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.
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