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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| Date: | 06 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Night view of Robert Blossom's Mobil Gas Station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51. |
| Date: | 03 14 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Tommy's Conoco Oil Station, 3116 East Washington Avenue at Commercial Avenue (aka Highway 30). Includes gas pumps, one automobile, and a Tommy'... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International Roadliner diesel truck delivering oil to the Thrifty Service station. The delivery crew is hooking up a hose to the tr... |
| Date: | 06 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Night view of Robert Blossom's Mobil gas station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51. Includes the Mobil red horse sign on a pole. |
| Date: | 06 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert Blossom's Mobil gas station, 3702 East Washington Avenue. Background includes Mayfair Homes sign and Jacob's Mobile Home Sales, 3715 East Washingto... |
| Date: | 06 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Daytime view of Robert Blossom's Mobil gas station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51. In the background is the Club LaMark, and signs for Red Roo... |
| Date: | 06 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Daytime view of Robert Bloxxom's Mobil gas station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51. Includes the Mobil red horse on a pole. Background includes... |
| Date: | 09 02 1955 |
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| Description: | Night view of Mobil gas station at the corner of Highway 51 and East Washington including station, gas pumps, one automobile, and a "Mobilgas" sign on a po... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A gasoline station along US Highway 51 in Whiting, Portage County, attracted passing motorists with an attention-getting "gas for less" sign. |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, working under the hood of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Skelly service station, restaurant, and motel located along STH 12 in Mauston, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 09 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Service Station offering "Shellubrication." |
| Date: | 04 01 1957 |
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| Description: | The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),... |
| Date: | 03 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Flooding along University Avenue at Shorewood Boulevard. Businesses in the photograph include Frenchy's Restaurant, 3302 University Avenue, and the Walter ... |
| Date: | 03 13 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing at a bus stop at the end of Monroe Street, the entrance to Nakoma, where puddles from melting snow cause water from passing traffic to ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1951 |
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| Description: | A parade consisting of a band and baseball players is walking down Main Street to celebrate the opening day of Little League baseball in Reedsburg. |
| Date: | 07 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Four people are in the foreground overlooking two storm damaged large trailer homes, one piled on top of another. They and the trailers are at Elver Traile... |
| Date: | 09 13 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Cerny, owner of Cerny's Super Sinclair Service Station at 202 North Hamilton Street, wearing his Sinclair Service Station uniform. |
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