Fun spot downtown for bowling, games, and more! Came specifically for the bowling which was super…read morecheap -- $4.50 per game ($2 during happy hour Mon-Thurs 5-7 pm) and $2 for shoe rentals! We paid for 2 games upfront and had no issues adding a third later on. There are about 16 lanes or so and the bowling area has a cute vintage feel to it. Equipment maybe a little older as there were a few times when the pins were set up that 1 would accidentally get knocked over before we actually bowled a ball, but we didn't mind the extra help :) I do wish their bowling ball selection was a bit more organized and expansive. I was looking for lighter options and could not find any -- not all the balls had the weights labeled clearly so unsure if they didn't have any/were already taken/I overlooked them. The lightest ones I found were 10 lbs. We stayed and played some of their arcade games too which ranged from pinball to skeeball to foosball and more! Some machines take bills and some only take change but there is an ATM and change machine on site. There were also plenty of people there just to enjoy food/drinks or play pool. We walked since we live close by so did not have to worry about parking but only street parking around like a lot of areas of downtown.

Landmark is a slice oif my childhood. I went for bowling. Nice meeting place. Prices. Drink…read morespecials. Fast service. Lames were full

Some may say this is the bridge to nowhere, but I personally think this is the bridge that connects…read morethe Eastside to Riverwest or vice versa. It does all that in style as it was built right below the Holton Street Bridge making it a part of that structure. Not only is this spans' eye appealing but it allows you to see the area in a way you normally could not. Perched well above, or below take your pick, the Milwaukee River and running next to the Mighty Lakefront Brewery this bridge makes pedestrian traffic across the river a breeze. We walk from our Riverwest home down and across the Viaduct regularly. It connects the two sides and are known to some as part of the Oak Leaf Trail or by others as the Marsupial Bridge or to even those as simply the bike path under Holton. Either way this project helped connect two dissociated neighborhoods into an accessible thoroughfare that is used by so many. This is the essence of taking full advantage of the urban landscape and turning it into something so useful.

All I know is Lake Front Brewery is on one side and I felt very animal like as I took the short cut…read moreand scampered up the side of the bridge landing versus taking the long way down east and back up to cross the bridge. If i were more into fitness I would have enjoyed the cardiac value of being chased by street thugs. Be careful at night I don't talk to strangers, so sorry if I seem curt and impolite. As I make my way back home. I have bad memories of billy goats gruff and trolls under the bridge. Not internet trolls the real living breathing diseased, TB flea infested trolls that carry all kinds of hepatitis, STD's and whatnots. I recommend lawful carry for personal safety.

So pretty and so scenic especially on a warm summer night. Love the landscaping done with the…read moreflowers.

The Riverwalk was completed 20 years ago along the third ward following the Milwaukee River. The…read moreironwood walkway is a mile of river views and outdoor dining. We followed the boardwalk along the river, passing boats, restaurant, and dog walkers. There were colorful flowers along the way and benches to sit & relax.

I've watched several films in the Oriental Tbeater over many years, and I believe I've watched a…read morefiñm in each of their 3 theaters. The sound system in the main theater is pretty impressive, but the mostly "flat" seating area presents a challenge to see the full screen when someone sits in front of you. The good news is the seats are not assigned, so you can move to another seat. The true allure of the Oriental Theater is the sheer beauty and history of it. I saw Odyssey here a few weeks ago, and last night I saw Landscapes of Memory, part of the Dialogues Documentary Festival, which was really enlightening. The staff is very helpful, and vending options are sufficient. Everyone needs to experience watching a film here!

The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival presented "Hanging By a…read moreWire". A tense, nail-biting tale of local heroes rescuing young passengers trapped inside a cable car hanging 900 feet above ground. Upon entering the oriental, a table of muslim themed paraphernalia of baby books, film posters, pamphlets, t-shirts were stationed on the table. Two ladies dressed in earth tone hijabs greeted me warmly. A Q&A panel comprised of the fire department and muslim community members discussed matters related to the film.

Aayyyy... *two thumbs up*…read more I was visiting the area a few years ago when a few friends and I wanted to go to a Packers game. We spent some time in Milwaukee and I definitely wanna check this place out. Especially since it's free to check out. Essentially it's really just a statue that is located I wanna say lakeside (not of lot of bodies of water in LA so I'm not well versed on the nuances) Either way a fun visit, especially if you're already in the area.

A life-size bronze sculpture of the happy days legend Henry Winkler. I was curious why he's here…read moresince he's from New York City and understand. I read the "Bronze Fonz" statue is in Milwaukee because the popular TV sitcom Happy Days, which starred Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, was set in 1950s Milwaukee. The statue, located on the city's RiverWalk, was erected in 2008 by Visit Milwaukee to honor the iconic character and boost tourism, becoming a popular landmark and selfie spot. However, we walked and walked and walked, and I never found him. We saw another strange set of Riverwalk statues. I'm glad we came back in the morning and found the Fonz. He was surrounded by tourist and sad people talking to them themselves passed out on the bench. My GPS said there's a safe house around the corner.

