Kohl’s started in Bay View
October 31, 2010
By Anna Passante
~photo Michael Timm
The vacant lot at the northwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and Woodward Street (630 E. Lincoln Ave.) was once the site of the Kohl grocery store operated by Max Kohl, the father of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senator Herb Kohl.
Max Kohl, born in 1901, had immigrated to Milwaukee from Poland in the mid-1920s, and in 1927 opened his grocery at Lincoln and Woodward. Kohl operated the grocery until 1935. The building was razed in the mid-1980s.
Source: Greg Bird’s April 2001 Bay View Historian article
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