What made Milwakee famous?

Question

There is a band from Austin named "What Made Milwakee Famous: and it makes me laugh for some reason. So I pose this as a question on Yahoo. What made milwakee famous?

Answer 1

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and 22nd largest (by population) in the United States. The city is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. As of a revised 2006 U.S. Census estimate, Milwaukee had a population of 602,782. The city is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with a population of 1,773,519.

The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French-Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846 Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German and other immigrants helped increase the city's population during the 1840s and the following decades.

Once known almost exclusively as a brewing and manufacturing powerhouse, Milwaukee has taken steps in recent years to reshape its image. In the past decade, major new additions to the city have included the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Midwest Airlines Center, Miller Park, an internationally renowned addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the Milwaukee Auditorium and U.S. Cellular Arena. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts, and apartments have been constructed in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront and riverbanks.

"What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" is a song written by Glenn Sutton. The song's title is an allusion to beer.

Answer 2

PBR!!!!!!.....

It won a blue ribbon at the Chicago's World Fair in 1893.

Answer 3

Laverne and Shirley and imitation Belgian "lager".  I had to check out this band on MySpace after you said something.  They have quite a range...wonder if they'll be at Austin City Limits.  Someone who was a few years ago, -Ray Lamontagne.  Listen to "Trouble".  Totally off topic I know.

Answer 4

What about the show Happy Days ? and its character "The Fonz"

Answer 5

Baseball and beer.

Answer 6

THEIR BEER! ENOUGH SAID!

Answer 7

Schlitz beer used to have as their advertising slogan "the Beer that made Milwaukee famous."

Are you familiar with the old Jerry Lee Lewis song "What Made Milwaukee Famous"?

Baby begged me not to go so many times before

She says love and happiness can't live behind those swinging doors

Now she's gone and I'm to blame, too late I finally see

What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

It's late and she's waiting and I know I should go home

But every time I start to leave they play another song

Then someone buys another round and wherever drinks are free

What's made Milwaukee famous has made a fool out of me.

Answer 8

Brewers (baseball), Bucks (Basketball), brewers (miller brewery), University of Wisconsin (although the one in Madison is more popular) and perhaps Jeffrey Dahmer!

Answer 9

Miller beer

It's late and she is waiting, and i know i must go home,

But every time i start to leave, they play another song,

Then someone buys another round and whatever drinks are free,

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

Baby's begged me not to go, so many times before,

She said love and happiness can't live behind those swingin' doors,

Now she's gone and i'm to blame, too late i finally see,

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

Baby's begged me not to go, so many times before,

She said love and happiness can't live behind those swingin' doors,

Now she's gone and i'm to blame, too late i finally see,

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me,

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

What made milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

The Valentin Blatz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It produced Blatz Beer from 1851 until 1959 when the label was sold to Pabst Brewing Company.

Johann Braun opened the City Brewery in 1846. Valentin Blatz established a brewery next door to City Brewery in 1850 and merged both breweries upon Braun's death in 1852. The brewery produced Milwaukee's first individually bottled beer, in 1874. It incorporated as the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company in 1889 and by the 1900s was the city's third largest brewer.

During Prohibition, Blatz produced non-alcoholic beverages, from 1920-1933. In 1933, Blatz was issued U-Permit No. WIS-U-712 for permission to resume brewing beer.

In 1958, Pabst Brewing Company, then the nation's tenth largest brewer, acquired Blatz, the eighteenth largest. In 1959, the federal government brought an action charging that the acquisition violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act as amended by the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger amendment. The sale was voided in 1959 and Blatz closed that same year. In 1960, the assets of Blatz, including its labels, were sold to Pabst.

While the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was "the beer that made Milwaukee famous," Blatz Brewing Company was, in fact, the first to take its product national. Two famous Blatz/Milwaukee beer marketing slogans were "Blatz--Milwaukee's Finest Beer" and "Blatz--Milwaukee's Favorite Premium Beer." In later years, the brewery described its product as "Draft Brewed Blatz."

The Blatz Brewery Complex and Valentin Blatz Brewing Company Office Building in downtown Milwaukee are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The brewing company's office building has been converted into condominiums. The former Blatz bottling facility is now the Campus Center Building for the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The office building has been converted into the school's Alumni Partnership Center.

The "Blatz" beer label currently is produced by the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, under contract for Pabst Brewing Company.

Answer 10

Your misspelling of Milwaukee, or what doesn't kill us