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Youngsters Celebrate Halloween at Sunset Village Party

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: The Sunset Village Community Association holds a Halloween party for neighborhood youngsters. Shown dressed as bunnies are, (L-R): Kathy, Kevin and Cerri H...
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Youngsters Celebrate Halloween at Sunset Village Party

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: The Sunset Village Community Association holds a Halloween party for neighborhood youngsters. Shown enjoying an ice cream bar is James Crone, (4), son of M...
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Sidewalk Newsstand

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: An attendant at a newsstand in downtown Madison. A sign reads: "Latest News." A sign on a building along the sidewalk on the right reads: "Hob Nob Bar".
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Vandals Spray Paint Cars and Homes on Coolidge, Dahle and Moland Streets

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Halloween vandals use black spray paint on east side homes. Paint was sprayed on at least 13 cars and 15 homes on Coolidge, Dahle and Moland Streets. Four ...
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Tri-Hi Group Promotes "Harvesst Haze" Dance

Date: 11 14 1958
Description: Members of the Tri-Hi high school teenager's group promote the group's "Harvest Haze" dance to be held at the new Labor Temple on South Park Street. The da...
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Van Hise School Recreation Center Offers Table Games

Date: 11 15 1958
Description: Competition during a table top basketball game played with ping-pong balls at the Van Hise School recreation center. Bob Reinfreid, son of Dr. and Mrs. Wil...
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Boy Scout Leaders and Scouts at Leadership Program

Date: 11 15 1958
Description: Boy Scout leadership training program held at Van Hise School. Shown limbering their vocal cords are, (L-R): Frank White, Troop 120 assistant scout master,...
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin is in her apartment playing her piano and joined by her son-in-law, Ralf Metz, who is playing a violin, and her grandsons Scott, 12, and All...
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Ballet Classes in Lake Mills Garage

Date: 12 05 1958
Description: Tibor L. Zana, a 23 year old Hungarian dance instructor and student at Carroll College, teaches ballet to about 60 residents of Lake Mills in a room over a...
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Drummer Gene Krupa with Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 12 05 1958
Description: Famous drummer Gene Krupa, shown at far left, gives a drumming demonstration to members of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps at the corps' headquarte...
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Boys Getting Haircuts

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Joseph Jackson III having hair brushed off his face by a barber following a haircut.
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Boys Getting Haircuts

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Tom Voss having hair brushed off his face by a barber following a haircut.
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Activities at the South Madison Neighborhood Center

Date: 12 09 1958
Description: John Beatty Walsh (18) son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Walsh, 1930 Regent Street, and a 1958 graduate of Madison West High School, is recovering from a motorcy...
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Monster Twelve Foot High Snowman Built on N. Midvale Boulevard

Date: 01 30 1959
Description: A twelve-foot high snowman is built by Dr. James Messer, Michael Roldt, and Donald Norbert, all living at an apartment building at 505 N. Midvale Boulevard...
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Interior of Kellor's Lakeview Store

Date: 02 13 1959
Description: Richard Kellor, son of the owner Carroll Kellor, standing in an aisle of Kellor's Lakeview Store, the site of a possible robbery. The store is located on H...
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Winner of the Young Columbus Trip

Date: 03 11 1959
Description: Donald Fay, age 15, from Edgerton will be taking a trip to Rome, Italy, as the winner of the Young Columbus trip sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journa...
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Cheerleader Maryilyn Otto

Date: 03 21 1959
Description: Marilyn Otto, LaCrosse Logan High School, cheers for her team at the state basketball tournament played at the University of Wisconsin Field House.
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Spring Flowers

Date: 03 26 1959
Description: View from inside looking through show window towards two young girls holding umbrellas who are standing outdoors on the sidewalk on the Capitol Square. The...
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Winners in Madison Art Contest

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: Five of the six winners in the Madison Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. In front is the first-place winner, John Woolsey. In back, left to right, are: M...
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Children Playing With Guns

Date: 03 30 1959
Description: Two girls with their hands up being 'pretend' robbed by ten little boys with cap-guns. They are between two closely spaced homes.

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