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| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 2089 Atwood Avenue, a former service station was successfully transformed into a diner — Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | In 2001 the former Copeland Service Station reopened as a coffee shop in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. The restored building is located at 4924 We... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Food not gas is now the fuel of choice at Monty's Blue Plate Diner in Madison. This former station once again serves as the lively neighborhood meeting pla... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | The front window of Farrell's Cafe in Washington Heights from the street. Beer advertisements for Guinness, Rheingold and Balantine hang in the window belo... |
| Date: | 06 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dorothy and Oliver Justman enter Paul's Cafe. |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | A blind man with a white cane waits on the corner of 7th & Cass Streets. He is wearing jeans, a denim jacket, blaze orange hat and boots. Snow is piled on ... |
| Date: | 03 03 2012 |
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| Description: | The snow-dusted Barrymore Theater, formerly the Eastwood Theater, at 2090 Atwood Avenue. Businesses next to the theater include Bad Dog Frida and Lao Laan ... |
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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978) stands in front of the White Front Tavern and Restaurant. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the bar from 1948-1... |
| Date: | 02 24 2012 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Potbelly Sandwich Shop, 564 State Street, on the corner of the 500 block. |
| Date: | 02 14 2012 |
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| Description: | A view at the corner of the 200 block of State Street and West Johnson Street, including Noodles & Company, the Orpheum Theatre and the Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 04 17 2012 |
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| Description: | A view of Mickey's Tavern from the corner of Winnebago and Thornton Streets. Signs on the building and in the window advertise lunch and brunch service. |
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| Description: | A vintage view and a modern view of a portion of the 500 block of State Street, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows a residence, while the modern v... |
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| Description: | A vintage view and a modern view of the 200 block of State Street, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows Tailors and Gents Furnishers, John Ripp's Gr... |
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| Description: | A vintage view and a modern view of the 500 block of East Wilson Street, presented as a pair. The views show businesses including the Cardinal Hotel/Bar. |
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| Description: | A vintage view and a modern view of the railroad crossing on East Wilson Street, presented as a pair. The vintage view shows the East Madison Chicago, Milw... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | A large Bur Oak tree is shading a sign for Vesuvio's Little Italy restaurant on the corner of Washington and South 7th Street. Brick buildings across the s... |
| Date: | 11 21 2014 |
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| Description: | View of a sign in the shape of a hand in front of a window on a white brick wall. Leaves and snow are on the ground. Inside the window, two lamps, two ches... |
| Date: | 11 21 2014 |
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| Description: | View looking up at decorative lights hanging from the beams of an entry roof. A sign on the side of the overhang reads: "Lakeside St. Coffee House." The si... |
| Date: | 04 25 2015 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a bicycle and traffic barrel standing on the sidewalk in front of a coffee shop. A sign above the first floor windows reads: "Jo... |
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