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Lunch Counter at Rennebohms
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People drinking coffee and smoking at the lunch counter of the Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 30 West Mifflin Street, then known as the 30 on the Square Building. The camera angle affords a view of the rear of the counter and the drug store behind them.
1979
Patch, Chuck
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