Tagged Old Milwaukee

Remembering the 2001 Milwaukee Bucks and the controversial Eastern Conference Finals

May 15, 2019

Eighteen years.A child born in May 2001 is now eligible to vote.Or to serve in the military. Back in the spring and through the summer of 2001, such a commitment had meant, for about a generation, less ...

Remembering ‘Jam City Rollergirls,’ the 2011 Wii game featuring the Brewcity Bruisers

Matt Wild

March 7, 2019

On Sunday, March 10 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, the venerable Brewcity Bruisers will host their third bout of their 13th season. You read that right: the Milwaukee roller derby league has been jamming, b...

Remembering the time, in 1979, when Milwaukee declared war on “rump cleavage”

Matt Wild

December 11, 2018

Times change. Standards evolve. What was acceptable in one era becomes unacceptable in the next. Here's a thought experiment: Imagine a city in 2018 dragging an exotic dancer to court because of her excessive "...

Remembering the time, in 1985, when Milwaukee went nuts for free Channel 4 golf balls

Matt Wild

November 14, 2018

Milwaukee media history is littered with promotional stunts that set the city abuzz. The radio DJ who camped out on a 21st story ledge to get The Who to play Milwaukee. The year Reitman and Mueller claimed a B-...

Remembering the time Biff from ‘Late Night With David Letterman’ sang the national anthem at County Stadium

Matt Wild

October 8, 2018

Take yourself back to the summer of 1989. George H.W. Bush is the president. The Milwaukee Brewers are playing .500 baseball in Milwaukee County Stadium. Late Night With David Letterman is one of the hippest sh...

Watch Milwaukee’s very own Elvira in this Partyland commercial from 1985

Matt Wild

October 1, 2018

So-called "horror hosts" are nowhere near as ubiquitous as they once were, but a few of them are still hanging around, undead and unkillable like the zombies that populate so many of their films. Flip on MeTV o...

Remembering that weird “This Is My Milwaukee” video from 2008

Matt Wild

September 12, 2018

Take a stroll through YouTube these days and you'll find a bevy of gorgeously filmed, breathlessly narrated videos celebrating the city we call home. Big budget tourism videos share space with amateur love lett...

As the Bradley Center enters its final days, watch a star-studded video from its first days

Matt Wild

August 10, 2018

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, today marks the first day of official closing operations for the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Forty-five full-time and 606 part-time employees are officially out of wo...

Let’s watch old videos of Milwaukee poet Matt Cook explaining Milwaukee history

Matt Wild

July 9, 2018

Milwaukee has some serious—and some seriously weird—history. From its indigenous roots to its European settlement to the time we all had to boil our water because of that Cryptosporidium thing, the Brew City ha...

Honor, Service, Love: Remembering the life and heroics of Milwaukee’s Lance Sijan

Tyler Maas

July 4, 2018

Every Fourth of July, Americans take pause to recognize the selflessness and sacrifice of those who have put their life on the line for their country. Countless servicemen and servicewomen from Milwaukee have f...

Social Distortion plays Summerfest tonight, so let’s remember the Social Distortion Milwaukee riot of 1988

Matt Wild

June 29, 2018

Tonight, on day three of Summerfest 2018, living-legend punk band Social Distortion will headline the Harley-Davidson Roadhouse at 10 p.m. It'll surely be a lively, crowded show full of old (and new?) fans enjo...

Dear FOX6: Please, please, please unearth this “Drinking in the ’80s” series from 1984

Matt Wild

June 25, 2018

Dear FOX6,Hi! How are you? Happy Monday! Milwaukee Record here. In case you didn't know, we're big fans of your station. Really! Ted Perry is the best, and FOX6 WakeUp is our second-favorite local morning s...

We demand to know more about this 1984 commercial for Giggles nightclub

Matt Wild

June 6, 2018

The internet is a wonderful and awful place. Wonderful because a near-infinite amount of human knowledge is instantly available at our fingertips; awful because despite that near-infinite amount of human knowle...

Let’s watch five decades of epic Channel 6 news promos

Matt Wild

May 29, 2018

Aside from actual time capsules, there are no better time capsules than old local TV news clips. The anchors! The music! The fashion! The star wipe graphics! In Milwaukee, WISN's ancient "Hello Milwaukee" news ...

Let’s come together and ID these folks from a 1993 Animal Crackers commercial

Matt Wild

May 22, 2018

Hey! Anyone remember Milwaukee-area pet store Animal Crackers? You know, the same Animal Crackers that had locations at Bluemound Plaza, Highland Plaza, and Southridge Plaza? The same Animal Crackers that had a...

Prepare for a summer of fun with this Milwaukee County Parks commercial from 1984

Matt Wild

May 10, 2018

Hey! It's summer! Sort of? Yeah, it's gonna be cold and rainy this weekend, but whatever. Now's the time to get out of the house and enjoy all the summer-y things Milwaukee has to offer: festivals, concerts, an...

Remembering the New Barbarians / MECCA Arena riot of 1979

Matt Wild

April 25, 2018

Buried in the long, storied, and debauched history of The Rolling Stones is a peculiar footnote: The New Barbarians. A side project, of sorts, of Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, the band formed in the spring of 1...

Remembering the time the Milwaukee Bucks almost moved to Minnesota

Matt Wild

April 17, 2018

Tonight at 7 p.m., the Milwaukee Bucks meet the Boston Celtics for Game 2 of the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs. Yes, the Bucks are down one game, but no matter what happens over the course of the next we...

Dick has gone CRAZY in these old commercials for Dick’s Place

Matt Wild

March 20, 2018

Sift through the history of advertising and you'll find a strange subgenre: the CRAZY home electronics salesman. New York's "Crazy Eddie" was probably the most (in)famous, with his IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE prices and ...

Our kingdom for one of these personalized South Milwaukee love songs from 1985

Matt Wild

March 5, 2018

Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "This song is great, but I wish the singer was singing directly to me. You know, like singing my name and everything. That would be swell." Of course you haven't. S...