This 1947 aerial view shows the Menasha Wooden Ware in the center of the picture. The street at the bottom is Main Street. The bridge at left is the Mill Street bridge and you can see a bit of the old library at the intersection of Mill and Water Streets at the lower left hand corner. Right across the street from that is the Hotel Menasha. Notice the railroad siding outside the plant, boxcars at the ready to be filled with butter tubs and other wooden products.
Photograph courtesy of Menasha Public Library.
Menasha Wooden Ware was a great business. I used to walk over those bridges and pay my dad a surprise visit as a child. He was always happy to see me and would escort me around his dept. and introduce me to everyone. Ah....those were good days!
ReplyDeleteGreat picture. My mother took me fishing on that trestle bridge between Banta's and the Wooden Ware in the early 1960's. We fished between the ties and off the piers when the train engine blew its horn and took home a lot of great yellow perch. My sister and I caught crabs from under the rocks to break off the tails for fish bait. I remember watching a line of perch at spawning season moving across the water under the trestle bridge on the mill sidings.
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