Heinemann's Closing

Heinemann's, a Milwaukee "institution" for 86 years, is closing.

Heinemann's Restaurants, a longtime Milwaukee-area business, has closed - the victim of a recession and too much competition from other restaurants.

Actually, this seems to me to have been happening over the last 25 years or so. One by one their locations were closing down. The restaurants suffered from an aura of "old-fashionedness" if there is such a thing.

I do have a fond memory of riding the bus downtown with my Grandma and having lunch at Heinemann's I was a little kid.