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Newman's Drive-In

Date: 07 1960
Description: Newman's Drive-In with Free Root Beer sign and waitress.
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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Crawford's Custard

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Description: A woman, perhaps a carhop, is standing outdoors by the passenger side of an automobile which is parked in front of Crawford's Custard. She is wearing a thr...
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Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
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Restaurant at the Merchant's Hotel

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Description: Indoor portrait of three European American women posing standing. They are each holding platters with one hand. Probably the interior of a dining room of a...
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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Bublitz's — Interior

Date: 12 29 2006
Description: "Andrea was our waitress at Bublitz's Pub and Restaurant in Saukville."
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John's — Interior

Date: 10 19 2007
Description: "Elizabeth was our waitress at John's in Beaver Dam."
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Food Comes First Week in Wisconsin

Date: 01 24 1957
Description: Governor Vernon Thomson enjoys a lunch at the Park Hotel after signing a proclamation claiming February 23 to March 1 Food Comes First in Wisconsin Week. T...
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Breakfast Club

Date: 11 12 1987
Description: A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner.
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Coffee at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress pours coffee at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 6 restaurant in the First Wisconsin Bank on the Capitol Square. Steven O. Kimbrough is seated on th...
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Jo Jo's — Interior

Date: 10 11 2002
Description: "Teresa was our waitress at Jo Jo's in Jackson."
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Jackie and Donna's Bar and Grill — Interior

Date: 10 26 2007
Description: "Donna was waitress when we visit Jackie's and Donna's in Juneau."
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Texting

Date: 2012
Description: Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk...
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Store at Glenco Cottages

Date: 1926
Description: View across lawn of people in the Glenco Cottages store with an open dining area on the porch. A sign on the tree in front reads: "Please do not take or de...
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Trip's Wild Life Bar and Grill — Interior

Date: 08 29 2003
Description: "Our waitress, Megan, joined us when we dined at Trip's in Pipe."
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A&W Root Beer Stand

Date: 09 12 1931
Description: A&W Root Beer Stand at 900 South Park Street, with employees in uniforms posing inside and in front of the building.
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Fred H. Harrington Inaugurated as University of Wisconsin President

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: The Inaugural Banquet for the newly inaugurated President of the University of Wisconsin, Fred H. Harrington, was held at the Field House. Operating with s...
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North Fond du Lac Family Restaurant — Interior

Date: 03 03 2006
Description: "In a bit of horseplay our waitress, Tara, sat on John's lap with Sharonna seated on the right."
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Rich's Restaurant — Interior

Date: 11 30 2007
Description: "Lynn waited on us at Rich's Restaurant in Cedarburg." From left going counterclockwise; Shirley Widmer, Carl Bernhard, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, John Bodden,...

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