools are air powered but some of them are hand tools like hammers and some are gas/electric powered also.
–Jeremy

The Ideal Body Shop has a separate room to paint cars with. There is air coming down from the ceiling, so the paint goes down into a vent in the floor instead of sticking to everything.
–Tristan

Home on Park Street Four Days in the Corridor Neighborhoods Experiencing Community What the Kids Said *Day One* Chadbourne College Sadie Pearson & Richard Davis Trinity Church Ideal Body Shop Park Street Shoe Repair Yee's Laundry La Movida Mercado Marimar Bram's Addition *Day Two* Early Childhood Center Yue-Wah Oriental Foods Boys & Girls Club Style & Grace Salon St. Mark's Lutheran Church Romnes Apartments Yasmin's Halal Meat Market Miracle's Home Neighborhood House Italian Workmen's Club Family Potluck *Day Three* Meriter Hospital Bayview Mural Bocce Ball Beth Israel Synagogue Wisconsin Union Hoofers Mexico Lindo Fishing Along Wingra Creek *Day Four* AFL-CIO (Labor Temple) Eugene Parks Quality Ace Hardware Oriental Shop Lakeside Fibers Chicken Underground Family Daycare Tropical Fish World Quann Community Gardens Multicultural Center Street Scenes 1 Street Scenes 2 Park Street Delights 1 Park Street Delights 2 Dane County Cultural Tour Hmong Cultural Tour	Ideal Body Shop 502 South Park Street At Ideal Body Shop I learned a lot, How it started out as a blacksmith shop, With wooden sidewalks and a real dirt road, They fixed buggies that people rode. They made a new building and started fixing cars, They're a really good business and deserve some stars. –Sam R. Mr. Joe Dottl founded the Ideal Body Shop during the 1800s. The shop started as a blacksmith, then it fixed wagons, and now it repairs cars. –Tristan To work on a car he has to hook up an air power tool because the hydraulics are all run by air power. –Miracle At Ideal, we saw a Sheriff's car that had hit a deer the night before and was in the Body Shop for a mirror fix-up along with a front bumper repair. In the Body Shop most of the tools are air powered but some of them are hand tools like hammers and some are gas/electric powered also. –Jeremy The Ideal Body Shop has a separate room to paint cars with. There is air coming down from the ceiling, so the paint goes down into a vent in the floor instead of sticking to everything. –Tristan
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