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Category Archives: History

09Aug/18

Be a Local Tourist: Mitchell Gallery of Flight

August 9, 2018City Life, Explore Your Neighborhood, Historyairplane, Be a Local Tourist, General Mitchell International Airport, Mitchell Gallery of Flight, MKE, museumJoe

Everybody loves going to the airport; with the expensive parking, expensive snacks, expensive tickets, taking off your shoes in never-ending security lines, TSA agents getting handsy, and the dread of waiting toRead More…

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12Jul/18

Beer Barons of Milwaukee: Captain Frederick Pabst

July 12, 2018Booze, History, Local Productsbeer, Best Brewing Company, Best Place, Captain Frederick Pabst, Jacob Best, Pabst Brewing Company, Phillip BestJoe

Milwaukee’s three founders (Juneau, Kilbourn, and Walker) may have helped turn wild rice fields and marshland into a unified city, but it was the “Big Four” beer barons of the 19th centuryRead More…

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28Jun/18

What Lies Below Summerfest: Airplanes, Dead Elephants, and Anti-Aircraft Missiles

June 28, 2018City Life, Historyairport, airstrip, circus, downtown, elephant, Maitland Field, missile, Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules, SummerfestJoe

Summerfest, The World’s Largest Music Festival, is once again upon us, ushering in the thick of summertime in Milwaukee. Eleven days, hundreds of musical acts, thousands of gallons of Miller Lite, hundredsRead More…

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24May/18

A Burned City: Milwaukee’s Biggest Fires

May 24, 2018Historyfire, tragedy, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran ChurchJoe

Sad news came out of the Westown neighborhood of Milwaukee this past week, as the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was being restored, caught fire from heating tools left on scaffolding. TheRead More…

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10May/18

Tory Hill: The Neighborhood Milwaukee Paved Over

May 10, 2018City Life, Explore Your Neighborhood, Historyfreeway, Gesu Church, highway, Irish, Marquette Interchange, Marquette University, neighborhood, Tory HillJoe

The Interstate highway system in Milwaukee cuts the city into pieces, separating people and neighborhoods with an artificial river of concrete just as the natural Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers have forRead More…

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