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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin


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638 foot Steel Stringer/Multi-beam bridge
over the Chippewa River
viewed from Bluff Street
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin



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/////////////////Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company



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Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
seventh-oldest brewery in the Nation


Below:
get 4 small sampler brews for free
customize your brews to fit your personal taste


Leinenkugel's Honey & Berry Wiess Mix: mixed out of a tap... :heart


Honey Bear: 1/2 Honey Weiss. 1/2 Berry Weiss.

Black Bear: Creamy Dark and a splash of Berry Weiss.

Red Sunset: 3/4 Leinie's Red. 1/4 Sunset Wheat. Red Lager first then and Sunset Wheat.

Bumble Bee: Equal parts Creamy Dark and Honey Weiss.

Sunny Bear: 4/5 Sunset Wheat, 1/5 Berry Weiss.

Pink Lemonade: 1/2 Summer Shandy, 1/2 Berry Weiss








http:video/leinenkugel-mixes-beer



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/////////////////////////////////Dells Mill - Augusta, Wi




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oldest Wisconsin Mill still in operation.

The Dells Mill Museum is 5 miles north Augusta WI
on County Road V just off of State Highway 27
(about 35 miles SW of Chippewa Falls, WI)



"This remarkable, five-story building,
built in 1864 is entirely constructed of hand-hewn timbers
fastened with wooden pegs.

Except for the grindstones,
the mill machinery, including the millwheel, gears and pulleys,
is also fashioned entirely of wood.
The waterpower generated by Bridge Creek
is transferred from waterwheel to milling machinery
over 3000 feet of belting and 175 pulleys."
- section from the Explore Wisconsin website



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half a mile to the east of the Dells Pond
lies the Dells Mill school
built in 1866
to serve as an elementary school for grades 1 through 8


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===================Walldogs


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Walldog of yesterday
around the turn of the century
mural artists painted external signs and murals, many on buildings
used as advertisements throughout the United States



Walldogs of today
About 160 international artists
billboard painters, graphic designers, portrait artists and more
from throughout the U.S., Canada and Germany
known as the Walldogs,
painted 21 murals in four days

Seven of the 21 painted onto aluminum panels
the others painted onto the exterior


Plymouth Wisconsin invested $123,000 in this project

Below:
Plymouth Brewery
Artist: Bill & Jane Diaz



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===================Walldogs

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Above:
Plymouth Military History
Artist: David & Suzie Butler

Below:
Plymouth Maid Ketchup
Artist: Carol Kaufmann (Carol also likes to do Barn Quilts)




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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

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"Ghost Signs"
One joy riding through small towns,
catching an image of a ÔÇ£ghost signsÔÇØ

In a half century or more, these original signs
may lose their luster and vibrant color
and also become
"Ghost Signs"


Above:
Mill and Dam site
Andy Goretski
Tomahawk, WI


 
==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs



In 1882,
the National Cheese Exchange
was established at Plymouth
where national cheese prices were set until 1955
The city was soon known as the
Cheese Capital of the World



Below:
Plymouth Cheese Exchange
Bernie Poff - Prairie du Sac, WI


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Today,
several cheese and dairy companies
are flourishing in Plymouth
:eat







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History of S&R
Artist: Michael Clark



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In the late 1870s,
Many prominent European cheese masters
came to this small picturesque German community
because they had heard of the abundance and richness
of Wisconsin produced milk




 
==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

Cheese Derby Parade
The Artist: Gary Anderson

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Plymouth replaced the 1950's Cheese Derby Parade,
with an annual New Year's Eve
Midnight Cheese Drop
:blush

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"Big Cheese" will drop exactly at midnight!

NYC has nothing over these Cheeseheads​




 
==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

The Artist: Scott Lindley
The Mural:

WadhamÔÇÖs Mobile Gas


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Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee
refinery was in Indiana
between 1917 and 1930
Wadham's built over 100
distinctive pagodas filling and service stations


Wadham's was purchased by
Vacuum Oil Company in 1930.
Vacuum Oil was acquired by Socony
which later became Mobil :deal




Early gas stations were small, ugly or utilitarian buildings
that attracted complaints from neighbors



Wadham's signature Pagoda service stations

Japanese culture
which was popular at the turn of the century,

the design was one of the earlier examples of architecture
forging a brand identity

Each building was unique,
having a different roofline and floor plan

see the Cedarburg photo below
for the pagoda-style roofs made of stamped-metal tiles
Atop the gabled red roofs many stations had cupolas -
with lanterns hanging from the corners


Most of the Wadhams pagodas
have suffered the fate of being razed
in favor of the boring modern box style

Few of these stations remain
One, built in 1927, was in use as a gas station until 1978
was restored in 2000,
and is now a Registered Historic Place
in the city of West Allis, WI.

Another, pictured below was built in 1926,
and is part of the Historic District in Cedarburg, WI.

eye-catching stations
something you would expect
to see on Route 66



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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs



How many young folks today, have only drank soda out of a can or plastic bottle?

In the 1950's Wisconsin had 150 (returnable) glass bottle soda companies

Today, there are only 13 (returnable) glass bottle soda companies in the US

with 3 located in NE Wisconsin

Soda Linky



The Mural:
:buds Hi-Ho Soda :buds
Ben & Joe Diaz


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Remember . . . the soda machines outside of every gas station,
with the little bottle cap opener built on the machine
and the wooden cases for honor returns?

. . . and the taste that tickled your tongue​


It is ironic, Coke/Pepsi out survived the great soda of my youth


The Artist: Cisco Vargas
The Mural:
Plymouth Bottling Works

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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

The Plymouth Rocker & Phonograph Co
The Artist: Adam May

The Plymouth Rocker Co
made thousands of chairs
and their rockers went all over the country

You can find them in antique stores everywhere . . . for a price

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The Artist: Ted Turner
Road America History
(Plymouth is only minutes from the track)

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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

The Artist: Noella Cotnam

Dairy State Bank

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The Project

A group of professional artists
ONCE each year,
select ONE CITY,
someplace IN THE WORLD
to paint HISTORICAL MURALS!

In 2011,
160 Walldogs
descend upon Plymouth, Wisconsin,
to paint a record 21 full size Murals in 4 days!
 
==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

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Artist: Dave Petri
The Mural:
Meet me at the County Fair

(Home of the Dairyland Classic Short Track Dirt Motorcycle Race)


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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

The Artist: Nancy Bennett
The Mural:
Andrew Carnegie Foundation

In 1908 Plymouth received $10,000 grant
from Andrew Carnegie
for its present public library building

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==============Plymouth, Wisconsin - Walldogs

Artist: Dan Sawatzky
The Mural: Railroad History
The Milwaukee Road Rail
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Below:
One of Plymouth Wisconsin's original Main Street murals


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Goodman Wisconsin


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The Town of Goodman originated in 1908
as a logging community built by R.B. Goodman.
a community in which to house his employees
(AKA Company town)



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The town center, now known as
the Goodman Club House
offered a ballroom, theater, and restaurant.
Famous entertainers frequented the Club House
bringing top name performances to the area.







The eighth cutting cycle on the original Goodman Lumber Company land
took place in 1999.

From 1927 through 1999,
417 million board feet of timber have been removed
yet the tract still contains
about the same volume of timber that it had in 1927
:thumb

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