Pillows
Description: The history of the Unicorn, Sydney Hih’s famous basement club, is storied and well-documented for people that had an ear to the underground in Milwaukee. They opened in 1984, and later hosted Nirvana, Soundgarden and the Smashing Pumpkins in its tiny space, ensuring its legendary status. The club closed in the late 90s.
Description: Teddy's opened in 1973 hosting local and national live music. John Lee Hooker played there in the early days, as did Muddy Waters, who played five straight nights to close out 1974. In 1975 Teddy's embraced disco...and added a mechanical bull at some point. Teddy's closed in 1984.
Teddy's Pillow
$28
Description: The State Theater was a 1,206-seat single-screen movie theater located at 2616 W. State Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It opened in 1915 and by 1930 it was taken over by the Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp. The cinema closed in 1957. Between 1976 and 1979 the building was renamed the Electric Ballroom and used as a live music venue, hosting acts such as AC/DC, REO, Cheap Trick, The Police, Tom Petty and The Runaways. The building was destroyed by a fire in 2017.
Description: Disco was fading when Papagaio opened in December 1981. Inspired by crackling Rio nightlife, Papagaio spun—and hosted—the most groundbreaking 1980s acts. The bar’s popularity increased with the opening of Underground, an upstairs live music venue. The club closing in August 1987.
Papagaio Pillow
$28
Description: For fans of punk and new wave, there is perhaps no more storied Milwaukee locale than The Starship, which operated for a brief flash – barely two years (in the early 80s) – but still looms large to those of us of a "certain" generation. Starship featured a lot of local bands – from The Haskels to the Red Ball Jets – were playing at The Starship and young upstarts like Die Kreuzen and Sacred Order hatched their careers here, too. The club also hosted touring bands, like New York's The Cramps, the MC5's Wayne Kramer, Captain Beefheart, surf legends The Ventures, Sun Ra, and California bands Flipper, The Gun Club, Black Flag, Fear, X and Circle Jerks, among others.
Starship Pillow
$28
Description: The Milwaukee Does were a team in the short-lived Women's Professional Basketball League. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, their name was a play on that of the NBA Milwaukee Bucks. The Does played in the first two of the WPBL's three seasons, 1978–1979 and 1979–1980, before disbanding.
Description: The first Captain's Steak Joynt opened in 1969 as Marc's Steakhouse at 7822 W. Capitol Dr. By the mid-1980s, the chain was at its peak with 11 restaurants throughout the state. The name morphed multiple times, from Marc's to the Captain's Steak Joynt to simply The Captain's. By the late '80s all the Captain's were closed.
Description: Frenchy was chef and owner Paul La Pointe, who from 1945 to 1975 ran what was considered one of the finest restaurants in Milwaukee. The array of exotic meats on the menu would shock today: raccoon from the Deep South, African hippo and lion, to name just a few.
Frenchy's Pillow
$28
Description: For over fifty years, there was a Milwaukee-based Dairy Store/Restaurant chain known as Dutchland Dairy. Dutchland Dairy also sold its own branded dairy products, including milk in distinctive brown bottles, eggs, ice cream and even goat's milk, along with a variety of foods, most notably buckets of fried chicken. Advertisements boasted that Dutchland's chicken was "so good and so tender you can even EAT THE BONES!" In 1968, Dutchland Dairy was sold to B-G Foods Inc., and by the late '70s all the locations were closed.
Description: In 1945, La Joy opened at 4720 W. Lisbon Ave.in Milwaukee, WI and for decades it was perhaps the best Chinese restaurant in town. La Joy closed in the 80s.
La Joy Pillow
$28
Description: White Tower Hamburgers was a fast food restaurant chain that was founded in 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With its similar white fortress-like buildings and menu it is considered to be an imitator of White Castle chain that was founded in 1921. The chain was successful and expanded to other cities, including Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York City, Albany, Boston and as far south as Richmond, Virginia. During the Great Depression, White Tower sold hamburgers for five cents. The last White Tower closed in 2004
Description: Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain. It began operating in 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana, expanded throughout the United States, and at its peak in 1973 had 1,050 locations, including some in Canada. The chain featured several signature items, such as the Big Shef and Super Shef hamburgers. The final Burger Chef restaurant closed in 1996.
Description: Pabst introduced a premium brewed European style lager called Andeker in 1939. After being discontinued in the 1960s it was brought back from 1972 to 1986.
Andeker Pillow
$28
Description: The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. Through a series of consolidations, it was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company in 1999; the Tumwater brewery was closed in 2003.
Olympia Pillow
$28
Description: The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company is the name of a former brewing company that was located at 882 W. Seventh Street in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1855, the brewery was originally known as the Christopher Stahlmann Cave Brewery. Its name was changed to its final name in 1900. The brewery shut down in 2002.
Description: The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company is the name of a former brewing company that was located at 882 W. Seventh Street in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1855, the brewery was originally known as the Christopher Stahlmann Cave Brewery. Its name was changed to its final name in 1900. The brewery shut down in 2002.
Description: The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company is the name of a former brewing company that was located at 882 W. Seventh Street in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1855, the brewery was originally known as the Christopher Stahlmann Cave Brewery. Its name was changed to its final name in 1900. The brewery shut down in 2002.
Schmidt Pillow
$28
Description: Beverwyck Brewing Company was formed in 1878 as Quinn and Nolan and was located at 30/52 North Ferry Street, in Albany, New York. The brewery produced beer from 1878 until prohibition in 1920. During prohibition Beverwyck had a license to produce non-alcoholic beverages. It was one of the three breweries in Albany to survive prohibition, the others being J.F. Hedrick and Dobler Brewing. In 1933 Beverwyck re-opened with 6 products. Beverwyck India Ale and Porter was produced from 1933 through 1944, while Beverwyck Ale, Bock, Beer and Irish Cream Ale were produced from 1933 to 1950 when the brewery was acquired by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company of Brooklyn, New York.F. & M. Schaefer closed the brewery in 1972.
Beverwyck Pillow
$28
Description: Gambrinus Brewing Co. was a brewery located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The brewery's main product was Chief Oshkosh Beer, named after the Menominee Chief Oshkosh (1795–1858). The chief was involved in major events, including treaty settlements, military activities, and the case of the lost Partridge child. The brewery closed in 1971.
Description: Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by Billy Carter, whose older brother Jimmy was the incumbent President of the United States.In October 1978, Falls City announced that it was closing after less than a year of Carter's promotion.
Description: The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery, established in 1883 in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. In 1985, Pearl's parent company purchased the Pabst Brewing Company and assumed the Pabst name. In 1999, the Pabst Brewing Company began transferring its production to Miller Brewing, on a contract basis, and closing all of its breweries. The Pearl Brewery in San Antonio was closed in 2001.
Description: The A. Gettelman Brewing Company was an American brewery that was based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1856 until 1961, when it was sold to Miller Brewing Company. It was the smallest of the "Big Five" breweries from Milwaukee's brewing legacy (Schlitz, Pabst, Miller, and Blatz being the others).Its most recognizable brand, Milwaukee's Best, still brewed by Miller.
Description: The Falstaff Brewing Corporation was a major American brewery located in St. Louis, Missouri. With roots in the 1838 Lemp Brewery of St. Louis, the company was renamed after the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff in 1903. Production peaked in 1965 with 7,010,218 barrels brewed, and then dropped 70% in the next 10 years. While its smaller labels linger on today, its main label Falstaff Beer went out of production in 2005.
Falstaff Pillow
$28
