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Thinking Out Loud: Exploring the Boone Tavern Photo Collection

KBIA | By Trevor Harris
Published February 29, 2016 at 11:37 AM CST
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One image shows all four white residents of Columbia's Maplewood Home along with a black employee of the household, but is that employee famous Columbian in her own right, Annie Fischer? Details in this episode of Thinking Out Loud.
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Nine members of a local bicycle club pose for a picture. The image was among several hundred that were recently donated to the Boone County Historical Society.
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University of Missouri students huddle outside The Missouri Store to get football scores transmitted via telegraph.
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The owner of Bleu Restaurant in Columbia recently donated the historic Boone Tavern photo collection to the Boone County Historical Society. Included was an image celebrating laying of the Missouri United Methodist Church's cornerstone.
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MU freshman sit for a group photo in an early 20th century campus event known as Hobo Days.
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The four white residents of Maplewood's Lenoir Home sit while one stands. Who was she? On this episode of Thinking Out Loud hear interpretation into this and other images in the historic Boone Tavern photo collection. The collection was recently donated to the Boone County Historical Society.

If you ever visited Columbia's former Boone Tavern restaurant, you may have seen the many photos that lined the walls of the former downtown eatery. These images of historic Columbia, represent the photo collection assembled over many years by former restaurant owner Dick Walls. When Bleu Restaurant took over the space three years ago, the pictures of parades on brick streets and MU student revelry didn't really fit the new restaurant's aesthetic. Bleu owner Travis Tucker donated the collection to the Boone County Historical Society will be sharing some of those pictures at a members-only event this Sunday, February 28.

Listen to new episodes of Thinking Out Loud each Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. on KBIA 91.3FM.
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Trevor Harris
Trevor serves as KBIA’s weekday morning host for classical music. He has been involved with local radio since 1990, when he began volunteering as a music and news programmer at KOPN, Columbia's community radio station. Before joining KBIA, Trevor studied social work at Mizzou and earned a masters degree in geography at the University of Alabama. He has worked in community development and in urban and bicycle/pedestrian planning, and recently served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia with his wife, Lisa Groshong. An avid bicycle commuter and jazz fan, Trevor has cycled as far as Colorado and pawed through record bins in three continents.
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