Travel & Visitors Guide - May 19, 2006
Quiet Edison Street once housed bars, brothels
If you could step back in time 100 years, you might be surprised to find that River Street -- as Edison Street was then called -- was lined with taverns, music halls, hotels and, believe it or not, brothels.
Tags: Edison Street, River Street, Water Street, downtown, bars, tavern, Kitty Williams, Zabel, Seidel, Socialist, Janssen, prostitution, brother, Miss Kitty, Gurda, red light, Mayor Rose

Travel & Visitors Guide - Dec. 13, 2004
Street name origins uncover young Milwaukee
Many Brew City streets have unique name origins. While you can get the full picture on those names in Carl Baehr's great book, in the meantime here's the answer to such age-old questions as, "Mommy, what's a Vliet?"
Tags: Street name origins, Lapham Boulevard, Edison Street, Juneau Avenue, Vieau Place, Kilbourn Avenue, Whitnall Avenue, Fratney Street, Finger Place, Good Hope Road, Calumet Road, College Avenue, Mill Road, Wausaukee Road, Vliet Street, Carl Baehr, Milwaukee