The Similarities between Milwaukee / Wisconsin
and Zürich / Switzerland
- Cows.
The Swiss variety. - Cheese.
A selection of "souvenir cheese" at the Appleton, WI airport... - Germanic influence.
- Oktoberfest celebrations.
- Bratwurst and other sausages...although the Swiss variety isn't exactly "Johnsonville."
A sausage at the Sternen Grill - bun on the side! Maybe Zürich FC could use some mascots like these?! Mountains- but Wisconsin does have "Little Switzerland"...and Holy Hill!- A hometown airplane that hands out (or used to!) delicious chocolate treats every time you fly...too bad Midwest isn't around any more. :(
The infamous Midwest Airlines chocolate chip cookies
(photo taken from travel.usatoday.com) - An important building in the central city with an eye-catching addition by Santiago Calatrava - the Stadelhofen train station and the Milwaukee Art Museum!
Stadelhofen's Calatrava addition...
...has a lot of similarities with the Milwaukee Art Museum's! - An affinity for the color red...
On Wisconsin!! - Lots of festivals, concerts, and outdoor activities in the summertime.
(photo from Wikipedia) - Per Wikipedia... According to the 2000 United States Census[5] the highest percentage of Swiss Americans in any town, village or other, are the following
- Berne, Indiana - 29.10%
- Monticello, Wisconsin - 28.82%
- New Glarus, Wisconsin - 28.26%
- Monroe, Wisconsin - 18.91%
- Pandora, Ohio - 18.90%
- Argyle, Wisconsin - 17.84%
- Sugarcreek, Ohio - 17.29%
- Elgin, Iowa - 15.79%
- Monroe, Indiana - 14.35%
- Baltic, Ohio - 12.91%
- Brickerville, Pennsylvania - 11.52%
- Albany, Wisconsin - 11.51%
- Belleville, Wisconsin - 11.25%
- Blanchardville, Wisconsin - 11.21%
- Shipshewana, Indiana - 10.89%
only cities, towns and villages with at least 500 people included That's 7 of the top 15 in Wisconsin!! - An awesome lake (although the Zürich See isn't always to the east...)
I'm hoping the mountains are a dead give-away as to which lake this is! - An easy-to-reach airport
- A metropolitan area population of around 1.5 million...(close enough!)
- Large clocks - St. Peter's in Zürich has the largest clock face in Europe; Milwaukee's Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley) has the largest 4 sided clock in the western hemisphere!
St. Peter's imposing face. - Important architects - Frank Lloyd Wright was a Wisconsin native; Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland.
- Unpredictable weather...sometimes it snows in October...April...or even...May!
October 2012 snowfall! - A business named Pfister! Furniture in Zürich...hotel in Milwaukee.
The beautiful Pfister Hotel lobby - Cows
- Cheese!! Wonder what it would take for the Swiss to embrace the "Cheesehead" concept...foam alphorn anyone??
Any others???