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Section 21 - Concessions




1-Booths along wall in restaurant, Adams & Wabash station - No Date (NSL Photo)




5-View of main floor entryway, Adams & Wabash, with steps, candy counter, and ticket windows - c1911 (NSL Photo)




6-Close view of lunch counter, Adams & Wabash - 04/29/1927 (NSL Photo)




7-Restaurant, Adams & Wabash station - 04/24/1927 (NSL Photo)




8-Interior waiting room, Adams & Wabash - No Date (NSL Photo)




9-Duplicate photo, showing interior of Lake Geneva bus station - 06/05/1923 (NSL Photo)




10-Cooks in kitchen at Adams & Wabash station - 11/07/1926 (NSL Photo)




11-Different view of kitchen and staff at Adams & Wabash station - 11/07/1926 (NSL Photo)




12-Lunch counter at Dempster St Station, on the official opening day - 03/28/1925 (NSL Photo)




13-Candy / Cigar counter, appears to be on main floor, Milwaukee Terminal - No Date (NSL Photo)




14-Steps to main floor terminal, and tables, Milwaukee Terminal restaurant - No Date (NSL Photo)




16-View from main terminal floor, looking down into restaurant at tables and lunch counters, Milwaukee Terminal - No Date (NSL Photo)




17-View of tables, lunch counter, and pay counter, Milwaukee Terminal - No Date (NSL Photo)




18-Similar to previous photo (#17), Milwaukee Terminal restaurant - No Date (NSL Photo)




19-View towards main terminal floor, Milwaukee Terminal, of lunch counters in restaurant - No Date (NSL Photo)




20-View of tables on North wall of Milwaukee Terminal restaurant - No Date (NSL Photo)




21-Barber shop in Uptown (Wilson) station - No Date (NSL Photo)




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