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Throwback Thursday: State Street & Johnson, 1929

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Aaron Hathaway

State Street has long been a bustling hub of Madison activity. Before it was filled with inebriated undergraduates stumbling back to home with their faces packed full of Qdoba from Thursday to Saturday nights, Madison’s miracle mile had a more sober role as a center for commerce, housing dozens of more conventional businesses and institutions.

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Check out what State Street looked like nearly a century ago with the pictures below:

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Year: 1929
Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
Year: 2015
Joey Reuteman/The Badger Herald
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