Milwaukee's Bock Bier festivals; a lost tradition?

You don't hear about an annual Bock Beer season in Milwaukee, although one celebration has apparently taken place for 38 years on the last Saturday of April for ... 38 years! (I'm not a beer drinker, so've never followed the event.)
It used to be that every tavern in town placed advertisements in the local German papers for their brew in late winter and into early spring. This advertisement for Best's Bierhalle special goat-brew dates from the 1850s.

More information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock
https://shepherdexpress.com/events/bockbierfest-2018-38th-annual/

Mein Freund ... I schreib you in English ...

Louis Kindling mit einer seiner Strassenwaschmachinen ...

Louis Kindling is perched on his Henschl made street sweeper. He worked with an Alderman Koenig to import and sell the new devices to the city of Milwaukee. A test of the machine's effectiveness was conducted on Grand Avenue between 5th Street and the Milwaukee River bridge.

Pictures of Louis Kindling's home are found at the link below.

The family is well-represented in the local German-American papers. It's even reported that Louis made over 50 trips back to a town near Berlin to visit his mother, the 51st trip when she was 99 years old!

http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/09/15/house-confidential-a-classic-ferry-clas-mansion/

Schule der Gnaden-Gemeinde ...

Grace Ev. Lutheran Church had a charming school built in 1894 before the original church building on N. Broadway and E. Juneau Ave. was replaced in 1900. The school was built as pictured here, but the ornamented front did not face the street; historic photos don't do justice to what the architect designed.
The school is long gone, the second church ... altered. Historic photos are found in the mpl.org digital collection ... a link below.

http://content.mpl.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/HstoricPho/id/5797/rec/5

Blick von Rathaus; then and now

Traces of spaces along N. 27th St. between W. Grand Ave. & W. Wells St.

They just don't design them like they used to! This double house is long gone from the east side of N. 27th Street, but there are families who would be able to identify their history there as owners or renters through census records or city directories. The footprint image from the Sanborn fire insurance map is suprisingly accurate (UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library digital collection)

1890s tremors of the Schandein-Best-Heyl-Pabst scandal erupting in 1905

Dr. Louis Frank and Ella Schandein and their families traveled to Landstuhl an der Pfalz for their marriage and its celebration. Upon arrival, they found questions had been brought about Dr. Frank's freedom to marry causing the local German government to publish marriage banns all the way back home in Milwaukee's German language press. Dr. Frank was cleared of any suspicion of bigamy, the marriage took place, and the couple played a roll in the rescue of members of the Schandein family leading up to the scandal that reached local courts in 1905.

Schandein house of horrors, 2400 W. Wisconsin Ave.

(Caution! scandalous reading found through the following links.)
Read more here: http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2015/11/03/yesterdays-milwaukee-love-nest-of-a-beer-baroness/

Read an earlier version here: http://mkemurmur.tumblr.com/post/2904513359/lost-milwaukee-the-schandein-mansion