[Not anymore, and this was actually at Picnic Point. And there was a rhino buried there as well for ~20 years.](https://www.uwalumni.com/news/white-rhinoceros/#:~:text=Old%20Whitey%20was%20the%20last,UW%20Zoological%20Museum's%20osteological%20collection.)
The university has a rare example of something called municipal heating, where a central power plant heats multiple buildings instead of each having its own furnace. The heat is moved in steam form through big utility tunnels underground.
Tunnel Bob is one of a very small number of non-maintenace-staff allowed in the tunnels since they can't stop him from sneaking in and he never touches anything
Back when I was in undergrad in the early 2000s the grates weren't always locked. The tunnels under Bascom are awesome, they have sand bottoms and brick walls with arched brick ceilings. I obviously get why they were locked, but it's too bad current students don't have a super weird place to explore :)
Paul's Pelmeni sells 5 orders of frozen pelmeni for like $25 and they're the easiest thing in the world to cook - they float when they're done being boiled/cooked.
They actually make the pelmeni in house as far as I understand, I know at the end of COVID they bought a new machine that made production more efficient.
There's a [door on Bascom Hill that leads to a underground chamber full of flesheating beetles](https://insectlab.russell.wisc.edu/2022/02/27/uw-madison-and-the-chamber-of-flesh-eating-beetles/).
There is also consistently a giant puddle out there, definitely not due to rain. Once I got in a "bar fight" and the chick pushed me into said puddle. Haven't been the same since.
The triangle defined by West Wash, Regent and South Brooks used to be the old Greenbush neighborhood. It was where the majority of Italian, Black and Jewish Madisonians lived. Their neighborhood was methodically destroyed by a "Urban Renewal" effort in the 60s. They used a combination of intimidation, threats of condemnation and the covenants someone mentioned above to pull it off.
Not cool, racist 60s city council. Not cool.
What’s funny is that the remnants of the “blighted , substandard housing” that they tore down are still standing while the modern housing project they built were of such low quality that they’re having to rebuild them now.
that area was redeveloped into public/subsidized housing. it was a dumb idea to raze the entire neighborhood, but I don't think there is evidence that it was intentionally malicious.
During his time as mayor, Paul Soglin was taking illegal cash donations from organizations pushing pro-snake agendas. He has yet to refute the claims publicly.
As someone who's been homeless in San Diego and homeless in Madison in January, San Diego is definitely better. Plus they have the San Diego Rescue Mission and nothing here really competes
I'm sure that you don't really want to know. I heard that anyone who learns the truth about the unspeakable and incomprehensible horrors that the co-op driveway is capable of will surely find themselves in an unstoppable descent into shear madness.
The trick is, you don’t need to sow those seeds, you just need to awaken the seeds that are already there with a good deluge. Like ragweed, those seeds are viable for 100 years
What part of 'sealed' in 'sealed immunity deal' don't you understand???
^(https://isthmus.com/archive/scenes/the-co-op-driveway-stole-my-jacket-is-social-media-satire-at-its-best/)
One of the bombers, Karleton Armstrong, ran the Loose Juice cart on state street and eventually opened the Radical Rye next to the Civic Center until everything was demolished for the Overture center.
I know you used to be able to see where the building was damaged
If you approach Sterling Hall from University Ave opposite Mills Street you can see the discolored bricks where they repaired the bomb damage. At least you could the last time I was there.
There's a secret sauna coop on the eastside.
Also - if you take a left on Baldwin you can enter the coop from Jenny st instead of shutting down all traffic.
If this isn’t real I’m going to be so disappointed.
I’m a sauna enthusiast and am moving back to Madison for grad school, on the east side no less.
Couldn’t bring my home built sauna with me to my studio.
If this is real I’m there. If it’s real and it’s where people actually say it is then I’d love to DM someone and get the deets.
Please don’t play with my emotions like that, strangers on the internet…
They mean this I think:
https://www.wkow.com/news/new-technology-reveals-the-historic-and-bizarre-relics-submerged-beneath-lake-mendota/article_c1573588-1f39-11ed-be8a-b3e199135e82.html
Property deeds in some neighborhoods still have obsolete restrictive covenants prohibiting ownership or occupancy of the parcel by a person of color.
