I'm not even from Milwaukee but I love the character and architecture of this city!! It's a beautiful city in more ways than one. You don't have to be a super huge city in order to be a great one.☝️😊👍 Love the video and commentary! The Bucks 🏀aren't bad either!
Was in Milwaukee last weekend. A beautiful, laid back city. I walked around a lot night and day and it was very safe. The public market was busy. I had a medium-rare burger and one of the best I have ever had, if not the best. Milwaukee is definitely the Good Land.
I grew up in nearby West Allis on 56th street, within walking distance of Milwaukee County Stadium, and I remember going into the city was always a delight. I love the architecture. I love walking the city streets and looking at the beautiful buildings and how they line the Milwaukee river. My German ancestors arrived in Milwaukee in the 1860’s and 6 generations later we still have some representation, albeit in the suburbs.
i’m a german american born in milwaukee in 1998 and ive lived here with my family my whole life we have been here for generations it’s so cool seeing my heritage and hometown mix into something so unique my grandma worked for schlitz back in the 60s
Milwaukee WI born and raised I absolutely loved this video and was tickled pink to know I can now brag at one point in time this city had the world's tallest habital building thank you for this and it would be awesome if you could get more shots and info on the pabst complex! Best believe I'm subscribing with bell on
I would have coffee with a Pabst, a few days a week and he’d regale us with fascinating stories and insights of the family and it’s beginnings in brewing. During prohibition they created a cheese product which caught on and was later sold to Kraft. Today its known as Cheez Whiz. The Pabst mansion is a beautiful monument to the history of a by gone era and is well worth the visit.
Incredible video! My ancestors were Yugoslavian and German immigrants who settled in Milwaukee during WWI. I knew of the German heritage in the state and Milwaukee in particular, but this video did an incredible job showcasing the amazing architecture those German immigrants brought with them. I'm glad this came on my recommended!
@@flyingbanana4179 that’s a good question. I was about 10 years old when my grandma showed me her families immigration papers, but I don’t remember any particular city. I just remember Yugoslavia being listed.
Amazing video and the narrative - thank you! Great to see so many buildings I get to drive by nearly every day, or have been for the past 27 years. The drone footage is simply spectacular.
What most people don't know: Milwaukee was run by the Irish until almost all of their "high ranking" military and business leaders "went down" on the Lady Elgin cruise ship in Lake Michigan (1860). The Germans were the next minority on the minority "pecking order". So THEY immediately took over control.
Note: Before entry into WWI, the German workers and contractors who built the building shown at 3:00 placed 4 of the German Kaiser's helmet on top (1 large one and 3 smaller ones around the sides). They did this in protest, of America's siding with the British and French, instead of Germany, before the entry of the USA into the War.
I grew up in Milwaukee back in the 70s and 80s. I remember the south side being mostly Polish and German culture, which I guess explains the Usinger's and Klement's sausages. I remember that slogan _"the beer that made Milwaukee famous."_ But I think the word _"Milwaukee"_ originally came from the Potawatomi tribe. Wauwatosa, Waukesha, Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Chippewa Falls, etc. These words all sound like they may have came from languages spoken by the indigenous people. However, I hardly ever see any native Americans here. 🤔 Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful city and culture, I'm just sayen.
Interesting thoughts, these places are a layering of many influences. Fittingly, in the 90s the Forest County Potawatomi came back and opened a hotel and casino in the Menominee valley in central Milwaukee, a place that had been a rich source of resources for them hundreds of years ago.
Eau Caire is of French origin, hailing back to our French roots as part of New France before the Louisiana Purchase, However, the majority of Wisconsin town and city names are of Oneida, Menominee, Potawatomi, and other Native origin, both ancestral and relocated. I grew up in Shawano, which is a modified form of the Menominee word for South, making sense of the fact that Shawano county is directly south of Menominee County and Reservation. The major European influences are French, English, German, and Polish, ...with a bit of Danish and Swedish. Something I found interesting, the closer one goes to the Mississippi River, the more French the influence, the farther south and east, the more North Eastern European the influence, and the farther north and east, the more Native the influence.
The Natives are definitely blended in to the white people there. When I look on band member jam sites, and Dating sites for Wisconsin, all I pretty much see is people with European coloring, but very very visible Native features. To the point where it struck me and took me by surprise. The Native dna is very much in the whites there. The European men would have FORCIBLY taken wives, and impregnated them. The US Gov. encouraged a policy of killoff the Native males, and take the women for your wives. Sad, but history.
Believe it or not........Milwaukee STARTED OUT as an Irish City. The Irish RAN Milwaukee...up until 1860. That's when the most prominent members of Milwaukee's Irish community "went down" on the lake steamer, "The Lady Elgin". And THAT's when the Germans in Milwaukee took over!
This isn't entirely true. The earliest permanent settlements by non-Native Americans were French-Canadian traders, prominently Solomon Juneau, of course. After the Native American population was driven out following the Battle of Chicago, the first wave of settlers were from New England (so perhaps a mix of Irish- and English-Americans), and direct German immigration began as early as 1840 and accelerated for decades after. And the Irish Union Guards who were aboard the Lady Elgin were Confederate sympathizers trying to re-arm themselves after the anti-slavery governor took their weapons. So... 🤷🏻♂
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Have you looked into “The Secret”. A treasure hunt. By Byron Preiss. You can probably contribute to solving the Milwaukee puzzle since it has to do with German immigration.
As an englishman its began to dawn on me how bizarre it is that americans still speak english You're not an anglo country and your people are for the most part hispanic and irish and a little bit of german its like america is desperately clinging onto the past but the past is gone, even the dutch in south africa have their own language called afrikaans but america still speaks english? its weird
Wisconsin was first settled by "yankees", my moms side goes way back to the 1600's, dads grandparents came here from Bavaria in the 1870's. So we're still heavily influenced by English elements.
@@Botoburst the word yank is redundant the people it applied to don't exist anymore, the united states has zero connection to the English and it hasn't for 250 years its time to move on
