Famous Parking Lots and Friendly People

Birthplace of the American League

Birthplace of the typewriter

Never let it be said that Milwaukeeans are without a dry sense of humor.  Around the corner from each other, and just a block from my hotel are two historic markers. 

Ann, Jeff and I were reading the baseball marker when a Postal Service worker driving a delivery truck stopped for a red light and shouted out to us "That's where the American League was founded.  Not in the parking lot.  There used to be a big hotel there."

A couple days later I saw a historic marker for the invention of the typewriter.  The sign began "At 318 State Street, approximately 300 feet northeast of here..."  I turned around and took a parking lot across the street for being the location of said invention.  As I lifted up my camera a guy going into the Journal Sentinel building said "You must like our parking lots."  I explained the whole typewriter thing and he told me "Oh, you want the parking lot that's in the middle of the block."

Photoless Bonus:  David Blaine was doing magic tricks on the corner of 116th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. this evening.