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Bootleg Days

Date: 08 23 1933
Description: Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri...
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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Neon Sign Display

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Close-up of neon sign display by Capital City Advertising Co., general sign contractors, neon manufacturing sales & service, at the ESBMA (East Side Busine...
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AAA Driver Training Car

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Pontiac automobile with sign "AAA dual control training car." The car was used in high schools to reduce accidents on Madison streets and is on display her...
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Emjay Wind Charger Booth

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Emjay Wind Charger booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) Fall Festival, featuring batteries and charger parts. Taken for M.J. Fitzgeral...
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Neon Sign Display

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Neon sign display by Capital City Advertising Co., general sign contractors, neon manufacturing sales & service, at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Ass...
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Eastwood Theatre Booth

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Eastwood Theatre booth at the East Side Business Men's Association fall festival. "Wednesday, Club Nite $300.00, $25.00 guaranteed."
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Berg's Sporting Goods Booth

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Berg's Sporting Goods booth at the East Side Business Men's Association showing hunting and camping gear in a woodland setting.
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Speed Boat Display

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Speed boat display at the East Side Business Men's Association fall festival, featuring Harry Vogt's "Miss Madison" and the governor's trophy.
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Fauerbach Palm Garden Refreshment Stand

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: Palm Garden refreshment stand with three men behind a bar, with tables and chairs, and decorative palm trees. The stand was set up at the East Side Busines...
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E.S.B.M.A. Fall Festival Door Prizes

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: Display of daily door prizes, at East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, "$650 in Door Prizes," showing household appliances, batteries and rad...
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E.S.B.M.A. Fall Festival, Flower Room

Date: 09 15 1937
Description: Eastside Business Men's Association fall festival, in Fuller and Johnson building 51 N. Dickinson at 1402 E. Washington Avenue, flower room, showing shelve...
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Strand Bakery Display, E.S.B.M.A. Fall Festival

Date: 09 14 1937
Description: Strand Bakery display of wedding cake and loaves of bread at the Eastside Business Men's Association fall festival, in Fuller and Johnson building 51 N. Di...
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Shell Petroleum Co. Display

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Shell Petroleum Co. display of automobile products at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) Fall Festival in the Fuller & Johnson building on Ea...
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Rock Wool Insulation Display

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: R.H. & E.H. Carpenter Inc. rock wool insulation display at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) Fall festival in the Fuller & Johnson building ...
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West Kentucky Coal Co. Booth

Date: 09 16 1934
Description: West Kentucky Coal Co. booth featuring three buckets of WinterKing coal at the East Side Businessmen's Festival.
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Strand's Bakery's Booth

Date: 09 21 1933
Description: Strand's Bakery's booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Includes a model of a Gothic temple cake, and a trophy cup.
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Gothic Temple Cake

Date: 09 21 1933
Description: Gothic Temple Cake created by Reidar Strand and Oswald Christensen at Strand's Bakery's booth at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Fest...
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Fauerbach Brewing Co. Booth

Date: 09 23 1933
Description: Fauerbach Brewing Co. booth for the East Side Businessmen's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Sign reads: "When the second Wisconsin State Capitol was com...
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Strand's Bakery Booth

Date: 09 16 1932
Description: Strand's Bakery booth (First Prize winner) at the East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival, showing display case with bakery products. Al...

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