December 3, 1973 NM Northwestern
Who among us remembers when banks, along with other merchants, used to give away items such as this? Of course, it was all a veiled attempt at advertising- calendars, pencils, snow scrapers and the like festooned with the company's (or bank's) name and logo and phone number and address.
As a young boy, I liked going with my Dad to the Banta Credit Union and I usually came home with a pencil or a coin purse or maybe a pocket calendar, especially when they were headquartered on the second floor of the Mill Street side of the Hotel Menasha. I don't recall it being quite so grand when they moved their offices out to Warsaw Street in 1972. Maybe it was because I was older and a free pencil didn't mean as much. (That 5% return on an account today would far outweigh that free thermometer!)
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