Did you know that “Hey Fredrick,” a historical predecessor of Quarters Bar, at 900 E Center St., was the first bar to be named after a softball team, not the other way around?
Jan Christensen
Posted inNeighborhood News
Our Milwaukee: Laacke & Joys
by Catherine Jozwik, Photos Vince Bushell
Milwaukee’s oldest retailer knows a little bit about providing quality and great customer service. For 165 years, Laacke and Joys has been Milwaukee’s main store for outdoor sporting goods and gear, and despite the economic downturn, business is still going strong. The store has four locations: downtown Milwaukee, Brookfield, and Mequon, along with an equestrian sports shop called Hall Saddlery in Sussex. It also has a manufacturing division on the two top floors of the downtown location, which produces fabric products such as parking meter hoods, bags, and curtains.
Posted inNeighborhood News
Riverwest Secret Garden Tour 2009
When it comes to gardening they’re all thumbs
– green thumbs, that is.
Posted inNeighbor Spotlight
Neighbor Spotlight: Leah Breitrich
photo by Becky Vinz
On a warm spring night in Riverwest the corner of Clarke and Bremen feels more like Paris than Milwaukee. There’s a trio of musicians out on the sidewalk; a bass, a guitar that sounds like
a mandolin, an accordion that sounds like a violin. They play gypsy music that’s sweet and fresh and optimistic.
Posted inFurther Down Stream
Further Down Stream May 2009
Compiled by Janice Christensen
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KEEP AN EYE ON THE RIVERBANK –
There have been reports of some motorbikeson the river trails recently,
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