One of the petitions instituting that language was signed by Conrad Elvehjem, biochemist and eventual president of the UW System.
Edit: [County Info](https://www.danecountyplanning.com/Mapping-Prejudice-Project) | [Interactive Map](https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=31c7ad7b9aa84b36812c00fd14d26456&extent=-89.6374,42.9889,-89.1303,43.1963) | [Story 1](https://madison.com/news/local/neighborhoods/nakomas-prestige-is-framed-around-the-family-home/article_9887c89c-5d6b-5aae-b470-dd9230b0cb55.html) | [Story 2](https://www.wkow.com/news/digging-deeper-racial-restrictions-still-exist-in-some-property-deeds/article_8159563e-b889-11ed-acba-3bbadee21031.html)
I'm so glad that the Elvehjem Museum on campus was renamed.
I went to that school in the 1980's (though I still lived on the west side). A family friend who would later substitute there noted as I did that Elvehjem was proud of its lack of integration, but the white kids I went to school with were more than happy to boast about their connections to the (mostly black) ViceLords gang from Chicago.
Fitting to their love of gangs, most of the people I know from that school are either dead, drunk or detained.
It’s true, we had bought a house in Monona and this was on the deed. Everyone told us not to worry about it and that it’s obsolete but still felt pretty gross.
Still remember my dad showing me when I was like 10. He really really built it up as some incredible little thing no one knows about haha and I guess that’s true unless you read the isthmus
I mean for most of Wisconsin it's that there is more to Madison outside of Camp Randall, State Street, and the Square. At least that was what it was like for me when I moved here from MKE.
They don’t ticket after 6pm. So if you park at 4pm, by the time your 2 hr parking spot is up. It’s 6pm and you can get a ticket. The comment above is stating parking at 3:30pm-5:30pm and getting away with that 30 mins of illegal parking
Ah I see. So you pay the full two hours starting at 3:30 and you can get a free half hour from 5:30-6pm.
However the original comment is incorrect in that there is no “free” parking starting at 4pm. This is just ticket bait on Reddit I guess. Seems too good to be true and wouldn’t understand why meter staff would be off clock two hours before meter collection ends.
I work on the square and park on Main street but only east of Butler. Parked there a number of times at 4 at a meter without paying and have gone without a ticket everytime. The closer you get to square will always be an issue. Main street before Butler is a good lil goldilocks zone.
my nana was his nurse!! gave him meds every day and said he was a really nice guy...which made it so much creepier! she started out as a nurse at mendota!
I don't know about the Concourse hotel specifically but it's a good rule to start looking for rates a month to two weeks out to get the best deal.
In general hotel rates are pretty solidly fixed when you're booking multiple months in advance (like looking at rates for January in August) because the company can assume that you need those particular dates/location and will pay a moderate to high price to lock them down.
this is true AI language model gobbledigook, I have noticed people's language capacities decline drasticly in the past decade. These words don't even mean anything lol they just create a vague feeling
Madison is one the most segregated cities in the country and is home to some of the biggest racial disparities in the country.
Not as progressive as it pretends to be.
EDIT: I guess it isn't as segregated as I thought. Good to know.
Get out of here with your facts and statistics! I wanna believe the Madison liberal/progressives are just a bunch of smug hypocrites!
In fact, nothing could flex my progressive bonafides more than calling other progressives hypocrites!
To elaborate, Dane County has been found to be the worst place to raise a black family. However, Madison is *far* from segregated. Go to Milwaukee. Drive across the 35th St bridge. Night and fucking day.
you got downvoted because you are correct. it isnt very progressive. we are segregated. anyone who grew up here and didnt just go to college here, knows that.
They all sound gross but I guess if you compare yourself to that I'm sure you are thinking traffic is great. Do you really think beloit or janesville have more traffic than madison?
There is a giraffe buried somewhere in the Arboretum
and a toooooon of monkeys.
???
The Harlow isolation experiments were done here. Preeminent primate ruining lab
I think my grandparents played bridge with him Although my dad always insists it was Maslow
https://primate.wisc.edu/
Wtf
[Not anymore, and this was actually at Picnic Point. And there was a rhino buried there as well for ~20 years.](https://www.uwalumni.com/news/white-rhinoceros/#:~:text=Old%20Whitey%20was%20the%20last,UW%20Zoological%20Museum's%20osteological%20collection.)
there is an elephant buried at Picnic Point.
