“Cream City Speaks” by Jennifer Lockwood was completed in 2005. It is a view of downtown Milwaukee as you look east down Wisconsin Avenue toward Lake Michigan. Here is a great Milwaukee Souvenir.
“Cream City,” one of Milwaukee’s nicknames, refers to the fact that many of the city’s buildings were built with cream-colored bricks.
The original collage was pieced together by hand from words cut from magazines, menus, brochures, flyers, and business cards from around Milwaukee. The work took one year (3,300 hours) to create. Actual size is 24 X 36 inches, and it fits in a standard-size frame.
Approximately 5,000 people, places and things were included here in this guide—both historical and new. You will find Milwaukee’s founders, famed beer barons, breweries, festivals, politicians, celebrities, museums, hotels (such as The Pfister, The Hyatt, Hilton), restaurants, chefs, taverns, bartenders, nightclubs, DJs, shops, galleries, artists, bands, musicians, radio and television stations, parks, streets, bridges, bridge operators, statues, neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, notable buildings, companies, sports stadiums, sports figures, and other notable Milwaukeeans.
You will also find things that are rooted in Milwaukee, such as Harley Davidson, Miller beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, Palmolive Soap, Outpost Natural Foods, Pillsbury, the Oscar Mayer Weiner-mobile, the automotive assembly line and the electric typewriter.
Some historical facts about the city were also included. For example, early immigrants to Milwaukee included Austrians, Britons, Czechs, Hollanders, the Irish, Italians, German-speaking Jews, Norwegians and Poles. Milwaukeeans refer to a drinking fountain as a “bubbler.” Kinnickinnic Avenue (or K.K.), a well-known city street, came from an Indian name, “Kinnickinnic,” meaning the ‘bark of a tree’ smoked by Indians in their pipes. The flame atop the Gas Building is 21 feet tall and weighs four tons.
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