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Good photos, wrong captions

The above picture is of the Legion Building in what was called Legion Park, the half block between Walnut and Cherry streets, along Jefferson Street, in downtown Green Bay.

From 1936 to 1949, the Packers used a small room there as a ticket office.

One recent book about Packers history wrote in the picture’s caption how hundreds of fans would stand in line to buy tickets and even spill into the street and across the street onto the grounds of the Brown County Courthouse.

But that’s entirely different from what the caption read when the Green Bay Press-Gazette ran photos of the above event in its May 18, 1942, edition.