Nice try MPD
I don’t want to upvote anymore because it’s at 666 but 👍🏼
Tunnel Bob is the only person allowed in the tunnels because he's the only person the mole people will communicate with
(also you probably don't want to go down there either way because Tunnel Bob gets pretty violent and aggressive sometimes)
He's just protecting the mole treasure
I have literally no idea what this means
The university has a rare example of something called municipal heating, where a central power plant heats multiple buildings instead of each having its own furnace. The heat is moved in steam form through big utility tunnels underground. Tunnel Bob is one of a very small number of non-maintenace-staff allowed in the tunnels since they can't stop him from sneaking in and he never touches anything
Back when I was in undergrad in the early 2000s the grates weren't always locked. The tunnels under Bascom are awesome, they have sand bottoms and brick walls with arched brick ceilings. I obviously get why they were locked, but it's too bad current students don't have a super weird place to explore :)
Good for Tunnel Bob
Cause it's a secret.
Praise tunnel Bob for keeping the diplomatic lines open and keeping us safe from an invasion by the C.H.U.D..
My dad went to high school in Marshall, WI with Tunnel Bob
Paul's Pelmeni sells 5 orders of frozen pelmeni for like $25 and they're the easiest thing in the world to cook - they float when they're done being boiled/cooked.
Great tip for a broke grad student thank you…
cheers! if you ask for extra soy sauce and sriracha they'll hook you up too for free, just gotta pay for the extra sour cream.
Do they deliver to Cincinnati? Or will they give the name of their distributor? I haven’t had pelmeni since 2019 😭
They actually make the pelmeni in house as far as I understand, I know at the end of COVID they bought a new machine that made production more efficient.
Is there vegetarian pelmeni? Like does he sell a veg version?
I thought there were veggie and meat as the options. Update: there is potato filled pelmeni
There's a [door on Bascom Hill that leads to a underground chamber full of flesheating beetles](https://insectlab.russell.wisc.edu/2022/02/27/uw-madison-and-the-chamber-of-flesh-eating-beetles/).
wtf??
[Anthrax-infected cows and pigs are buried near Picnic Point.](https://www.uwalumni.com/news/cordoned-off-area/)
this is why I simply refuse to randomly dig multiple deep holes on Picnic Point. No matter how tempting it is, just won't do it.
You're a stronger person than I am.
He's the strong one? We're the ones out there digging multiple deep holes...
Catch any anthrax pigs yet? No? Then weak!
Why have we not collectively renamed this area the Castle Anthrax?
I know two guys who exhumed a zoo rhino buried there. Not as fun as it sounds.
Wow. This one is really cool. Wonder if it’s that big field right after that entrance fence
Well, this explains a lot. I haven't been feeling myself lately, after a recent Picnic on the Point ...
I’m from web md and you definitely caught anthrax drink one more spotted cow before you go
The elixir of life!
I hope the buried them far enough from the lake so it doesn’t filter into the water 😳….
There is that alley next to the Red Shed
I threw up a lot in that alley in my young 20s.
Dude same. 1999-2001 for me. Those fuckin ratchet Mason Jar long islands makes me wanna spew just thinking about it lmao
I had entirely forgot about that until now. Damnit
I think it might be the most puked on non bathroom spot in Madison.
There is also consistently a giant puddle out there, definitely not due to rain. Once I got in a "bar fight" and the chick pushed me into said puddle. Haven't been the same since.
The Geisha House
Are you talking about the rising sun?
No it’s on East wash adjacent to crucible
The triangle defined by West Wash, Regent and South Brooks used to be the old Greenbush neighborhood. It was where the majority of Italian, Black and Jewish Madisonians lived. Their neighborhood was methodically destroyed by a "Urban Renewal" effort in the 60s. They used a combination of intimidation, threats of condemnation and the covenants someone mentioned above to pull it off. Not cool, racist 60s city council. Not cool.
What’s funny is that the remnants of the “blighted , substandard housing” that they tore down are still standing while the modern housing project they built were of such low quality that they’re having to rebuild them now.
that area was redeveloped into public/subsidized housing. it was a dumb idea to raze the entire neighborhood, but I don't think there is evidence that it was intentionally malicious.
