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Milwaukee, Wisconsin: World's Only Polka Escalator (Gone)

From 1998 to 2023 you could push a button next to the Polka Escalator to hear foot-tapping favorites while ascending or descending past a wall of photos of polka fans.

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Push to Play Polka.

World's Only Polka Escalator

If you're like me, too often you get bored while riding an escalator. Well friends, suffer no more! Located inside the Wisconsin Center, you can find the world's only Polka Escalator! Push the button and be serenaded by polka greats while heading up (or down!) near the skywalk to the Hilton Hotel. The escalator also features photos from a number of fun loving polka fans.

[Ron Renken, 08/14/2013]

World's Only Polka Escalator

Wisconsin Center

Directions:
Wisconsin Center, 6th St. and Wisconsin Ave., near the Hilton Hotel skywalk.
Hours:
Ripped out in 2023.
Status:
Gone

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