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Watch this 1980 ’60 Minutes’ story about the 1958 murder of Daniel Bell by Milwaukee police

Matt Wild
June 8, 2020
On February 2, 1958, a 22-year old black man named Daniel Bell was pulled over by two white Milwaukee police officers near the corner of 8th and Wright. Bell had a broken taillight. Bell jumped out of his car a...

Author Adam Levin talks about ghost signs and ‘Fading Ads Of Milwaukee’

Tyler Maas
February 10, 2020
Since taking over the Old Milwaukee Facebook group in 2015, Adam Levin has used his position in the online community to show his appreciation for the people, lives, and architecture from the city's past. One wa...

The action-packed life of Milwaukee’s Ray “Crash” Corrigan

Josh Hoppert
November 21, 2019
The following article originally appeared in the October edition of Colectivo Coffee's "Off The Record" print-only periodical/crossword puzzle. You can pick up "Off The Record" free of charge at all 13 Milwauke...

Let’s watch more clips of the Milwaukee Elvira vamping it up in 1985

Matt Wild
October 22, 2019
Hello, darlings. Last year we told you about Milwaukee's very own version of legendary horror movie host Elvira. Yes, Milwaukee had something of an "official" Elvira look-alike back in 1985, as confirmed by the...

Watch an ’80s-tastic video of ’80s-tastic Milwaukee band The Converters

Matt Wild
August 22, 2019
Some things need little to no introduction, so we'll keep this brief: Here's an '80s-tastic video of '80s-tastic Milwaukee band The Converters. It was shot at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the '80s-t...

Let’s take a close look at this ’70s-era cartoon map of Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin

Matt Wild
July 30, 2019
Maps! Who doesn't love maps? Old maps, new maps, weird maps, unnervingly accurate maps drawn by Racine talk show hosts in under three minutes! Oh, and cartoon maps of Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin that look...

One of the last remaining Kewpee Hamburgers locations still flourishes in downtown Racine

Tyler Maas
July 26, 2019
broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life July 22-29 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. ...

Read what a 1940s book had to say about “the plump and smiling city of Milwaukee”

Tyler Maas
July 22, 2019
broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life July 22-29 as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. ...

Watch the 1985 Great Circus Parade, hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White

Matt Wild
July 14, 2019
It's Sunday and it's beautiful outside, so let's keep this short and sweet: Here's the entire two-hour-plus Great Circus Parade from July 14, 1985, held in downtown Milwaukee and hosted by...Pat Sajak and Vanna...

Remembering the 2001 Milwaukee Bucks and the controversial Eastern Conference Finals

Nik Kovac
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...

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...
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