![]() The area is now occupied by the hotels’ WELL Spa + Salon (pictured above). The baths were closed in the 1920s and replaced with a barber shop and salon. ![]() Whether or not those deals were done in the buff I can’t say with certainty, but men-only Turkish baths? Likely so. ![]() The Pfister has always been Milwaukee’s Downtown elite hotel, so you KNOW deals were getting done in the men-only Turkish baths that were in the basement. While these weren’t secret spaces, they were subterranean, Downtown, filled with water and occupied certainly by Milwaukee’s elites. That reminded me of a number of underground spaces I’ve seen over the years that fit the bill. Recently, WUWM-FM’s Bonnie North invited me on to the station’s popular " Bubbler Talk" show to answer a listener’s question about underground baths Downtown where the elite met to presumably get deals done.
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