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Wisconsin bar owner uncovers 134-year-old circus poster

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While Berger immediately recognized the discovery would throw a wrench into his plan to quickly connect the Corral Bar & Riverside Grill with the adjacent building to create a banquet facility, he felt a duty to preserve the historical artifact.

Very good of him to do that; I suspect if they hired a contractor or other workers to do it, they wouldn't care less.

That said, I think it'd be even better to digitise it too, given that all copyrights have long expired and it would help to preserve it more.

I'm getting a 451 for being a perfidious European, brandishing GPDR.

What does this poster look like, I'm thinking shades of for the Benefit of Mr Kite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tw3D3vBxfY

Not the best photo in the first link, but these articles have photos captures the sheer size of the poster a bit better than the one in the original article:

https://www.visitpepincounty.com/1885-artifact-uncovered-at-...

http://www.fox9.com/news/remarkable-piece-of-history-found-w...

This is a deeplink to the image and is not giving a 451 for me: https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/...

Thanks. TFA itself is unviewable with NoScript. And too many bloody resources to consider allowing.

If anything The Star should be commended for being GDPR compliant when so many sites are not.

Maybe this helps, it's an AP story Toronto Star ran: https://www.apnews.com/f245280e52d840f6886f9165b6a63c40

edit: Oh neat, this was actually a local story from The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram which the AP picked-up:

https://www.leadertelegram.com/uploaded_photos/ron-berger/im...

https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/circus-artifa...

I know someone who minimally rehabs old shacks on the cheap and flips them to eek out a living.

One of his favorite materials for cheap roof underlayment moisture barriers is disused vinyl billboards.

I wonder if any of them will survive long enough to be a similarly interesting artefact when next replaced. They often get corrugated metal over them, in a dry desert environment I can imagine metal roofing lasting well past 50 years.

I've used Parmalat boxes to help repair cracked slates.

At 55 feet long, shouldn't this be called a mural rather than a poster?

No, it's a printed poster. It is the size of a 55 ft. mural. Would be like saying a billboard is a mural.

It is a printed poster though - a lithograph. Most likely stone considering the age but I'm sure an expert would correct me.

thanks for link! Wonderful story and images.

Why is the link bothering to care about gdpr? No need to block EU visitors, no need to comply, just ignore it.

Mods, please change the link to [1] and perhaps install a filter for chicagotribune.com submissions, because they still blanket-block EU visitors with -

    Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable
    in most European countries.

[1] https://www.tulsaworld.com/durand-bar-owner-uncovers--year-o...

Ok, we changed to that more accessible URL from https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-wisconsin-old.... Thanks!

Spain still gets:

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism

This one works

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/05/18/durand-bar-...

OK, changed to that from https://www.tulsaworld.com/durand-bar-owner-uncovers--year-o....

The tulsaworld link shows this for me:

> We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

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