Author: Lee Matz

The Preview Party for the Brewers Hill episode of Around the Corner with John McGivern was held at Lakefront Brewery on February 23. Lakefront’s co-founder Russ Klisch hosted the free event, which packed the facility’s Beer Hall with hundreds of local viewers. The venue was perfect for this screening, being the only brewery in the Brewers Hill area. Originally known as Uihlein Hill, the name Brewers Hill was derived from the large number of brewery workers and owners that previously inhabited the area. The Schlitz and Blatz breweries were once in operation just south of the distinctly Victorian-era neighborhood....

“My hope that preserving these objects will serve as a reminder of the fascinating lives led by the people who established our community.” – Avrum M. Chudnow Entering the Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear is an immersive experience that will take visitors back to the rise of consumerism. It is a time capsule of Milwaukee life between the two World Wars. Over his 92 years of life in Milwaukee, Avrum M. Chudnow accumulated artifacts that reflected everyday life from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Chudnow was a cultural historian, not a hoarder, and his collection is estimated at over 250,000...