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Originally Posted by Danimal16
Gee Slo Bob,
My Mom and Dad are from Wisconsin. My Mom passed away this past October, about a week after I got back home from SWA. As a kid we spent our time between Milwaukee.... I recall all of the large signs for Pabst, Blatz and Schlitz. ....a hamburger place in Milwaukee or Wisconsin called "Georges" or something like that? They had sliders that as a kid I just loved.
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I'm sorry about your mother's passing. I lost mine as well 2 days before last labor day. Let's add them to the list.
Mine was truly a Milwaukee list. It wasn't called "Brew City" for nothing. Miller is still here but really just kept around as a working museum. That could certainly change for the worse. The Blatz and Schlitz buildings have been converted into condos and an office park respectively. Pabst has been long closed but it's soon to be used in a like manner.
Gimbels meant Christmas to me. We would go there and I would help my mom shop for everyone else in the fam. I was too young to be in school at the time. We would walk across the way to the CookieCookie house - a really incredible "Gingerbread house" complete with cookie conveyor belts, elves (even then I recall some of them being totally hot!
) and of course Santa.
The hamburger place you refer to - George Webbs? I thought those were everywhere? They are alive and well here - 2 clocks on the wall and all.
Good times. Milwaukee is still a great place and has been resistant to change, but it has.