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During the first half of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the hub of the socialist movement in the United States. Milwaukeeans elected three Socialist mayors during this time: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960), and remains the only major city in the country to have done so.
Added to NRHP. April 15, 1986. 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. Blatz beer is currently produced by the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, under contract for Pabst Brewing Company.
This category includes musical groups associated with the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the US. For individual singers and musicians, see Category:Musicians from Milwaukee . Pages in category "Musical groups from Milwaukee"
Musical output came from Grafton, Ozaukee County during the 1920s when Paramount Records released a series of blues and jazz recordings by artists from the South.. Waukesha's Les Paul, enjoyed a long career as a blues, country, and jazz guitarist and musical innovator. known as the "Wizard of Waukesha" for his technological tinkering, was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar ...
From the late 1970s into the early '80s, Milwaukee native James Chance startled the New York rock world with his aggressive blend of punk, funk, free jazz and sometimes disco − and, for a time ...
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Commercial center of a Polish neighborhood that grew around St. Hedwig's from 1865 to the 1920s - many of them immigrants working in the steel and leather industries. Italians moved in from the 1920s to 1950s, and counter-culture in the 1960s. [59] 43: East Oregon and South Barclay Industrial Historic District
Milwaukee (/ m ɪ l ˈ w ɔː k i / mil-WAW-kee) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. [16] With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is the 31st-most populous city in the United States and the fifth-most populous city in the Midwest.