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| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down Keller Avenue towards businesses along the left. A round or octagon shaped building on the far left has a sign that reads: "Restaurant". Further ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Main street, with Iowa County Courthouse on the right, and a hotel and cafe on the left. Parked cars line the street. Caption reads: "Street Scene — Dodgev... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street". |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of some storefronts, including a lunch room, and a library on a dirt road. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Pan-Am Cafe, attached to a gas station. |
| Date: | 03 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Skelly service station, restaurant, and motel located along STH 12 in Mauston, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Nineteenth century storefronts and angle parking in downtown Iola. |
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| Description: | View across road towards E.C. Berner's Ice Cream Parlor, where the first ice cream sundae is said to have been made in 1881. A woman is standing behind the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from right side of street of downtown area. In the right foreground is a man walking near the curb near a sign for a bakery. Further down th... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of a street scene featuring people standing on a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, and a restaurant in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Main Street, showing a grocery store, restaurant, and the Up and Down Tavern. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Young boy with a rootbeer float moustache standing in the parking lot of a rootbeer stand. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from street of theatre and main entrance on corner of Wells and Water Streets. To the right is a building with a sign for Quaker Oats. On the left cor... |
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