10 moments from city’s past
Sept. 1, 2014: Brew Crew collapse
The Milwaukee Brewers lost to the last-place Chicago Cubs, 4-2. The loss dropped the Crew from first place in the National League Central Division for the first time in 150 days. The team’s continued collapse resulted in an overhaul and rebuilding program (which seems ahead of schedule).
Sept. 3, 1994: Tupac vs. crowd
Rapper Tupac Shakur made his first and only appearance in Milwaukee as the headliner of Phat Rap Phest at the MECCA Arena. After audience members threw ice, cups and paper on stage during his set, Shakur reportedly threatened the crowd, then left; some concertgoers, fearful he or his bodyguards were coming back with guns, fled the arena.
Sept. 7, 1835: Ozaukee for sale
The first parcel of land in Ozaukee County was sold to real estate speculator and Milwaukee city father Daniel Wells Jr. The land was on the shore of Lake Michigan in what is now Mequon.
Sept. 10, 1970: Biggest mall debuts
Southridge formally opened its doors. The 1.2 million-square-foot shopping center at S. 76th St. and W. Grange Ave. in Greendale was and is the biggest mall in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. The mall’s original anchor tenants were Boston Store, Sears, Gimbels, J.C. Penney and Kohl’s.
Sept. 12, 1847: A church of their own
St. Mary’s Catholic Church was dedicated at the corner of what is now N. Broadway and E. Kilbourn Ave. St. Mary’s was the first German-language Catholic church in the city, built in response to the influx of German immigrants in the mid-1840s.
Sept. 14, 1848: Women’s studies
The Milwaukee Female Seminary opened at the northwest corner of what is now E. Wells and N. Milwaukee streets, by Lucy A. Parsons, wife of Rev. Leonard Parsons, pastor of the First Congregational Church across the street. The school, the first women’s college in Wisconsin, later moved and changed its name to Milwaukee College, then merged with Downer College in 1895 and with Lawrence University in 1964. Its buildings became part of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee.
Sept. 17, 1945: A slice of MKE for Big Mac
The Milwaukee Common Council formally approved naming the new civic center area between N. 4th and 10th streets and Wells and State streets MacArthur Square, after Milwaukee native and World War II hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Sept. 19, 1983: Ending a boys’ club
The University Club barred Marge Beil, the manager of Gov. Tony Earl’s Milwaukee office, from entering the private club’s main dining room because she was a woman. (The club also had a separate dining room for women.) The resulting controversy forced the private club to change its menonly dining rule the following January.
Sept. 21, 1951: NBA-bound
Milwaukee landed its first National Basketball Association franchise when team owners voted to allow the Tricities Blackhawks to move to Milwaukee. The team, known as the Hawks, played in Milwaukee through the 1954-’55 season before moving to St. Louis (that team moved to Atlanta in 1968).
Sept. 28, 1913: Brewers win pennant! (1st in a series)
The American Association Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Louisville Colonels, 3-1, to win their first pennant ever. The Milwaukee Sentinel hired a man to read game updates via megaphone to a large crowd outside the newspaper’s office.