Hi, from Milwaukee

[Cognito]

I’m 76. Although 3 gold medals last month at the Wisconsin State Master swim meet makes me feel younger. I swim 5 DAW, bike in the summer around the lake and ride 9 holes golf sometimes. I was a salesman in Annapolis Md. for a long time. There is just my wife and myself.

We went Urban living in a gutted tannery downtown MKE for a few years. Now aging in something more accommodating for my neuropathy. I will be posting in the recliner thread. I’m a jokester. I crack myself up.

My PV dropped a lot when we bought this new accommodation. Thanks to the “old” FIDO forum I use CEF’s for income and then gamble a little with technical trading. I have no pension. Only SS and CEF’s to cover my monthly expenses.

Thanks to those a FIC for telling me/us about this.

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

Welcome aboard, Cognito! (From a fellow M'waukean.)

 

[Dtail]

Welcome to our wonderful forum.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Welcome, Cognito. I worked in Milwaukee for many years, live in the western exurbs.

 

[Trailwalker]

I’m 76. Although 3 gold medals last month at the Wisconsin State Master swim meet makes me feel younger. I swim 5 DAW, bike in the summer around the lake and ride 9 holes golf sometimes. I was a salesman in Annapolis Md. for a long time. There is just my wife and myself.

We went Urban living in a gutted tannery downtown MKE for a few years. Now aging in something more accommodating for my neuropathy. I will be posting in the recliner thread. I’m a jokester. I crack myself up.

My PV dropped a lot when we bought this new accommodation. Thanks to the “old” FIDO forum I use CEF’s for income and then gamble a little with technical trading. I have no pension. Only SS and CEF’s to cover my monthly expenses.

Thanks to those a FIC for telling me/us about this.

Welcome from another former Milwaukeean. When I was a wet-behind-the-ears college freshman, I worked as a security guard at Pfister and Vogel, the tannery that was on Water Street. I love how they have repurposed those old buildings into urban residences.

 

[COcheesehead]

Mootsie here. I was born at St Joseph’s in Milwaukee. Went to UWM. Ate a lot of good pizza in Milwaukee. The bar style pizza there is hard to find elsewhere. Lots of good memories: Hooligan’s, Century Hall (now burned down), fog horns along the lake, the smell of hops along I-94 by Marquette, Summerfest. Milwaukee is great in summer and not so much in winter. LOL.

 

[imjustawarrior]

Glad to have you on board.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Mootsie here. I was born at St Joseph’s in Milwaukee. Went to UWM. Ate a lot of good pizza in Milwaukee. The bar style pizza there is hard to find elsewhere. Lots of good memories: Hooligan’s, Century Hall (now burned down), fog horns along the lake, the smell of hops along I-94 by Marquette, Summerfest. Milwaukee is great in summer and not so much in winter. LOL.

I think that I-94 aroma came from the Red Star Yeast factory. It was distinctive.
The area around 4th and Juneau had a more agreeable scent from the Ambrosia Chocolate factory.

 

[COcheesehead]

I think that I-94 aroma came from the Red Star Yeast factory. It was distinctive.
The area around 4th and Juneau had a more agreeable scent from the Ambrosia Chocolate factory.

In summers when in college, I worked at the Harley Davidson plant on Juneau.

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

Went to UWM.

I didn't know that. I was a professor there for my career.

 

[COcheesehead]

I didn't know that. I was a professor there for my career.

What did you teach? My wife is an adjunct professor at Colorado Mesa University in the school of fine arts right now.

 

[Teacher Terry]

Welcome to the forum!! I spent the first half of my life in Wisconsin. I love Milwaukee and received my first master’s degree from UWM.

 

[Koolau]

Welcome to our Forum. Please post often.

 

[Slotracer]

Hello from another Milwaukee area member! (And, for the other posters in this thread - DW and I also went to UWM).

 

[aaronc879]

I didn't realize there were so many people on here from the Milwaukee area. I only new of 2 from Wisconsin. I have lived my whole life around 100 miles north/northwest of Milwaukee.

 

[Cognito]

I think that I-94 aroma came from the Red Star Yeast factory. It was distinctive.
The area around 4th and Juneau had a more agreeable scent from the Ambrosia Chocolate factory.

From my recliner I looked over the Menomonee River at Red Star Yeast Factory and Marquette U. And down the end of the river I'd see Miller Park. Thanks to the Socialist mayors for decades there is more greenspace in this city/county than maybe anywhere. The yeast smell is subtle but still there. Mainly summertime.

 

[wrigley]

I didn't realize there were so many people on here from the Milwaukee area. I only new of 2 from Wisconsin. I have lived my whole life around 100 miles north/northwest of Milwaukee.

All throughout my childhood years we had a family cottage on Lake Como near Lake Geneva. That's the closet I ever got to Milwaukee.

 

[COcheesehead]

All throughout my childhood years we had a family cottage on Lake Como near Lake Geneva. That's the closet I ever got to Milwaukee.

Growing up in Milwaukee we referred to Lake Geneva as Northern Illinois

 

[pacergal]

Welcome to the forum, it's a nice place to be.
Hope to hear from you more.

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

What did you teach? My wife is an adjunct professor at Colorado Mesa University in the school of fine arts right now.

Nice!

I was a professor of physics.

 

[Koolau]

All throughout my childhood years we had a family cottage on Lake Como near Lake Geneva. That's the closet I ever got to Milwaukee.

I used to watch Laverne and Shirley.

Actually, my HS German class used to take trips to Milwaukee to visit the German section, watch a movie in German language and then go to a German restaurant. Fun times.

DW and I even acted as chaperones for the HS later on when my little sister was a member of the HS German club that went to Milwaukee.

A great town in the '60s and early '70s. Haven't really been back.

Sorry! Thread drift - returning you now.

 

[Stormy Kromer]

Hello and welcome from a fan of the old American league west. I loved the Harvey Wall Bangers from 1982. Paul Molitor is a Minnesota guy.

 

[COcheesehead]

Hello and welcome from a fan of the old American league west. I loved the Harvey Wall Bangers from 1982. Paul Molitor is a Minnesota guy.

AL East

 

[Cognito]

When I ask for a Harvey Wall Banger now in Milwaukee the bartender doesn't know the drink. Maybe a 70 year old bartender might. They don't know how to make a Phillips Screw Driver either. Vodka and milk of magnesia. But the Bloody Mary's are special. See the pic on the left.

 

[Out-to-Lunch]

When I ask for a Harvey Wall Banger now in Milwaukee the bartender doesn't know the drink. Maybe a 70 year old bartender might. They don't know how to make a Phillips Screw Driver either. Vodka and milk of magnesia. But the Bloody Mary's are special. See the pic on the left.

You should try Bryant's Cocktail Lounge, a venerable institution where the Pink Squirrel was invented: The history of the Pink Squirrel ice cream drink, invented in Milwaukee

Most of us transplants are amazed by the devotion to Brandy. I was at a well-known supper club near the Dells (Ishnala) with a friend, and she asked me to fetch her a Manhattan. Then she said "WAIT, make sure it is a whiskey Manhattan, not brandy." I rolled my eyes and said, "sure thing." I went to the bar and just ordered a Manhattan, and the barkeep asked "Brandy or whiskey?" Okay, she was right.

Where is that Bloody from? Sobelman's? Wicked Hop?