Lannon Springs Hotel aka Whiskey Corners aka Willow Springs Roadhouse (See Abler’s Whiskey Corners) Lannon Springs Hotel – Built by Michael Keating in 1875, was originally constructed on the southeast corner of Town Line and Mill Roads. With the coming of the North Western Railway in the early 1900s, it was later moved to its present location at W220 N6410… Read more »
Louis Gissal Tavern Menomonee Falls News: Sept. 6, 1929 1941: circa – The old two-story St. James rectory (where the north parking is now) was sold to the Louis Gissal family. It was cut in half, then jacked up and moved eastward on Hwy 74 and Good Hope Rd., then east on Good Hope to its’ present location, just east… Read more »
Mammoth Spring Hotel REAL. ESTATE SALES. REPORTED BY REGISTER ROBERTS. Henry Sherry to John Hummel, lot 5 and 6, village of Templeton, $850. [Editor – Did Fred’s father John orig. buy the property that Fred built the Mammoth Spring Hotel on? The Hummel name is most often spelled with a single L not the double LL.] source: Waukesha Freeman… Read more »
Dancers have a ball displaying elegance, grace Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) – Sunday, March 11, 2001 Author:LORAYNE RITT, Journal Sentinel staff While on a vacation trip to Mexico with his wife, Craig Lewandowski of Vernon was called up on a night club stage to perform with three flamenco dancers. He didn’t do very well. So when they got home, Craig… Read more »
WolfenDale’s in Sussex impresses start to finish Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Friday, July 5, 1996 Author: DENNIS GETTO New restaurants seem to open every week these days. But really good places, like the new WolfenDale’s in Sussex , come along far less frequently. Last April, Kurt Schuller, who formerly was general manager at Club Forest in Mequon, teamed up with… Read more »
Golden Nugget Tavern Butler man’s frozen body found after fall Police Briefs,Living Sussex Sun, Posted: March 12, 2008 The frozen body of Terry Wachs was discovered at about 7:10 Friday morning in the doorway of his apartment building at 12506 W. Hampton Ave. The Butler police report said a driver cutting through the parking lot behind the Golden Nugget Tavern… Read more »
Rudy & Ony’s Hilltop Tavern Janichek, Verona M. “Ony” (Nee Burdick) Found peace on Sunday, August 26, 2012, at the age of 85. Beloved wife of the late Rudy Janichek. Beloved mother of Michael (Shirley) Janichek and Susan (David) Kratz. Adored grandmother of the late Jim Janichek, Julie (Ken) Cull, Brenda (Jeff) Klemmer and Jeff (Heidi) Kratz. Great-grandmother of… Read more »
Retrospect: Old Boots Brewery fell to railroads, Milwaukee beers By Fred Keller Posted: Aug. 13, 2008, Sussex Sun The State of Wisconsin once had hundreds of breweries, 10 in Waukesha County, according to The 1880 History of Waukesha County. None of the countys 10 breweries remains, but a smattering of taverns offer their own brews on a small scale. People… Read more »
SEWER PROJECT Assessment sparks fight in Lannon Some property owners file appeals challenging village’s special tax Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Thursday, May 30, 1996 Author:BOB HELBIG, Journal Sentinel staff Property owners in Lannon are challenging the village’s method of imposing special tax assessments to pay for a $10.2 million sanitary sewer project. Two separate assessment appeals were filed this week… Read more »
Lannon’s small-town charm is carved out of native stone – History, and noise, of quarries is ingrained in homes and residents Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Sunday, March 21, 1999 Author: LUKE KLINK, Special to the Journal Sentinel Quarry blasting and rumbling stone-filled trucks have been a fact of life for Ronald and Patsy Monacelli for the last 25 years, having… Read more »
