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Entertainment in Early Milwaukee (WI) (Images of America)

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What did early Milwaukeeans do to have fun and calm down? This book answers that question, covering pop culture from the mid-1800s as much as 1950, from the earliest tavern stages internet hosting traditional German plays and musicals, to the large traveling circus acts that arrived by the use of the railroad, to the beer gardens, nickelodeons, and old grand cinemas that dominated the city’s landscape all over the first half of the 20th century. In its heyday, Milwaukee had a couple of classic amusement parks with roller coasters, fun houses, water rides, and more. The first movie was once shown in Milwaukee in 1896, and by 1920, there have been nearly 100 buildings dedicated to motion pictures. And it was once two Milwaukee businessmen who found out the great Charlie Chaplin and likewise produced the 1915 epic Birth of a Nation.

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