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What the Hell, it's Home! Or was Once!

  What the Hell, it’s Home! Or was Once! Milwaukee is more than breweries and factories. Actually, the only brewery left is Miller, however, the brewery barons’ homes are still gloriously standing on Milwaukee’s gold coast, Lake Drive. And quite a drive it is! Leaves have turned, casting a golden light on a meticulously cared for street – not a piece of trash in sight. A little aside – when the university of Wisconsin went to the Rose Bowl. Thousands of dollars were saved on clean-up costs in Pasadena after the game. Wisconsinites don’t litter! One my early memories is riding through the Miller Brewery neighborhood which featured a huge, high in the sky, neon sign of a girl sitting on a crescent of a moon. The bordering area was not high end, actually it was very poor. The night was stifling hot and there was not a breeze to give relief to the heavy, humid air. People were sitting on paint peeling, rickety porches in an attempt to escape the oppressive heat. My grandm...

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