Flood destroys restaurant owner’s Brewers memorabilia collection

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (CBS 58) — Along a stretch of S. 81st St. near W. Lincoln Ave., trucks for contractors of all kinds lined up next to just about every house. Another day on the long road to recovery brought more dispiriting discoveries for people.

One of the homes on this block belongs to Andy Radjenovich, who with his wife, Melanie, owns the Jackson Grill supper club on Milwaukee’s south side. On Tuesday afternoon, worked carried out tub after tub of treasured belongings from a massive hole in their house’s foundation.

Radjenovich said the couple got home from the restaurant around 11 p.m. Saturday night. It was raining heavily, but everything seemed fine. Then, water started pooling in the street, then in the front yard, then it began to pool in the basement…

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