August 1987
Volume 12
Number 8
Features
The Best of Milwaukee
In which our assiduous senior editor bestows honors on everything from the best popsicles, pastries and pottery- to the best boutique beers.
By James Romenesko
Designing the American Dream
He’s remembered mostly for the Excalibur auto, but Brooks Stevens brought American consumer fantasies to life with other, more mundane things — everything from the first colored appliances and the first Lawn Boy mower to toasters, tricycles and trains.
By Perry M. Lamek
The Go-Between
Two years ago, a college sophomore working on his school yearbook received a call from an anonymous woman looking for her son. A series of strange coincidences put him on the trail, hoping to reunite a woman and the son she’d given up some 20 years before.
By Kirk Hartlage
In The Money
Milwaukee ranks among the top cities in the nation for mutual fund management. More and more, buying shares in funds that are “made in Wisconsin” is proving to be a sound investment move.
By Mary Van de Kamp Nohl
Departments
OutFront
Letters
Celebrations and lamentations.
Insider
How your subdivision got named, strange goings-on in the Brewer locker room, media updates from all over town, why they’re calling it White-Folks Bay, and more.
By the Editors
Misc.
Must-haves for the horticultural set.
By Victoria Vaccarello
Metroscene
All about August.
Edited by Daum M. Behr
Read it before you eat.
Columns
Business
An entrepreneurial update: how nine ambitious businessmen and women are faring now that the honeymoon’s over.
By Helen Pauly
The Visual Arts
Corporate sponsorship may be bringing us more paintings and photographs and sculptures, but is it changing the way we look at them?
By Tom Bamberger
Restaurants
The great steak round-up. Where to go for meat and potato.
By Willard Romantini
Endgame
Era of good feelings: Is Marty Schreiber too nice to lead us into the 21st century?
By Bruce Murphy
On The Cover : Illustration by Emilie Burnham.
