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Pennco Station

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Pennsylvania oil company gas station at the corner of 2 North Park and Regent Streets in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Nature's Bakery Co-op

Date: 1974
Description: 1101 Williamson Street. This natural foods bakery was organized and managed by its employees. The co-op opened in this location between 1973-74.
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Gas Station Explosion

Date: 06 17 1933
Description: A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ...
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Farm Utilities Co.

Date: 02 16 1931
Description: Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.)
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Tony's Tavern

Date: 03 1960
Description: Exterior front view of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. Typewritten sheet with pho...
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Joe's Liquor Store

Date: 1960
Description: Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Dane County Oil Company Explosion

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five.
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Lewis Arms with a Guitar

Date: 1950
Description: Lewis Arms strums a guitar, with one foot resting on the bumper of a car at 629 Milton Street.
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Farmers Mutual Girls Softball League

Date: 08 09 1956
Description: Group portrait of the Farmers Mutual Girls Softball Team, the standout team in the Madison Girls Industrial Softball League. A Piggly Wiggly grocery sign a...
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Car Falls in Midvale Drainage Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: Winter scene with garagemen retrieving another car from the open drainage ditch on Midvale Boulevard. The 1959 Dodge skidded into a snowbank and catapulted...
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Lakeside Grocery

Date: 06 1931
Description: View from street of a woman standing at the corner of the Lakeside Grocery, located at 109 East Lakeside Street. On her left, a sign is propped on a crate ...
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Panorama of Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Panoramic elevated view to the east from the Capitol Square.
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Atwood Avenue Bowling Alley

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Description: View across street towards the Atwood Alleys bowling alley, 2164 Atwood Avenue, owned and operated by William Freund. There are advertisements for Centenni...
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Automobile Retrieved from Midvale Boulevard Ditch

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue.
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Tony's Tavern

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior front view from left of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. There are two bi...
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Tony's Tavern

Date: 04 1960
Description: Exterior front view from left of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood.

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