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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Breakfast Club

Date: 11 12 1987
Description: A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner.
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Truax Field Lunch Counter

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Description: The lunch counter at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport. Two men are sitting at the counter, probably airport employees, and a waitress is po...
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Park Hotel Grill Night Crew

Date: 10 02 1936
Description: Park Hotel Grill night crew. Four waiters and a cook are standing behind counter of the Park Hotel Grill.
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Show Girls at Heidelberg Hofbrau

Date: 03 10 1935
Description: Seven show girls, wearing hats, from the Orpheum's "Spices of 1935" show, sitting at a table at Hommel's Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant, 20 West Mifflin Str...
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A&W Root Beer Stand

Date: 09 12 1931
Description: A&W Root Beer Stand at 900 South Park Street, with employees in uniforms posing inside and in front of the building.
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Dining Tent

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Description: Waitresses and waiters lined up inside the Dining Tent, ready to serve a large gathering.
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Waitress at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress identified only as Helen clears dirty dishes from the tables at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 19 restaruant, 204 Cottage Grove Road. This is the ...
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Serving Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Barbara the waitress serves breakfast to Steve Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant while Albert Friedman drinks coffee and waits f...
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Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress serves ham and eggs to Steven O. Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. Chuck Patch, Kimbrough's breakfast companion, has...
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Coffee at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress pours coffee at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 6 restaurant in the First Wisconsin Bank on the Capitol Square. Steven O. Kimbrough is seated on th...
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Three Rennebohm Waitresses

Date: 1979
Description: Waitresses Carlene, Laura, and Corey, pose for a photograph at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. To the left, Steve Kimbrough, seated with h...
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Rennebohm Lunch Counter

Date: 1979
Description: Carlene, Corey, and Laura, pose with a group of customers at the lunch counter in a Rennebohm's Drug Store restaurant. Part of the restaurant and store is ...
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Rennebohm Waitresses

Date: 1979
Description: Joan and Mary S., two waitresses at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 7 restaurant, 901 University Avenue, pose for the camera while standing behind the lunch c...
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Rose Lynch

Date: 05 27 1944
Description: Portrait of Rose Lynch, 21 North Butler Street, senior at Central High School, full time waitress at the Spanish Cafe on State Street, and student airplane...
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Newman's Drive-In

Date: 07 1960
Description: Newman's Drive-In with Free Root Beer sign and waitress.
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Cunningham's Feed Mill — Interior

Date: 12 12 1997
Description: "Matt Straveler is our waiter at Cunningham's Feed Mill. They only serve Cod which is $5.50 per plate."
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Back Street Cafe — Interior

Date: 01 22 1999
Description: "Fish Fries are very reasonable at the Back Street Cafe. Red Fish (similar to Perch) are only $4.95. A large glass of Slice is 45¢. Our waiter is Brock Cot...
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Knights of Columbus Hall — Interior

Date: 10 01 1999
Description: "At the Knights of Columbus in West Bend, Cy Wietor, who supervises a group of waiters, stops to chat with us at our table." From left to right; Shirley Wi...
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Cinder's — Interior

Date: 05 10 2002
Description: "At Cinder's, our waitress, Sandy, joins us at our table. In the back is the owner, Cindy." From left to right; Sandy, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Cindy, Shirle...

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