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Urban spelunking: Sobelman and its 1889 Schlitz tied house

More than 60 years ago, a Milwaukee building owner asked the city to buy her property. The new freeway, she argued, had isolated the bar from its neighborhood and its customers and diminished the business. She was not wrong. Yet, since then, two businesses each endured at least a quarter-century.

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