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Article: EX-IVY INN MANAGER ONE OF A KIND.(LOCAL/STATE)(THE TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- December 24, 2002
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Byline: Doug Moe
THE IVY Inn on old University Avenue is closing for keeps next week, and you can't hear that without thinking about Bruce Baldwin Mohs, the wonderfully wacky inventor and all-purpose eccentric who managed it for 22 years starting in 1957, the year his dad finished building it.
"I've heard the rumor it might be torn down," Mohs was saying Monday. "I hope not."
If you don't know Mohs, you should. He is 70 now and living in a German restaurant near Riley. Once he was in the news all the time because he had money and a sense of humor, two traits that rarely coincide. Mohs had a seaplane and an auto museum and a replica of the ...