KookyCookyHouse.com

Recalling Capitol Court's Kooky Cooky House, one gingerbread cookie at a time...

The Kooky Cooky House still lives in the memories of those who grew up in Milwaukee during the Sixties and Seventies.

See Jim Stingl's columns about the Kooky Cooky House, as reprinted with permission from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

• Memories outlast glory of 'the Court' - His February 2001 recollection of sneaking around at Capitol Court.
• Putting Kooky back together requires elves - His June 2003 column on WKTI's Gino Salomone's effort to rebuilt it.

Sadly, there's no chance to restore the Kooky Cooky House.

Although the articles above explain how the remaining pieces of the House were moved to storage at the
Kallas Honey Farm in 2001, the pieces were then shuffled to outside storage at the Milwaukee Zoo
in September 2003. Exposed to the weather, they deteriorated to the point that they were thrown out
without any hope of restoration.

Ray Chramega sent the first four advertisements below, as rescued from microfilm copies of the
Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel. Click on each thumbnail for a larger version.

The color ad above and the coloring book below were sent by Randy Hilger.

And here are the four pages of the Kooky Cooky House coloring book.

If you'd like it in easily printable Acrobat PDF, click here.

Is it the Cookie Cookie House? The Cooky Cooky House? The Kooky Kooky House? No, it was spelled Kooky Cooky House.

Milwaukee poet Matt Cook has a video at ZeroTV about his memories of the Kooky Cooky House.

Someone who would prefer to remain anonymous has a few items from the House:

She said "I used to have the giant stove, but space didn't permit me keeping it, so I donated it to Pius XI High School's theater department."

On December 5, 2006, I was interviewed on Milwaukee's AM 920 WOKY radio "Mighty 92 Flashback" on the morning program to talk
about House memories and this web site.

I can't help but wonder if there was a connection between "Kooky Cooky House" and Cooky the Cook on WGN Chicago's "Bozo the Clown",
as played by Roy Brown for more than two decades. He was often referred to as "our kooky cook Cooky".

Send your Kooky Cooky House memories to info@kookycookyhouse.com.

As of November 2007, I'm hoping to add some video to this site.

We'll post them here! If you have pictures, that would be great. I know there must be thousands of them in family
photo albums throughout the Milwaukee area.