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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Waiter making a malt in the Zesto Malt Shop at 658 State Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community." |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | To celebrate the addition of DC-3s to their fleet, North Central Airlines sponsored several special promotional events. One such activity was a special fli... |
| Date: | 08 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Italian Village Restaurant, 651 State Street, Joseph Troia, proprietor. Interior, close-up view featuring church facade as decorative element, "Madison's s... |
| Date: | 09 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Ace of Clubs restaurant, 3520 East Washington Avenue, showing the dining room. |
| Date: | 01 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Rees Thomas and Billy Putnam at an ice skating party at the Truax Field clubhouse refreshment counter holding soda bottles. |
| Date: | 11 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Seven boys and one teacher from Cherokee Heights School at the refreshment counter at a school dance. Four of the boys, Jerry Meulenberg, Douglas Green, Mi... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Newman Custard Stand, at the intersection of Highway 12 and County A, on the West side. |
| Date: | 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior of refreshment stand of the Winnebago Drive-In Theatre. |
| Date: | 01 17 1951 |
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| Description: | William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba... |
| Date: | 01 17 1951 |
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| Description: | Student Mauris Hostak of Kewaunee, Wisconsin checking on beef stew in the oven at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School. |
| Date: | 07 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the new kitchen in the Madison General Hospital addition, designed for providing 1,000 meals a day. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Lunch counter during harvest season at a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. Cranberry pickers enjoy a break and lunch during the busy harvest season. |
| Date: | 12 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Edgewood High School students work after school hours at Mickie's Dairy Bar on Monroe Street in Madison. From left are Frank Hebl, Frank's brother Bi... |
| Date: | 12 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Lou Connery, 616 East Main Street, and Mary Gerothanas, 15 South Franklin Street, both Central High students, dispense soft drinks at the annual Chris... |
| Date: | 03 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Nob Hill restaurant at South Highway 12 (33 West Beltline Highway), showing a chef standing behind a buffet table. |
| Date: | 05 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison General Hospital Junior Aides Judy Oakland (left) and Karla McCormick (center) serve Frances McPhee (right), member of the hospital auxiliary at th... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Back and front of a small folded card menu, with an etching of a quarter view of the exterior of Republican House surrounded by leafy trees on the front co... |
| Date: | 04 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Inaugural Luncheon of the Half-Century Club of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, with a pioneer driving a team of horses pull... |
| Date: | 02 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the menu and program for the Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN... |
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