For a change the focus is not on closing Wolski’s, but on opening it.

As in 100 years ago, right there on hard-to-find Pulaski St. where the drinks still flow, the popcorn is free and the storied goal is lingering till the go-home lights come on.

It’s rare in Milwaukee for a tavern to survive an entire century in the hands of the same family. Wolski’s has done it,

This photo of John Wolski tending bar in the tavern in the 1920s - the height of Prohibition - hangs on a wall there today.

If “I Closed Wolski’s” doesn’t ring a bell, you probably moved to Milwaukee in the past 20 minutes or so. Never has a bumper sticker brought so many people to one tavern and kept them there past 2 a.m.

Photos hanging in the bar prove that the sticker has been plastered all over the world. While visiting my daughter in Spain a few years ago, I stuck one on a light pole just because.

Brothers Bernie, Dennis and Mike Bondar came up with the idea for the sticker not long after taking over the bar in 1973.