Wisconsin

The Milwaukee Does were a team in the Women's Professional Basketball League. Playing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Milwaukee Arena, their name was a take on their NBA team the Milwaukee Bucks. The Does played in the first two of the WPBL's three seasons, 1978-1979...

In 1920, while working for the NECCO candy company, Howard B. Stark invented a caramel and vanilla-swirled nougat filling he named Snirkle. In 1939, he founded the Howard B. Stark Company in Milwaukee and began making Snirkles Caramel Bars which became a regional hit....

The characters Lenny and Squiggy, from the hit 70's-era sit-com "Laverne & Shirley," formed a band during the course of that TV series. In 1979, the actors who portrayed them, Michael McKean and David Lander, released an album as the duo. McKean would go...

It's one of the oldest rivalries in football, and it's only gotten more intense.

Established as WMIL in 1961, 95.7 FM in Milwaukee became WMVM in 1971, then WZUU in 1972. In 1986, it switched to an alternative rock format under the call letters WBGK. After two years, it flipped formats and call letters again.

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was sold...

The Tuxedo Bar was a nightly go-to for the locals, natives and visitors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

More-Way was Milwaukee, Wisconsin's favorite discount department store.

Milway in Milwaukee was a treasured Wisconsin institution.

Wisconsin proud, Milwaukee made.

Everyone from Milwaukee remembers Irv, the Working Man's Friend, the iconic, no-nonsense store on Mitchell Street that sold work clothes, jeans, and boots at reasonable prices.

As Squints from the movie "The Sandlot" might put it, live and die Milwaukee FOR-EV-ER!

The Boy Blue chain of soft-serve stands was a Milwaukee institution for many years, from the 1950's until the 1990's.

The Captain's Steak Joynt was a chain of restaurants in Greater Milwaukee from the late '60s through the early '90s. The first location opened as Marc's Steakhouse, and the name changed several times, from Marc's to the Captain's Steak Joynt to simply The Captain's.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin's fiercest feline weatherman was Albert the Alley Cat. The man behind the cat was Jack DuBlon, who had a career spanning decades of television on TV6.

Green Bay's football team is the second-oldest pro club in America after the Cardinals. They hold the distinction having played the longest in one city than any other pro football team in the U.S. and are one the league's most storied franchises. It has...

Green Bay's football team is the second-oldest pro club in America after the Cardinals. They hold the distinction having played the longest in one city than any other pro football team in the U.S. and are one the league's most storied franchises.

The Sheboygan Redwings were members of the Central States Football League from 1964 until 1971.

This gonna be our year, er beer--- BOTH!

Andrew loves to ring that bell, and Milwaukee baseball fans love it too!