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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Russell Block, 1606-1608 Tower Avenue. The 1899 City Directory makes the first mention of New York Furriers, Simmons and Malik, proprietors. New York F... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday. |
| 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: | 1960 |
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| Description: | William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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| Description: | A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter. |
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