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Published July 16, 2008 at 1:17 p.m.Category: Bars & Clubs
Tags: bars, fright, oh what a night, water street
Ok, so whenever I get the urge to go out on a weekend, I usually flock to Water St. It has been this way for the past 3yrs now. I don't find anything particularly exciting about the bars there, but it's just a matter of convience (since I live close on the eastside).
Most of my time is spent sitting on a stool sucking back an MGD in Mcgillycuddy's. I never worried much about the people who came in, because I had always known it to be a pretty laid back place. Lately though....something has changed. Now when I look up and see who's coming in, I cringe a little. What stares back at me is a mouth (grill) full of gold teeth, big shiny bling things, pants pulled down well below the buttocks, and the faint smell of a little green plant that's used to achieve euphoria.
Now before I start getting dozens of emails calling me a racist, let me just say that I am a half black female (crisis averted). I just feel like the melancholy that once was Water St has turned into a run for your life before you get shot type thing. I don't generalize all african americans to be this way at all, but the ones who have been flocking to Water St seem to fit the bill of thug.
Not only are they loud and rude, they also feel like they can touch women whenever and wherever they feel like. Of course I'm prime meat to them (considering being half black). Most of the women who go to "Gilly"s" are white, so they bypass them and set there sights on me. I've had my back rubbed, my butt grabbed, henious things whispered in my ears, all while being subjected to derogatory name calling moments after their efforts are shot down.
I can honestly say that "Gilly's" will be just a casual acquaintance to me from now on, and that goes for the rest of the bars on Water St. This blog is not meant to demean, but merely to point out behavior that really needs to cease. Let people go out and enjoy themselves without trying to start a fight, and pull out guns!
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Posted by CT24 on Sept. 12, 2008 at 4:47 p.m. (report)
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Posted by Warped on Sept. 4, 2008 at 2:31 p.m. (report)
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Posted by gofish19 on Aug. 27, 2008 at 12:09 p.m. (report)
I'm not sure if anyone noticed or not, but there arelarge number of police officers on Water Street during the weekends. They even have a mobile jail set up. They do issue citations and arrest a lot of people. Unfortunately most of those people couldn't careless. It's just another ticket they won't pay that will become a municipal warrant. It's really unfortunate that it has become what it has.
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Posted by UWMilwaukeean on Aug. 20, 2008 at 12:45 p.m. (report)
Wow. At first I thought this article was just some culture shock experienced by someone who has never been to the ethnically diverse metropolis of Milwaukee before, but then I strolled down Water St. this past Saturday night, and holy... &%&* it looked like a cruise strip circus.
This is not a racial issue; this is a decency issue. I would be equally pissed if the majority of people ruining the scene were rednecks, hillbillys, snobby/uppity people, or purpetrators of any colors/stripes.
You go to a bar strip street- to patronize bars. Period. If people want to show off their hot cars with huge rims and loud stereos and loiter around all day on the curbs... they should find somewhere else- Water Street is not a "cruise strip".
I sure as heck hope police start issuing citations for people loitering and not even going into the bars- the atmosphere created by literally hundreds of loiterers blocking the sidewalks, is to be nice, less-than-inviting.
I feel bad for all the Water Street bars... no I don't- they make their money just fine either way I'm sure.. I feel bad for people who used to love the Water St. area and still try to go there.
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Posted by urban_lounge79 on Aug. 12, 2008 at 5:51 p.m. (report)
I agree with some of your comments and take them to be out of frustration. This is a prime example of segregation that has been going on in Milwaukee for along time. When the people you described enter into a venue that is catered for a certain crowd that crowd is not familiar with them and they are not use to being around that crowd. I am from Milwaukee but reside in Atlanta and there is never that problem. I can go hang with any type of crowd and feel comfortable, but thats not the case in Milwaukee. I come home often and often feel uneasy when I do decide to hang out downtown. I believe this is a very big issue in our city and we need to correct it or it will get worse!
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