Pabst Brewery and Mansion
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We have a lot of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings out west as well, but somehow, it doesn't appeal to me anywhere near what the other architecture you have been showing in Milwaukee does. I think his looks too modern and repetitive for my tastes, and not necessarily in a good way. But definitely unique. Thanks for sharing though.
1914 picture of City Hall Milwaukee looking East on Water Street. It was the tallest building in the U.S. from 1895 - 1899. It still stands and is still City Hall today. City Hall appeared in the opening scene of the Laverne and Shirley TV show.
The top of city hall
Milwaukee Police Station built 1888
Nothing drab or mundane relative to Milwaukee architecture near the turn of the century. Every building had its own version of imagination in the design. Like!
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I can't stomach the cinder block & stucco architecture today of low rises nor the steel & glass of the high rises.
Fugly, Fugly, Fugly.
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Much the same can be said about new housing developments these days, especially in crowded areas such as where I live. Houses are on postage stamp lots and there are a bunch of look alike two story homes with no character placed so close to each other that you could almost reach out your window and touch the house next door! Who would ever want to live like that?
That is why I live in an old farm house built in 1929 with a half acre of land, one of the few left with such a big lot here in Southern California. And I bought the house next to me as well with the same size lot and with some effort to demonstrate some creativity at least regarding the house on the property. Screw all these new, boring, mindless junk houses that are being built these days that just make freeway traffic even more miserable and cause the proliferation of toll highways - just so some fat cat developer can make a killing. One upside to the global warming controversy is that in large urban areas such as where I live, planners are finding out they can't make inroads on the accumulation of CO2 without doing something to curb excess traffic and driving, so it is leading to restrictions on large housing developments here at least that are an eyesore and blight the land in order to reduce traffic congestion and the resulting excess CO2 emissions.
There are too many people on the planet these days!
My little community had 7,500 residents when I retired from the Army in 1996.
Now it's up to 13,000.
Now it's up to 13,000.
Yeah, same here too, only it has more than doubled - and people wonder why I preferred the "good old days", but there is never any going back unless you move to Wyoming or somewhere sparsely populated, but that has its issues too. Glad I wasn't born any later than I was..................
Cool Pabst built bar 1890 a few blocks from my parents house. It even has a 2 lane bowling alley in the basement which might be the oldest in the USA.
Hidden Gem: Regano's Roman Coin bowling lanes
Hidden Gem: Regano's Roman Coin bowling lanes
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I would love to visit Milwaukee for its architecture and culture.
One of the very few cities I'm interested in.
One of the very few cities I'm interested in.
I really like the varied use of colors to enhance the classic design even more!
I'll be your tour guide if you decide to go.
I forgot to mention that I do go to Regano's every time I'm in Milwukee with my last surviving brother. What is really cool about this 1890 bar is that it is dog friendly. There is no less than 3-4 dogs in the bar at any given time. You can bring your dog in the bar as long as they behave. All of the dogs I have seen in there are always very friendly and love being petted. I never ever heard a dog barking in this bar.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Wouldn't have it any other way.
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