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The
Milwaukee Exposition Building was built in 1881 and was the first
home of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Located between 5th and 6th
streets and Cedar Street (Kilbourn Avenue) and State Street, it
burned down in 1905. The Milwaukee Auditorium was built on the
site in 1909.
Long
before Festa Italia, German Fest and Irish Fest, Milwaukee
citizens saluted their ethnic roots with festivals. Kermis, a
traditional Dutch summer fair that immigrants from Holland brought
with them to Milwaukee, was celebrated in the Milwaukee Exposition
Building. The sign on the right, “Brusselsche Wafels”,
advertises Belgian waffles.
These
photos, from about 1885, come from “Milwaukee Neighborhoods:
Photos and Maps 1885-1992,” 638 photographs selected from the
collections of the American Geographical Society Library and the
Archives Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Libraries that are part of two rare books in the Archives’
holdings: Milwaukee and Art Work of Milwaukee. To view this
collection online visit www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib.
Aptly
situated alongside Cedar Creek, the Riverside Lunch was once
Cedarburg’s hot spot for a quick bite. Chef Arnold Nimitz (far
left) served up a mouth-watering ham sandwich for the low price of
5˘, or a cutting edge, pre-vegetarian lettuce-tomato sandwich for
just 10˘. Those with a heartier appetite could order up a steak
for just a buck-fifty. Breakfast was a deal, too. A ham and egg
eye-opener would set a diner back 15˘; add a cup of cold
chocolate milk for 5˘. Others in the photo include Hank Snapa,
the Butternut Bread delivery man and Hans Bathke. The burger shack
stood in the parking lot of current-day Klug’s Creekside Inn in
downtown Cedarburg. The 1932 photo comes from the Edward Rappold
Collection.
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