More than 60 years ago, a Milwaukee building owner asked the city to buy her property. The new freeway, she argued, had isolated the bar from its neighborhood and its customers and diminished the business. She was not wrong. Yet, since then, two businesses each endured at least a quarter-century.
Let s be honest, Von Trier, 2235 N. Farwell Ave., feels like it s been on the corner of Farwell and North for absolutely ever, right? Forty-five years! But its predecessor, Rieder s, occupied the site even longer. Here s a look at the stories of both.