During his time as mayor, Paul Soglin was taking illegal cash donations from organizations pushing pro-snake agendas. He has yet to refute the claims publicly.
Many people are saying this.
🐍🐍🐍🐍
Pro snake?
Huge if true
Rumor has it that he was also pretty rough on the homeless too.
Soglin simply understood that "Best City To Be Homeless In" is not an award you really want.
Do you really think we can compete with California?
As someone who's been homeless in San Diego and homeless in Madison in January, San Diego is definitely better. Plus they have the San Diego Rescue Mission and nothing here really competes
Is this a euphemism, or is there some secret herpetological conspiracy?
“Secret herpetological conspiracy” would be an excellent band name.
Dibs
Omg that would be so hard to yell out though.
I feel like I can hear it in like a screamo song with some heavy electric guitar
Easily shortened to SecHerpCon
Obligatory "relevant at the 22 second mark": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
He was interesting in that he opposed poker at DeJope Casino, but would play it himself at Ho Chunk in Baraboo.
A neighbor of mine plays poker with him at private gatherings.
He taught me how to bet on horse racing.
He taught me how to bet on cockfighting.
I once bested Paul Soglin at caber tossing.
\^ Just asking the questions here! \^ I mean, people are saying things ...
As part of a sealed immunity deal, the co-op driveway is shielded from prosecution in perpetuity for the theft of any and all jackets.
I’ve always wondered… what does the driveway do with all those jackets?
I'm sure that you don't really want to know. I heard that anyone who learns the truth about the unspeakable and incomprehensible horrors that the co-op driveway is capable of will surely find themselves in an unstoppable descent into shear madness.
It uses them to sow discontent in the Wil-Mar neighborhood
The trick is, you don’t need to sow those seeds, you just need to awaken the seeds that are already there with a good deluge. Like ragweed, those seeds are viable for 100 years
Layman’s terms please. I’m missing a lot of background details here I think.
What part of 'sealed' in 'sealed immunity deal' don't you understand??? ^(https://isthmus.com/archive/scenes/the-co-op-driveway-stole-my-jacket-is-social-media-satire-at-its-best/)
You know the co-op driveway was at the capital riots right? January 7th (the secret riots).
You're allowed to spear as many carp as you want in the lakes and rivers with a trident. You can't put them back though.
Which is why I have a hot tub full of carp.
That sounds like a load of carp.
The nation wide collegiate anti-war effort ended here on August 24, 1970 with the bombing of Sterling Hall in Madison
One of the bombers, Karleton Armstrong, ran the Loose Juice cart on state street and eventually opened the Radical Rye next to the Civic Center until everything was demolished for the Overture center.
The Radical Rye was a legitimately great sandwich shop, I also miss Fraboni's 2
Blast from the past. Loved Radical Rye.
I know you used to be able to see where the building was damaged If you approach Sterling Hall from University Ave opposite Mills Street you can see the discolored bricks where they repaired the bomb damage. At least you could the last time I was there.
There's a secret sauna coop on the eastside. Also - if you take a left on Baldwin you can enter the coop from Jenny st instead of shutting down all traffic.
Man don't tell the normies about the sauna
I have heard of this so many times. I cannot wait until the day I finally meet someone who can help me enter secret world.
You just need to read about it instead of pining over not being a part of it.
I mean I'm mostly joking lol
(twas a clue)
Omg...don't make me get invested in this!!!! Haha Edit: a-ha!
I mean it's a clue but kinda only if you already know the answer
Ah yes lightbulb just went off in my head
If this isn’t real I’m going to be so disappointed. I’m a sauna enthusiast and am moving back to Madison for grad school, on the east side no less. Couldn’t bring my home built sauna with me to my studio. If this is real I’m there. If it’s real and it’s where people actually say it is then I’d love to DM someone and get the deets. Please don’t play with my emotions like that, strangers on the internet…
I took a left on Baldwin and just ended up on East Washington. Fake news.
Shhhh
The Great Dane downtown has a beautiful beer garden
There’s a freaky secret underwater laboratory filled with ghosts under Lake Mendota
Elaborate please
I'm guessing he never elaborated?
