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Lake Geneva Downtown Restaurants

Date: 1920
Description: Downtown view. On the left side of the street is a restaurant, a photography store, a drugstore, and an ice cream parlor. On the right side is another ice ...
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Cobblestone Hotel

Date: 05 16 1932
Description: View from street towards the hotel. In front on the terrace is a telephone pole and a lamppost, and on the right is a parked truck. One sign on the hotel r...
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Buena Vista House

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Description: View of the hotel from across the street through trees and a fence. The hotel was later called the Cobblestone Inn. A small building on the left near the h...
Photograph

Buena Vista House

Date: 1940
Description: View across street towards the inn, with three cars parked in front. There is a "Chicken & Steak Dinner" sign, as well as a "Schlitz" beer sign. The cobbl...
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Walworth Hotel

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Description: Exterior of Walworth Hotel. Stairs lead to a porch where a man sits and signs that read "Billiard Hall" and "New Walworth Buffet" are near the side entranc...
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Kaye's Park House Dinner Menu

Date: 08 24 1882
Description: Front cover and menu page from Kaye's Park House, with a lakeside view of the hotel, a paddlewheel steamboat, people in rowboats or standing by a Kaye's Pa...
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Crossroads Dinner Menu Exterior

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Description: Dinner menu from the Crossroads, "Food Served At Its Best," with a view of the road and a wooden crossed highway marker for the junction of U.S. Hwy. 12 an...
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Crossroads Dinner Menu Interior

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Description: Dinner menu from the Crossroads, with meat, seafood, and "chef specialties," including "Hawaiian Delight, Double Breast of Chicken Hawaiian on a Bed of Wai...
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Mermaid at Popeye's

Date: 08 2013
Description: View looking up at a sculpture of a mermaid hanging from an upside down kayak suspended from the ceiling. The mermaid is wearing seashells on her breasts a...
Postcard

Millie's Pancake Haus

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Description: Interior view of the dining room at Millie's Pancake Haus. The tables are set, and there is a large fireplace on the back wall on the right. Text on rev...
Postcard

Frontier Dining Room at Lake Lawn Lodge

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the dining room at Lake Lawn Lodge. The ceiling has exposed beams, and the tables are set with tableware. There is a view of ...
Photograph

Civil War Tree

Date: 07 2014
Description: A large Bur Oak tree is shading a sign for Vesuvio's Little Italy restaurant on the corner of Washington and South 7th Street. Brick buildings across the s...
Postcard

Crossroads Dining and Cocktails

Date: 1961
Description: Two views: one of a curved bar, and the other the restaurant with tables and a fireplace in the background. Caption reads: ",Crossroads, Elkhorn, Wis." ...
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Civil War Sign-Up Tree

Date: 1981
Description: A large, spreading bur oak is standing near the intersection of South Seventh and Washington Streets in front of a small restaurant. A van is parked in fro...
Postcard

Lakeview Inn, Lake Geneva

Date: 1920
Description: View across street toward a hotel and restaurant on a tree-lined street. Caption reads: "Lakeview Inn, Lake Geneva, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1930
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin." The downtown area with buildings, storefronts and sidewalks. Signs read: "Wisconsin Gas and Elec...

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