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Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
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Description: | View out Witches' Gulch of tourist stand, with men sitting in chairs. There is a covered open-air platform beyond. |
Date: | 09 23 1936 |
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Description: | Milkman unloading crates from an International C-15 truck in front of "Tecumseh Cabins Lunches, & Coffee". The front of the restaurant and store features s... |
Date: | 03 02 1946 |
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Description: | Exterior of Frenchy's Restaurant, located at 3302 University Avenue at Shorewood Avenue. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Accident scene at Femrites' Corner, taken from Highway 12 & 18 looking west past Highway 51 (Monona Drive). |
Date: | 09 17 1937 |
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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... |
Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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Description: | Club Chanticleer, exterior view across road from the south, with a Heileman's Old Style Lager beer sign suspended from posts on the lawn in front. The sign... |
Date: | 01 31 1935 |
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Description: | A Ford V-8 Yellow Cab Co. taxicab on East Washington Avenue. In the background are (left to right) St. Patrick's school, 630 East Washington Avenue; reside... |
Date: | 09 17 1934 |
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Description: | View from street of the Cuba Club, located at 3416 University Avenue, surrounded by trees, with "R.W. Roberts" (manager) on mailbox. |
Date: | 08 30 1933 |
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Description: | Omnibus advertising Marion Cranefield VFW Post 1318 and Fauerbach Beer. The bus is parked in front of Ferdinand C. Jack's Tailor Shop and Edward "Ace" Fisc... |
Date: | 06 26 1933 |
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Description: | Interior of Julian's Delicatessen and Sandwich Shop, 226 State Street, Julius Giller proprietor. |
Date: | 09 12 1931 |
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Description: | A&W Root Beer stand at 900 S. Park Street. |
Date: | 09 12 1931 |
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Description: | A&W Root Beer Stand at 900 South Park Street, with employees in uniforms posing inside and in front of the building. |
Date: | 06 30 1931 |
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Description: | Ray's Barbecue and Standard Oil Gas Station, on the Oregon Road (just beyond the French Village which was located at 2323 S. Park Street). |
Date: | 06 10 1931 |
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Description: | French Village dance hall and restaurant, Oregon Road (2323 S. Park Street), 2 miles from the Fish Hatchery, 1 mile from WISJ. There is a sign for WISJ and... |
Date: | 01 19 1931 |
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Description: | Garden entrance to Piper's Garden Cafeteria, located at 120 East Mifflin Street, following a snowstorm. |
Date: | 01 19 1931 |
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Description: | View of Mrs. Piper standing in the garden of Piper's Garden Cafeteria, 120 E. Mifflin Street, after a snowstorm. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | View of State Street towards Bascom Hill, with Schaeffer's Lavernette, a soda fountain, Student's Book Exchange, and the University Coop. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Truck driver talking with a woman outside a roadside diner in front of an International heavy duty truck (tractor-trailer). |
Date: | 09 05 1954 |
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Description: | Harp & Kettle Cheese House drive-in restaurant and store, 310 E. Broadway, includes two cars in the parking lot. |
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