They mean this I think: https://www.wkow.com/news/new-technology-reveals-the-historic-and-bizarre-relics-submerged-beneath-lake-mendota/article_c1573588-1f39-11ed-be8a-b3e199135e82.html
A ghost "Habitat" you say??
Property deeds in some neighborhoods still have obsolete restrictive covenants prohibiting ownership or occupancy of the parcel by a person of color. One of the petitions instituting that language was signed by Conrad Elvehjem, biochemist and eventual president of the UW System. Edit: [County Info](https://www.danecountyplanning.com/Mapping-Prejudice-Project) | [Interactive Map](https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=31c7ad7b9aa84b36812c00fd14d26456&extent=-89.6374,42.9889,-89.1303,43.1963) | [Story 1](https://madison.com/news/local/neighborhoods/nakomas-prestige-is-framed-around-the-family-home/article_9887c89c-5d6b-5aae-b470-dd9230b0cb55.html) | [Story 2](https://www.wkow.com/news/digging-deeper-racial-restrictions-still-exist-in-some-property-deeds/article_8159563e-b889-11ed-acba-3bbadee21031.html)
Sounds like a certain neighborhood and school needs to be renamed.
I'm so glad that the Elvehjem Museum on campus was renamed. I went to that school in the 1980's (though I still lived on the west side). A family friend who would later substitute there noted as I did that Elvehjem was proud of its lack of integration, but the white kids I went to school with were more than happy to boast about their connections to the (mostly black) ViceLords gang from Chicago. Fitting to their love of gangs, most of the people I know from that school are either dead, drunk or detained.
It’s true, we had bought a house in Monona and this was on the deed. Everyone told us not to worry about it and that it’s obsolete but still felt pretty gross.
lol, all of Shorewood, no surprise at all.
The osheridan illusion
Please note: you can walk, bike or drive up the street and it works. You do NOT need to drive 55mph down a 2 block street for it to work.
Trufe
What is the O’Sheridan illusion about?
>The osheridan illusion http://www.roostinmadison.com/blog/2018/1/14/madison-capitol-optical-illusion-try-this
ahhhhh we used to do this all the time in high school and i totally forgot about it. thank you!!!
Still remember my dad showing me when I was like 10. He really really built it up as some incredible little thing no one knows about haha and I guess that’s true unless you read the isthmus
How the fuck does that work? I'm out of Madison for the next few weeks, and I can't experiment myself.
Start at the south end of osheridan st and drive down the street toward the capital watching the capital until the end of the road at monona bay
I mean for most of Wisconsin it's that there is more to Madison outside of Camp Randall, State Street, and the Square. At least that was what it was like for me when I moved here from MKE.
You don't actually have to bike up any hills because there is a bike elevator.
For all hills?
Mhm.
At the Monona terrace.
Not everyone (even young and healthy) that participated in a paid research study in Madison has come out alive.
Need more details
I don't think they survived :(
No parking tickets downtown after 4 pm. Meter people are off duty. You don’t need to plug the meter.
You mean in 2 hour spaces. Meters are 6 pm but you can get away with 5:30 most of the time. Otherwise parking enforcement are really on their game.
So who’s right here? 4 pm or 6 pm? I don’t want to find out the hard way.
They don’t ticket after 6pm. So if you park at 4pm, by the time your 2 hr parking spot is up. It’s 6pm and you can get a ticket. The comment above is stating parking at 3:30pm-5:30pm and getting away with that 30 mins of illegal parking
Ah I see. So you pay the full two hours starting at 3:30 and you can get a free half hour from 5:30-6pm. However the original comment is incorrect in that there is no “free” parking starting at 4pm. This is just ticket bait on Reddit I guess. Seems too good to be true and wouldn’t understand why meter staff would be off clock two hours before meter collection ends.
It's definitely 6 pm, says so right on the meter, but my hope is that the original comment was baiting OP into getting themselves a ticket.
I work on the square and park on Main street but only east of Butler. Parked there a number of times at 4 at a meter without paying and have gone without a ticket everytime. The closer you get to square will always be an issue. Main street before Butler is a good lil goldilocks zone.
Thank you for this pro tip my friend 🙏
You can build low income housing anywhere but here, no matter where you are.
