Post #50940 by Lake Surfer on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 12:56 AM

Hey there Jab... you were at Leon's! Did you have a Tin Roof?! That's one of their signature sundaes... Ah, Milwaukee custard... so buttery you drink a gallon of water after eating some! Leon's has some great neon... a very well photographed icon in Milwaukee...

What did you think of our expensive art musuem addition? Its cool but most of us here are over it... the city went Calatrava crazy for a while and wanted him to design everything here... there's a bridge in town that is a Calatrava rip off...

I went to the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) in Milwaukee... BFA in Graphic Design but I saw Brooks Stevens almost on a daily basis in the halls as he taught Industrial Design class in his final years from a wheelchair. I heard him speak a few times in school... an amazing man with so many stories to tell... he lived a full life.
MIAD is in a new building from where I went to school and they have a gallery dedicated to Brooks with many of his works... I've been there many times... he also has works in the William Eisner Musuem of Advertisng here in Milwaukee...