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| Date: | 07 30 1984 |
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| Description: | Bertha Hynek of Allenton is eating an ice cream cone while her grandson, Wesley Priesgen, 10, works on an ear of roasted corn. |
| Date: | 06 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park. |
| Date: | 06 19 1983 |
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| Description: | Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church. |
| Date: | 07 26 1981 |
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| Description: | Maynard Entringer of South Milwaukee is awarded the World Championship of the Kraut Eating Contest by the Queen of the Kraut Festival, Sharon Kerkman of Bu... |
| Date: | 06 05 1989 |
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| Description: | People costumed as Smokey The Bear and Woodsy Owl play outdoors with children as a forest service worker looks on. |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
| Date: | 07 10 1985 |
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| Description: | People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th... |
| Date: | 04 05 1981 |
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| Description: | 400 people march to a rally where they demand that the birthday of Martin Luther King, (January 15) be declared a national holiday. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | The threshing team breaks from work for a noon meal at the farmhouse. A bench with wash basins, soap and water sits in the yard to allow workers to wash up... |
| Date: | 10 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A five-story tall inflatable gorilla attracted potential buyers to a special sale at the Uptown Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Wauwatosa. Although the pres... |
| Date: | 11 12 1981 |
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| Description: | The Crescent Garage. Although the photograph dates from 1981, the curb-side gas pumps are a throwback to the early days of gas stations. The Crescent Garag... |
| Date: | 01 20 1987 |
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| Description: | Self-service car wash at Slattery's Amoco Service Station. A late evening customer takes advantage of a break in the normal January temperatures to wash r... |
| Date: | 04 05 1984 |
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| Description: | Corky Barker washing down his motorcycle in front of his home at 2734 South Superior Street. |
| Date: | 05 06 1989 |
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| Description: | John Miller rests in the sun near McKinley Marina before Friday's cold front moved through Milwaukee in May of 1989. |
| Date: | 07 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Tammy Meiller, 16, of the Blue Eagles 4-H Club, looks over a display of vegetables in the Milwaukee County 4-H Fair at the Mayfair Mall Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 02 09 1984 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an attic bedroom with skylights and a television. |
| Date: | 02 09 1984 |
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| Description: | The newly remodeled kitchen in the home of Ronald and Dianne Flitsch. |
| Date: | 08 10 1980 |
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| Description: | Freida Heberer Oppermann, 81, the oldest member of the Heberer family at the reunion, had a place in the foreground for a family portrait. |
| Date: | 07 07 1980 |
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| Description: | Large family gathered in front of house for a group portrait. |
| Date: | 03 10 1981 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a boarded-up Amoco gas station at 6731 W. North Avenue. |
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