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Bauer's Restaurant
June 1960
"Bauer's Restaurant in Campbellsport was a landmark in the area. The owner, 'Mush' Bauer, was an extremely overweight man."
Schreiner's Restaurant
June 1960
"Famous Schreiner's Restaurant of Fond du Lac had this sign on Highway 41 forty-five years ago."
Half Clover Leaf Intersection
1967
Intersection of US Highway 41 and Wisconsin Highway 26 near Oshkosh.
McDonald's Billboard
A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a distance by motorists traveling at high speed.
Busy Intersection with Billboard
1918
The intersection of Port Washington Road and Silver Spring Drive near Milwaukee. Even if one did not know that this was the intersection of a major north-south road with an east-west road, that cou...
