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Photos of Waukon Makee twp. Main Street 1910 Page 2

Brick Factory, south Waukon, ca1890

Photo caption: "Even before the turn of the century, there was some light industry in this primarily agricultural area. Shown is a brick making factory, located in south Waukon. Photo is the property of mrs. Birger Normann, who says it was taken about 1890."

~contributed by Jan Miller, from a newspaper clipping

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Spring Ave. Waukon, unknown date (1870's/1880's)
~contributed by Sheila Mellick

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Cummens Restaurant, Waukon

Pictured are Amelia Marsden Cummens, Arthur Cummens (with elbows on the back counter) and Jeremiah 'Dud' O'Hare (with the white apron). The men seated at the counter are not identified. I think the building may also have been a hotel or boarding house judging by the 'household' members shown in the 1925 Iowa State census: Amelia Cummans (age 67), Arthur L. Cummans (age 40), James N. Thompson (age 73), Ole T. Oleson (age 76), Andrew Olson (age 72), William F. Goettel (age 68), William Liston (age 63) and John O'Hare (age 63).

~contributed by Tammy O'Hare Kuhn

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Public Square, Waukon, IA
Photographer: Payne
~contributed by Errin Wilker

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Grand Hotel, Waukon, ca 1900 ~contributed by Diana Diedrich

Main St. Waukon, Grand Hotel left foreground Hirth photo postcard, 1910 ~contributed by Errin Wilker

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Main street, Waukon, ca1940 ~contributed by Diana Diedrich

Waukon Railroad depot, 1912 ~contributed by Errin Wilker

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Waukon movie theater, 1948
~contributed by Janet Koozer

Janet reminisces: "I was ten years old and had received my first camera, an Panda. My friend and I were walking in town and decided to take an picture of where we spent alot of time on Saturdays...the girl in front of the theater is Clarice Olson.  Later in high school I worked at the Old theater for an while"

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Waukon Drum & Bugle Corps, undated photo
My father, Lyle Simon, and my husbands father, Colby Gleisner, were both in the Waukon Drum and Bugle Corp.
I'm not sure of the dates but they competed once in Chicago.
-~contributed by Mary Kay Gleisner

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