The loaded slate is an endangered bar and one of the better buildings ever built in the city of Milwaukee. This small bar and building with apartments is connected to a high-rise and its distinction is unique often resembling the parody of a property owner refusing to sell out to a development. I love this bar and am proud to see a bar like this still in existence and resist developers plans for more skyscrapers and Subway sandwich shops in the heart of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
This bar is even cooler than where I work over at the Itasca Inn behind trhee guys pizza in Itasca, Illinois. What makes this bar so unique I believe is just the image of it next to a pretty much modern day rare skyscraper in Milwaukee that the developers were never able to get the owners to sell out this little parcel of land and keeping it available for another few generations of drinkers in Milwaukee. This resistance to the goals of the profiteers and the neo-liberal economic order that brings you cheap processed food through outlets such as Dunkin Donuts and SubWay Sandwich shops should be celebrated and why I am praising this place now. The young yuppies of this area don't know how lucky they are to have so many great shops and bars instead of being in a dead zone with little to offer people except a Walgreens and Wal-mart.
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