More than 60 years ago, a Milwaukee building owner asked the city to buy her property. The new freeway, she argued, had isolated the bar from its neighborhood and its customers and diminished the business. She was not wrong. Yet, since then, two businesses each endured at least a quarter-century.
Lauren Keene reached out to Bubbler Talk wanting to know what happened to the "Please Be Civil" neon sign that used to be visible at the corner of North and Humboldt in Milwaukee.
Plans to revitalize a historic Schlitz tied house in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood are finally moving forward after gaining conceptual approval by the city's Historic Preservation Commission on Monday.