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​ Donna Toalson shimmies up a porch post while her uncle, Kenneth Brooks, waits on the roof. This photo was published in Look Magazine on...

Rosalee Brooks Toalson is pictured in a Look Magazine photo feature on Sept. 3, 1957. The mother of Sandy, Donna, Roy Lee and Carey...

Hannibal Courier-Post (MO) - Friday, February 4, 2011 MARY LOU MONTGOMERY Last week we asked for stories about the old Abe's Bar and...

In the 1950s, Roy D. Toalson of Hannibal attended a Budweiser Sales School in St. Louis. This photo, contributed by his son, Carey...

Locked inside of every adult is the spirit of a child. For Donna Toalson, the essence of her former self is a tomboy, captured on film...

Abe Toalson stands in front of a Budweiser beer wagon - pulled by mules instead of the famed Clydesdales - in the 400 block of Broadway....

When the carnival was in town, business was particularly brisk at Abe's Bar and Grill. Carey Toalson remembers preparing tenderloins...

From left, Abe, Nellie and Roy Toalson. Contributed: Carey Toalson of Hannibal Abe's Bar and Grill, located on the southwest corner of...