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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
| Date: | 01 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Centennial Tire Company, located in a historic gas station on USH 10. |
| Date: | 01 20 1989 |
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| Description: | A Skelly station located on USH 10 consisting of a historic gas station and a two-bay service building. Gasoline cost 96 cents per gallon for regular. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men posing around a McCormick-Deering tractor in front of a Mobiloil station on a road. The tractor appears to be a 10-20. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A gas station attendant puts on his coat outside the White Grocery and Filling Station in Madison. A sign near the pumps reads, "Please Give Me Ten Seconds... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of... |
| Date: | 10 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Three men are standing by a Dane County Police Ford station wagon during the Kayser Safety Parade in the 700 block of East Washington Avenue. Businesses in... |
| Date: | 10 07 1925 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the T.C. Power Motor Company parked along the side of the road near the sidewalk outside the company office. There is a gaso... |
| Date: | 11 20 1925 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the George H. Cross Company is parked in front of a filling station. In the background is a man standing near railroad track... |
| Date: | 05 10 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the Saginaw Oil Company parked in front of a Texaco filling station. |
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| Description: | View down a main street with storefronts, showing large power lines stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background. There are cars parked in fr... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in 1931 by the Iowa Oil Company, Darlington's Service Station at 404 Main Street was said to give the "impression of a temple or a college chapel, an... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Knute Bjornson originally built this house in the 1860's and in 1933, his grandson Cooney Bjornson reassembled the humble log building to house a gas stati... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This service station located at 23923 Burrows Road (formally State Highway 93) was built in 1931, by Leo Breska. It now houses an auto-repair business, own... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The 400 Cass Street gas station was first constructed in 1928 and later became a Pure Oil station, when it was reopened by Henry Ott, in 1937. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Clarence "Slim" Fritag's Pure Oil service station, located at 1323 Ninth Street, created a sensation in 1935 when the local newspaper announced that "an at... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Felix Ohrlien's gas station, at 105 Water Street, was built in 1944-45 and is still in use today, however it is now owned and operated by Dick Ambrose, who... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | In 1933, Lester Proksch constructed this striking filling station in the small river town, at 201 North Main Street. Less's Service was opened in July of 1... |
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