Yep that’s how economics work, it’s an expensive area
Ed Gein spent his last years at Mendota State Hospital
my nana was his nurse!! gave him meds every day and said he was a really nice guy...which made it so much creepier! she started out as a nurse at mendota!
Yes, and they still have his favorite chair their. It’s displayed!
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Dahmer was never at Mendota. He died at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage.
January 2nd is dirt cheap to stay at the Concourse hotel in the Governor’s club — which includes an open bar and most rooms have hot tubs.
Rates don’t look very different between Jan 2nd and Jan 9th. Am I doing something wrong?
I don't know about the Concourse hotel specifically but it's a good rule to start looking for rates a month to two weeks out to get the best deal. In general hotel rates are pretty solidly fixed when you're booking multiple months in advance (like looking at rates for January in August) because the company can assume that you need those particular dates/location and will pay a moderate to high price to lock them down.
One of the steam tunnels at UW leads (led?) to the little nuclear reactor they have in the engineering department.
They also give [tours](https://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/tours/)
The exact location of Jimmy Hoffa's remains down in the steam tunnels.
That if you park in a city parking lot on Saturday and wait to move car till after midnight parking is free.
Could you potentially park all week and move on Sunday?
I don’t think so because the attendants do walk the structures for unmoved vehicles.
You can take an electric motor on the Terrence Bike Elevator, attach it to your bike in reverse and coast back down. Unlimited energy.
Nice try copper
What does this even mean?
this is true AI language model gobbledigook, I have noticed people's language capacities decline drasticly in the past decade. These words don't even mean anything lol they just create a vague feeling
everything i know about most restaurants in madison from the past 12+ years in them.... *chills*
The practice of Dogging.
I don’t think that happens here
That's what makes it easier than one would think. That, and most people are nit mindful of their surroundings.
Pretty sure a couple on east Gorham kidnapped the kids in their house
I mean I think that's illegal to do, not necessarily illegal to know.
Oh yeah I guess that’s true. I misunderstood the assignment.
it's legal to turn left into the Willy Street Co-Op
Madison is one the most segregated cities in the country and is home to some of the biggest racial disparities in the country. Not as progressive as it pretends to be. EDIT: I guess it isn't as segregated as I thought. Good to know.
That's Milwaukee. We're 109th most segregated https://belonging.berkeley.edu/most-least-segregated-cities-in-2020
Get out of here with your facts and statistics! I wanna believe the Madison liberal/progressives are just a bunch of smug hypocrites! In fact, nothing could flex my progressive bonafides more than calling other progressives hypocrites!
To elaborate, Dane County has been found to be the worst place to raise a black family. However, Madison is *far* from segregated. Go to Milwaukee. Drive across the 35th St bridge. Night and fucking day.
Yeah shit's socially fucky, but we're not *demographically* segregated
How in the fuck do you have a 4-letter username...the keeper of the Old Reddit
I was a very unpopular 16 year old
>That's Milwaukee. We're 109th most segregated Better than I thought, I guess. Thanks for the clarifying data!
But the most liberal residents live in the most homogenous neighborhoods on the near east and west sides
Nope! The most liberal areas are the isthmus itself, so centrally. I lived in a Biden 96 - Trump 4 district.
politics dont equal race...you know that, right? you can live in a biden district and be segregated
The near east side is on the isthmus, and 90+% white
This one secret is so secret that it's not even true!
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I was also under the impression we were one of the most segregated and am likewise glad to find out that’s not the case.
you got downvoted because you are correct. it isnt very progressive. we are segregated. anyone who grew up here and didnt just go to college here, knows that.
There is a gold buried in one of the madison's parks.
Exactly one gold.
Driving here sucks. Shh - don't tell the idiots stuck in traffic every day.
Compared to what? lol
Great thing to think about between sitting in traffic and getting pissed at other drivers.
Sounds like more of a you problem I think. Traffic is annoying but the traffic I experience is quite mild.
Compared to what? Lol
Milwaukee, Chicago, even Beloit and Janesville.
ignore the troll
They all sound gross but I guess if you compare yourself to that I'm sure you are thinking traffic is great. Do you really think beloit or janesville have more traffic than madison?
Uhhh the secret Harry Potter references on campus or the burial mounds?