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  • 3 minutes 50 seconds
    Deciphering the Green Flow, the key to Brady Street's past
    The pictures that line Brady Street are like hieroglyphics, telling the story of the popular street's early history.16685450.gif
    17 May 2024, 9:07 am
  • 4 minutes 59 seconds
    Bubbler Talk: The Amtrak train Borealis is coming to the Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul corridor
    After years of advocacy by passenger rail groups, the inaugural Amtrak Borealis service is set to launch on May 21, 2024.16678564.gif
    10 May 2024, 1:11 pm
  • 4 minutes 30 seconds
    What happens when an animal at the Milwaukee County Zoo dies?
    Every day, thousands of people visit the Milwaukee County Zoo to see the animals they love — whether it’s the adorable otters, roaring tigers or giant elephants. These animals live their lives on display, but most of us don’t know what happens after they die.16674533.gif
    6 May 2024, 6:49 pm
  • 11 minutes 55 seconds
    How Enderis Park neighborhood's namesake, Dorothy Enderis, shaped Milwaukee Recreation
    Dorothy Enderis was the second, and arguably most influential, leader of the Milwaukee Recreation Department. Learn about her and the neighborhood named in her honor.16479013.gif
    1 December 2023, 2:43 pm
  • 4 minutes 30 seconds
    Meet Ringo: The star, artist and friend of Bradford Beach
    Meet a Milwaukee character you've likely seen hanging out at Bradford Beach.16458967.gif
    17 November 2023, 11:00 am
  • 4 minutes 30 seconds
    The story of an intriguing Sherman Park home begins with 1933 award-winning design
    The sleek, striking, boxy home's contemporary style stands out in the sea of more traditional Milwaukee homes that surround it.16440564.gif
    10 November 2023, 7:49 pm
  • 5 minutes 7 seconds
    The journey of the ancestral pole that once stood outside of the Milwaukee Public Museum
    Bubbler Talk question asker Dan Currier of Whitewater wants to know about a past iconic figure of Milwaukee: Where did the totem pole that stood in front of the old and the new Milwaukee Public Museum come from?16426651.gif
    3 November 2023, 10:00 am
  • 7 minutes 55 seconds
    There's a radio haunting this century-old Milwaukee area bar
    A Bubbler Talk listener, history nerd and radio reporter walk into a Wisconsin bar.16412868.gif
    27 October 2023, 10:00 am
  • 4 minutes 41 seconds
    Look! Under the railroad tracks, there's a model railroad club in Milwaukee
    Club members tell WUWM about model trains and memories.16404339.gif
    20 October 2023, 8:31 pm
  • 5 minutes 30 seconds
    'Off-key, off-tempo': A former Milwaukee Symphony conductor battles the foghorns
    In 1974, former Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn found the foghorns so distracting that he wrote a formal complaint to the Coast Guard about them. On this week's Bubbler Talk, we learn more about Schermerhorn and the nueroscience behind why the foghorns were so distracting to him.16393782.gif
    13 October 2023, 1:10 pm
  • 5 minutes
    Holiday hibernation: What happened to the Grand Avenue Mall's robotic bear orchestra?
    For about 20 years, the Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra performed at the Grand Avenue Mall. Where did the animatronic bears go?16386822.gif
    9 October 2023, 8:09 pm
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