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Crime Scene Investigation

Date: 05 11 1955
Description: Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv...
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University of Wisconsin President Fred and Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 03 09 1953
Description: University President E.B. Fred and former governor Oscar Rennebohm posing in front of the first Rennebohm Drug Store in the 1300 block of University Avenue...
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Homer Cochrane inside Club Royal

Date: 12 24 1950
Description: Homer T. Cochrane, owner of the Club Royal at 112 E. Washington Avenue, is shown eying one of the empty cash registers in his tavern shortly after armed ba...
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Kaether's Bar Shuffleboard Team

Date: 03 01 1951
Description: Group portrait of the Kaether's Bar shuffleboard team, which is scheduled to play in the finals of the city championship tournament. Pictured from left to ...
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Silver Dollar Bar Shuffleboard Team

Date: 03 01 1951
Description: Group portrait of the Silver Dollar Tavern shuffleboard team, which is playing in the finals of the city championship tournament. Pictured from left to ri...
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Lewis Arms with a Cocktail Waitress

Date: 06 06 1952
Description: Lewis Arms (left) and his friend Norbert Pfife ("a kid from . . . around Milwaukee") enjoy a pitcher of beer at Bradley's Bar in downtown San Diego. Beside...
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Bar Proprietor

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: "Paul Koecher is proprietor of the bar located at the intersection of Milwaukee Street and Mayville Road."
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Koecher's Bar

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: "Patrons at Koecher's Bar are L-R, Clyde Bandlow, Gene Greiner, Bea Greiner, Oliver Justman, Dottie Justman, & Rita Koecher."
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Koecher's Bar

Date: 06 03 1950
Description: "Koecher's Bar on the northwest corner of Milwaukee St. & Mayville St."
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Sid with Two Friends

Date: 01 1957
Description: Group portrait of Sid Boyum standing with two men inside a bar. Sid, on the left, has his arm up in the air, and his button-down shirt appears to be torn, ...
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Gervasi's Tavern

Date: 05 22 1953
Description: Six men are standing behind a shuffle board table, with one man holding a trophy, in John Gervasi's Tavern, 713 Regent Street.
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Man Standing at a Bar

Date: 08 10 1953
Description: Man (Bob Lulling) standing at a bar with a bottle of Hunter whiskey pretending to be drunk (?).
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Glenn Detman and John Nolin of the Sun Prairie 40 and 8 Voiture 688 giving each other a fist salute as the American Legion's fun and honor group winds up i...
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Night at Pat O'Brien's

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Six well-dressed patrons are posing sitting around a wooden table at Pat O'Brien's Bar in New Orleans. They are identified as, left to right: Walter A. and...
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The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on the reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete withou...

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