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| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The Guenther Half Way House. People traveling between Wausau and Stevens Point by stage stopped here overnight. The 100-year-old tavern was torn down in 19... |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Frank Deischel, Wausau, President of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, standing with an illegal slot machine in Deischel's tavern. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Spring Tavern after its restoration by James Dickson. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Small neighborhood of the city at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley. Overhead is the second Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct, demolished in 1992. Cars a... |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Man playing an illegal 25 cent slot machine in the Valley Tavern, on Highway 42, two miles north of Kenosha. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Silver Arrow Tavern on U.S. Highway 12. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Illegal gambling machines in Kelley's Tavern, in the city of Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Green Parrot Tavern on Highway 12, north of Elkhorn. The machines are in a case, which the proprietor closes when he... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a tavern. |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the Brass Ball Tavern. |
| Date: | 03 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in a tavern on Highway 41, about one mile south of the Racine County Line. A man in a hat stands on the left, facing away. |
| Date: | 06 14 1942 |
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| Description: | A sign explaining the rules for an illegal dice game at the Del-Bar Tavern on Highway 12 between Delton and Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines (slot) in the Lone Oak Inn, on Highway 12, north of Elkhorn. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View up Silver Street in Hurley. |
| Date: | 08 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Silver Street in Hurley at 4:30 a.m., Sunday morning, showing busy street and all establishment's lights blazing. After the sweeping raid ... |
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