by Jackie Reid Dettloff When Tom Tolan wrote his community history of Riverwest, he began by focusing on the Milwaukee River: Today, many people think of it as little more than a boundary between neighborhoods, a basement for bridges but I want to give the river its proper due as the most important constant in the […]
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The Unromantic Saga of the House on East Abert Place
by Constance Sleger In urban renovation, the focus is often on the interior and exterior building. Plumbing, paint, roof, granite counters, engineered floors, blah, blah. We stumbled across a piece of land that happened to have a house on it. This is an account of the land. I had a modest East Side duplex with […]
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Tom Simasko
by Ellen C. Warren, photograph by Peter DiAntoni When you walked into a store with your eyes closed you could smell where you were. The hardware store smelled oily. The grocery had a bouquet of greens and fresh fruit. The bakery well, you know. The butcher shop smelled like blood and sawdust. The Riverwest of […]
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Milwaukee Antique Center Closing
People of all sorts wander through, ogling potential valuables from baseball cards and Star Wars figurines to vinyl records and bar taps.
Gary John Gresl, 62, knows many of these patrons of the Milwaukee Antique Center at 341 N. Milwaukee St., and greets them all with soft tones and a smile even though Wisconsin’s oldest antique mall is closing the doors for good Dec. 31.
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Victoria’s Dirty Secret
On Thursday, November 3, Riverwest and UWM student activists congregated at Mayfair Mall in Wauwautosa and Brookfield Square in Brookfield to protest Victoria’s Secret’s outrageous catalog campaigns, which destroy old-growth trees.
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