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| Date: | 12 1940 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin athletes trying on shoes in the Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 01 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Hal Hoak and Walter Dunn in their men's clothing store at 644 State Street. |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Alvan Rothermel, Glen Oak Hills, purchasing seed, labels and tools, for his Victory garden from Louis Schuster, manager of the L.L. Olds Seed Company, 720 ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of J.H. Svendsen (left), owner of Svendsen's Painting and Decorating Firm at 118 State Street, and Joe Borecek, retail store manager. The store wa... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Phil Dickert (left) and Joe Klein (right) pictured with cans of Mautz paint at the Klein-Dickert Co. store at 752 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Ralph Jacobs looks over some of the exotic merchandise in his gift shop on County Highway PB in the town of Verona. |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Al Decker, manager of Cushman Hobbyland at 2628 University Avenue, and Johnny Schaffer measure a sign for the company to see if it will fit on the racer th... |
| Date: | 09 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Melton, manager of May's at Madison East Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 09 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of E.O. Jarmin, store manager of Woolworth's at Madison East Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 09 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gene Bricker, store manager of Bricker's Appliance & TV at Madison East Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 12 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Two bowlers are given new Elgin wrist watches from the Goodman Brothers as an award for rolling the high individual single games in the Madison Bowling Ass... |
| Date: | 04 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Bob and Irwin Goodman honor the Madison Bowling League's retiring secretary, Eddie Toellner, and high-scoring keglers Peter Miller and John Poloni, with gi... |
| Date: | 03 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon W. Thomson (left) trying on a new suit, as four men representing four men's clothing stores, all located on the Capitol Square, are looking... |
| Date: | 04 22 1959 |
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| Description: | William H. Rietow, Jr. and Frank D. Hess stand in front of Electric City, a new appliance store at 4409 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 11 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Carl Payne (in the middle of the group at right) greets visitors at the C and P Plaza, his new store, on its opening day. |
| Date: | 03 09 1960 |
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| Description: | The S.S. Kresge Store was the first store open for business in the new Westgate Shopping Center. Attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony are, left to right: ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A couple, Doris and Preston Campbell, standing and posing in their store. Preston has his left arm around his wife's shoulders, and the two are holding han... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Christian W. Dick, on the left, standing behind the counter of his wine and liquor store. Cigars are in a display case in the lef... |
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