I was walking around frozen lake looking for dirty the duck and I finally found him and they had…read moreall kinds of stuff for him. There's about 67 different ducks surrounding the area and it was freezing outside so I caught a couple quick pics and got out.

Gertie the Duck's sculpture can be found at the beginning of the Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee…read more This sculpture is supposed to be a brief reminder of how Gertie made history in the 1940's. Gertie (The Milwaukee Journal named the duck as they reported the story) was a mallard that made a nest and laid eggs very closer to the bridge that is over the Milwaukee River. After the story broke, soon after, Gertie became a local tourist attraction. During this time, WWI was going on and both the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel had credited dear Gertie to help the citizens forget the war for just a little bit. After the ducklings hatched, they were taken by the Humane Society and placed on display in Gimbels' window for a few days for locals to see the new family. Then afterwards, the birds were taken to Juneau Park Lagoon. Although I did not grown up in the midwest and did not live during the time of when Gertie the Great made her world debut, I can still appreciate the sentiment that she meant to Milwaukee (although there were many that did not care for the Gertie fever) and see why there is a sculpture here to remember her. This is a quick little visit as you continue on your way along the river walk. Worth a visit to read the plaque and take a few photos (if you wish), and then continue on your way.

This beautiful Art Deco building was constructed by the Milwaukee Gas Light Company in late 1929…read moreand opened in 1930. It was constructed in a remarkable nine months! The building designed by a premier Milwaukee architectural firm, Eschweiler & Eschweiler. The design of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company building includes different materials to enhance the appearance. The first two floors are clad with Coldstone granite from Minnesota, starting with the third floor, bricks are progressively lighter in color toward the top of the building. The cornices of the setbacks and the upper floors use Milwaukee's famous Cream City brick to make the Art Deco styled building seem taller and sunnier. Beautiful copper sculptured panels adorned the spandrels and large bronze doors served the main entrance. All the artful works proclaimed the building to be the headquarters of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company. In 1966, with the era of gas lights lost for decades, the company changed its name to Wisconsin Gas Company. All the identifying marks of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company were removed at that time, and sadly, were lost. In 2001, the Wisconsin Gas Company was acquired by WICOR, the holding company that also owned Wisconsin Electric Company. The two firms that had been bitter rivals for so many decades were now under the same ownership. Employees of the old gas company, today known as WE Energies, were moved out of the building and merged into the WE Energies facilities. The Wisconsin Gas Company building was sold to a private developer, who found and restored the copper sculptures as well as the bronze entrance doors. The building is partially occupied and space is available for lease. In 1956, a large sign was added to the peak of the roof top. The sign is in the shape of a gas flame and was added primarily to promote the use of gas for cooking and heating. It was also lit at night to make weather forecasts. The flame is lit with neon and will show red, blue or gold, either solid or flashing. Several mnemonics were published over the years to help viewers remember the key to interpreting the forecast, such as this one: When the flame is red, it's warm weather ahead! When the flame is gold, watch out for cold! When the flame is blue, there's no change in view! When there's a flickering flame, expect snow or rain! For many years, Wisconsin Gas Company sponsored weather forecasts on a local television station. At the end of the forecast, a slide of the lit flame was shown on screen with the personality stating the flame on top of the Gas Company Building was blue, red or gold and explain what that meant. Since it was a slide, with no animation, if the flame was flashing to indicate precipitation in the forecast, the station simply flashed the entire slide off and on, so the entire building went dark, too! The flame was visible for miles and was even used as a navigational aid by ships on Lake Michigan. As taller buildings began to surround the Wisconsin Gas Company Building and weather forecasts became readily available from radio and television, the flame lost its significance as a weather forecasting tool. In 1973, at the peak of the energy crisis, the light was extinguished. It returned to use in 1985. The current owner of the building maintains the tradition, and the gas flame shines from sundown to midnight every night. (Author's note, a similar sign predicts weather on the roof of the American Trust and Savings Bank in Dubuque, Iowa. It is a tower, not a gas flame!) http://www.yelp.com/review_share/_7gSgdhiP7RfGNrmRHR04w/review/zNnPhqVfmefdFMFKTdokyA?fsid=NOOmFnQ1N3iUWwhdtsFpyg

The Wisconsin Gas Building is under new management and they are working hard to spruce things up…read more The exterior planters have fresh and beautiful flowers. New security cameras are being installed. Some new seating and flowers have been placed in the lobby. The coolest thing however has been the polishing of all the brass trimmings and fixtures. This always beautiful building is really shining with all the face lifting!

What a fun experience!…read more This is a really cool speakeasy. Know the password or complete a task (we had to vogue). It's all 90's spy thriller themed and had the dark, mysterious vibes. The food was amazing (highly recommend the cheese curds) and the drinks were delicious. Our server was so nice, she's the one who recommended the cheese curds. We had a great time and I wish I lived closer so I could go back.

Stopped in as my fiancé had been here as a child. It's like a speakeasy restaurant…read more More of a fun experience for kids than adults. Food was average. Be sure to go in the Red door. If you don't know the secrete password you will have to pick something to do to be allowed entry. We had to walk like penguins. They send you on a scavenger hunt to find the secrete password while your food it being made so makes the wait easier on kids.

