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| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of the Philgas softball team watching play during a Mendota League game in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Action in a Mendota League softball game in Vilas Park. The batter is Bob Olson of Philgas. The catcher is Charcoal Grill's Armstrong. The umpire is Vito S... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | A school bus driver and three campers are standing next to the bus which transports campers to and from the Brownie Day Camp at Hoyt Park. Left to right: S... |
| Date: | 08 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Team group portrait of the second place winners of the West Midget Vilas title in the boys' baseball program. Ten boys of the Security State Bank team are ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Rhesus monkeys are still at large after about four months of freedom. Thirty-three monkeys escaped from a Vilas Park zoo cage on August 4, 1960. Zoo di... |
| Date: | 06 20 1955 |
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| Description: | Umpire Mel Gaestel flips a coin to start the baseball game. Players George Oosterhaus from the Sergenian's Carpet team and Dan Olson from the Optimists tea... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the... |
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