Nearly 25 years ago, the former Milwaukee Road Depot was turned into the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot.

Bernie Brewer carried around a bouquet made up of individual red roses to give away. And, the Johnsonville Famous Racing Sausages had stacks of punny valentines in hand.

I’m walking the Streets of Old Milwaukee. It’s peaceful and familiar on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, the same moody lighting, weathered statues and Old European charm I’ve known for 20-some years ...