Travel & Visitors Guide - Dec. 16, 2005
Italian diner salutes '50s Milwaukee
Maybe Milwaukee can't hold on to a retro downtown diner like Ed Debevic's but Brew City itself is fodder for a diner and musical venue that recalls a lost age in American culture. Milwaukee 50's Diner is located in the town of Varedo, in the province of Milan, in northern Italy.
Tags: Varedo, Milan, Italy, 1950s, Milwaukee, Fonzie, Happy Days

Music - April 9, 2004
Milwaukee rockabilly scene is alive and swell
Defining the term "rockabilly" is as slippery as the grease in Elvis' hair, but an OMC writer and numerous Milwaukeeans into the scene -- including members of the band The Uptown Savages -- give it a whirl anyway.
Tags: rockabilly, RAB, RushMor, Palomino, Rust Belt, Atomic, SE10, Cochrane, 1950s, Vnuk's

Marketplace - Nov. 25, 2002
Tip-Top Atomic Shop is well worth the stop
It's a Tuesday afternoon in the year 2002, but Jim Dutcher sports a "pompador with a duck's ass" haircut and listens to Bill Haley while minding the retro Tip-Top Atomic Shop in Bay View.
Tags: retro, rockabilly, 1950s, quirky, Kinnickinnic, resale, kitsch