Madtown Shakedown

Calling the effort a long overdue attempt to address the city’s checkered history, Milwaukee officials announced Friday that they had removed the iconic riverfront Fonzie statue amid an ongoing reckoning with the town’s greaser past. “In the year 2025, no one should be celebrating the dark era in this city when motorcycles, leather jackets, and necking dominated our streets,” said Mayor Cavalier Johnson, who held a press conference at the former site of the controversial statue known as the Bronze Fonz, telling Milwaukeeans it was also time to consider renaming Pinky Tuscadero Park.

On this day on May 31, 1908, Dominic "Don" Ameche, American actor [Moon Over Miami (1941), Slightly French (1949), Trading Places (1983), Cocoon (1985)], was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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Summer Days, 1936, Georgia O'Keeffe