Milwaukee

[JohnAKeith]

I just got home from watching "Bridesmaids". It was very funny & really raunchy. Yes, it was a "Hangover" but with women.

It takes place in Milwaukee.

I see that Milwaukee and Boston have almost equal populations; Milwaukee, 594,000 and Boston, 617,000. City area is approximately the same size, too.

The shots of the city in the movie didn't show anything special about the city. I did notice that there seemed to be a bunch of mid-rise to short high-rises. Turns out, there's only about half as many "tall" buildings in Milwaukee as in Boston, according to Emporis. I think the difference is that it looks as though a lot of the tall buildings are in a row versus a cluster, like in Boston.

Has anyone been there? Is it any interesting, for architecture / vacation?

 

[Patrick]

I have never been but it looks nice

Riverwalks like this and Providence and San Antonio and Chicago and elsewhere are great looking.

 

[Ron Newman]

No people in that photo, though. Was it taken on a Sunday morning? Does Milwaukee have any event like Providence's Waterfire that will populate those walks?

 

[Boston02124]

It reminds me of Providence!

 

[CSTH]

I go all the time for work. Great bones, no people. Really some very nice turn of the century buildings, and the German influence is prominent. They've done a nice job with the riverwalk, and with the lake front, which includes that calatrava building. There's just no one on the street though - parking garages and gerbil tubes are the name of the game. I went on a couple of walks at lunch time and at 5pm, and the only people visible are smokers and joggers. Really a shame because there are some beautiful buildings....


These are quick iphone pictures but hopefully they give a taste...

 

[CSTH]

to illustrate further: this is what the back of the classical building in photo 2 looks like - double gerbil tubes connecting to the building next door and the parking garage across the street

 

[Ron Newman]

Any idea why they built a gerbil tube to cross what looks like a lightly-traveled side street? It's not exactly Huntington Ave.

 

[datadyne007]

Any idea why they built a gerbil tube to cross what looks like a lightly-traveled side street? It's not exactly Huntington Ave.

Weather, convenience, mixture of both probably.

Heck, turn to the left a bit and see that they built one above a pedestrian plaza/walkway!

 

[Boston02124]

some nice old buildings,luv their city hall its very impressive! A city I'd like to see,thanks for posting!

 

[Corey]

I saw the title of this thread and immediately thought of Bridesmaids, which I saw last night and enjoyed. I have never been to Milwaukee either (or anywhere in the Midwest), but it seems like a nice town from what I've seen. Seems like a little-Chicago.

 

[Roxxma]

Any idea why they built a gerbil tube to cross what looks like a lightly-traveled side street? It's not exactly Huntington Ave.

My guess would be the harsh Midwestern winters.

 

[kennedy]

My guess would be the harsh Midwestern winters.

Yup. Sometime I'll post pics of the skywalks in Minneapolis. You can traverse the entire city (almost) without going outdoors.

 

[Ron Newman]

Sure, those make sense in Minneapolis, but that's many miles north of Milwaukee.