Clock Shadow Creamery & Purple Door Ice Cream During the holidays, Fonz has been spotted wearing everything from a Santa hat to bunny ears. The Fonz can be found in his leather jacket, forever holding his famous thumbs-up “Aaay!” pose just south of Wells Street on Milwaukee’s Riverwalk. In August 2008, Arthur Fonzarelli came home to Milwaukee as The Bronze Fonz, a life-sized, bronze statue of the popular “Happy Days” character. It’s a unique pilgrimage for any beer lover.īronze Fonz on the Milwaukee Riverwalk. In the “Beer Barons” corner of the cemetery, you’ll find the mausoleums of three brewing icons known as the Beer Barons: Jacob Best, August Krug, Valentin Blatz, Frederick Pabst, August Uihlein and Joseph Schlitz.

Forest Home CemeteryĪt the Forest Home Cemetery, you’ll be able to pay respects to Milwaukee’s elite, including mayors, politicians, leading industrialists, successful businessmen, trailblazing women, war heroes and more. Some of the other stops on their other tour routes include Milwaukee Ale House, Fire on Water, Club Charlies, Woody’s, La Perla, Shakers, and, my personal favorite, Cafe Benelux, which has a great rooftop scene offering aerials views of the Public Market and Historic Third Ward. They also have a gay-bar themed tour that stops at La Cage, Fluid, Walkers Pint and Harbor Room. You’ll hop aboard a 16-person bicycle, creating your own stops or have a Pedal Tavern guide plan an itinerary for you in the Historic Third Ward and Walker’s Point neighborhoods. Housed in the Brew House of the historic Pabst Brewery, the 90-room, all-suite property features five original copper brew kettles in the second floor lobby a stained glass window of King Gambrinus, the patron saint of beer an outdoor beer garden for sampling delicious brews and the Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub, which offers a great happy hour from 3pm to 6pm Monday through Friday with $2 domestic drafts and $3 imports and craft beers.įor a truly unusual pub crawl, sign up for a Pedal Tavern Pub Crawl. Milwaukee’s newest boutique hotel, Brewhouse Inn & Suites, reflects the local beer culture in a variety of ways. In fact, it was she who started the tradition of drinking with friends and taking their bras off, and the bar now has over 1,000 of them. The best part about the Holler House might not be the what, but the who, in the form of owner Marcy Skowronski – a sassy woman who made history for the venue. Lanes are close together, there are no chairs and scores are taken with pencil and paper. There is also an extensive collection of autographed brassieres “donated” by patrons dangling from ceiling fans. The historic, two-story house also features a main-floor bar with eclectic decorations dating back to the early 1900s, like signs advertising 25-cent beef sandwiches and Polish falcon crests showing the ethnic background of the old neighborhood. Don’t forget to tip your personal pin setter as you go back in time to the original days of bowling. Lakefront Brewery’s Palm Garden Fish Fryīowl on real wood laid in 1908 at the Holler House, the oldest certified lanes in the country.Clock Shadow Creamery & Purple Door Ice Cream.

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