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THE SHOPS
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The Madison Candy Company building, now home to Ground Zero Coffee and the Eldorado Grill was built in 1903 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Welcome to ShopsofWillyStreet.com
This is the place on the web to find out where to shop, eat and browse on Williamson Street here on the east side of Madison. Each month we'll feature a different Willy Street shop on our front page, and you can browse our participating shops on the left.
Watch our calendar for events all over the neighborhood, and check back often for announcements and news, as well as more shops signing on all the time!
Click on the Register link in the above right to receive regular updates from Shops of Willy Street.
Wanna contribute to our site?
If you'd like to contribute to shops of Willy Street just get in touch. Do you take pictures? Like to write? Make art? We're always on the look out for Willy Street themed material.
| | | Willy Street historian needed
If you're one of those old timers who know the history of Willy Street we'd love to have you write for our site or just tell us some cool stuff for Willy Facts. Get in touch! |
And now... our featured event!
| | The Willy Street Fair
| | The Willy Street Fair is one of Madison's most celebrated annual events. Vendors and advocacy groups have booths along several block of Williamson Street through the heart of the neighborhood and thousands of people stroll up and down throughout the event. |  |  | This year there were three music stages featuring an eclectic array of musicians, something for everyone. The one band I caught was the ever-popular Yid Vicious (pictured elsewhere on our Fair Pages), who after their appearance at the fair headed off to New York for a string of shows. Check their web site for more info. | | The thing I personally like most about the Willy Street Fair is the way it blends so well into the neighborhood. Other fairs on larger, wider streets take on a sort of “parking lot feel”, you feel like you're on some large, paved fairgrounds. But the booths and stages of our fair fit right among the trees and picturesque buildings of Willy Street, making you feel like you're still just strolling the neighborhood, just with a lot more people and stuff going on. You really get the same laid back feel of Willy Street, but with music, food and cool stuff all around. |  |  | The parade is certainly the highlight of the fair. I'm not sure how participants are selected (or even if they are actually 'selected', as opposed to just showing up), but however it comes together you get a wonderful mixture of costumes, themes, and... and... you just have to see it. I was at an Octoberfest parade the day before in another Wisconsin town, and it was pretty much all high school marching bands and cars from local dealerships with ladies in elbow-length gloves doing the wrist-wrist-elbow-elbow wave.
| | Frankly, rather dull compared to the “bugs” on stilts, giant rolling thing with a guy on top (and bottom as it rolled), theater groups, gorilla costume, and other imaginative participants of our fair. It may be smaller than many parades, but it's very big on heart and style! | Parade Pictures
(Click on any image for our patented JumboMagical™ view) | |
Have you experienced live theatre in Madison?
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