Won a ticket from good ole Yelp! First thing wife says "we aren't doing the tomato fight are we?"…read moreWell as a matter of fact, hell no we aren't. I'm a bit to old to get in a caged ring with a bunch of youngsters chucking rotten tomatoes at each other. It does make for a good watch though and that we did. First this 2017 11th Eastside Annual Tomato Romp couldn't have dreamt up better weather. It was sunny and crisp out and so it began, the jaunt around to hit up 8 different pubs and enjoy a 5 oz. sample at each location. That's 40 oz of the goods! If you didn't walk away full or buzzed... well that's your problem. As expected some bloodies weren't nearly as good a s others and thus why they call it a contest. Still trying to figure out who won the damn event. Voting was as easy as 1, 2, 3 so that was a plus. All the places to try the juice were centrally located except Buddha Lounge which was a little further walk away. No matter I crowned one of favorite local spots Vintage as the Bloody Mary Champ. We'll see if it holds true. After that Vitucci's, Hooligan's and Landmark Lanes all had tasty bloodies, in that order. Fun event, good weather and lot's of people roaming around MKE make for a great day!

The Eastside Tomato Romp enters it's 7th year as an awesome fundraiser for the North Avenue BID…read more And it's a pretty cool one at that! For years my friends and I have been marking this September event date on our calendars when it's announced in early spring. And as with any annual event, it's great to see improvements made each year. The two largest draws are the Tomato Fight and the Bloody Mary Crawl. The Tomato Fight takes place at 4pm($10 entry fee goes to a local food pantry). A chain link cage (less the roof) is assembled in the parking lot between Farwell and Murray just north of North Avenue. The cage is filled with donated tomatoes and eagerly awaits the throngs of most costumed tomato fighters. Even spectators getting unwittingly pulled into the act when errant tomatoes fly past the 15 foot sidewalls. As fun as watching this spectacle is the many rookie fighters that are ill-prepared for life after the fight. Tomatoes are juicy, and therefore wet. And wet means cold, especially when the high temp this year barely crossed 64 degrees. But these gladiators of produce are unfazed. Some set out to the nearby sponsoring credit union that offers a "hose off" station. And some begin what is likely to be a very long walk home, no matter how close they live. New in 2012 and every since it the Tomato Plate Crawl. For $2-$8 for a tasting plate the 12 participating restaurants will regale your tastebuds with all things tomato. The other major draw is the Bloody Mary Tasting Crawl. Pay $20, get a wristband and scorecard, and embark on a self guided tour of some of the divey-est, hipster-esque, popular, and trendy places on and around North Ave. The participating bars must follow three rules: Use the sponsor vodka (SKYY in 2014), use the sponsor chaser beer (Milwaukee Brewing Company Outboard in 2014) and garnish with only a lemon and or lime wedge if at all. From the start there seem to be issues with the chaser beer and we estimate we received the official beer at about half of the 14 stops. But this was about the bloodies and they ranged from solid (Divino, embracing basil) to over-spiced (Rascals) to culinary (Hooligans cumin based bloody tasted like a great chili starter), to one dimensional and overdone (BBC- black pepper, Replay - teriyaki) to downright undrinkable (note to School Yard, please balance your overly infused with pickle juice bloody with a little tomato flavor next year). Yield Bar took home the double crown as the Choice of both the People and the Judges even though no one in our group would choose to order it again. Go figure. But the point was fun and the Tomato Romp packs that year after year. So mark your calendar early and get it on it.

Indulge me for a min while I talk Milwaukee history: Once…read moreupon a time, maybe 10+ plus years back, the Park East freeway ran from the west exit of the East point parking lot to I-43. Myself and many others got our coffee and were scooped up and whisked on to our morning commute by a huge double decker freeway that rose up over what is now the Aloft and that one lonely Ace hardware. (C'mon, MKE, its been over a decade.) What even I didn't know until recently was that for 20+ years before, from 1970 to 1990 the land from east point to the lake, between lyon and ogden was completely razed of homes/buildings and sat vacant for 2 decades. (This is why if you walk down lyon st. one side is cute Victorian houses and the other side is all new apartments.) The plan was to continue the freeway right through the lower east side, to the lake where it would cut through veterans park and meet the hoan bridge & 794. (This may also explain the one oddly placed shell gas station at the end of farwell.) All I can say to all this is how *^/@ed up would the lower east side, the lakefront, (& quite frankly, my home) be if this monstrous freeway had been constructed? Instead of the lagoon at veterans park and the stairs at ogden it would have been all concrete pillars and exhaust fumes. So, in closing there's nothing particularly special to me about this little park/square/green space. But its nice and I'm very glad history was written the way it was and this park is therefore actually able to exist.

I love my "park across the street". I'm not sure what crawled up Stephen's pant leg, but this park…read moreis nice for taking my puppy out to do his business, sitting and people watching, and whatever else you like to do in a park. It is really like a little oasis on the busy eastside. AND, as Sam C points out, what a great history and tradition!